Yes, exactly this. I dunno why there are so many people here who don't understand this, and constantly yell at the power level people as if they're a blight on society or something.dbzfan7 wrote:Actually I think the thing that bothers people probably more than the radical scaling, is the lack of any real good explanation and any real build up.
If you want to make Trunks as strong as Vegeta and Goku, that's fine. Just give us an explanation.
If you want to make Krillin jump from like, pre-Dr. Gero levels to Kid Buu levels, that's fine. Just give us an explanation.
If you want to make Android 17 go toe-to-toe with SSB Goku with both of them holding back, that's fine. Just give us an explanation(*)
*And they did give us an explanation. It wasn't really a good one, but it was an explanation, and I for one am satisfied with that.
I keep hearing the argument brought up that goes something along the lines of "Well sure it doesn't make sense, but why can't you just ignore it in favor of the character and emotional developments instead?"
And to that, I'd just bring up TheMIkado's example again.
Can you imagine you were watching a romance themed anime, you've got your main character and the love interest. They meet for the first time, and have some coffee. It's just a normal conversation between people who just met each other, nothing romantic or anything like that. In the next episode, the two are already a pair and interact with each other as if they've been lovers for years. She's already living at his place and there's great chemistry between them.TheMikado wrote:The shows entire theme is about power.
It's like having an anime themed around love and romance, but the relationships are ridiculous, all over the place, and don't make any sense.
And then that's when you guys would say "Look at all that emotional and character development!" and I would say Well, yeah...but how the hell did we get to that point? How did that progression make any kind of sense? How the hell did we go from point A to point Z in one episode? Where's the explanation? How come they're great lovers with amazing chemistry now? Why didn't we get to see their relationship? The character interactions are nice and all, but they don't really make up for the fact that the story that brought us to that point doesn't actually make much sense or give any explanation as to what occurred.
That's exactly the state Super is in. Of course we like to see all the emotional and developmental stuff. Of course we like to see those old characters getting to shine again. We just want it to happen in a way that actually makes sense in a fluid story. A show that just goes from point A to point Z without showing or explaining all the letters inbetween doesn't make for a good story. But some people only care about the pay-off, and I feel like that's what's happening here. How we got to point Z doesn't matter, the fact that we're at point Z is good enough. I disagree though. That's no way to write a story.