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by Tombstone1988 » Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:58 am
Things I Liked:
-Cabba's fight with generic fighter #34 (AKA Monna) was alright and Cabba vs. Freeza was satisfying.
-Vegeta referenced Planet Sadala? Praise be, our prince has a heart! Seriously though, good touch Toshio/Toriyama.
-Kale wasn't insufferable for the first time all arc. That's substantial improvement in my book.
-Freeza being Freeza. Gotta love it, even if you're sick of seeing him come back like me.
Things I'm Mixed On:
-"Hey everyone, I know Goku just fought Jiren using Kaioken x20 and a Spirit Bomb, as well as Ultra Instinct, but I definitely think I can take him." Vegeta was being developed so well this episode, then this delusion happened. At least Toppo was there to knock him down a peg.
-The little beginning fight with Goku and the Universe 3 fighters was actually fairly interesting, since Goku is still weak and everything. Then Caulifla just comes and knocks all 3 of them away in base form. *Deep sigh*
-You're trying to make Champa less repulsive as a character Toshio, I can tell. I still don't like him, but I can see the effort you're putting in there.
-This fight with the universe 6 Namekians is actually really interesting! Please stop giving it to us in 60 second increments each week, Toei.
Things I Disliked:
-If someone out there could edit each episode of Super to remove all of the Omni Kings' useless fluff dialogue, I would he a happy viewer... sometimes.
-You get a transformation! And you get a transformation! Everyone gets a transformation! It seems Super is skipping the middle man with transformations and just using them as the character development themselves. Spoiler warning, it's not. I guess if your teacher pep talks you by telling you to stop being pathetic, your opponent talks smack about said teacher, and you're at least level 37, you too can unlock Super Saiyan 2. Seriously, the universe 6 saiyans currently feel like that kid who gets into an MMO 6 months after launch, sees a bunch of max level players, and uses his parent's credit card to buy EXP boosts to quickly get up to max level himself. Nobody likes that kid.
-Scaling is still atrocious. Cabba can barely do anything as a Super Saiyan, despite one-shotting 2 different fighters in his base form earlier; afterwards, Vegeta knocks Monna away in his base form, then Cabba overpowers her as a Super Saiyan 2. I guess Vegeta's base is close to Cabba's SSJ2 in power now? So he's, like, almost 100 times stronger than he was in the Universe 6 arc? I don't even know anymore.
-Can't stand Caulifla. She's a cocky Saiyan brute with a pair of boobs. So compelling. Kale is becoming a better character than her. KALE.
Overall, this was another mixed episode for me. The stuff with Vegeta and Cabba was all quite good, minus the shoehorned SSJ2 transformation. Freeza continues to be a treat. The little skirmishes in the first half looked quite intriguing. Kale actually seemed like a character instead of a clone. But there were some low points as well. Caulifla is slowly turning into one of my least favorite characters, power scaling continues to be dragged through the dirt, and transformations are still a dime a dozen. I'd say overall the episode is above average, leaning on good. Probably Toshio's weakest episode this tournament. And I can't say I'm all too excited for next week's episode either, so we may be on a downward slope for a bit. We'll wait and see, I guess.
"If you notice this and understand that it's flawed and just don't let it bother you, that's perfectly fine. But enjoying a flawed movie and calling a movie flawless are two completely different things."
-Adam from YourMovieSucksDOTorg
(Replace "movie" with "DBS episode" and that's pretty much my thoughts in regards to DBS critique)