If by rules you mean everything must adhere to some imaginary formula created by no one other than the fans. Then no. It doesn't need those rules. Because those rules are dumb and more nonsense than what some folk claim this show to be.LightBing wrote: They can if their intention is to alienate the audience. The show has gone down the rabbit hole, there's no rules in anything. One week Goku might be at death's door and the next he's taking 20 people at the same time like it was nothing.
In this aspect in particular it's about finding a middle ground. I'm on board to give more leeway about how skill and other factors matter, it only improves the show like the Master Roshi episode proves, but we need rules in the narrative otherwise nothing matters.
Like I said Goku being SSJ would be a great compromise, why they didn't do it I don't know. I guess people just swallow everything if it aligns with their preferences.
Cant wait until Goku pulls a sword out of his ass if swordsman's becomes a fad or turns into a "Neko Goku" to be more cute.
People are free to act like this show is just the wild west where anything goes, and they wouldn't even be wrong that, thats the case occasionally. (I know how people like to pull out the Trunks card everytime this discussion happens and it's totally valid) But it's not all the time and it certainly isn't here. Your imaginary scenarios where Goku was at deaths Door only to be fighting a hand full of people like he is fine for no reason isn't a thing that happened. And nothing like pulling sword out of his butt or turning Neko Goku isn't even close to what went on here or anything close to how I said it should be.
The show went out of it's way to give you a reason for what happened using what we know. It didn't make anything up. And even then it didn't stay that way the whole fight. Goku eventually got overpowered anyway! This is totally the middle ground. If someone doesn't want to accept it then that's fine but that isn't an issue with the show being dumb that's an issue with those fans choosing to be anal.
It's not about the fanboys opening wide and swallowing whatever daddy Toei drips down our throats because it "aligns with our preferences". I can't speak for everyone, but personally it's just about not shutting out everything that doesn't remotely align with what I want because it doesn't follow some made up rules of Big must tank small based on some arbitrary number that is apparently supposed to dictate everything.