SingleFringe&Sparks wrote:If this is another of the "GT was worse than I thought" threads, I cant agree with the basis here.
No it's not in particular. The show is neither better or worse than I thought actually. Originally I did think the Shadow Dragon Saga and Omega Shenron was better the Baby Saga and Baby but after watching it again that's reversed now.
By simply rating the arcs as they are, Super's really wouldn't be any better.
I definitely don't agree with that. Even the opening Beerus Saga is far more enjoyable than anything from GT. The first three sagas of Super weren't great but it was mostly entertaining enough. GT was never an entertaining show, it was ok at points but it was never fun to watch.
Its only better than GT in areas that GT did not deliver in. Generally just the fights and comedy. Thats it.
The animation is far better in Super. The music is better which you said already. The fighting is the main thing people even watch the show for so the fights being better is a big advantage.
It expanded the series more, other Universes, God's of Destruction, Angels, Super Dragon Balls, Sadala, Zeno, Zuno, the Time Ring etc.
The original characters that it introduced are a hell of a lot better, there were no original characters in GT that became well liked later on. With Super they have Hit, Goku Black, Zamasu, Jiren and more that are plenty popular. Even to further extend on that GT made people hate Pan whereas Super has made Android 17 more popular than he's ever been. That might apply to Frieza as well.
Most of the characters do nothing, and outside of fighting Goku does nothing.
Super at least gave these characters some key moments here and there. Gohan had time spent on him in the Golden Frieza Saga, they later built him back up, he took part in the Tournament and had some big fights there. In GT he doesn't do anything, he's part of the fodder that gets swatted aside like Goten.
Vegeta was obviously significant all throughout Super as opposed to only being significant at the end of GT.
Piccolo frequently appeared, had his fight with Frost, took part in Gohan's training and had some fights in the Tournament. In GT the only thing he does is open the portal for Goku to get out of Hell, he's hardly in it.
Krillin and Android 18 aren't in GT much and only have one key moment each. Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu have no dialogue in the show. Frieza and Android 17 were main characters by the end of Super whereas Frieza was treated as a joke in GT and Android 17 was in a couple episodes.
Master Roshi they did more with in Super than in Z whereas he does nothing at all in GT and barely appeared.