darzap wrote:JazzMazz wrote:I don't think there is anything particularly amatuerish about how they're thinking when writing Super.
I think the writing in the last arc was terrible.
They were completely unable to create the illusion of a battle Royal when there was no indication of anything of relevance happening away from the main characters after the first episode.
They were completely unable to be even remotely consistent in power scaling, it was all over the place.
They were completely unable to be consistent with previously established mechanics. We've never seen anyone recover multiple times in a matter of minutes from going all out. They are simply unable to create tension without multiple all-out battles for the main characters and they created that problem on their own by making the tournament a single fight. They can have multiple fights to have multiple highlights and allow them to recover or they can have a single fight and make a point of stamina budgeting (which they did!) but they tried to do both, which is completely impossible when trying to make it believable.
The amount of time spent with various opponents was completely disproportionate to their relevance.
The ridiculous gap in power they created with Jiren, when nobody forced them to create that problem, required multiple a**pulls to bridge it and the "That's not even my final form"-cliche was abused to absurdity with Jiren, not in a matter of an arc but in a matter of a single-digit number of episodes.
They create a unique new scenario - great.
They make sure to establish the special circumstances of that new scenario - great.
They throw it all out of the window after one or two episodes, write it they way they write other arcs and contradict the rules they've just established left and right - why?
Don't get me wrong, I do watch every episode because I do like the characters and want to see what happens to them, but the writing in the last arc is terrible.
Even the previous arc, though...
Goku Black concept? Great. Zamasu concept? Great. Future Trunks? Great. The whole thing about Trunks protecting people, growing beyond his limits and managing to strike at the heart of the full-of-himself guy that underestimated him was a great point to make. But they completely undermine it right away by killing everything that was just protected right away after that and conclude in a way that makes the whole arc pointless (They could have switched to another timeline from the start) and throws everything away that they've just invested in. That's as if Sauron revived right after the destruction of the Ring, killed almost everybody and Gandalf took Frodo and Sam over to the blessed realm Valinor, saying "On second thought, screw Middle-Earth, we can just live in paradise anyway."
