Tagomiller.
That is the most worthwhile thing to come out of Resurrection F.
This is also an English dub thing entirely, irrelevant to the Japanese original, but there's a part of me always tickled by the "Freeza made Tagoma more evil," simply because a very common dub misconception since the 90s was that Vegeta was made into the brutal man he is by Freeza's influence thanks to the rewrite of his death on Namek, and it's typically one of the first things dubbies have to unlearn about his character, that Freeza isn't a corrupting influence
And here comes Super and Tagoma.
Sometimes I wonder if the Japanese writers at Toei actually are aware of the English dub oddities and some of these things are deliberate shout outs. Horrifying thought, eh? I mean we live in a world where the English dub version of the Bardock special now is actually a more "Toriyama" accurate version of Bardock than the Japanese original.
Also, half-tangent because I never got to say this in the past, this episode partially matters to it, and I'm glad I didn't back then because I needed to watch the show again to confirm my own feelings on it: by the time a proper Daima dissection comes around, I bet the fandom attitude towards it will have changed utterly and there's probably going to either be a lot of ranting or a lot of "I guess this happens, if only that happens." If Super is all "car is stuck in the mud going nowhere" and GT was "blindly groping trying to find the car," Daima's definitely "found the car, and the engine is dead"
Like it feels as if almost every positive feeling towards Daima comes down either to Toriyama's death softening feelings or making some people too jumpy about criticizing it (which I disagree with strongly; the most respectful thing you can do for an artist is criticize their work honestly), or the comedy which was mostly-consistently funny. That show otherwise is the definition of "the concept is infinitely better than the execution," which seems like it's been the story behind just about all of Nü DB with some notable exceptions.
If and when you ever do DBD...D? DB Double-D? DBDD, you can reflect on GT and arcs like Resurrection F being "engorged on memberberries" and have a proper contrast where we finally get an arc that's all about adventure and new locations......................................................................... and they still somehow screw it up by giving us locations that are cooler in concept and characters we don't care about, only to pivot and decide "never mind, here's fan-service except it's been scientifically maximized to make the least amount of sense possible"
(Like the fact people arbitrarily love Daima-Super Saiyan 4 now because "Toriyama designed it"...... and offer no other justification beyond that, when it otherwise checks every box people have for "bad Dragon Ball transformation")
And I think the first episode of any sort of prospective Daima Dissection ought to commit to answering a question: what exactly makes a good "adventure" story and why is it "Adobencha Ball" keeps falling flat with fans (because I don't think the idea is at all doomed, but early DB didn't take well with the Japanese, early GT is the reason why the series was cut short, and Daima is... well, the dust is still settling and people are still raw over Toriyama's death which is clouding judgment, and I argue it is also the weakest "adobencha" Dragon Ball's ever done— I'd even say Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans's adventure story was more fun)
Well that tangent's over, and you can take it as me rambling! Also it's irrelevant if you like Daima. I am utterly apathetic towards it.
