Kentai wrote:Son Gokuu is a fascinating character anyway, because he is - at face value, anyway - an idiot savant. The victim of violent head trauma as an infant [...] he's a simple bumpkin with a fair share of brain damage who's natural talents to work out what's wrong compensate for his broad lack of common sense. But he's also a fighter, through and through [...] he fight until he has, in no uncertain terms, beaten his enemy on terms they can both acknowledge. He doesn't want to kill anyone, or even prove that he can win... he just wants to know he can. He's an ineffably charming bastard who's manly leanings were really incendental, and yes, the fact that he was voiced by a squeaky woman made the combination perhaps all the more charming.
O yea I forgot about that one.VegettoEX wrote:Semi-recent 10-page thread with lots of additional answers (including my own):
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=19949
This is still true. But I am closer to being able to purchase the complete series and watch all of it.dprez wrote:Since I have yet to actually sit down and watch all of GT, I can't really say that I hate it, love it, or am somewhere in between. In many ways I definitely "hate" what GT did to certain characters, but I have yet to form a complete opinion on how I feel about GT as a whole. Need to buy the green brick and watch all of it, but I agree with the OP, that if it's Goku and friends, I can bare to watch solely for that reason.
fadeddreams5 wrote:Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
fadeddreams5 wrote:Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
How can you bash something that doesn't exist?dbboxkaifan wrote:They should be bashing Hoshi not GT because it's a fake series
When it's done right, I can agree to this.mattymoron wrote:As far as I'm concerned, ANY Dragon Ball related material that expands the mythos and gives me new characters and stories is a good thing. Haters gonna' hate.
MY HOLY GRAIL (110% Serious. Please sell me one)Mayuri Kurotsuchi wrote:"In this world, nothing perfect exists. It may be a cliche after all but it's the way things are. That's precisely why ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection, it's infatuation. But ultimately I have to ask myself "What is the true meaning of being perfect?" and the answer I came up with was nothing. Not one thing. The truth of the matter is I despise perfection! If something is truly perfect, that's IT! The bottom line becomes there is no room for imagination! No space for intelligence or ability or improvement! Do you understand? To men of science like us, perfection is a dead end, a condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you but not perfect! Scientist's agonize over the attempt to achieve perfection! That's the kind of creatures we are! We take joy in trying to exceed our grasp, in trying to reach for something that in the end, we have to admit may in fact be unreachable!"
Beat me to it. It was your answer that I remembered that made me go hunting for that thread. I swear this topic pops up almost every couple of months.VegettoEX wrote:Semi-recent 10-page thread with lots of additional answers (including my own):
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=19949
Pretty much this. I love the series, and I pop it in my dvd player any time the mood strikes me. I like the atmosphere of it. LOVE the music. I actually ended up seeing all of GT before I finished Z when I was a child thanks to bootlegs at the video store.Cipher wrote:I can't remember if I posted in the previous thread, so I'll just repeat what I always say when these things come up:
I like GT. I like it a lot, actually. I love the style and colors, the music, and the general, nostalgic atmosphere. I like that the characters are old and frumpy. I like the new cast members we get, like Giru, who take on roles we haven't seen since early Dragon Ball. I like that there's finally a girl in the main cast. And while I think the ending of Z and the manga work just fine, I love GT's ending as well.
I acknowledge there are some missteps; it's too Goku-centric, Oob is bizarrely side-lined, Pan's development somewhat peters out, and there are inconsistencies in how characters' relative strengths are displayed (though not nearly to the point most people seem to think). Any future adaptations or remakes should absolutely address and alter these problems.
But they aren't enough to keep me from enjoying the series.
This I don't get. Sure he's less of a bratty kid, but that's because he matured after 15 years. The traits are still there, regardless of if you want to see them or not. His sneaking out of work, running around like a fool trying to catch Pan or Gill, all that screams present Trunks to me. Kid at heart. He might be a little more mild mannered than he used to be, but I don't think his personality is really all that similar to Future Trunks', because honestly, even though Future Trunks is typically really polite with people, I can't imagine him putting up with half the shit present Trunks goes through in GT with his more serious personality...dbgtFO wrote:I don't like the fact, they changed Trunks' personality to be more like the polite Future Trunks instead of his bratty self in the Buu Arc.
