But other than the 'Garlic Jr. Saga' there's no evidence or reason to think that Movie 1 ever happened.Domon wrote:But he didn't, even though the anime does state that Dead Zone happened. In work of fictions, writers do paint themselves into corners from time to time, and one simply has to accept that logic gaps exists. I think you just need to accept that, rather than trying to pretend that "it just didn't happen" as so many are strangely prone to. Given that an intense battle was going on, I don't see this case as that big of a deal. Perhaps things were happing too fast for him to think of using Gphan as a weapon, or perhaps he thought it would be far too risky to henge on an untrained, unreliable source(the battle did cost him an arm...), and upon completion of the battle, vowed to train Gohan so that he would be useable in battle(of course, it didn't quite end up that way, but the idea was sound). I'd rather we'd see more efforts into simple but plasable explaination for things, rather than pretending it never happened.
How about this: Movie 1 couldn't happen because everyone should have known about Gohan - and yet DBZ episode 1 shows everyone being amazed at Goku having a son, they had no idea he had a son. If Movie 1 happened, they would all know about Gohan. There. Movie 1 didn't happen, and it only took 2 minutes of one episode to prove it.
). Or another example is the James Bond film. In one movie, Bond said he went to Tokyo once, but a few films later, he said he never been to Japan before(and this is with the same actor). Or look at Star Trek. There are pleeeeeeeeaty of continunity errors that have crept up in that series 40+ years of history, but it's still all part of the same timeline.