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by RandomGuy96 » Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:37 am
Agree with the OP's points. I liked Lord Slug mainly for Piccolo- but also because Gohan, Chi Chi, and Yajirobe aren't left out. I like that the villain gets taken down by teamwork and that the teamwork doesn't just involve pure power also.
It has three main detriments: one, no even or even somewhat close or interesting fights, though honestly that's the case for all of the movies except for maybe 1, 7, 11, and 12 (while the M7 ones were even I guess, they were short and boring). M12 and M1 are the only movies I'd describe as having good fights. Two, Slug himself is a boring watered down cross between King Piccolo and Freeza (though I liked the idea of another non-Freeza planetary conqueror and an evil Super Namekian). My third biggest problem is basically a combination of one and two; we don't even get a showdown between Giant Slug and SS Goku, even though Slug is stated to be stronger than the Super Saiyan. That could have been awesome. But no, we just have Goku reverting right before Slug goes giant. As a result the fights continue to be boring and Slug looks unimpressive.
Overall though, there's enough stuff to like here. I'd certainly put it above the abysmal schlock of Movies 7, 8, and 10 at least. Still thinking about how it compares to 2, 3, 5, 6, and 11. The only ones I know that it's most definitely below are 1, 9, 12, and 13.
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RandomGuy96 on Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:49 am, edited 1 time in total.
The Monkey King wrote:RandomGuy96 wrote:dbgtFO wrote:
Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
