Was the Android Arc pointless?

[SSJ Human]

To skip my favorite portion of the series. What is the world coming to?

[Zipswips]

Android arc is a decent piece of character development.
Especially Vegeta's for that matter. It shows the bits between Frieza arc and Buu arc.
End Of Frieza arc: Vegeta is a lot calmer than before than before and for a while is ready to stay at earth.
Android arc: surprisingly Vegeta has grown a family yet, his obsession with Goku continues as he shows little to no affection to his wife or son.
Buu arc: with Goku's death Vegeta has become a lot more focused on himself as well as his family.
And his character is only changing more and more through New material.

Also android arc has some character development for Gohan aswell.

[fadeddreams5]

The Android saga gave us #18. Mr. Satan also attained his hero status as a result of it, which in turn led to Videl's role as a hero in Satan City.

That's pretty much the only lasting effect of the saga. Unfortunately, 18 is underused, Mr. Satan was already popular prior to this, and Videl's entire personality was changed recently.

Besides all of that, it really was pointless. What bugs me is that Cell is the only major villain who never gets referenced.

[dbgtFO]

Besides all of that, it really was pointless. What bugs me is that Cell is the only major villain who never gets referenced.

Do you mean he doesn't get referenced in the Buu arc or something else?
He does get referenced in the Buu arc, when Goku compares him to Dabra and later on, when Mr. Satan takes off to fight Buu(even got an image reference).

[Lord Beerus]

Besides all of that, it really was pointless. What bugs me is that Cell is the only major villain who never gets referenced.

Are you sure about that?

[SSJ Human]

The Android saga gave us #18. Mr. Satan also attained his hero status as a result of it, which in turn led to Videl's role as a hero in Satan City.

That's pretty much the only lasting effect of the saga. Unfortunately, 18 is underused, Mr. Satan was already popular prior to this, and Videl's entire personality was changed recently.

Besides all of that, it really was pointless. What bugs me is that Cell is the only major villain who never gets referenced.

Yeah, 18 is extremely underused. Toriyama almost ignored her potential entirely, especially when Toriyama could have easily had her as a main fighter against Boo, but that didn't make the cut.