JazzMazz wrote:
If your asking why I'm pessimistic or still watching the show if I really haven't liked anything about it, the answer is that I have a personal investment in the franchise, and really want to see it produce something amazing. However, I also believe that having standards is important, so I judge the show according to my standards to determine if I liked it or not. Thus far, I haven't really liked what I've seen for the most part.
For me, the only two good arcs to come out of Z would be the Saiyan and Namek/Frieza arc, with the Saiyan arc easily being the golden standard for the formula that Z would employ then on out. I didn't think the Cell arc was good, namely because all the characters made the dumbest decisions possible and none of what was learned was carried over into the Buu arc, which was slow, dumb and stupid for the most part. As much as I disliked those arcs, I believe they at least had well executed character moments throughout with iconic and memorable finales.
The future Trunks arc is a failure for me, namely due to the final act being complete bullshit. It had asspulls up the wazoo, time travel that doesn't any sense and is there only to confuse the viewer, stupid retcons that devalue previous interactions in the series and a really predictable and overly contrived ending that made the entire arc feel like it could have been ended in half the episodes it actually did.
EDIT: Realized I should probably bring it back around to the topic. Super also hasn't even been remotely consistent enough from a visual standpoint, until this tournament, to make for an engaging experience. Though Super definitely has some real highs, it's also had a lot of low points, far lower than even lowest lows of Z. Since these lows happened extremely early on in the show, and continued throughout the series up to the Future Trunks arc, where things started to improve, the is the impression it left upon a lot of people was that it looked ugly. Visually speaking, a show doesn't to be absolutely gorgeous to get a pass from me, it just needs to allow myself to immerse in it's events, if even on a basic level. That where I felt Super had a lot of issues early on. You can't be absorbed into a show if all you see, or have heard about is that it looks unwatchable.
That isn't what I am asking since why you watched or don't like the show is your preference. I just fine it interesting that I personally feel the exact opposite. For example, I don't care about the Saiyan Saga despite the fact everyone seems to adore it. I find it boring and I found the led up to the Saiyans better than the actual fight other than Goku vs. Vegeta. Which went downhill for me once Vegeta became a Great Ape. If this was the gold standard of Z, I wouldn't 't have like the series as much. I loved the Buu Saga since although the characters may act like idiots, it was only really limited to Vegeta who was properly punished in my opinion and Gotenks who at least gave me a fun fight.
As for the Future Trunks Saga, yeah opposite opinion. The only real asspull to me was the Spirit Bomb, the time travel made perfect sense to me since it's a very simple stable time loop and I don't see how it was confusing other than trying say that there was no time loop, I loved the Vegetto retcon because it explained what happened in the Buu Saga instead the 'bad air' explanation we got before (which is a plot hole since why didn't Gotenks defused), and I don't see how the ending was predictable. I have seen people predict Zen'o coming and destroying the timeline, but most predictable that Future Trunks and Mai would stay in the present and the character we got to know would survived. The most comment theory I personally saw was that Zen'o would fixed everything.
Overall, I found the Future Trunks Saga to be the best written story arc in Dragon Ball. The characters they used was used well, we have a villain who had other motives than "I'm evil" or "being the strongest in the universe", it didn't over stay it welcome like the Freeza, Cell, and Buu Saga, the characters didn't have to be idiots to keep the plot going, we got some great character development, and for the first time death had real consequences. Yeah, there were things that could have been better, but it truly felt like an evolution of the Dragon Ball formulae and this is how I want Super to be.
On topic, I have never found Super unwatchable even at the worst of time. I grew up on 70s and 80s cartoons that were worst animated than Super so off model shots aren't going to bother me now.
Gashif Aldi wrote:I actually felt bad for the Directors and Writers, because the adaptation of Toriyama's script is in their hands.
Knowing that they're rushed and can't keep up the quality
and it will be used in Video Games, Remakes, Action Figure, tracers (lol) and etc.
They could've executed it way better, but the schedule is pushing the quality way back.
My opinion about the writing..
[spoiler]Just like in RoF movie, why Goku that have acquired the power of God is almost on par with Golden Frieza who inly trained for 4 months?
The manga explains it because both Goku and Vegeta haven't mastered SSB yet, and the last chapter told us that. Not some asspulls like in the anime.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]How was the anime an asspull? The gave an explanation as to why Freeza got so strong. Not liking the explain is another matter. And Goku and Vegeta not mastering their forms make them mocking of Freeza's golden form look hypocritical. And Mastered Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan is an asspull, but I won't go into detail here.[/spoiler]