How did Bardock go back in time in Episode of Bardock?

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Do really need a clear explanation from Toei or Ooishi when the most common one across multiple franchises can explain it without problem?

[LiamKav]

Do really need a clear explanation from Toei or Ooishi when the most common one across multiple franchises can explain it without problem?

You mean "big explosion sends someone back in time"? I dunno, as an explanation it's just a bit, well, shit. Besides, Dragon Ball had shown up until that point that time travel was hard. It took Bulma years to do it, and her time machine still had a few issues.

You can have a one in a million thing happen and be dramatically sound, but there should probably be some acknowledgement.

(I would also argue that the most common form of time travel across multiple franchises is someone actually inventing a time machine. Big explosions happen less frequently, although I would agree they aren't uncommon.)

[TheDevilsCorpse]

The most common explanation for an explosion being able to send someone back in time, not time travel in general. Vegeta had a high level of gravity, got hit with an enormous amount of energy and then had even even more energy released as the planet was blown apart. As I believe Bussani(?) said, that practically begs for the formation of a rift in almost any sci-fi series. Actually, more like if that doesn't cause a rift, that's the anomaly.

And, even with Bardock's little trip, who said time travel was easy? Freeza could go around and blow up every other planet in the universe and not have it happen again. And really, who should we have acknowledge it? Freeza didn't even know anything was out of the ordinary, it wouldn't make sense for him to comment on it. And contrary to popular belief, Bardock is not a brilliant scientist. We're lucky he realized that he got sent back in time, never mind comprehending why it happened. The only feasible way to slip it in would be the narrator, but that would just feel extremely out of place.

[Marco Polo]

But then why is he the only one who got sent back?

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Who said he was? All we know is that he's the only one who got sent back to THAT specific point in time, and no one else is important enough to care about where they ended up. =P

[DNA]

Seriously people? Am I the only one who considered that the fact that Bardock is the only one who got sent through time at that moment and the only person to be sent despite several similar blasts through the series and the fact that he doesn't have pre-cognition anymore is because the blast AND his psychic powers made it happen?

Sure, I agree with several people's opinion that the blast could have opened a rift in space, but I also agree that Bardock's "time related" powers had something to do with it. And since they were kinda "borrowed" anyway, they were all "spent" flinging Bardock through time, hence why he does not have them anymore.

There you go, that's how you kill two plot-holes with one Saiyan.

[Bussani]

Seriously people? Am I the only one who considered that the fact that Bardock is the only one who got sent through time at that moment and the only person to be sent despite several similar blasts through the series and the fact that he doesn't have pre-cognition anymore is because the blast AND his psychic powers made it happen?

The first reply in the thread suggested that, so, no? But I'll admit, I didn't consider that when I first read/saw the special, probably because a) his precognitive powers aren't mentioned at all, and b) my mind automatically filled it in with the Sealab 2021 joke, which was good enough for me.