Hellspawn28 wrote:Kai has pretty much the same voice cast, but with a few new actors. I hate the hate that Kai gets because some fans refuse to take off their nostalgia glasses. It reminds me how Transformers and Pokemon fans are with G1.
This.
How anyone..and I mean ANYONE can like Grandma Fr(i)eza over the awesome Chris Ayres Freeza is beyond me.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
I actually didn't mind the look of Namek but why did they use the crappy dub dialogue? Not to mention Goku powering up was laughably bad.
If they wanted to be more unique the original 'I am the Super Saiyan Son Goku!' speech feels more fresh. This paints Goku as just another generic superhero.
If it was me I'd just try to do my own thing not just straight up adapt something.
It is in his character to be rude and a bit crass. He's a hick, with no formal education. That is Son Goku. That is who he is.
Superman in an orange Gi was the bastard son of FUNimation. Its not The real character, it is as false as Chatku.
