Anyone watching the fillers until February?

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Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Faisal Shourov » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:30 pm

Since Toei already told us the canon arc starts from February, any of you watching the fillers until that arc starts? I have always skipped fillers of most anime I have watched (Shippuden and Bleach for example). I don't really like Super that much to be honest, so I feel it's a waste of my time to watch episodes which has zero impact in the series later on. Also I hate slice of life episodes so there's that.
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by kinisking » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:34 pm

Yes, because Canon doesn't dictate whether or not I enjoy an episode. Episode 70-72 were better than all of the ROF arc, and all of Champa arc besides for episode 39.
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Chuquita » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:37 pm

It hasn't gotten bad enough where I'd skip it yet. I was interested in the Great Saiyaman episode this weekend until I learned it was two parter and now I'm less enthused.

But I'm also at this weird point where there's nothing on the horizon Super-wise for me to look forward to personally. I'm hoping the NewType issue coming out has something good, or that the tournament surprises me somehow.
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Simere » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:40 pm

It's not like I have better things to do for the twenty minutes it would take.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Boo Machine » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:42 pm

I don't see why I shouldn't. Most filler has been really good. A lot of people would argue they're the best part of Super.
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Merged Zamasu » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:43 pm

I'm rewatching the entire Future Trunks Arc. I am saddened by the wasted potential of Merged Zamasu. They should have kept his glorious and shining form that we saw in Episode 65. But nooo, we clearly needed yet another Broly clone.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Faisal Shourov » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:49 pm

Boo Machine wrote:I don't see why I shouldn't. Most filler has been really good. A lot of people would argue they're the best part of Super.
That's pretty sad actually. Fillers should never ever be good compared to main story. Fillers are random episodes made my studio for patch up. Just shows how people are not satisfied with Super's execution
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Boo Machine » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:55 pm

Faisal Shourov wrote:
Boo Machine wrote:I don't see why I shouldn't. Most filler has been really good. A lot of people would argue they're the best part of Super.
That's pretty sad actually. Fillers should never ever be good compared to main story. Fillers are random episodes made my studio for patch up. Just shows how people are not satisfied with Super's execution
Not necessarily. Just because Fillers aren't a part of the main story doesn't make them of any less quality automatically. Writing wise at the very least. There have been plenty of filler through out not just Dragonball but plenty of other series that have expanded on story points for something only briefly touched upon it it's original source material. People like the filler because it has shown that it can have great character moments or flat out hilarity that some of the fans really appreciate. Enjoying Filler is not an indication of anything wrong with any series.
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by The_Destroyer » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:09 pm

As long as they're like the Hit and baseball episodes and not like the Copy Vegeta ones, then yeah.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by SaiyanGod117 » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:14 pm

Dragon Ball Filler helps boost your spirit up, that's one of the main reasons I like One Piece. So yeah I will be watching it.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by precita » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:22 pm

I don't get this thread. Are people still under the, "fillers are bad" mentality? What the hell?

All the recent Super fillers have been entertaining. Some of the best episodes of Super are fillers. Who cares if something is part of the main arc or not? I feel like this is a debate from the year 2000 or something? Did I somehow go into a timewarp from 15 years ago?

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by ailema88 » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:56 pm

I have watched every single episode in DBS filler or not.. there are some good episodes that I have watched more than once and some others that I just watched in streaming or once subbed cause they're boring, but I don't think I'd be able to lose any episode with all the spoilers on internet.. there are fillers that has been really enjoyable and also there are some canon episodes that has been boring..

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Godgoku95 » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:28 pm

Might as well since i got nothing to do

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Brettjr25 » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:46 pm

Its different from Naruto, Bleach etc. With those animes, the "filler" was (and still is imo) material that wasnt written by the original author and was done by a studio which was always inferior to there work. So yeah I would skip some if it bored me but for dbs EVERYTHING is that "filler". The entire product reeks of that studio created junk just to fill air time, that includes the entire zamasu arc to me. So I dont see whats the difference betweem filler arc and filler standalone eps. I'm just tuning in to see old friends.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Thu Jan 05, 2017 6:25 am

kinisking wrote:Yes, because Canon doesn't dictate whether or not I enjoy an episode. Episode 70-72 were better than all of the ROF arc, and all of Champa arc besides for episode 39.
Superhuman water arc was better than most the U6 arc imo.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by PsionicWarrior » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:07 am

Current fillers are surprisingly good imo

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Ki Breaker » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:34 am

Well it's about Gohan, can't really skip them
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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Saikyo no Senshi » Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:06 am

Character interactions and SoL stuff is the only thing Super has done a good job at. The next big arc doesn't seem that big and interesting to me anyways, so fillers are definitely worth my time. Great Saiyaman Gohan is the only Gohan I can stand. I'm looking forward to the upcoming episode.

I hope the next few fillers also go the "character interactions and funny gags" route and not action cause that would be unnecessarily wasting your staff and the action will also suck. Super should do what it's good at and that's without question SoL.

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by PsionicWarrior » Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:48 am

Saikyo no Senshi wrote:Super should do what it's good at and that's without question SoL.
Let's not pretend FTrunks arc didn't happen lol

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Re: Anyone watching the fillers until February?

Post by Saikyo no Senshi » Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:11 am

PsionicWarrior wrote: Let's not pretend FTrunks arc didn't happen lol
Let's also not pretend that the arc didn't have problems and it didn't started to suffer once it started doing full action episodes. The arc sure was entertaining, don't get me wrong, but SoL is by far the best thing in Super imo.

The character interactions in the Trunks arc was good and like I said dialogue scenes and interactions is Super's strength.

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