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[celticcat17]

🎵 “You're out of touch

I'm out of time (Time)

But I'm out of my head

When you're not around

You're out of touch

I'm out of time (Time)

But I'm out of my head

When you're not around

Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh” 🎵

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 63

✨GT Stands For Get Trashed✨

Last time, Goku and Vegeta lost their Super Saiyan 4 forms, leaving them virtually defenseless against Omega Shenron.  I mentioned this before, but Vegeta brings it up in this episode.  In theory, they could fuse in their base form and turn SSJ4 that way, but, as Goku points out, it won’t work because Goku’s stuck in this kid body, which means their sizes don’t match up well enough for Fusion. 

And with no one left to stop him, Omega decides to destroy the Earth.  I think this is the same Minus Energy Power Ball he used in Episode 60.  He refers to this one not being as big as the one he used before, so I can’t imagine what else he would be talking about.  Also, Omega has said that he needs all seven Dragon Balls in order to deply MEPB, so this is the first time he’s been able to do it since he lost the Four Star Dragon Ball in Episode 60.

And Vegeta makes a valiant attempt to stop it from hitting the Earth, but...

... Goku knocks him out of the way and takes on the Power Ball himself.  This is kind of dumb.   At least Vegeta had a little gas in the tank left.  He may not be able to maintain Super Saiyan 4, but he hasn’t been fighting as long as Goku has, so he had a better chance of repelling this thing. 

And sure, this is Goku’s show, but it’s kind of annoying how aggressively Toei pushes Goku to the forefront in this series.  Like, if they wanted him to catch this attack, just have him catch the attack.  But no, he has to tackle Vegeta so he can get bonus points for being so selfless. 

So how in the hell is Goku resisting this kind of power?  He couldn’t lay a finger on Omega Shenron in the last couple of episodes, and now he’s pushing back Omega’s finisher.  GT Logic, that’s how.  Goku is simultaneously weak and strong.

Somehow, Goku stops the thing from destroying the whole planet, but it still makes a big enough explosion to leave a giant hole in this city they’ve been fighting in. 

Satisfied that Goku has been killed, Omega Shenron gets busy destroying the world. Well, now he’s gonna do it the slow way, I guess.  I mean, can he not do another Minus Energy Power Ball, or is this just how he’d rather play it?  Anyway, he restores the field of Minus Energy around the Earth, but instead of that multi-colored haze, it turns the sky dark instead, which is a much cooler effect. 

Also, disasters start to happen all over the planet.  I think this was happening anyway, but it’s happening faster now.

And that really fires up Vegeta, because he’s already lived through the destruction of one home planet.  He refuses to stand by and let it happen again.  So he charges back into action, but before he goes, he tells Trunks to evacuate the others in Bulma’s spaceship, and then Trunks, Goten, and Gohan can train somewhere and avenge their fathers.

But they don’t follow his orders.   Instead they send the others on ahead, and go back to support Vegeta’s last stand.  Even Chi-Chi approves, which is pretty rare for this franchise.  Weird how Uub isn’t joining them, seeing as how this series opened with him becoming the nominal protector of the Earth.

Anyway, yeah, Vegeta’s attack is a non-starter.  Omega beats him and the boys without any trouble at all.

Then Omega knocks him over by the crater and tells Vegeta he can share a grave with Goku, but Vegeta laughs when he sees what’s down there...

Yep, it’s Goku with a Spirit Bomb!  And apparently he’s been working on it the whole time Vegeta was trying to make his last stand. 

Let’s talk about why this sucks.

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

So first and foremost, this is a cheap rip-off of the Spirit Bomb Goku used to defeat Kid Buu at the end of Dragon Ball Z.  I get that Toei loves their Spirit Bomb finishes, and that they used this trick in four different DBZ movies, but this is just sad.  The big finish to GT is nothing more than a pale imitation of the big finish of Z.  What a crock.

Making matters worse is the fact that we only spend about half an episode on this Spirit Bomb, which means Goku has to speedrun all the stuff he did to make it work against Kid Buu.  Remember how he needed King Kai to put him in touch with the people of Earth so he could take all the power they could give him?  Well, they just skip over that.  By the time this Spirit Bomb is revealed, Goku’s already received all the power he can get from the Earth’s population.  We don’t know how he contacted everyone to ask for it, but somehow that happened.

We know he didn’t have help from King Kai this time, because he doesn’t contact King Kai until after he’s made it this far.  Instead, he asks King Kai to contact the rest of the universe, so he can borrow power from them as well.

And you might argue that this “Universal” style is what makes the GT Spirit Bomb unique, but I don’t buy it.  The Spirit Bomb Goku used on Kid Buu also had power from the Namekians, as well as Otherworld.  Sure, this one gets more planets to join in, but that only makes the Bomb bigger, not more original.

And putting all these morts from the Grand Tour kind of makes this Spirit Bomb worse, if you asked me.  The Para Brothers ruin everything they touch, is all I’m saying.

Why is this kid still in the hospital?  Oh, right, silly question.  He has to pretend to be sick because the hospital is the only place to get food on this dumb planet.

So you might be asking why Omega Shenron doesn’t attack Goku while he assembles this Spirit Bomb.  Well, he does attack Goku, and the blasts just... don’t hurt him.  At all.  And to be fair, Kid Buu pulled the same stunt, but I chalked that up to Kid Buu just taking potshots to goad Goku into moving out of position.  Omega’s a lot smarter than that, so you would think all of his blasts would be strong enough to kill Goku, or at least hurt him enough to thwart Goku’s plan.  But no.  Goku just sort of bounces and shakes with each hit, but nothing happens.  Which... I mean, he did withstand that Minus Energy Power Ball earlier, so who the fuck knows anymore?

So yeah, Goku’s just invincible now, which sort of begs the question of why he didn’t try this from the start.  I mean, if he can just float there and be indestructible until he throws an irresistible attack, then why didn’t he try this on Baby and Super 17?

Anyway, Goku throws the bomb, it works, and it digs a big trench in the ground because that’s what happened in the Kid Buu fight.  And we know Omega’s really dead this time because we can see all seven Dragon Balls restored to their original appearance. 

Then Shenron just appears unbidden, which is a first.  The narrator wonders if something is going to happen.  Yeah, good eye, narrator.

✨Positivity Page✨

I hate this episode for ripping off the climax of the Buu arc, but I do enjoy seeing Omega’s bones as his body dissolves in the Spirit Bomb.  It’s the one thing Buu couldn’t offer, since he’s boneless and all. 

And this means the Shadow Dragons are finally all dead, so no more of their bullshit for the rest of this series.  I mean, there’s only one episode left, but it’s still a relief.

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

Yes.  This episode is trash.

None of this makes any sense.  Goku’s stuck in his base form because of the beating he’s been taking for the last six episodes, and yet he’s shrugging off attacks that are enough to bring down Vegeta, no matter which Super Saiyan form he uses.  Omega Shenron is rightly terrified of the Spirit Bomb, but he just stands there like an idiot and lets it hit him.  Oh, right, that was the other thing they didn’t rip off from the Kid Buu fight.  In Z, Kid Buu forced the Spirit Bomb back toward Goku, who was too exhausted to stop it.  Here, Goku just overwhelms Omega in seconds, even though Goku should be just as weary here, and Omega is far more powerful than Kid Buu. 

We never see how he convinces the people of Earth to help him make the Spirit Bomb.  We also never see how the four Kais convince all of the planets in the universe to help Goku.  Most of the beings in the universe have never heard of the Kais or Goku, and they have no idea what’s happening on Earth right now, or that their worlds will be threatened next.  This is all just slapped together, like a student pulling an all-nighter on a term paper. 

And it’s all completely arbitrary.  In the Buu Saga, Goku never tried the Spirit Bomb because he didn’t think it could do any good.  That’s why Vegeta had to come up with a way to adapt it to the situation at hand.  Otherwise, Goku would have used it from the start and there would have been no story.  Here, Goku has the whole thing figured out on his own, so he was just... waiting to see if anything else might work instead? 

See, this is why you shouldn’t plagiarize, kids.  It’s not just the dishonesty.  When you copy stuff without understanding how it works, you lose the subtle touches that made it worth stealing in the first place.  Toriyama understood the Spirit Bomb, and how to use it in his stories, and when to use it, and how to hold off on using it without making the characters look dumb.  The people making GT were just like “It’s the end of the fight!  Time for the Spirit Bomb!”

Ugh.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

They killed King Furry?

Damn, GT won’t let us have

nothin’. Rest in peace, boy.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 10

✨GT Stands for Grueling Tedium✨

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

Yes.  Yes it is.  “The Roaming Lake” is fucking stupid.  For all its faults, it did not have a lengthy scene where the villains forced the hero to dance to the point of exhaustion.

This episode opens with the same scene of Goku, Trunks, and Pan jumping out of the ship to fight the worm monsters at the end of Episode 9.  They used to pull this trick in DBZ all the time, and I at least tolerated it there because I understood that the show had to pad things out so the manga could pull further ahead, but GT doesn’t have that excuse, and yet it abuses that trick way, way more.

Back at Planet Luud, they bring in some enemies of the cult from the West Galaxy, and Mutchy-Motchy turns them into dolls with his whip, then feeds the dolls to the Luud idol in their temple.  It’s exactly like when he did it to that cultist in Episode 9, only with other aliens.  One of them is cosplaying as Vegeta, for some reason.

✨ Positivity Page✨

 Back at the planetoid, the GT crew was having a hard time fighting these worm monsters, until Goku discovered it’s a lot easier to grab them by the tail end.  This allows them to just have their way with these creatures, which seems kind of suspicious, but at least they gave a reason for the tide to turn. 

Mostly, I just appreciate this part because it’s satisfying to see these characters whoop some ass, without any bullshit nerfing or GT logic getting in the way.  They just punch, kick, and rassle the worm monsters until they’re all beaten, and there’s no stupid “twist” where one of the worms has a magic potion that makes Goku a baby, or Pan decides that they need to use stealth instead of overwhelming force, or anything like that.  It’s not much, but I’ll take it.

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

During the fight, the Para Brothers were inside the Earthling ship searching for the Dragon Ball.   When they can’t find it, they decide that it must be on one of the GT crew, which means they’ll have to take it by force.  This leads to a nine-hour staredown, because this is all the episode has left.

The brother’s do a goofy pose, then they take off their battle vests, which double as sound and lighting equipment, and then they do a goofy dance.  The heroes look on in confusion, until Giru and Pan begin to dance as well.  Soon, they’re all dancing, and even repeating the stupid chant the Paras are doing, even though they don’t want to. 

That’s right, it’s a spell of some kind.   You watch the Para Brother’s long enough, you get stuck imitating their dance routine, and before you know it, you can’t... stop... doing the monkey!  And while you’re dancing, Bon Para can just walk right up and beat the shit out of you.

Honestly, this is so fucking stupid that it almost becomes enjoyable.  It’s honestly kind of satisfying to see someone beat the crap out of Pan, Trunks, and Goku.  But that’s kind of the problem here.  The Para Brothers suck, and the GT Crew sucks, and their fight sucks.  This episode represents a complete failure by everyone involved who made this show. 

And you know, if it was a short little bit, I probably wouldn’t mind it so much.  Make it like a cliffhanger to round out the last few minutes of one episode and the opening minutes of another.  But no, this is the entire second half of this episode, and it just goes on and on and on.  And the first half of the episode was just padding and filler.   You have to imagine that someone working on this show probably thought they could stretch this out to a full episode, and they had to be talked out of it. 

The big problem here is that the good guys are so powerful, which means it takes for-friggin’-ever to wear them out.  So who saves the day? Turns out it’s the caterpillar monsters, who somehow get up from the beating they took, and attack the Para brothers.  I’m not clear on whether they were affected by the spell or not, but since they don’t have feet, I’m guessing it wouldn’t work as well on them.

So the good guys take out the Paras while they have the opening, and I guess the caterpillar monsters don’t give them any more trouble since they know they’ll get thrashed again, and then Trunks and Pan search the Paras’ ship for the Six Star Dragon Ball.  Just as they’re about to give up, Pan notices something written on a terminal, and when Giru reads it to her, the ship’s computer decides it’s a command, and immediately takes off to return to Planet Luud.

This is easily one of the worst episodes of GT, and by extension, one of the worst episodes of anything related to Dragon Ball.  Hell, this might be the worst episode of anything, ever?  I’m trying to think of something worse, but nothing comes to mind.

✨ The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨ 

Fuck this episode

Fuck this shitty episode.

Fuck this episode.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 14

✨GT Stands for Grandpa’s Timing✨

Luud is at full power, which makes him bright red. Stupidly, Goku and Trunks continue to fight him in base form, despite the fact that they only really made any headway when they briefly turned Super Saiyans and attacked him together.  Now, Luud is stronger, but the good guys are holding back for no obvious reason.  Also, Trunks gets sidelined, so Goku ends up fighting alone for much of this episode.  At least, Goku’s alone on the outside.

Because on the inside, all of the victims Luud absorbed are beginning to wake up, starting with Pan.  I don’t entirely get it. At first she seems to be some sort of sleeping ghost, then a ghostly Doltaki tries to kiss her and when she slaps him he becomes solid.  Then while she smacks the shit out of him everyone else wakes up to see what’s going on. 

Practically everyone in here blames Doltaki for their predicament, so naturally they all want a piece of him, but he claims that he knows how to escape, even though he refuses to talk, since he seems to be more afraid of Mu than of being trapped inside Luud. 

Hey, did you miss the Para Brothers?  No?  Well too bad, because they’re inside Luud and they’re all over this episode.  Pan asks them to use their dance magic to force Doltaki to tell them how to defeat Luud, and it works.

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed.✨

By this point, GT has introduced enough characters in one place that we’re now just sort of having them mingle together, which only compounds their individual shittyness.  So now we have the Para Brothers using their spell on Doltaki, inside Luud, in order to rescue the Luud cultists and thwart the evil scheme of Dr. Mu.  If any of these characters had been enjoyable, this might have turned out to be somewhat fun, but the Para Brothers are like one of those awful SNL sketches that uses repetition instead of humor, and Doltaki’s a sex offender, and Luud looks like a pile of tomatoes with half the charisma.  Oh, and Dr. Mu looks like a shitty knockoff of Dr. Gero.  I’ll have more to say about Mu down the line, but for now, you can rest assured that he sucks just as much as the rest of this clown show.

Doltaki points out a “cell” in Luud’s body.  When Mu created Luud, he began with that cell, which I guess is the thing he mutated to make Luud a “mutant”.  The term “machine mutant” gets used a lot in this series.  Dr. Mu, Luud, and I’m pretty sure Mutchy all called Machine Mutants, and I don’t think I’ve ever understood just what that is.  Anyway, if you take out that one cell, the rest of Luud will collapse, and everyone trapped inside will be freed. 

The catch is that you can’t just shoot it from the inside.  Pan can hit it easily enough, but that only dazes Luud for a moment.  You need someone to attack it on the outside as well, and those attacks have to happen simultaneously in order to make this work.  I’m just going to point out that this weakness never came up for any of the other Machine Mutant characters we’ll be seeing as the show progresses.

So Pan has to contact Goku on the outside and tell him what to do.  Fortunately, the Para Brothers have telepathic abilities.  Unfortunately, the Para Brothers have telepathic abilities, which means they have to set up another repetitive, unfunny gag where their power only works through song.  Then they stop singing their messages, and Pan calls them out on it, which would be satisfying except this wastes even more time.

But they do relay the message to Goku.  Luud’s weak spot is almost invisible from the outside, but Goku can sense Pan’s ki when she attacks it, so he knows where to shoot.  They tell him to look for a red thing on his body, which is maybe the most unhelpful thing ever. 

So Pan and Goku can both shoot the weak spot, but the problem is that they can’t hit it at the exact same time.  Goku apparently has difficulty with this sort of timed coordination, which is bullshit because he learned and mastered the Fusion Dance without having a partner to practice the steps.

So what’s Luud doing while all of this is going on?  Jack shit, that’s what.  This dumb monster was supposed to be the primary threat of this whole arc.  They devoted six episodes of this show to Luud and his cult, and now he’s finally at full power, but all he does is sort of stand around, occasionally flailing his arms and saying his name while he waits for Goku and Pan to kill him. 

Here’s a stupid question. Why doesn’t Goku just go Super Saiyan 2 and kill Luud by himself?  He was doing pretty well before, and he’s not fighting anywhere close to his full power.  You could argue that Luud can only be killed by attacking his weak spot, but if that were true then Mu wouldn’t have been worried about getting him up to full strength.  You could also argue that Goku might kill Pan and the others if he goes full ham on Luud, but they seem to be trapped inside Luud’s tummy, so I think that means Goku could blow Luud’s head off without hurting anyone. 

Another stupid question.  Dr. Mu waited twenty years for this?   Luud was supposed to be a doomsday weapon, but he can’t even kill one Saiyan.  Mutchy gave Goku a harder time than this, and he could actually talk and stuff. 

While “the god of destruction” swats at Goku and misses him with eye lasers, Goku talks to the Para Brothers and suggests using a chant to get their timing down, as opposed to a count of three.  It works, though I don’t see what the difference is.  Maybe this is just a “Goku likes food” joke.   Well, it works, so I can’t complain.

Man, that Machine Mutant is toast.  

Yeah, more like... burnt toast.

Once Luud falls apart, all of the people trapped inside are teleported back out, including Doltaki, who somehow slips away and takes off in a crappy little spaceship.  You know, that kind of looks like the time machines in the Xenoverse games, but not quite.

Anyway, Doltaki kind of doesn’t matter, since his sole purpose was to run the Luud cult, which is now completely destroyed.  I guess he could still be a menace if he hung onto that fleshlight that turns people into dolls, but I’m pretty sure we never see anyone use that power again from here on out. 

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

It’s got the Para Brothers and Dolltaki, so yes.  Yes, it is much worse.

✨Positivity Page✨

So, I don’t have a lot of good things to say about this episode.  I guess one bright spot is that it mostly managed to stay focused on a singular objective: defeating Luud.  Prior episodes kept getting distracted with nonsense like Giru eating the Dragon Radar, or Pan cosplaying as a bee, or Doltaki just ditching the main plot to hide in his playroom.  The final battle with Luud sucked, but at least we didn’t have to keep switching scenes to check in on some other horseshit happening someplace else.

More importantly, I think we’ve finally passed through the absolute worst of Dragon Ball GT.  I seem to remember Episode 15 being not entirely terrible, and The pre-Baby stuff is bad, but at least it’s not Zoonama-flirting-with-Trunks bad.  The Baby Saga is pretty weak, but I think most fans agree it was the high water mark for GT, so when you watch this series, you start to really look forward to Baby showing up, because the first 14 episodes are such a trash dump. 

On the other hand, it never actually gets good, and that’s sort of the trick GT plays on you.  Every time I’ve watched it, including now, I keep thinking that the episode I’m on right now is terrible, but at least the next one will be a little better.  And I keep watching and keep watching, and then I’m finally on the last episode and I realize that no, it just sort of sucked the whole way through.  That’s one reason I keep comparing each episode to “The Roaming Lake”, because I don’t have the patience to rank GT episodes from best to worst, but I still want to establish which episodes are good enough to stand alongside the original DB and DBZ. 

  ✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Search Four Planets

To find just two Dragon Balls?

Sheesh.  Who booked this crap?

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 09

✨GT Stands for Grub Tunnels✨

Ugh... it’s time for the Para Brothers.

So last time, an alien stole the Six-Star Black Star Dragon Ball before our heroes could get it.  This alien turns out to be Bon Para, one third of a trio with his siblings Son and Don.  Goku, Trunks, and Pan chase after them in their own spaceship, which doesn’t matter, because they have the Dragon Radar, which means that it doesn’t matter if the Para Bros. get away.  They can track the Six-Star Ball down at their leisure, knowing that the bad guys can’t do anything with it while they have the Four-Star Ball. 

But Trunks keeps chasing them anyway, so Bon asks his ship’s computer what to do, and the computer suggests they head for a planetoid riddled with a maze of tunnels.   The tunnels are infested with giant killer catepillars, so it’s a safe bet that they can lose their pursuers.  In fact, the computer calculates the GT gang’s chances of survival at 0.00000000112%.

I want to pause a moment to stress this, because the computer reads off that whole number, and then the Para Brothers repeat it back, and this is the sort of thing that pisses me off about this show.  It takes every possible opportunity to pad out the runtime. 

So the Para Bros. lose their pursuers in the planetoid and head back to their base on Planet Luud, home of the Luud Cult.  They worship a giant statue-looking thing called Luud, and their leader is a guy named Mutchy Motchi, who carries a whip.  As the Para Bros. show up to report their success, he’s punishing another cultist who was also sent to find Dragon Balls, but came up empty handed.

So Mutchy snags him with his whip and the guy magically turns into a doll.  Mutchy then tosses the doll into a giant pot that’s part of the Luud idol.  This makes the Para Bros. nervous, but they actually found a Dragon Ball, so they figure they’ll be okay.

But Mutchy scolds them for failing to secure a second Dragon Ball, the one Goku’s group had already collected in Episode 6. 

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨ 

Okay, so the cult could have been an interesting angle.  A lot of this whole thing reminds me of the Red Ribbon Army and the Frieza Force, but the religious aspect provides an interesting twist.  You could really get some mileage out this, if you properly established what the cult is and what their connection is to the Dragon Balls. 

And guess what? This series doesn’t explain either of those things.   The fundamental problem here is that the Black Star Dragon Balls were on Earth until about a month ago, and they almost no one knew of their existence.  Yet Mutchy has learned of their existence, and their power to grant wishes.

So he’s sent his followers to find the Dragon Balls, but they don’t know where to look.  Seriously, the one dude even said that he couldn’t find any, because the universe is so vast and they have no idea where to look.  But Mutchy turns him into a doll anyway, because he doesn’t want to hear excuses.

And yet, somehow the Para Bros. knew exactly where to go, because Bon was right where he needed to be in Episode 8.  If anything, you have to wonder why he waited to grab the Six-Star Ball, since it was hanging from the end of Leine’s hair, plainly in view.  

And yet, somehow, despite knowing where to find the Six-Star Ball, they had no idea that the Four-Star Ball was on the same planet, inside Goku’s ship.

But Mutchy does know, somehow?  He says he learned this from “the revelations of Luud-sama”, so I guess he has some sort of way to locate the Dragon Balls, but then why did he wait until the Para Bros. got back before telling them about this?  And why does he blame them for not already knowing about this? 

This episode can’t make up its mind about whether the cult has a Dragon Radar or not.  I think the idea here is kind of like the Red Ribbon Army, where they have a device for detecting Dragon Balls, but it’s not nearly as precise or as portable as Bulma’s design.  So maybe Mutchy couldn’t find out about the Four-Star Ball until it was too late to tell the Paras, but he expected them to know anyway, because I guess he’s a huge dick. 

Also, how does he even know about the Earthling ship, but he doesn’t know about the planetoid they’re currently lost in?

Wait, maybe Giru is feeding information to the cult.  I mean, he can’t do it from inside the planetoid because he can’t send a clear transmission from inside the tunnels.   Well, maybe there’s something to this, but I’m doubting it.

Anyway, the GT crew can’t find the Para Brothers’ ship, so they decide to head out of the planetoid, but then they get attacked by the giant caterpillars, so they get out of the ship to stand and fight.   But the caterpillars are pretty tough, and they no-sell ki blasts and such.  Why don’t Goku and Trunks go Super Saiyan, then?  Because GT Logic, that’s why.

This gives the Para Brothers a chance.  Mutchy sent them back to retrieve the Four-Star Ball, but they were afraid that the GT ship would be hopelessly lost or destroyed by the time they found them.  Instead, Bon realizes that the fight gives them a clear shot to search the ship for the Dragon Ball, except they can’t find the thing.

✨Positivity Page✨

Okay, so at least this episode offers a better balance of power than the last... all of them.  Up to now, I keep getting irritated that Goku doesn’t just beat up the villains or monsters preventing them from reaching their goals.  This time, he actually starts fighting right away, and it just happens that the monsters are strong enough and numerous enough that he can’t just win immediately. 

And this compliments the Para Brothers’ tactics.  They can’t win a direct confrontation, but they can use sneaky tricks and misdirection.  And so, Goku choosing to stand and fight actually seems to play into the Para Brother’s hands.  So right off the bat, this is a better conflict than the one with Don Kee and Ledgic.  Self high five, I guess.

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

Oh fuck, this is much worse.  The padding and stalling in “The Roaming Lake” was egregious, but in this episode it’s downright insulting.   The chase scene is pointless, the worm monsters attacking the GT ship was too long, and I’m pretty sure some of the footage was reused a few times.  The Luud Cult probably needed some time to properly set the stage for their debut, but they still made sure to put plenty of cultists’ chanting in that scene, just to grab those extra seconds of filler.

Also, no matter what else “The Roaming Lake” might be guilty of, it does have that insert song during the part where Goku and Nam traced the riverbed back to Giran’s dam.  And I didn’t have to ask how they found Giran’s dam, the way I have to ask how the cult found out about the Dragon Balls.

Also, and this is a minor nitpick in the grand scheme of things, but it really irritates me how Trunks claims he can use “technique” to catch up to the Paras’ ship despite its superior speed.  Pan even calls this out by asking how Trunks can outfly the Paras when he’s never piloted a spaceship before, but more importantly, it’s outer space.  You just pick a direction and go fast.   There’s no inside track or shortcuts.  If you’re faster than the other guy then it doesn’t matter how fancy they fly.  And yes, they had a whole leg of the chase in an asteroid field, but that just means the Para Bros. are idiots for flying into it. And Trunks is kind of a dope for following them.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku* ✨

“Find the Dragon Balls!”

Mutchy’s wish? To be in a

Better anime

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