Thread:ArtDraw12/@comment-5231983-20160306024622/@comment-5231983-20160317070244

Oh yeah, the whole five minute thing has turned into a meme almost as big as "it's over 9000". Also, don't forget about all the filler involving the characters doing useless talking and staring (which by the way, Dragon Ball Z Kai didn't fix). GT was simply bad, and the fact that Akira Toriyama wasn't directly involved with it says a lot about it. I think a lot of people skip the DBZ episodes and go straight to the fights. I remember watching a Youtube video that had the entire Gohan vs. Cell fight. Did you know people actually ship GohanxCell? It's one of those crackhead ships.

I loved that running gag with Goku in the beginning of the series when he would touch everyone's private parts to make sure if they were a guy or a girl, that show killed me all the time, especially when Goku looked under Bulma's dress and said "Your balls are gone!", and Bulma thought he was talking about the dragon balls. Yeah the Red Ribbon arc introduced a lot of awesome characters. Android 8 in particular was one of my favorites, he had a well developed story. I think you liked the Piccolo rivalry better because Piccolo was genuinely the best developed character in the entire DBZ story, even better than Vegeta (who, let's face it, started his development at the end of the Android Saga), whereas Piccolo's development started from the start of DBZ from evil literal devilspawn to taking care of Gohan to unveiling his good side and fighting for the heroes. Of course, absorbing Nail and Kami helped him along that path.

Buu Saga was when Akira Toriyama got lazy with the series. I mean, I don't blame him. After writing the same stories for years and years, I can understand why he would want his other stories to be recognized. He actually incorporates Jaco the Galactic Patrolman into DBZ a lot, probably hoping people will notice it and like it. Why would they want to give Vegeta a second child anyway? And if Toriyama's excuse was that Pan's saiyan blood was too dilute, he still had Bulla to work with...I guess he didn't have much say in GT, so I don't blame him. At that point, they would've had to make some ass pull to make Bulla useful, since at that point SSJ was just as useless as Yamcha.

Which plot hole? That special had a lot. Not to say it wasn't a good special, because it was.