I haven\'t seen it in a while but I\'m quite fond of DBGT and I think that it doesn\'t deserve all the hate. I would like to remark the soundtrack of the anime, one of the best I\'ve ever heard, on par with DBZ\'s.
I would agree that the hate is certainly overblown. I am not must one to notice soundtracks but now that you mention it, I do in fact recall the soundtrack being very fitting-sounding for the series, meshing well with the images and story at each point.
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I tried watching GT to see if it was as bad as people said, since I only vaguely remembered it from my childhood. Wanted to give it a fair shot.
Yeah it ended up sucking ass. The only parts of if that didn\'t make me want to punch out my tv screen were Trunks because he was just boring, and Pan, who was just less obnoxious than Goku.
They tried, and failed, to recapture the OG Dragon Ball's sense of adventure and humor by having Goku become a child. Frankly I think he should've went back to normal the minute the Baby Saga was over. Speaking of Baby, you're right he should've been a compelling villain as a member of the Tuffle Race seeking revenge but evidently the writers just wanted another pure evil villain for Goku to thrash.
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I would say that another reason why GT gets a lot of hate is because it gets used, constantly, to demean Super (even when bth series have their own strenghts and weaknesses), so people like me get annoyed and start hating GT for something GT really isn\'t guilty of doing (being compared to Super).
That sounds odd to me, GT had a reputation as an inferior copy of the original from when it aired, so long before Super. There\'s certainly a duelling canons problem (since they are incompatible continuations) but I have the impression that \"Super has made GT obsolete\" is the far wider sentiment than \"GT did Super better\", though I have seen both.
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Not (quite) as bad as it's made out to be
DBGT is of that special breed that frustrates me, that breed being a series that had good, even great ideas, but didn't implement that well.
Many of the ideas of DBGT are actually very good and in the hands of skilled writers, it is my opinion that DBGT's ideas could make for a show as beloved as DBZ, a legitimate continuation.
SSJ 4 was an idea that after DBZ I dreaded. Super Saiyajins was a concept by itself not altogether too well explained and then adding more and more levels seemed well frankly like plot devices. But SSJ 4's concept is actually logical given the rules of the series. Super Saiyajin and Oozaru are both transformations a Saiyajin can attain under certain conditions and it makes sense one do both at once. Bebi was an interesting villain concept as a member of the Tuffles, which could have made for a very compelling villain with good reason to do what he does and analysis the series star alien species and their warlike tendencies more, and his powers worked very differently then the powers of previous villains. And the Shadow Dragons were just brilliant in concept, seven dark reflections of wishes made throughout the series harkening back throughout the series, paying homage to the nomenclature of the series which got increasingly less relevance, it worked so well....in theory.
However the writing was sub-par. The early villains were jokes, Goku being turned into a child did not make for an enjoyable series, many of the great ideas just weren't utilized well, the very fighting just didn't feel as epic, and their was an extremely poor usage of cast (the only two Dragon Ball characters to get any real usage most of the series were Goku, who was a child alot of the time, and Pan who....I don't hate like alot of people do...but she's too similar to Goku (especially Child Goku) to provide an interesting charater dynamic).
It wasn't all bad though. Some of the villains were cool enough (about on the level of Good DBZ Movie Villains) like Super 17, San Xing Long (Eis Shenron) and Si Xing Long (Nova) Shenron, and Yi Xing Long (Omega Shenron). The fights against all the people and Bebi were good...not great by DBZ standards but good. Held your attention. I also actually liked the SSJ 4 design....it was at least different from the previous SS Js and wasn't reskinned Kaioken (*ahem*). But for most of the part it was just passable.
3/5