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DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#7851: Sep 29th 2014 at 6:50:57 AM

As happy as I am that the new episode is up, I really hate watching it on Team Four Star's website, the video tends to lag a bit and skip a few seconds. I always end up laughing heaps when I watch it on Youtube though.

Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#7852: Sep 29th 2014 at 8:34:45 AM

Great episode. Loved the running gag about the cardinal city naming.

[up][up][up]Is it really fair to say this show has better writing than what it's parodying? A weekly serialization that has proven itself time and time again to have an internal consistency most people seem to completely overlook? Toriyama wrote a better series than these guys, but these guys do a fantastic job of enhancing what he already put out there 25+ years ago.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#7853: Sep 29th 2014 at 10:07:03 AM

[tup]

I like Dragon Ball Abridged, but I don't hate the original because of it.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#7854: Sep 29th 2014 at 11:11:51 AM

I just noticed the note at the bottom of Gero's schematics. "Who the devil names their children after crystals? It's like they wanted them to grow up to be strippers."

...I miss Dr. Gero.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7855: Sep 29th 2014 at 11:22:06 AM

I missed that, gonna have to watch the episode for the third time.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#7856: Sep 29th 2014 at 2:43:07 PM

I don't think Cell is any creepier here. He's certainly creepy, but it's all for comedy as opposed to the original (or the anime) where it was played seriously and much creepier.

Anyway, this might be one of my favourites. I'm going to miss this Cell when he transforms into a total bitch.

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#7857: Sep 29th 2014 at 4:54:13 PM

You know the best part is how neatly the left behind clothes are placed

Like the couple sitting at the table. Either Cell sucked them both dry in a fraction of a second, or he placed the clothes back on the chairs because he just likes to spend his time that way

I like to pretend its the second case

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#7858: Sep 29th 2014 at 6:45:53 PM

That's exactly what I thought.

Regarding the schematics, I paused and read it, which I tend to do whenever there's text.

KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#7859: Sep 29th 2014 at 9:07:41 PM

Hilarious as usual. I wonder how many people are going to be bitching in the You Tube comments about that abortion joke.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7860: Sep 29th 2014 at 10:31:50 PM

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#7861: Sep 29th 2014 at 10:34:32 PM

The 1980s was a magical time

Oh really when?
BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#7862: Sep 29th 2014 at 10:35:49 PM

Technically, it was the 70's.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#7863: Sep 29th 2014 at 10:36:56 PM

Eh, 1979 counts as the 80s. The Buggles were definitely an 80s band.

That song didn't hit the Top 20 until 1980.

edited 29th Sep '14 10:37:50 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#7864: Sep 30th 2014 at 9:04:20 AM

I wish people would stop complaining about the video player; they already know about that and have said so, going on about it isn't going to help them fix it faster.

Though, may perception could be influenced by me being lucky enough to have many problems with it. The worst I've got is skipping a few seconds or freezing for a few seconds, and it always synced back up fine so it wasn't much of a bother.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#7865: Sep 30th 2014 at 11:17:47 AM

Comments on the video player aren't a common thing here, and it's not like we're breathing down their necks about it. Bringing it up once in a blue moon seems fine to me.

KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#7866: Sep 30th 2014 at 1:48:38 PM

I wasn't talking about here.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#7867: Sep 30th 2014 at 3:02:58 PM

Then why bring it up here?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#7868: Sep 30th 2014 at 3:17:48 PM

Cell was lost.

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Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#7869: Sep 30th 2014 at 3:48:38 PM

Well that was unsettling.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#7870: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:16:02 PM

It just occurred to me: if time travel worked like it did in almost every other fiction I've watched, Krillin blowing up Cell in Gero's lab would've ended the Cell saga.

Which would've prevented Trunks from being born, preventing him from going back in time to warn the Z-Fighters about the Androids, preventing them from finding Gero and preventing Krillin from destroying Cell in the first place...

edited 30th Sep '14 5:16:20 PM by FOFD

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#7871: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:22:07 PM

Well it was a Cell from an alternate timeline.

By the way the ending to this episode was...disturbing. I mean, it had bits that made me laugh, but still.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#7872: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:29:07 PM

[up][up] Trunks has already been born.

[up] Krillin killed the Cell from the "present" timeline.

The Cell that's going around eating people is from an alternate one.

edited 30th Sep '14 5:29:44 PM by unnoun

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#7873: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:41:16 PM

The Cell running around is from the timeline Trunks that killed Freeza and Cold at the start, right?

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#7874: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:54:53 PM

It just occurred to me: if time travel worked like it did in almost every other fiction I've watched, Krillin blowing up Cell in Gero's lab would've ended the Cell saga.

Nooot really. That only works in a fairly specific form of time travel

There's three main versions of time travel:

  1. Single, static timeline. Time travel is predestined, stable time loops are the order of the day
  2. Single, malleable timeline. The two variants here:
    1. Changes to the past that screw with the time traveller's future self mess with them (the Back To The Future version)
    2. Changes to the past don't affect the time traveller, but they go home to a world they don't know (the A Sound Of Thunder version)
  3. Multiverse theory

2-1 is the only version that'd allow killing fetus Cell to kill the one they're fighting

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#7875: Sep 30th 2014 at 5:58:18 PM

The Cell running around who is the Big Bad of the current arc is from a timeline where an alternate Future Trunks deactivated the Androids with the remote and didn't get any of the powerups the Future Trunks we meet in the story did, so Cell killed him and took the time machine and came to the timeline Dragon Ball Z takes place in.

edited 30th Sep '14 5:59:35 PM by DamascaRamza


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