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DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8901: Dec 25th 2014 at 9:55:15 PM

If they ever get to Battle of Gods, that is. It'd be interesting if they did, but it'd take forever for them to get to that point.

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#8902: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:00:52 PM

It's taken them like 6 years just to get halfway through the Cell saga.

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#8903: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:17:54 PM

I do hope they get there, though.

Man, remember when they breezed through the Saiyan saga in like, 8 episodes?

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wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
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#8904: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:21:58 PM

Then again, the source material is also stretched out. Aren't they doing like an episode every month and a half, in addition to all the other stuff?

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8905: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:35:47 PM

Plus when they started out, they were younger and didn't have full time jobs and other adult commitments, plus Kaiser's the one that does all the editting and Masako sometimes helps out when he's needed, like that multiverse blackboard animation that Gohan narrates.

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#8906: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:42:31 PM

Doesn't he do stuff like that?

I know he did Linkara's Inked Reality logo.

edited 25th Dec '14 10:42:46 PM by BaconManiac5000

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DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8907: Dec 25th 2014 at 10:53:43 PM

I think Masako is a professional editor, yes. Kaiser's a graphic designer or something similar and I have no idea what the rest of TFS does.

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#8908: Dec 25th 2014 at 11:14:20 PM

Goku getting smacked off the lookout was great. It's been about 15 episodes since there was a real "Popo is the most powerful being" joke anyway, so it felt pretty unexpected.

Favorite part of the episode was 17 and Piccolo punching indents into each other's bellies with serene music playing, with 18 expressing that the fight just got even more stupid.

edited 25th Dec '14 11:15:13 PM by Anomalocaris20

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#8909: Dec 25th 2014 at 11:16:35 PM

I didn't see that coming, either.

I kind of figured they were trying to move away from the jokes about Popo being the most powerful dark force imaginable.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#8911: Dec 26th 2014 at 4:31:47 AM

It may not necessarily be that neat. I don't see TFS holding themselves to that if it doesn't make for what they feel are the best episodes. Really, we've only had it with two seasons. It's too early to call a pattern.

Sure would be cool though.

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#8912: Dec 26th 2014 at 4:38:57 AM

Actually, season 3 was only twelve episodes.

but HOW?
DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8913: Dec 26th 2014 at 6:12:08 AM

Oh that's right, Kaiser said that the new season started with episode 43, didn't he?

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#8914: Dec 26th 2014 at 6:38:16 AM

And I can't imagine they'd intend to "abridge" a season to 40 episodes.

DamascaRamza (Ancient one)
#8915: Dec 26th 2014 at 6:39:58 AM

I'm imagining 20 episodes until the end of the entire Cell Saga which includes the Cell Games, Goku deciding to stay dead and Trunks going back to his time and killing Android 17, 18 and Cell in his time. 25 at the most.

SuperMerlin100 Since: Sep, 2011
#8916: Dec 26th 2014 at 7:05:58 AM

I think the Popo-is-the-strongest-monster-there-is joke is dead. Goku isn't afraid of him anymore and he was yelling weeee when he got sent flying.

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#8917: Dec 26th 2014 at 9:12:03 AM

I predicted back on Namek that the joke would get weaker over the course of the series as the characters' power rises, probably ending in a fantastic subversion when Super Buu kills everyone on the lookout, Popo included, similar to how the Kaio-What joke met its final fate in dramatic failure against Frieza himself.

That Goku didn't seem too off-put by getting punched off the lookout supports this theory, that the power gap between Popo and the rest of the cast is diminishing. Popo's impossible strength seems rooted in a filler scene where he parries Goten and Trunks as Super Saiyans simultaneously; if so, there IS a specific power Abridged Popo is supposed to be, and the Saiyans are coming up on him fast. It's just that the specific power Abridged Popo is supposed to be is about as far removed from the Saiyan Saga protagonists as Beerus is from Goku.

edited 26th Dec '14 9:14:25 AM by TobiasDrake

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#8918: Dec 26th 2014 at 9:52:12 AM

Goku says "whee" because he is a very silly man.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#8919: Dec 26th 2014 at 10:43:18 AM

Abridged has stated that Bulma built a detonator for the bombs inside the androids. However in the series proper it was a device that acted to deactivate the androids, just like the on Gero was threatening to use against 17 and 18 just before he got decapitated. Is there a reason for this change?

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#8920: Dec 26th 2014 at 10:45:59 AM

Its 16 who always had the detonator, which bulma discovers while repairing him and that comes up as a plot point later.

I assume that they will not be doing the scenes where she is repairing them so getting it out of the way now.

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#8921: Dec 26th 2014 at 12:30:07 PM

Speaking of Jokes dying, I think this episode put the "DODGE" gag to rest.

FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#8922: Dec 26th 2014 at 12:40:35 PM

I predicted back on Namek that the joke would get weaker over the course of the series as the characters' power rises, probably ending in a fantastic subversion when Super Buu kills everyone on the lookout, Popo included, similar to how the Kaio-What joke met its final fate in dramatic failure against Frieza himself.

Thinking back on it... the Kaioken was literally made irrelevant after that arc, so it doesn't seem intentional, like they just used it too much. They didn't really have a choice.

[up]Popo, while mostly irrelevant, is still around in the Buu Saga - though, I rather like the idea that Super Buu's Establishing Character Moment could be taking out Mister Popo in one shot. I'd be disappointed if that was the last time we saw it.

The Dodge joke? Nah. They can still get some mileage out of that one.

edited 26th Dec '14 12:48:37 PM by FOFD

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#8923: Dec 26th 2014 at 12:46:07 PM

If they do the Otherworld tournament, Kaioken joke will get one more go.

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#8924: Dec 26th 2014 at 12:49:41 PM

I wonder if they'll actually cover a good portion of it. Then again, they killed off Garlic Jr right at the start of Season 3.

edited 26th Dec '14 12:50:34 PM by FOFD

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#8925: Dec 26th 2014 at 2:13:18 PM

I hope that Android 16 says "Why didn't I explode?" in a mirror to Vegeta's "Why did I explode?" in the Namek saga.

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