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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#9976: Mar 4th 2015 at 6:20:49 PM

DBXenoverse episode 5.

The Revenge of Dumplin, and the day Krillin actually did a thing.

I have a message from another time...
Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#9977: Mar 4th 2015 at 9:33:01 PM

At this rate they'll never catch up to me!

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
Dragon_Ranger Since: Jan, 2010
#9979: Mar 5th 2015 at 3:11:01 PM

TFS needs to split up their LP. Record the story missions, go through the parallel quests on their own time.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#9980: Mar 5th 2015 at 4:51:20 PM

I lost it when Lani was playing keepaway and Ginyu charged him as soon as he pulled out his scouter.

Dragon_Ranger Since: Jan, 2010
#9981: Mar 5th 2015 at 4:52:28 PM

For me the funniest moment was when Dumplin charged at Ginyu and got bitch-slapped to death.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#9982: Mar 5th 2015 at 5:26:07 PM

The day Dumplin got wrecked.

I'm surprised to see that the mission has two win conditions.

And I think it's cool that the change was them powering up Vegeta, in order to entice Ginyu into taking his body.

I have a message from another time...
Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#9983: Mar 5th 2015 at 5:42:05 PM

[up]Yeah it was really clever. Especially since in canon, Ginyu spent most of the arc dicking around until the majority of his Squad was killed.

Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#9984: Mar 5th 2015 at 5:51:39 PM

Actually, in canon he just brought the balls to Frieza, and then Jeice showed up and told him they were all dead.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#9985: Mar 5th 2015 at 6:37:04 PM

I vaguely remember him trying to force Frieza's Grunts to do Ginyu poses with him. And him doing some traditional victory dance when he bough the Dragonballs to Frieza.

Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#9986: Mar 5th 2015 at 7:16:30 PM

Him forcing grunts to pose was filler.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#9987: Mar 5th 2015 at 7:18:46 PM

Glorious filler mind you.

The world needs more bad guy team poses. And good guy team poses.

Synchronized posing for everyone.

Oh really when?
unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9988: Mar 5th 2015 at 7:20:07 PM

[up][up] Reason the manga sucks #147.

I've noticed a fairly common recurring sequence of events.

"X was great/funny/interesting/met a need/filled a necessary plot function we just agreed was necessary and would have improved things."

"X was filler."

I have decided there can be only one rational response to this.

edited 5th Mar '15 7:26:45 PM by unnoun

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#9989: Mar 5th 2015 at 7:36:07 PM

That was acceptable filler, though. Filler that doesn't actually contradict anything in the manga or work in detriment to the story.

My various fanfics.
Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#9990: Mar 5th 2015 at 8:30:06 PM

Besides, the game uses movie stuff so it's clearly taking the filler into account.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#9991: Mar 5th 2015 at 9:00:50 PM

....

Right. I can't claim I would have done better, but seeing them fuck around and laugh like a bunch of idiots and fail over and over is kinda annoying truthfully.

One Strip! One Strip!
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#9992: Mar 5th 2015 at 9:03:32 PM

Filler has its place. Granted, it probably shouldn't come in the middle of an incredibly tense dramatic story arc (bad for pacing), but it works as a Breather Episode - say, maybe in between an episode that winds down from a particularly draining arc (but is still plot-relevant in itself), and the start of the next story arc. We can use such filler for character moments and just fun stuff in general - stuff the important plot bits don't always have time for.

[up] I can see where you're coming from, but I'm amused anyway. Hopefully they get past this bit next episode, though.

edited 5th Mar '15 9:05:46 PM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#9993: Mar 5th 2015 at 9:11:20 PM

Agreed about the filler.

Stuff that breaks canon, or just wastes time while adding nothing should be ignored, but stuff that enhances canon, works with it, or just covers angles that weren't covered in the manga shouldn't be tossed out just for being filler.

One Strip! One Strip!
LOLypop1224 ...what am I even DOING here? Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
...what am I even DOING here?
#9994: Mar 5th 2015 at 9:36:29 PM

One of the problems with filler is there's a lot of Flanderization. You can tell a difference between how Toriyama writes characters and how Toei writes characters.

Example: Chi-Chi.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#9997: Mar 5th 2015 at 10:59:44 PM

One thing I can appreciate about filler is the glorious headcanon it provided me with, via further extrapolation.

That Captain Ginyu-frog is the one who taught Gohan all his posing and showmanship as the Great Saiyaman. tongue

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#9999: Mar 6th 2015 at 12:50:40 AM

"And remember! Style!" is one of my favorite random quotes from dubs, so it's all good to me too.

In the anime, so much of that arc was abuse piled upon Freeza's henchmen, it was great. I never really noticed how much of DBZ was Black Humor way back when I was first watching it.

edited 6th Mar '15 12:52:46 AM by KnownUnknown

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#10000: Mar 6th 2015 at 1:14:58 AM

Yeah its funny how Manga Frieza, not even once, kills his own henchmen

also almost all of his grunts were dead from the getgo after that battle with the Namekians (Vegata killed the last one when he escaped his healing tank), so there was nobody for Ginyu to do poses with


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