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Psyclone Since: Jan, 2001
#2126: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:23:37 PM

...how is that even POSSIBLE?

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#2127: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:31:40 PM

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#2129: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:33:27 PM

It's not as bad as it sounds. But not by much.

And that's why being able to say that you watched DBZ from beginning to end is something of a point of pride and mark of shame in anime fandom.

edited 14th Sep '12 4:33:44 PM by Spirit

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Filby Since: Jan, 2001
#2130: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:33:43 PM

Frieza also said that Namek would explode in 5 minutes... only for it to take 12 episodes.

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#2131: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:34:31 PM

Frieza also said that Namek would explode in 5 minutes... only for it to take 12 episodes.

Wow.

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#2132: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:34:31 PM

How many Z warriors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

edited 14th Sep '12 4:36:21 PM by Spirit

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#2133: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:35:25 PM

All of them, over a period of 50+ episodes, but only Goku gets to actually turn it on.

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#2134: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:35:31 PM

They made more than a few nods to that in this series.

"I don't think you know what a minute is."

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#2135: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:35:42 PM

Three. One to get almost there, one Saiyan to unscrew it or make it worse, and then one to finish the job down the line.

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#2136: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:38:37 PM

Frieza also said that Namek would explode in 5 minutes... only for it to take 12 episodes.

To be fair it was noted that Frieza's calculations were off. Still, 12 episodes is a pretty big margin of error.

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#2137: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:40:58 PM

Maybe they were fighting so fast that at some point they broke the lightspeed barrier.

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#2138: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:44:36 PM

Clearly fighting is a free action.

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#2139: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:47:46 PM

It's conceivable that Namek's destruction 5 minutes in the manga, but there's no chance in the anime where the fight clearly goes on for hours. That's some shoddy calculation, Freeza.

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#2140: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:55:28 PM

Ah, the horrors of trying to release each week when following a manga released slower.

This is why Kai was a very good thing.

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#2141: Sep 14th 2012 at 4:59:52 PM

Maybe it took five Namekian minutes. Or minutes of whatever planet Frieza was from.

nairoxev Since: Nov, 2011
#2142: Sep 14th 2012 at 5:13:52 PM

By this time Z fighters move to almost light speed. So let's pretend that the fights were slowed down so that we could watch them.

stingerbrg Since: Jun, 2009
#2143: Sep 14th 2012 at 5:49:31 PM

That's what I always figured, but apparently that's too simple of an explanation.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#2144: Sep 14th 2012 at 5:58:38 PM

It's too logical an explanation when you got humanoid slugs, Monkey-aliens that look like humans, Yamcha, talking animals, and magical balls that summon genies.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#2145: Sep 14th 2012 at 8:30:34 PM

Wasn't five episodes of Goku and Freeza's fight taken up just by Goku going Super Saiyan?

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#2146: Sep 14th 2012 at 8:42:09 PM

No that only took one. You're probably thinking about Goku charging the spirit bomb.

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Medigo0 Since: Jun, 2012
#2147: Sep 15th 2012 at 12:54:43 AM

it was 3 episodes of clowning around, 2 of Goku getting his ass kicked by 50 % Frieza, 3 of the Spirit Bomb, 1 for the transformation and lead up to it, and 9 for the fight between them, then 1 for Frieza to die and 1 for the planet to explode (whose selfdestruction started 9 episodes ago)

bear in mind a lot of nonfight filler was thrown in, aside from the Ginyu Force there was that nonsensical Captain Ginyu filler that TFS skipped

edited 15th Sep '12 12:55:27 AM by Medigo0

Kerrah Since: Jan, 2001
#2148: Sep 15th 2012 at 1:33:10 AM

Problem with the "they were fighting super-fast for five minuets" explanation is that the collective time they spend talking during those 12 episodes sums up to way over five minutes. So... super-fast talking powers?

edited 15th Sep '12 8:54:41 AM by Kerrah

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#2150: Sep 15th 2012 at 10:12:06 AM

That's why I preferred the original Dragon Ball: Things actually happened

In Z, two of more character scream at each other for an entire episode and then at least one of them explodes in the next.

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