arwing wrote:
Sorcerer wrote:
[delurk] It's official Ian Samaels theme song is now,The One Winged Angle! end of line. [relurk]
those one winged angles can be quite acute
By my measure, they're rather obtuse...
Keolah wrote:
Yes, I'll second the never watch DBZ bit. ;) I tried watching it a couple times. They kept fighting this one guy episode after episode. I got bored after a while, tuned in a month later... and they were still fighting the same guy. That about did it for me. :P
And on the subject of the comic... Well, I guess Ian didn't blow himself to hell or anything after all, although admittedly, from a literary standpoint, it would have been rather anticlimatic if he'd just disappeared and never showed up again. :p
The first bit isn't
that bad. Then they caught up with the manga... At that point, you have four choices: Hiatus, non-canon filler, branch off to a different story, or try to have each episode cover the same amount of plot that the manga covers. DBZ tried the fourth option, which led to ten (or twenty)-minute glowing-and-grunting sessions. Later, they tried fillers instead-- I'm not sure exactly which arc was the filler arc, but I'm inclined to believe it was one of the sillier ones. Then there's the fact that the main villain of the first story arc could blow up a
planet with his strongest attack, the main villain of the second story arc could blow up a planet with one
finger, and subsequent villains were progressively stronger. Then add the revolving door of death (including the mass revival of entire planets on multiple occasions), and not only is the scope of the action too broad to conceptualize, but the consequences barely matter. So, needless to say, it sort of spiralled out of control after a while...