• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    5 months ago

    If I were to watch Dragon Ball Z now, I’d probably drop the series. I still remember it fondly, but it’s too slow.

    The first two seasons of the Pokémon anime aged well for me. Individual games, too. But the series as a whole felt from an “I know all 386!” to “…it’s a Tentaquil”.

    Chrono Trigger went from “it’s okay, it’s fun” to “…I spent my whole life underrating it, didn’t I?” So did Final Fantasy VI.

    Same deal with Dostoyevsky. I guess you need some maturity to understand things.

    Baudelaire, though? Hard pass.

    I still love 1984 and Animal Farm, but I want to drown 90% of the muppets talking about them.

    I can’t stand Legião Urbana any more. Pink Floyd on the other hand aged well, so did Nenhum de Nós.

    To be honest I was never too much into movies. There’s one or another thing that I like (Modern Times, 8 1/2, The Shining), but it’s mostly unchanged.

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      5 months ago

      I think that’s what Dragon Ball Z Kai was trying to solve, the ridiculous pacing.

      Granted, the pacing sucked back then too. I remember it taking years to get to the event where Goku finally went super Saiyan. That whole Namek saga dragged on for far too long with nothing actually happening.

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        5 months ago

        10 episodes for Namek to blow up “in five minutes”. That’s a whole season for some shows. Dragonball Abridged is the true canon for me.