So after 10 long years, the final episode of Season 3 of TFS has aired, and features the defeat of Cell and the ending of the series.
AND THE PROMISE OF A SEASON 4!
The Season 3 Finale of TeamFourStar's DBZ Abridged has Aired!
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So after 10 long years, the final episode of Season 3 of TFS has aired, and features the defeat of Cell and the ending of the series.
AND THE PROMISE OF A SEASON 4!
I'll stick with watching the classic Toonami English dub of DBZ thank you...
However I will at least see how they tackle the funnier parts of the Buu Saga. Especially Gohan going to High School.
However I will at least see how they tackle the funnier parts of the Buu Saga. Especially Gohan going to High School.
Beautiful. Feels like they were going more for genuine emotion than satire (there are so many other ways they could have made Gohan's breakdown more unsettling), but then I always knew this was an 'affectionate parody'. Besides, this was always the best arc anyway.
If I had one complaint, it would be that in the original's final Kamehameha, everyone was following Piccolo's lead and shooting Cell in the back as hard as they could, not just Vegeta. It's one of the only times they forego the usual shortsighted 'rules' of only doing one-on-one combat. They could have had a scene like this:
Piccolo: ENOUGH! I'm not going to just stand here!
Yamcha: But, warr-
Piccolo: SCREW WARRIOR'S HONOR, THE WORLD IS ENDING!
Of course Cell would probably make it a sex joke about everyone making it a 'group session'.
If I had one complaint, it would be that in the original's final Kamehameha, everyone was following Piccolo's lead and shooting Cell in the back as hard as they could, not just Vegeta. It's one of the only times they forego the usual shortsighted 'rules' of only doing one-on-one combat. They could have had a scene like this:
Piccolo: ENOUGH! I'm not going to just stand here!
Yamcha: But, warr-
Piccolo: SCREW WARRIOR'S HONOR, THE WORLD IS ENDING!
Of course Cell would probably make it a sex joke about everyone making it a 'group session'.
That word there is the fundamental reason I think DragonBall Z and Hellsing Ultimate Abridged work as well as they do. If they hated DBZ or Hellsing and were merely intent on tearing it down and making it and all its characters look stupid it might have gotten a few episode in before fading into deserved obscurity. Instead its mockery is coming from a place of love and understanding of the shows. Ergo the jokes are funnier, and the heartfelt stuff is still really on point. Hell some parts are even more believable: the way the depict Vegeta and Bulma getting together is not only fucking hilarious, but probably super accurate.WhiteFangofWhoa said:
Anyway, it was a great ending. I wasn't a fan of them sinking the boot into Gohan the way they did but it worked contextually. And I must say, it took ten years and nearly 40 times getting owned, but Krillen finally got his due as a solid guy. Owned count reset.
I feel like the "Gohan is a coward/pacifist patting himself on the back/needs to grow up"...thing...came a little out of left field and didn't really mesh with how he had been acting throughout the series, but aside from that it was pretty darn good.
I think it's dumb Toei keeps taking them down when Teamfourstar was pretty instrumental in the recent surge of DBZ popularity.Roxas1359 said:
Yeah, I agree. I feel like the writers thought they needed to subvert the original show at that point. Unfortunately, they didn't quite pull it off, and it felt forced. Subversion for the sake of subversion.erttheking said:
That's always been their weakness. Oh, and black comedy for the sake of it. Apparently this is supposed to tie in to some of Gohan's jerkass moments, but these events were so minor or mostly directed at villains, that those moments barely connect together. The dialogue still made me laugh, so mission accomplished I guess.SupahEwok said: