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Dragon Ball GT 63

✨GT Stands For Get Trashed✨

Last time, Goku and Vegeta lost their Super Saiyan 4 forms, leaving them virtually defenseless against Omega Shenron.  I mentioned this before, but Vegeta brings it up in this episode.  In theory, they could fuse in their base form and turn SSJ4 that way, but, as Goku points out, it won’t work because Goku’s stuck in this kid body, which means their sizes don’t match up well enough for Fusion. 

And with no one left to stop him, Omega decides to destroy the Earth.  I think this is the same Minus Energy Power Ball he used in Episode 60.  He refers to this one not being as big as the one he used before, so I can’t imagine what else he would be talking about.  Also, Omega has said that he needs all seven Dragon Balls in order to deply MEPB, so this is the first time he’s been able to do it since he lost the Four Star Dragon Ball in Episode 60.

And Vegeta makes a valiant attempt to stop it from hitting the Earth, but...

... Goku knocks him out of the way and takes on the Power Ball himself.  This is kind of dumb.   At least Vegeta had a little gas in the tank left.  He may not be able to maintain Super Saiyan 4, but he hasn’t been fighting as long as Goku has, so he had a better chance of repelling this thing. 

And sure, this is Goku’s show, but it’s kind of annoying how aggressively Toei pushes Goku to the forefront in this series.  Like, if they wanted him to catch this attack, just have him catch the attack.  But no, he has to tackle Vegeta so he can get bonus points for being so selfless. 

So how in the hell is Goku resisting this kind of power?  He couldn’t lay a finger on Omega Shenron in the last couple of episodes, and now he’s pushing back Omega’s finisher.  GT Logic, that’s how.  Goku is simultaneously weak and strong.

Somehow, Goku stops the thing from destroying the whole planet, but it still makes a big enough explosion to leave a giant hole in this city they’ve been fighting in. 

Satisfied that Goku has been killed, Omega Shenron gets busy destroying the world. Well, now he’s gonna do it the slow way, I guess.  I mean, can he not do another Minus Energy Power Ball, or is this just how he’d rather play it?  Anyway, he restores the field of Minus Energy around the Earth, but instead of that multi-colored haze, it turns the sky dark instead, which is a much cooler effect. 

Also, disasters start to happen all over the planet.  I think this was happening anyway, but it’s happening faster now.

And that really fires up Vegeta, because he’s already lived through the destruction of one home planet.  He refuses to stand by and let it happen again.  So he charges back into action, but before he goes, he tells Trunks to evacuate the others in Bulma’s spaceship, and then Trunks, Goten, and Gohan can train somewhere and avenge their fathers.

But they don’t follow his orders.   Instead they send the others on ahead, and go back to support Vegeta’s last stand.  Even Chi-Chi approves, which is pretty rare for this franchise.  Weird how Uub isn’t joining them, seeing as how this series opened with him becoming the nominal protector of the Earth.

Anyway, yeah, Vegeta’s attack is a non-starter.  Omega beats him and the boys without any trouble at all.

Then Omega knocks him over by the crater and tells Vegeta he can share a grave with Goku, but Vegeta laughs when he sees what’s down there...

Yep, it’s Goku with a Spirit Bomb!  And apparently he’s been working on it the whole time Vegeta was trying to make his last stand. 

Let’s talk about why this sucks.

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

So first and foremost, this is a cheap rip-off of the Spirit Bomb Goku used to defeat Kid Buu at the end of Dragon Ball Z.  I get that Toei loves their Spirit Bomb finishes, and that they used this trick in four different DBZ movies, but this is just sad.  The big finish to GT is nothing more than a pale imitation of the big finish of Z.  What a crock.

Making matters worse is the fact that we only spend about half an episode on this Spirit Bomb, which means Goku has to speedrun all the stuff he did to make it work against Kid Buu.  Remember how he needed King Kai to put him in touch with the people of Earth so he could take all the power they could give him?  Well, they just skip over that.  By the time this Spirit Bomb is revealed, Goku’s already received all the power he can get from the Earth’s population.  We don’t know how he contacted everyone to ask for it, but somehow that happened.

We know he didn’t have help from King Kai this time, because he doesn’t contact King Kai until after he’s made it this far.  Instead, he asks King Kai to contact the rest of the universe, so he can borrow power from them as well.

And you might argue that this “Universal” style is what makes the GT Spirit Bomb unique, but I don’t buy it.  The Spirit Bomb Goku used on Kid Buu also had power from the Namekians, as well as Otherworld.  Sure, this one gets more planets to join in, but that only makes the Bomb bigger, not more original.

And putting all these morts from the Grand Tour kind of makes this Spirit Bomb worse, if you asked me.  The Para Brothers ruin everything they touch, is all I’m saying.

Why is this kid still in the hospital?  Oh, right, silly question.  He has to pretend to be sick because the hospital is the only place to get food on this dumb planet.

So you might be asking why Omega Shenron doesn’t attack Goku while he assembles this Spirit Bomb.  Well, he does attack Goku, and the blasts just... don’t hurt him.  At all.  And to be fair, Kid Buu pulled the same stunt, but I chalked that up to Kid Buu just taking potshots to goad Goku into moving out of position.  Omega’s a lot smarter than that, so you would think all of his blasts would be strong enough to kill Goku, or at least hurt him enough to thwart Goku’s plan.  But no.  Goku just sort of bounces and shakes with each hit, but nothing happens.  Which... I mean, he did withstand that Minus Energy Power Ball earlier, so who the fuck knows anymore?

So yeah, Goku’s just invincible now, which sort of begs the question of why he didn’t try this from the start.  I mean, if he can just float there and be indestructible until he throws an irresistible attack, then why didn’t he try this on Baby and Super 17?

Anyway, Goku throws the bomb, it works, and it digs a big trench in the ground because that’s what happened in the Kid Buu fight.  And we know Omega’s really dead this time because we can see all seven Dragon Balls restored to their original appearance. 

Then Shenron just appears unbidden, which is a first.  The narrator wonders if something is going to happen.  Yeah, good eye, narrator.

✨Positivity Page✨

I hate this episode for ripping off the climax of the Buu arc, but I do enjoy seeing Omega’s bones as his body dissolves in the Spirit Bomb.  It’s the one thing Buu couldn’t offer, since he’s boneless and all. 

And this means the Shadow Dragons are finally all dead, so no more of their bullshit for the rest of this series.  I mean, there’s only one episode left, but it’s still a relief.

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

Yes.  This episode is trash.

None of this makes any sense.  Goku’s stuck in his base form because of the beating he’s been taking for the last six episodes, and yet he’s shrugging off attacks that are enough to bring down Vegeta, no matter which Super Saiyan form he uses.  Omega Shenron is rightly terrified of the Spirit Bomb, but he just stands there like an idiot and lets it hit him.  Oh, right, that was the other thing they didn’t rip off from the Kid Buu fight.  In Z, Kid Buu forced the Spirit Bomb back toward Goku, who was too exhausted to stop it.  Here, Goku just overwhelms Omega in seconds, even though Goku should be just as weary here, and Omega is far more powerful than Kid Buu. 

We never see how he convinces the people of Earth to help him make the Spirit Bomb.  We also never see how the four Kais convince all of the planets in the universe to help Goku.  Most of the beings in the universe have never heard of the Kais or Goku, and they have no idea what’s happening on Earth right now, or that their worlds will be threatened next.  This is all just slapped together, like a student pulling an all-nighter on a term paper. 

And it’s all completely arbitrary.  In the Buu Saga, Goku never tried the Spirit Bomb because he didn’t think it could do any good.  That’s why Vegeta had to come up with a way to adapt it to the situation at hand.  Otherwise, Goku would have used it from the start and there would have been no story.  Here, Goku has the whole thing figured out on his own, so he was just... waiting to see if anything else might work instead? 

See, this is why you shouldn’t plagiarize, kids.  It’s not just the dishonesty.  When you copy stuff without understanding how it works, you lose the subtle touches that made it worth stealing in the first place.  Toriyama understood the Spirit Bomb, and how to use it in his stories, and when to use it, and how to hold off on using it without making the characters look dumb.  The people making GT were just like “It’s the end of the fight!  Time for the Spirit Bomb!”

Ugh.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

They killed King Furry?

Damn, GT won’t let us have

nothin’. Rest in peace, boy.

[loopscereal]

aquii estan !!! ya acabe con las solicitudes de los que llegaron primero. sí pienso hacer los demas cuando pueda. ojalá les gusteee :D zoom-ins debajo del corte

yayyy

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Lo que hacen por ti es lo que importa

jk solo lo hace por jm

Después de ver a Jimin enfermo, JK construye un montículo o 돌탑 (doltap). En Corea, dependiendo de la persona, simbolizan deseos (no religiosos), oraciones, ofrendas o recuerdos.

jk- i'm going to make a wish”

jk- le entrega el pedazo de hielo a jimin que trajo de la montaña-cerro Ama la nieve jimin y jungkook se la bajo de la montaña.

[bustlingcrowdsxorxsilentsleepers]

Because she fell, and fell hard

He was battered and scarred

But she could see that inside, there was more

Something alluring, she'd find

In the sadness behind

That terrifying mask he wore

[anditwentlikethis]

O Trincão a mandar dicas ao "treinador" na flash mas é suposto eu achar que está tudo bem, só temos azar e os jogadores só estão cansados

[sportsallover]

Clichy sous Bois, c’est un peu l’Amérique !

Non mais qu’est-ce qu’il ne va pas nous dire Nicolas Geay 😂

[victor1990hugo]

[malkaviian]

also, aunque intentaba camuflarlo lo mejor posible, golden absolutamente no se comportó normal el resto del embarazo de fox cuando se enteró de que el bebé era suyo lmao

[artmisk]

Notebook lenovo ideapad 3i Para Estudar Trabalhar Vale a Pena? #shorts

[jomfmusic]

Declamações | Camões: Esparsa ao Desconcerto do Mundo                                                                                                                                                                                    I always saw the good ones pass by In the world there are great torments; And to surprise me even more, I always saw the bad ones swimming In a sea of ​​contentment. Taking care to achieve this The good so badly ordered, I was bad, but I was punished: So, just for me,                                                                                                                          The world is in concert.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 10

✨GT Stands for Grueling Tedium✨

✨Is This Episode Worse than “The Roaming Lake”?✨

Yes.  Yes it is.  “The Roaming Lake” is fucking stupid.  For all its faults, it did not have a lengthy scene where the villains forced the hero to dance to the point of exhaustion.

This episode opens with the same scene of Goku, Trunks, and Pan jumping out of the ship to fight the worm monsters at the end of Episode 9.  They used to pull this trick in DBZ all the time, and I at least tolerated it there because I understood that the show had to pad things out so the manga could pull further ahead, but GT doesn’t have that excuse, and yet it abuses that trick way, way more.

Back at Planet Luud, they bring in some enemies of the cult from the West Galaxy, and Mutchy-Motchy turns them into dolls with his whip, then feeds the dolls to the Luud idol in their temple.  It’s exactly like when he did it to that cultist in Episode 9, only with other aliens.  One of them is cosplaying as Vegeta, for some reason.

✨ Positivity Page✨

 Back at the planetoid, the GT crew was having a hard time fighting these worm monsters, until Goku discovered it’s a lot easier to grab them by the tail end.  This allows them to just have their way with these creatures, which seems kind of suspicious, but at least they gave a reason for the tide to turn. 

Mostly, I just appreciate this part because it’s satisfying to see these characters whoop some ass, without any bullshit nerfing or GT logic getting in the way.  They just punch, kick, and rassle the worm monsters until they’re all beaten, and there’s no stupid “twist” where one of the worms has a magic potion that makes Goku a baby, or Pan decides that they need to use stealth instead of overwhelming force, or anything like that.  It’s not much, but I’ll take it.

✨ “Good” “Ideas”, Poorly Executed✨

During the fight, the Para Brothers were inside the Earthling ship searching for the Dragon Ball.   When they can’t find it, they decide that it must be on one of the GT crew, which means they’ll have to take it by force.  This leads to a nine-hour staredown, because this is all the episode has left.

The brother’s do a goofy pose, then they take off their battle vests, which double as sound and lighting equipment, and then they do a goofy dance.  The heroes look on in confusion, until Giru and Pan begin to dance as well.  Soon, they’re all dancing, and even repeating the stupid chant the Paras are doing, even though they don’t want to. 

That’s right, it’s a spell of some kind.   You watch the Para Brother’s long enough, you get stuck imitating their dance routine, and before you know it, you can’t... stop... doing the monkey!  And while you’re dancing, Bon Para can just walk right up and beat the shit out of you.

Honestly, this is so fucking stupid that it almost becomes enjoyable.  It’s honestly kind of satisfying to see someone beat the crap out of Pan, Trunks, and Goku.  But that’s kind of the problem here.  The Para Brothers suck, and the GT Crew sucks, and their fight sucks.  This episode represents a complete failure by everyone involved who made this show. 

And you know, if it was a short little bit, I probably wouldn’t mind it so much.  Make it like a cliffhanger to round out the last few minutes of one episode and the opening minutes of another.  But no, this is the entire second half of this episode, and it just goes on and on and on.  And the first half of the episode was just padding and filler.   You have to imagine that someone working on this show probably thought they could stretch this out to a full episode, and they had to be talked out of it. 

The big problem here is that the good guys are so powerful, which means it takes for-friggin’-ever to wear them out.  So who saves the day? Turns out it’s the caterpillar monsters, who somehow get up from the beating they took, and attack the Para brothers.  I’m not clear on whether they were affected by the spell or not, but since they don’t have feet, I’m guessing it wouldn’t work as well on them.

So the good guys take out the Paras while they have the opening, and I guess the caterpillar monsters don’t give them any more trouble since they know they’ll get thrashed again, and then Trunks and Pan search the Paras’ ship for the Six Star Dragon Ball.  Just as they’re about to give up, Pan notices something written on a terminal, and when Giru reads it to her, the ship’s computer decides it’s a command, and immediately takes off to return to Planet Luud.

This is easily one of the worst episodes of GT, and by extension, one of the worst episodes of anything related to Dragon Ball.  Hell, this might be the worst episode of anything, ever?  I’m trying to think of something worse, but nothing comes to mind.

✨ The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨ 

Fuck this episode

Fuck this shitty episode.

Fuck this episode.

[ratfc]

A parte mais irritante é que não houve ninguém que tivesse a jogar mal... Foi azar e uns erros muito específicos.

[abyssmalice]

;; 😌 I'll leave whether you apply this to Harbinger or Abyss Tonia to you!

Send 😌 to hear what platonic relationships I hope to write with my muse!!

(Let's go with iddy bitty sweet and cutest apple of everyone's worst nightmare Tonia!! :D

Right off the bat, I feel like there's a lot of potential for Tonia to be friends with a lot of people - both from her background, personality (beyond the brattiness. or maybe because of it), and how fairly well-traveled she is so far.

For instance, I definitely think she'd have some level of connections with at least most of her fellow Harbingers, with special mention to Pierro (her mentor, currently) and the Tsaritsa (her divine superior and commandant, but also pseudo-parental figure with all the whack complications that come with all This(TM)). Similarly, I think she could be great friends with other characters with some Fatui connection, be it people from the Hearth like Lyney, Lynette and Freminet, but also people like Collei and Wanderer.

Actually Collei and Wanderer are among my top contenders for tonitoni-friendshippyyy because like - the former was also one of Dottore's scientific curiosities, while the latter is ex-Fatui and basically fucked around with Irminsul which I think would be very interesting for Tonia and her own connections to the world tree.

On that note, I also would love to write Tonia having a friendship with Nahida - since I distantly headcanon that Tonia only had half as good a time while stationed in Sumeru because Nahida would spend time with her through the Akasha. (Also like, same headcanon that made Tonia literally break protocol to try and rescue Nahida from the sages unsuccessfully so...................... owo)

On the topic of Archons, I think Furina would also be very fun and interesting - mainly for the fact that Tonia would totally be sympathetic to the idea of someone, who is otherwise utterly normal and not actually all that powerful, being burdened with an immense task requiring a great masquerade, and it all being the machinations of greater forces in a sense. She'd really feel for her I think :0

Similarly, special shoutouts go to characters like the Traveler - who Tonia may faintly recognize as being beyond this world and thus not really someone Involved(TM), so like, she has zero basis for grudges that aren't super petty - and Childe - who in her AU is very much dead yeah but that won't stop me from writing parallel timeline crossing shenanigans heehaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly I'd love to write possible friendships between Tonia and pretty much every viable character so far in Sumeru, Natlan, Liyue and Fontaine and Snezhnaya, since she's spent some amount of time in all these areas and so she could've feasibly befriended anyone from there. Though the likelihood decreases per region - owing to her increasingly troublesome behaviour - I'd still like to see what's possible. Especially for characters in Sumeru, since a lot of them could've also possibly been her seniors in the Akademiya when she was still there so that's an interesting angle, especially if she were to ever make a return to Sumeru with her current rebellious nature!!

dsuidgsyudsygusd there's just a lot of potential guys. befwiend da tonitoni :O)

[bustlingcrowdsxorxsilentsleepers]

[giseleportesautora]

Lentes Embaçadas #Poesia

Lentes Embaçadas #Poesia Você sempre mais longe do que eu enxergou. Nos seus olhos busco nova direção. Estou perdida no nevoeiro de quem eu sou. Você é meu mapa, bússola e perdição. #poema #percepção #intuição #verdade #seolhecomcarinho #atenção

Você sempre mais longe do que eu enxergou. Nos seus olhos busco nova direção. Estou perdida no nevoeiro de quem eu sou. Você é meu mapa, bússola e perdição. Minhas lentes embaçadas não me deixaram ver a verdade. Tropeço e caio em um buraco profundo. Tento escalar as paredes com unhas e vontade. Não deixe ele levar a luz do seu mundo. Minha ingenuidade me cegou. Desejando voltar para um passado…