I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they made it up.
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TFS DragonBall Z Abridged
- Thread starter flintstryker
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FadedRevolution
Member
What a strange ability. Then again that's not new for Dragon Ball (Goku's sudden mind reading).
Sibersk Esto
Banned
considering the bar for the next episode is already at 25%, I'd say our assumption that they had the scripts ready while History of Trunks was being edited was correct
m_shortpants
Member
I love the little pop the instant transmission makes, haha
I love how he constantly trolls Vegeta about his pride so casually.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
Member
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Maximum Over-Saiyan.
Do the Episode Breakdowns traditionally happen a long while after their respective episodes are released? I haven't seen them upload any since the History of Trunks one.
...Seriously? Wow.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
It's DBZ, so it's appropriate. ;P
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Deleted member 102362
Unconfirmed Member
The writing was on point that episode, damn.
unknownstranger
Member
It happens in Kai too.
I know, but it's supposed to be abridged. (Not like this hasn't happened before or anything.)
SparksterMeta0
Member
Huh.
I didn't know there was a new episode already.
I didn't know there was a new episode already.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Saiyans hog all the good fights from here on out, but the back-to-back of 16 and Tien is a hell of a grand finale for everyone else.
Second only to the Dragon Ball themselves of course. They could have used those to easily solve pretty much any problem they encountered in the series.
They went through about an hour's worth of DBZ in 10 minutes. That's still pretty abridged.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
The Dragon can't kill someone more powerful than him (so King Piccolo on up).
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
When you abridge stretches where nothing happens, you often still get something where nothing happens. The only other alternative is to do something like Garlic Jr where they just skip it entirely.
Doctor Rover
Member
That whole Android 17 bit just had me crying.
I've just met you.
Yeah that's explained during the Saiyan saga. They try killing Vegeta and Nappa that way before wishing Goku back and the dragon is like "lol nope".
BobTheFork
Member
I like how in abridged, they point out that they could they had the dragon screw their ships or steer them into the sun.
Oh did they? I forgot that, lol
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
I like how Abridged actually fixed a plot hole. Given Goku can teleport, I always wondered why he didn't teleport in, grab Android 17, teleport out; whole situation solved. In Abridged they just explain this by Goku being Goku.
flintstryker
Banned
I loved Vegeta's speech at the end
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
The best part is that you can plug it into literally any speech/monologue Vegeta has throughout the series and it'd work just as well.
Shadow_Lord
Member
That Loco Roco song during Vegeta's speech was gold lol.
Infinite Justice
Member
I think the possible logic was that 17 wanted to fight (maybe kill since they still followed gero's programming in a way) him and he (Goku) was far too weak to do that if the need arised, plus the only hope was still in the time chamber.
At least that's my attempt of some logic other from Toriyama don't give a fuck
"Please teleport Frieza/The Saiyans/Dr Gero to the hottest star in the universe"
Goku refused to be teleported home by the dragon after Namek.
Although that was while he was learning how to teleport, so maybe the first step in teleporting is learning how not to teleport (safety first), so he overpowered the dragon's teleport attempt. We've seen Goku teleport people a bunch of times (like in this episode), but maybe teleporters can't be teleported by someone else unless they allow it, or are brute-forced by a stronger teleporter.
I always assumed Shenron asked Goku and he told him no.
Goku can teleport people without their permission but he'd have to go with them, and I think Saiyan's are only able to survive in outer orbit
Infinite Justice
Member
I don't think the allowing part works due to Goku teleporting bomb Cell while he tried to off the planet.
I believe with Instant Transmission that you can only teleport to a person that you can picture in your head. You can't just teleport anywhere.
Speaking of which, I never understood why Goku didn't teleport King Kai, Gregory, and Bubbles after he got to their planet. He clearly had enough time to say some stupid shit and see everyone's reactions.
Infinite Justice
Member
are they really alive though given its supposedly the afterlife or some type of purgatory?. Could a live person teleport a dead one and vice versa?
Dragonball Z was fucking weird.
eBay Huckster
Member
they add a ton of time to that scene in the anime, it's more obvious that he literally teleports over there with just a couple seconds to spare in the manga
(that and he kinda wanted to die at that point since he thought he was the reason why Earth kept getting these existential threats)
I don't think it's person specific. They evacuate the whole planet using instant transmission at the end of GT don't they?