Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok

Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

I liked the concept of GT trying to be like the original Dragon Ball and turning Goku into a little kid reminded me of the original Dragon Ball because of his innocence and childlike behavior. It's really not that big of a deal to me. I still probably would have prefered the big kick a** adult Goku that we saw in Z. Maybe people don't like him in his kid form because he got weaker and we're use to Goku constantly ascending to the next level though he did finally turn into a ss4.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

I dunno, it seemed that once Goku turned into a child again, his intelligence decreased and became more cocky and bratty. That, and I didn't like seeing Goku with a tail again.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

It had more to do with how Goku became a child more than anything. To bring back Pilaf and his henchman and, not to mention, introduce the Black Star Dragonballs for that didn't make much sense. I also felt sorry for Chi Chi during the ordeal. When was the last time he saw his wife? Yet, he didn't seem to care how she felt about the issue and only wanted to eat . Oh and don't get me started on him "growing up" whenever he transforms into SS4. Couldn't he have just stayed an adult after achieving that form the first time thus not needing to use BSRAB .

I really wanted to like GT because it coulda been really good.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Child Goku really felt out of place to me. I mean I like the idea of bringing the kid version of Goku back but.. his time kind of came and passed and with the whole Super Sayain 4 stuff and what not it seemed pointless.

It was a cool idea written down but in reality eh..

Really I wish the maker of the DB series just had his way of how he wanted the series written. I mean the guy did not even want part in the GT series and they just did it anyway or else the annoying fan base would of exploded.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Solely on the Goku thing alone, he was way too childish for a group had his granddaughter. Yeah sure, it would balance if she was one of those smart, calculating ones but she was just as reckless.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Because GT shouldn't have been about Goku at all.

GT should have had Goten, Trunks, Pan, and Oob as the stars....and maaaaybe Gohan.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Well, Son's hardly ever been an adult. Nothing about his personality actually changed (although Toei did have him continue to steal the spotlight throughout the series). The whole thing about SSj4 was that it just made him more wild, similar to what SSj did at first.

That and it gave him his incredible Ten-Times KameHame-Ha.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

I didn't really like GT anyway, but turning Goku into a kid seemed like it was just the writers' excuse for Goku coming back for the 32432124324 time and beating the villains. They tried too hard to cater to the people they lost from the Dragon Ball days by having Goku as a kid, but still tried to keep the same Dragonball Z audience they had hooked by making him the sole guy while everyone else stanRAB around with their mouths open.

All in all, GT was just an excuse to suck the the marrow out of the bone that was the money making Dragonball franchise. Besides the ending, it wasn't well thought out, it wasn't super awesome. It was just "Let's take Dragonball Z to even stupider levels and throw out all laid down rules of the Dragon Ball Universe".
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Most of the reasons have been mentioned, but possibly the biggest two are that he wasn't as serious when fighting and that he couldn't maintain his SS3 power. Most of the dislike comes not from Goku being a kid but instead from them using Pan, doing away with Gohan's mystic powers, the return to comedy, the use of a new creative consultant, and the new producers having basically just watched the DBZ movies instead of the series, which caused a lot of loop holes throughout.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

It felt like a sad attempt to recapture the audience that left after Dragonball ended, as Peter said. Basically, it was just a pointless gimmick.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Considering there were just as many complaints about it happening in Japan, then I disagree. Also, the catch with Instant Transmission is Goku had to have visited the place before the transport there, and the places where the Black Star Dragonballs went were places Goku had never been to. With the exception of getting back to Earth, then he couldn't transport to those places. As it is, Goku did use Instant Transimission in hs SS4 form to help move people from Earth to Planet Tuffle when Earth was about to explode.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Honestly, so many people hate GT just because of what it represented, a blatent atempt by Toei to cash in a quick buck with dragonball.


and hey guess what, I think they did a decent job on it.

While GT PALES in comparison to the original dragonball and z it was still a noteable series that was dragonball.

Now as for goku being a kid, I didnt really have a problem with it, because it allowed for there to be a plot, (retrieving the dragonballs to make him back to normal)
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

I have to agree here, GT never offended me that much. Cash cow or not its writing was much better than Naruto's filler hell and some of the more recent Bleach filler.
While Goku has always maintained a childish persona throughout the series GT actually makes it pretty clear through both Masako Nozawa/Stephaney Nadolny's performances that Goku has matured over the course of the series. If you listen to Goku's kid voice (either language) in Dragonball and Dragonball GT there is a very distinct difference in tone and the way Goku worRAB things.

I think GT had a great beginning but it was bogged down by trying to me too much like Dragonball and it wasn't until the Baby arc had started that GT (to me) got more interesting. I think GT's only true flaw was that it really shoehorned Pan's character and I think she needed DBZ Early Gohan-esque development but from what I read online it sounRAB like Toei/Toriyama was against the idea because she was "female" and not allowed to power-up like the other male characters did in the meta-series.

O-chan
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Initally I disliked it because it was so OOC for the series: Besides reviving the dead, the wishes never left such a large impact to affect anybody in series like that.

I disliked it further when I found that Goku as a kid was the same strength as an adult. Seeing as how weak a good amount of the villains were in GT, if Goku was significantly weakened as a child, the battles would have been more satisfying since he wasn't a powerhouse anymore.

My dislike was firmly cemented when it became clear that they weren't changing him back, content with just having a fridge logic of SSJ4 being so powerful it will just undue the wish.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

I agree that it shouldn't have been about Goku. Having Trunks, Goten, and Pan go out into space would have been much more fun imho. And no stupid SSJ4. Bah.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

It does reek of an attitude that has only gotten worse since. Executives meddling and popular characters being glued in place under the spotlight rather than effectively used. As others have said, by that point you have a whole new generation of fighters that could have been used. Old favourites like Goku wouldn't even have to be absent. DB isn't a deep series but alot of the character interactions in GT feel wrong to me. It's actually depressing to see Goku a kid again when everyone else is starting to push 40 or 50. Part of the appeal of characters like Goku is that they do age but retain their pure hearted nature. It's what makes them hopeful and why they attract so many allies. Turning Goku into a kid again is just useless. It destroys the character rather than celebrating him like the show insists it's doing.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Speaking of older characters, lets look at how they treated them in GT. Dende and Mr. Popo were seen only a couple of times- possessed by Baby and then helping Goku escape hell. The first time Piccolo is seen is when he is about to sacrifice himself to destroy the Black Star Dragonballs. Krillin is shown as a tuffle and then gets killed by Android 17. Vegeta has that ridiculous mustache. Roshi is shown as his regular self and then as a tuffle. Trunks was turned into the company president instead of being his rude self, and Goten was turned into an angsty teenager who wanted to do nothing but date. In the long run they ignored most of the older characters cmopletely and instead focused on PAN almost as much as Goku. Heck, Mr. Satan was the character they probably kept the most like he was in the original.
 
Dragonball GT: Why were people against Son Gok�return to child form?

Actually in that storyline he went to King Kai's planet, and King Kai found the planet. Once King Kai told Goku the location he was able to sense it, but he still had to know where it was at first. The part about him having to be there before was wrong, but he still had to know the location by either sensing it or having been to it, and he hadn't been to any of the ones in GT, nor could he sense them from Earth.
 
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