Dragon Ball GTFS Commentary | Episodes 1-3

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never actually seen the original GT

opening

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thisle

here we go now a brand new

battle begins a new adventure for Goku

and his

friends step to The Grand Tour grand

tour tour to The Grand Tour Dragon Ball

GT son of a I haven't watched this

since uh the original tunami run I

didn't even watch all of it you brought

this up during the commentaries and

enough people were like yeah no do it do

it do it so

fine we watch Dragon Ball GT we're

watching I should say like we we just

watched the first three episodes one of

them twice yes because for all of you at

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home oh my God I forgot that Mr Popo

Japanese talks like this you know who

also has to gather the Dragon Balls my

mom I okay I was making an argument

early on saying like you know what we

have an English-speaking audience and I

I remember not necessarily fondly some

parts I remember fondly uh the dub of

Dragon Ball GT which is uh to me all of

the things that make it bad make it

charming and enjoyable so so that was

the angle I was coming from but you

said how do you not love this that shall

I count way okay so I wanted to

experience the series in its truest form

you know unadulterated by as much as

possible because with the which with the

original score without any

mistranslations because to be frank I'll

admit I have seen d a sub GT before I

was a child and I hated it and As I Grew

Older everything that I remembered from

it and everything that I saw from it I

was not a a fan so I decided that I was

going to give it a real Fair Shake watch

it beginning to end in Japanese

subtitled and really come up form my own

full opinion on GT that isn't informed

by when I was a child because I think

that's fair yeah no it's fair and

honestly there there's parts of it that

okay as somebody that only watched the

tsunami run oh yeah which is already

problem you you blew my mind very early

on when you mentioned fact that oh yeah

no they started on episode what 17 they

skipped 16 episodes of the anime and

just did like a bunch of like recut

stuff to fill in the blanks yeah so what

had happened was FUNimation uh I can't

remember the year that it was released I

think 2005 um yeah they were finally

bringing GT to America after Z was

ending and they had gotten the buzz the

feel that people weren't cute fans of GT

like in general let's be honest GT is

very different from the original Dragon

Ball or Dragon Ball Z but it is trying

to be a lot more like Original Dragon

Ball at the very start it wants to focus

on adventure it's much more

light-hearted there's less fighting so

yeah one one thing we noticed very early

on is that all of the characters seem to

have been scaled down significantly yeah

in terms of their power yeah FUNimation

saw that and they realized oh maybe

people don't want to watch this maybe

people don't want to watch this initi

IAL these initial 16 episodes which is

the Tour Part Grand Tour like cuz we've

uh so far watched through the first

three episodes and they just went into

space yeah like in in episode two at the

very end they get into space and those

first 16 episodes are a lot of them just

doing a bunch of like monster of the

week stuff from what I'm gathering cuz

when we were I this is the first time

I've ever seen the Dragon Ball GT

opening like the full song everything

like that that is amazing to me by the

way and well yeah I again the only

exposure I ever had to GT was Step Into

The Grand Tour Grand Tour Grand Tour

this is setting up for like a mystical

Journey that this like from what I

recall the show does not deliver on I

would I would love to see this you okay

you will see all of this and it's really

charming and you were like yeah no

that's what the first 16 episodes

are okay yeah so like I'm I'm actually

kind of down for that aspect of it but

it it it almost kind of like immediately

shows its ass uh with how like look we

just want to get to a story so

we're going to break a bunch of rules

and these Dragon Balls have always

existed deal with it yeah so if

if we can get into the like show proper

now yeah um the Poff gang finds the

Black Star Dragon Balls which which have

always existed back when commi and

Piccolo were the same dude Y and they

made Dragon Balls but they were

evil

they're even better they're the GT

Dragon Balls yeah GT stands for greater

and and they hid them deep deep within

the lookout which by the way how deep

also they're a top a bunch of skeletons

who are are those old popos what the

hell no no they aren't old popos they're

just where popo left his skeletons right

we we open up on like what is a middly

kind of a cool scene of Goku training

Uub and I guess they've just been at the

look out for 5 years actually I don't I

don't think they were technically at the

lookout I think they were just there for

his quote unquote graduation C his final

test where they decide to like break

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everything our popo wouldn't stand for

this which by the way is fantastic

because in the original Piccolo is

freaking the hell out over buo

destroying the lookout in

this wor Goku and Uub do it right away

and it wasn't until we rewatched through

in English that I realized wow Goku

isn't really taking this seriously cuz

he's just fighting UB at base level and

he's like yeah you're ready to go

kid buo was whooping your ass

as like as a Super Saiyan and you're

sitting here like okay oop you're good

bye yeah no no it's it's I don't believe

it I don't believe it you can't make me

believe it's immediately kind of a cool

looking it's it's a cool looking like

beam back and forth It's really short

but yeah it's a short but it's an

interesting fight and it was it was

definitely toy trying to be like don't

worry there's still action there's not

we'll we'll get to it in about 30

episodes or so maybe I don't know yeah I

well if FUNimation is anyone to go by

about 17 yeah um it's actually sort of

interesting because in these first three

episodes uh we're introduced to Pon yes

who really kind of feels upfront like

she's going to be action girl and it's

and it's bizarre the way we're

introduced to her she's out on a date

with a boy yeah she's out on a date with

a boy and it's nebulous how old she

really is here you ended up looking it

up right this takes place 5 years after

the end of Z 5 years after the end of Z

where she would have been like what

three or four at the end of Z five I

can't remember her actual age because

when it comes in in the show she looks

like she's somewhere like pre-teen 11 12

somewhere in that range which is

actually also another problem because

when the FUNimation dub originally came

out they said it was 10 years after the

end of Z which which yeah is kind of

wrong it's a mistake that you can make

and that doesn't bother me and at least

at that point it makes Pan about 14 so

the boy crazy nature of her that she

seems to be exhibiting kind of makes

sense to although like it's really her

being boy crazy is kind of just uh a

trait it's well I was going to say the

you know anime writing in the 1990s for

a young girl there's a lot of '90s stuff

going there's a lot of 90 stuff also I

hate how hard it is to just find the

Roshi's fresh prince of B air glasses oh

yeah that look is a look that is a bad

look actually I like why those glasses I

understand he he shows up in the city

for no reason it's immediately grabbing

asses the man knows what he's about man

casual sexual assault sure is funny

especially with his 80s

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Shades they even see even they find it

funny it's

Charming it's too for his penis to

really work so what harm is it it

definitely kind of seems like they were

trying to update everybody's look in

this and honestly 90% of the characters

just look worse I'm sorry everyone

everyone's designs trunks in the puke

green suit uh and then when he's not in

the puke green suit he's got the that's

got the gloves and the shorts and look I

wear shorts okay but he just he's not

they're not working they're not shorts

is a weird combo to begin with cuz like

what are you cold are you warm what's

happening uh but nobody suffers worse

than Vegeta who just went completely off

model there there's no way of talking

about this without talking about Vegeta

it's unfortunate because okay so

mustache weird thing in terms of the

production of GT is that the first

episode looks great fantastic art across

the board great animation second episode

immediately looks worse they had another

Studio working on it and it's not one of

their best Studios to be quite Frank

with you and that's the first time we

see Vegeta with a G haircut the

first time he shows up if you don't know

that's supposed to be Vegeta I don't

know how you assume that's Vegeta no it

honestly it makes you wonder if like Mr

are they trying to hide it or yeah well

no if you see it and you've never you

don't know it's Vegeta you wonder is

that Mr Satan's brother did Mr Satan

have a son that we didn't know about we

get introduced to Vegeta in this we

weird subplot where this these two guys

are trying to kidnap bra I cannot yeah I

cannot believe it's like you said by the

way one shot of bra we get a single shot

of bra in the first three episodes which

is nuts to me Vegeta just didn't give

enough by way that girl is

technically younger than pun I know

right but she like looks older maybe

like I don't know you think do you think

they pulled like a dragon balls thing

like Bulma did or it's like I want to

look 3 years older yeah they have a

child hither to unmentioned it's like

yeah whatever go away but yeah yeah like

you said it's insane that in a show that

is not based off a manga we have filler

yeah it's filler they have like the the

second episode is filler yeah it's

literally there's literally no purpose

to that entire suppl it does not fill

anything out I think what I think it was

was they were like okay we have Goku as

a kid we need we need some hygiene with

him as a kid cuz what happens is they

end up mistakenly grabbing Goku after

they mistake pan for bra but then pan

flies away and they end up hugging Goku

and he's like hey what's up and then

they just you know they take him out to

dinner and you know it's haha Goku ate

too much for them to spend and they keep

trying to make Ransom calls for Goku and

everyone's like it's admittedly kind of

a fun gag cuz bulma's like oh did he get

lost tell him to tell him to get over

here wait no you don't get it click and

then he calls Vegeta we have your Goku

my what what yeah you what what why

would I want him which by the way click

still weird to hear Vegeta he says Goku

Goku Goku there's a part of me that just

wants to be like he literally doesn't

know what that is just hang up is

that some kind of food hold on I'm busy

looking at my

mustache look I will say this honestly

it like as far as the filler of this

admittedly entirely filler series is it

it was cute at worst they're inoffensive

at best they're

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funny it's not even about the money

anymore that it's about the principal

it's about the principal a kidnapping

people used to respect the art oh my go

there's a scene first of all Grandpa

Satan A+ A+ no notes I am all about him

being doting Grandpa Satan yeah there's

this adorable scene with him and sitting

in a restaurant the waiter comes up he

sets this massive like ice cream parfit

in front of pan and a cup of coffee in

front of Satan and then he just he just

gets up and grabs the parfait and puts

the coffee in front of her it's it's

they they make no note of it it's just

like that one's supposed to be mine y

it's cute yeah the fact and and as a man

who loves his giant parfet I approve of

this and and the best part is like and

it's very in character for Pon which by

the way in the first two episodes I love

Pon I just do she's she's like I wasn't

a huge fan of like the oh my date

abandoned me again by the way weak man

very weak man who cannot handle a girl

who can candle armed robbers agreed yeah

but that being said while I absolutely

love Pon in those first two episodes

especially in this scene where she

drinks the coffee and it's too bitter

for

her like it's I love that I love the

fact that she's trying to be she wants

to be perceived as more adult than she

is but she's still a kid

yeah put a plant in front of it

something

yeah honestly those first two episodes

really nail that version of that part of

our character

unfortunately the moment at like at the

end of episode 2 and all of episode

three yeah cuz this entire time she's

like I want to go out into space with

you guys because uh you know the the

Black Star Dragon Balls as soon as the

wish is made uh which admittedly like

it's a fun gag where P off's like I just

wish you were TI like I wish you were a

kid you J you jerk like he's just

yelling at Goku this whole time it's

like I wish we could go back I wish you

could be a kid again so I could like at

least try and teach you a lesson and the

dragons massive ass red Shenron

yeah holy wow Shenron is huge

looking cool uh looking looking real

swole there just like all right Goku

tiny but then King Kai learns in heaven

oh yeah it's like uh yeah apparently the

world's going to blow up if you don't

find those again also they're scattered

throughout the Galaxy enjoy your

adventure oh yeah yeah King Kai learns

this which you mentioned in heaven so

yeah I guess he like asked around

there's Heavenly people out there

there's other guys so he asks around he

figures out that hey by the way turns

out if you don't collect those dragon

balls in the next year um Earth's going

to blow up yeah any any planet that the

wish is made on with those Dragon Balls

goes boom and so yeah they have to get

in the ship which they have to build a

ship and Pan's whole thing is I want to

go too I want to be seen as adult too I

I want to help I want to help which

that's great by the way I I just I got a

note just get the Earth Dragon Balls and

then wish wish the Black Star Dragon

Balls to Earth yeah weal we talked about

that while we were sitting there just

like wish all the Blackstar dragon balls

back to Earth just get the real dragon

balls yeah bing bing boom this is so

dumb but then you don't have a show I

know but like then we wouldn't have to

watch a

shows I hope we cut to that shot yeah

yeah no yeah yeah that's why they exist

but God see new format what do you think

anyway when pan immediately becomes

insufferable is when she God they

literally do the joke we did with Dr

brief I mean I know this happened before

but is immediately it immediately

reminded us when when Videl says Don't

touch don't touch that one that's the

start button oh good you've now told her

how to start the

ship don't touch the start button that's

the start

button don't press the start

button so Goku and Trunks get on the

ship goten's going to be joining them

but before Goten can get on the ship pan

presses the start button and they blast

themselves off into space and since pan

uh in a gag was set up earlier kicked

the ship out of frustration broke a

piece off of it they lost a part of

their ship and they go hurdling off into

space and pan immediately becomes the

bitchiest worst character okay yeah and

two things by the way

one why did they have to sabotage the

ship they were already going to have to

go to a bunch of different planets I I

don't know I I honestly I thought I

thought it was kind of a cute gag cuz

like she kicked the inside of the ship

and no no it's it's not it's not that

it's not a cute gag but unfortunately

you know what it does do it sets up that

uh they end up on a planet which I am

okay I literally don't remember this I

bet you dicks for dollars the planet

they end up crashing On's got a dragon

ball on it which is going I mean because

what happens is and and this is another

bit of like FR like narrative

frustration they end up crash landing on

this planet this Merchant planet of like

I mean I guess downtrodden people who

are who immediately who are yeah so uing

is suffering the

uh super capitalism yeah clearly they've

made first contact with other species

because they don't care that there's a

bunch of aliens walking around oh yeah

the moment aliens show up on the planet

they swarm them and and try to sell them

things which by the way uh apparently

they've got this alien money they have

the currency cuz they were able to pay

for the stuff that they got and they

were able to get like a hotel room and

like assumedly pay for the they

racked up in there like it's it's it's

like super capitalism is basically the

joke of the planet yes like that's the

entire joke wait hold on so what's the

how do they have the money how did they

pay I'm so confused where did you get

the money

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robbery jokes on them Goku could

probably get his money's worth He

bankrupts the entire Place eats the

entire economy

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dry

all right well they have 10 minutes to

resolve

this that'll do yeah hell yeah yeah

I hear your capitalism is pretty strong

but are they as strong as my fist you

cannot defend against Goku's communist

fists H and also there's a dictator that

Goku is going to go beat up yes but they

also meet giru who eats the dragon radar

yeah which you know that that makes

sense like like like robot on the planet

and eats technology to reforge itself I

I can buy it and you need a mascot

character honestly like guu as like G's

design G's like part in the plot I I

remember not hating even though he's

kind of like one of those he does feel

like a mascot he is a mascot character

he's AB I mean he shows up in the uh

what do you call it like the little in

like the cut to ad break little

stitchins yeah and before he's in the

show it's like I'm imagine that Japanese

audience being like who that but so

I it's like we said pan in those first

two episodes they set her up to be real

cool and then she in immediately in

episode three she's the worst she is

immediately being really whining about

everything it's like Grandpa this is

your fault like you stowed away

yeah and Goku even says it yeah that

entire segment where she's blaming Goku

her like trying to clean up around the

ship and inconveniencing them just

basically whining about everything and

it and and like yo why why it makes you

look back at what they did in superhero

and be like man that's that's right that

is the correct way of doing this that

see it's sort of interesting because at

the very beginning of GT I was like you

know what this does sort of feel like

like an older version of that pun that's

why I was into it I was like yeah she

wants to be an adult and she is strong

and she seems like and she seems kind of

how do I put this like I I really hope

they come back around to it I I doubt

that they do but I hope they bring it

around somewhere like I hope there's a

character Arc to this yeah it's just it

kind of felt like they were honestly and

I know this kind of sounds dumb but it

seemed like they were trying to make a

Goku 2.0 in the superhero movie um but

have her be kind of smart like one like

honestly a mixture of Goku and Gohan

could be a fantastic character through

Pon but in this

instead we just kind of get a oh man I'm

not looking forward to the next couple

episodes with Pon because I know that

she gets worse I remember that she just

sort of gets worse in the next couple of

episodes as somebody that like you know

was exposed to the FUNimation dub like I

I remember like a few things I remember

the par para Brothers I remember General

dildo I remember uh baby I remember

Super 17 and Piccolo being trapped in

hell and uh

the shadow dragons yeah I remember a lot

of things but there are funner details

that I have kind of like lost over the

years yeah pan is one of those

characters that turned into a background

character for me that I I have like

little to no recollection of and I feel

like that bodess poorly because yes

because after after like the first half

of the series basically it just becomes

the Goku show again yeah it does and

it's which I get it he's your most

marketable character she sticks around

she's still prominent throughout the

shadow dragon stuff she's still there

yeah but it's the Goku show yeah because

he's got to get his win back brother

Jack because like the initial idea with

Dragon Ball GT was age them all like age

Goku down pair him with Trunks and Pon

so Pon can kind of be on the same level

as Goku but yeah no that doesn't that

just doesn't last and trumps was like

was he a popular character in Japan like

throughout the cell I'm going to assume

he was he he must have been like he he

was he was a huge fan favorite here in

America despite the fact that he

literally up everything he did

yeah but the this trunks is not any

character really it's kind of ridiculous

like the first thing we see of trunks

he's wearing this gross kind of like

vomit suit which I don't think

necessarily looks that bad compared to

everything else in the show but uh all

the girls are faing on him like d dude

could slay if he's like you know looking

for pulls dud pull he absolutely pull uh

but he's the president of capsule Corp

apparently at this point he's why would

he ever see he he hates the job he

hates it I don't know if like

his mom is making him do it or what but

he show he goes up to his office there's

paperwork slammed on his desk and he

just pieces the out they have this

they have this little mini window that's

on the floor like what is this thing

it's like 3T tall and and it's like at

Ground

yeah it's just it's walks over to it

just yeah just like zooms out which

apparently he does this a lot yeah cuz

his like hot assistant's like G that

jerk left again yeah

which this trunks isn't a character this

trunks is like the most milk toast

trunks that there's ever been he's the

trunks that had this he's a trunks

that's known very little hardship and

also like he's not as cool as uh as

original Future Trunks he's not as like

cheeky or as mischievous as he was as

kid trunks now he's just a dude and that

I feel like that's just going to be his

character moving forward which okay look

I get it they're basically a monai trio

in a way they need a straight man so

they can have like oh you know the the

rambunctious girl and and the and the

stupid boy and like he's the dad to the

like basically playing the Father Figure

to the both of them trying to keep

things from going too far off the he's

the responsible one yeah which cool all

right but why in the world would you