Dragon Ball Z - the phases of fandom

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I was chatting with pepperlandgirl4 about anime, and she asked me why I had issues with Dragon Ball Z. So I compiled this list for her, to explain my fan experience:

The 7 Phases of DBZ Fandom

1. disbelief: You want me to watch that? You've got to be kidding. I mean look at it.

2. trial: Ok, this isn't so bad. I've watched a few eps and I'm kind of curious.

3. acceptance: Yeah, I watch it fairly regulary now in the afternoons. It's kinda cool. I like the fighting.

4. addiction: OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW! I LOVE VEGITA! No, I LOVE GOKU! No, I LOVE GOHAN! No, wait-- I LOVE TRUNKS! Nope, nevermind, definitely love Vegita. Fanfic, fanfic, here I come!

5. minor disillusionment: Hey, man, didn't we do this last season? It's kinda the same villain with different art design. And I thought we already beat the strongest guy in the universe? I thought Goku WAS the strongest guy in the universe? Or was it Gohan? Why won't Vegita just marry Bulma already and call it a day?

6. major disillusionment: Fuck , this show is SOOOOOO boring. All they do is fight, talk, fight, talk. Too much standing around posing. Every plot is the same and it takes forever to get through anything. And teenage Gohan the superhero is so stupid. I'm only watching this shit for Vegita loyalty.

7. apathy: What, DBZ? Yeah, it was ok. I used to watch it, until I realized that it just repeated itself over and over and they never won and barely changed. Vegita was cool. I wouldn't spend a lot of money on it if I were you, unless it's on the side-story specials. I can't believe I used to write B/V fic. Sad, ne? At least I've outgrown that by now.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I read large novels for fun,

Sorry, dear, that actually makes you smarter than other people, not more moronic. ...Heh. Alliteration. :snert:

I tend to string together huge syllables without even thinking about it

Everyone does. Well, most normal people do. Super-ultra-all-the-time-precisely spoken people are either public speakers, lawyers, or scary.

And hey, at least I wasn't a Pokemon or a Digimon fan ... :shudders:

See, here's where you get a giggle. I went through a brief Digimon spell. I watched some episodes on Fox, and read some fanfic. Mostly I was a Ken fan. Ken is the Spike!Vegita!Anti-hero!villain of Digimon. I read a bunch of Ken fic.

But then I realized that in order to watch Ken angst about his evil nature and the brainy cute purple-haired girl worry about him (who he eventualy marries in the show years later), then I'd have to actually watch everyone ELSE and all their little dinosaurs. So I gave up.

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[cosmicfish.livejournal.com]

My brother watched all the Pokemon/Digimon stuff. I've seen two Pokemon movies and numerous eps of the show. At one point, I knew more about the stupid things than he did, just because he kept on making me look up stuff in the Guide books to help him with his video games. It really made me hate myself ...

As for Digimon, I watched far more than I want to admit. And I did like Ken ... but only while he was evil. I think it's a thing ... my fav characters (from anything) are ...

1) Iago (from Othello, not Aladdin)
2) Gollum
3) Spike

I think I need to start liking the good guys more than I do ...

[cosmicfish.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like Edmund from King Lear a lot too. I think that's more normal.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

King lear didn't do much for me. It was good, but I liked it less than Hamlet or R&J or the comedies.

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[cosmicfish.livejournal.com]

King Lear's not my fav either. I just like Edmund, because he denied fate and refused to believe that his stars were set for him. You gotta love a guy that tries to make a world for himself.