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This is another, rather popular topic which I have come across on my travels, so maybe it should be a bit longer than it is, but never mind. Some people seem to think that because the Dragonball storyline changes all the time, it is too complicated. Just for a second, I'm going to revert back to the topic that prompted me to start this section in the first place...DBZ is NOT a kids cartoon, and it was NEVER intended as one. Some people seem to think that DBZ fans are either bone idle, or just plain thick!! For an 'outsider' (ya know, those weird people who's lives don't- for some strange reason- revolve around Dragonball), it may, at first, seem too much to swallow. My philosophy, is that these people think it's too much to swallow, because they can't be bothered to take the time to learn to chew. What I'm trying to say is- Oi, naw! DBZ is not complicated, you just have to get to know it before you can understand it!! You can't just watch three or four episodes and moan because you don't understand the plot. I mean, I've seen (until now at least) 220 odd episodes, countless times each (I don't think there is an episode which has been aired in the UK which I haven't seen at LEAST five, six or seven times (lets not even get started on the ones I have seen about a million times each!) But I still have to double check when I'm talking about episodes which I haven't seen. If you've fallowed the story and like the show, once you know the characters it's pretty easy to understand what the show is on about. You can't expect to understand the 'complicated' storyline if you don't know the characters, the history or the background of the show or the storyline. Some of the things which have been fingered as being too complicated are; The series its self. The three series' of DB, DBZ and DBGT, some say that this is too much. Then there's all the different sagas to understand (ok-there are a lot of them, but it's easier to name each saga than to just bunch all the episodes together). The characters. For a start (some say), there are too many of them, and they keep changing all the time. Apparently, it's ok to introduce a new character to a sit-com or a soap, but if you do it in a cartoon, it makes it complicated. Some people don't like the idea of characters growing up or even growing old. For example, we first see Goku when he is a baby. He grows through out dragonball. Bu the time Dragonball Z comes about, he is, oh say, mid 20's? He eventually becomes a child again when a wish was made with the dragonballs to turn him into a child (then they have to find the back star dragonballs to turn him back yadda yadda yadda). His son Gohan grows up and has kids of his own. Trunks and Gotten are born, as is Pan later on. The point is, things in life change. Why shouldn't a cartoon pick up on this and use it to make the story more...interesting? The character fusion is a little bit more 'complicated', but it's not that difficult to understand. For those who don't get it, here it is in a simple and easy way to understand. There are two characters. They are fighting the baddie. They need to become much stronger. They put on a magic earring. They do a little dance (but they don't make a little love and they don't get down tonight). They fuse together. Now that they are one person, that one person has the strength of both characters, plus more. OK? Did you get that? GOOD!! That's it for a bit. I'm tired of complaining. Give me a chance and I'll finish this soon. Oh, and by the by, even CJ is starting to understand the storyline and plot, so fans have absolutely NO excuse
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