Blade: Or at least be willing to pretend they have in order to bash it.

Epsilon: Right. We have seen the show, so we can bash it to our hearts content!

Blade: Anyway, everybody knows DBZ is horrible and pointless. I mean, like, the fight scenes are SO LONG!

Epsilon: Yes, all that character development happening in the middle of them pads out the minutes so much! Oh wait, that's a good thing. Well, how about all those ridiculous characters? You can't take them seriously at all!

Blade: The fact you're not supposed to isn't even relevent! Except it is. Shit. Well, how about the fact it has no strong female characters?

Epsilon: Assuming you ignore Bulma, Chi-chi, #18, Videl, Lunch, and Pan, sure. Besides, I mean in the real world, everybody knows that women are the top-ranked martial artists. In fact, in the real world, there's none of these ludicrous power levels either!

Blade: Right. Because, after all, certainly nobody who dislikes DBZ would ever like a show with ridiculously unbelievable superhuman power levels. Provided the only show they watch is Maison Ikkoku. And then there's all that anime-only crap!

Epsilon: ... (pause) Well, actually, that is crap.

Blade: Unless it's getting to see that lame-oh Piccolo ripoff Pikkon getting his ass kicked. That's enjoyable. Or that incredibly funny stuff with Dabura turning into a nice guy who smells flowers and has sparkley eyes.

Epsilon: ...okay, so even that isn't always crap.

Blade: Oh yes, and I like GT. Better than Z, in many ways. Suck it, fanboys.

Epsilon: We hate you. We hate you all.

Blade: We hate everyone who can't think for themselves. Which by definition includes anybody who looks for guidance from reviews, I suppose, but just ignore that little detail.

Epsilon: Like anybody looks to our reviews for guidance.

Blade: Or looks to them at all.

Epsilon: But anyway, as you can probably surmise from the gist of our comments, Dragonball/Z/GT is a much better series than you'd probably expect given all the mindless fanboy comments made both for and against it by practically everyone on the Internet. At the very least, give it a reasonable try. If you're anywhere in North America, it's on TV for free anyway. C+

Blade: Quite so. Not that we're saying it's the greatest thing of all time (see Utena, or Strange Dawn), but it's surprisingly good at times, and incorporates a lot of interesting ideas and plot developments that I don't see in very many other series', if at all. B.

Epsilon: And besides, it's so cool to get into fight threads involving DBZ characters, and you can't do that until you've seen the series!

Blade: Uh, yeah, sure, it's so cool, that's right. It has brought new joy and meaning to my life, that's for sure.

Epsilon: Now Blade, you know if you weren't in a rabid argument with someone at least once a day, you'd go insane.

Blade: I WOULD NOT! How the hell do you figure that?

Epsilon: See? I rest my case.

Blade: ...shit.