Dragonball super
 

I am a huge dragonball fan and I was just wondering if I was the only one who despised dragonball super. I could list all of the flaws, but that would take way too much time.

Despised it too strong a word, I did like it more once it got to the new stuff. The Goku Black arc was good except for the ending and all the stupid non-lethal impalement. The Tournament of Power was hell fun though.

It’s a bit overhyped. This was a series that dragged on for way too long and the whole confrontation with generic alien dude in the tournament of power was boring.

The only good that came from the series is the belly movie.

Alright... I think the pacing of the show is really bad. I know Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z had bad pacing too, so bad in fact that trimming Z down barely made it better, but at least they had the excuse of being directly adapted from an ongoing manga. Here however, the show and manga were independantly produced from the same outline, so there isn't much of an excuse to slow down. Even if there is a reason fill more time in the show, they could at least make more sensical filler than what we got, instead the show did weird crap like "Purple Goo Vegeta" and "Let's spend forever trying to figure out who Black is despite how obvious it is".

Just to point something out here about the pacing of the Dragon Ball show, do you how long a modern show based on the original 42 volume manga, made from scratch, would be? Well, Dragon Ball plus Z is 444 episodes long, replace Z with the Japanese cut of Kai and it's 312. But made from scratch now, my estimate is that it would be between 90 and 130 episodes. Dragon Ball just doesn't have that complex of a story, so it doesn't need to be that long. If you were to remake what they've done with Super, it's a little harder to estimate considering there are gaps in the manga but I'm guessing about 25 to 40 episodes in total, a far cry from the 131 it got.

Anyway, I'm assuming this show isn't really over yet. The manga has recently concluded an arc that wasn't in the show and it's already on another one. I fully expect these arcs to be adapted sooner or later. Maybe a new run of DBS will come in when Toei is done with either the new Digimon Adventure or the new Adventure of Dai, but we'll see. In any case, I'll save my full verdict on the show when these arcs make it to TV.