I just started rewatching GT. It’s not good but I’m kind of floored by how much better it is than Super. GT feels like a real continuation of Dragon Ball & Z, basically following Toryama’s old formula of having each main arc relate back to and bring full circle a plot point from a prior series. Goku’s tail for instance in the original series was unexplained for the most part and as such the Sayain saga and Namek arc explored that heritage and brought that plot device to its natural end point. The Android & Cell sagas then do much the same for the loose ends left by the Red Ribbon Army from the original series. The Buu saga on the the other hand is horse shit and doesn’t really reference anything prior with its main villians. I dunno maybe there’s a Gohan potential thing there but I don’t really care enough to explore that.
My point is, GT feels like a true and natural continuation of Z. Where it seems to fall apart is that it’s all kind of tacked on instead of circling back but in a way that isn’t as terribly retcon happy as Super thanks to most of these plot points being expansions on old ideas instead of attempts at tying up loose threads. For instance the Black Star Balls. They didn’t exist before but thanks to some light retconning, they do now and it’s all directly tied into a lot of history from the original series and Z. In this way I think it’s far more agreeable than say, changing peoples ages and hair colors at random like they did in super. Then there’s the Tuffles, another callback to Z via a retcon. Again, I think this is mostly okay. Obviously the writing could use some work but I don’t feel like it’s wasting my time like I usually feel with Super.
