>>7656423>Namek was widely disliked when it was happening.100% jobber shoot interview bullshit.
There was barely an internet when Namek was happening in the US. 4chan didn't even exist when Namek happened in the US. Nobody was talking about Namek when it was happening because the only place to talk about it was with your friends or maybe somebody at the comic book store.
In other words there did not exist a giant social feedback loop that would allow you to ever make the claim that it was "widely disliked". The only metric you had for that were TV ratings, which showed that it was highly successful.
As a kid you did not give a shit about 10mins of filler and still shots in your 23min episode of Dragonball. You only cared about making it home after school in time to not miss an episode and the anticipation you felt before the start of each episode, and how fucking cool it all was.
Trying to watch the Made For Kids Filler TV episodes feels bad now, but now you can watch the Remastered release that, between the Saiyan saga and the Frieza saga cuts out dozens of episodes worth of bloat, and its great.
