Alright, so No. 17 and 18 have been awesome villains, and the show has been doing a great job building up Cell's introduction, this means it'll keep that level of quality... right?
Plot-induced Stupidity
Piccolo fuses with Kami, declaring "I'm no longer Piccolo, I'm a Super Namekian who long forgot his own name." Piccolo then meets Cell and finds out he's been drinking people. Alright, that's hella disturbing, one good point for Cell. They fight, and Piccolo loses rather pathetically. So much for "Super Namekian."
Now, here's a part I hate. You know how Cell had this great, mysterious buildup? He ruins all of it by having this long exposition dump and revealing his goals to Piccolo, because "Oh, you're gonna die anyway, might as well tell you everything I'm going to do!" Luckily for Cell, the heroes are just as stupid and they let him escape.
Cell Makes No Sense
According to Cell, he comes from a timeline where A) Trunks did not intervene with the past and the Z-Warriors died to the Androids, with Goku dying of heart failure. B) Trunks did intervene with the past, which allowed Gero to collect Freeza's cells from his sliced body. C) Everything that happens in the Future Trunks' timeline at the end of this saga happens the exact same way, with the only exception that Trunks died on his way to go back to celebrate his victory with the heroes.
Toriyama's established rules for time-travel are simple: You can't travel to the future, you can only travel to the past of the timeline you're in, which will in turn generate another timeline. Cell breaks those rules, coming from 3 different timelines that have very different histories.
Even More Plot-induced Stupidity
Now begins a long, painful sequence where other characters try to stall Cell from absorbing the Androids while yelling at them to run the fuck away, and... they don't. They just stand there, watching like idiots, completely and perfectly still, for all of 4 episodes.
Tenshinhan and Goku in particular keep teeling themselves "There's nothing I can do!" for the same 4 episodes. Hell, Goku 'punches Gohan for trying to intervene. But then, No. 17 is absorbed, and both Goku and Tenshinhan conveniently remember that yes, there was something they could do: Instant Transmission and Kikouhou.
New!Vegeta also decides to be an idiot and plays with Cell, while Trunks just stands back and watches, because although he's more powerful, he "doesn't want to hurt his dad's ego." Seriously? Vegeta's ego is more important than the future? Until the very last moment, in which Vegeta lets Cell absorb No. 18 and fights with Trunks to let it happen.
Trunks tries to stop it, but he's a little too late. He even gets up-close to No. 18 and tells her to run away. Dude, why not blow her up right now in 1s like you do in the future? I understand No. 18 will get redeemed, but this makes no sense.
Oh, and Kuririn destroys the remote, because of true love or whatever. He knew her for like 10 seconds, and knows little about her other than the fact she's female and she wants to kill his best friend, she's a good person I say!
Predictably, No. 18 is absorbed. Cell becomes perfect and kills everybody, The End. Or at least, that's what I wish would happen.
Final Thoughts
There's nothing positive I can say here. Cell had a good buildup, but then he instantly ruins it by delivering that gigantic info dump. The heroes then take all of this precious information and do nothing with it. The storytelling is once again reduced to "and then things happen, because someone is an idiot."
Android Saga - Imperfect Cell
Alright, so No. 17 and 18 have been awesome villains, and the show has been doing a great job building up Cell's introduction, this means it'll keep that level of quality... right?
Plot-induced Stupidity
Piccolo fuses with Kami, declaring "I'm no longer Piccolo, I'm a Super Namekian who long forgot his own name." Piccolo then meets Cell and finds out he's been drinking people. Alright, that's hella disturbing, one good point for Cell. They fight, and Piccolo loses rather pathetically. So much for "Super Namekian."
Now, here's a part I hate. You know how Cell had this great, mysterious buildup? He ruins all of it by having this long exposition dump and revealing his goals to Piccolo, because "Oh, you're gonna die anyway, might as well tell you everything I'm going to do!" Luckily for Cell, the heroes are just as stupid and they let him escape.
Cell Makes No Sense
According to Cell, he comes from a timeline where A) Trunks did not intervene with the past and the Z-Warriors died to the Androids, with Goku dying of heart failure. B) Trunks did intervene with the past, which allowed Gero to collect Freeza's cells from his sliced body. C) Everything that happens in the Future Trunks' timeline at the end of this saga happens the exact same way, with the only exception that Trunks died on his way to go back to celebrate his victory with the heroes.
Toriyama's established rules for time-travel are simple: You can't travel to the future, you can only travel to the past of the timeline you're in, which will in turn generate another timeline. Cell breaks those rules, coming from 3 different timelines that have very different histories.
Even More Plot-induced Stupidity
Now begins a long, painful sequence where other characters try to stall Cell from absorbing the Androids while yelling at them to run the fuck away, and... they don't. They just stand there, watching like idiots, completely and perfectly still, for all of 4 episodes.
Tenshinhan and Goku in particular keep teeling themselves "There's nothing I can do!" for the same 4 episodes. Hell, Goku 'punches Gohan for trying to intervene. But then, No. 17 is absorbed, and both Goku and Tenshinhan conveniently remember that yes, there was something they could do: Instant Transmission and Kikouhou.
New!Vegeta also decides to be an idiot and plays with Cell, while Trunks just stands back and watches, because although he's more powerful, he "doesn't want to hurt his dad's ego." Seriously? Vegeta's ego is more important than the future? Until the very last moment, in which Vegeta lets Cell absorb No. 18 and fights with Trunks to let it happen.
Trunks tries to stop it, but he's a little too late. He even gets up-close to No. 18 and tells her to run away. Dude, why not blow her up right now in 1s like you do in the future? I understand No. 18 will get redeemed, but this makes no sense.
Oh, and Kuririn destroys the remote, because of true love or whatever. He knew her for like 10 seconds, and knows little about her other than the fact she's female and she wants to kill his best friend, she's a good person I say!
Predictably, No. 18 is absorbed. Cell becomes perfect and kills everybody, The End. Or at least, that's what I wish would happen.
Final Thoughts
There's nothing positive I can say here. Cell had a good buildup, but then he instantly ruins it by delivering that gigantic info dump. The heroes then take all of this precious information and do nothing with it. The storytelling is once again reduced to "and then things happen, because someone is an idiot."
Rating: 1/5