Seconded, the whole thing came out of nowhere and the tournament felt useless beside showing off different universes and salvaging a few non-canon ideas for kicks. Remember when we expected that the multiple universes reveal meant we would get exploration and not meaningless power levels ? Nope, we get the exact opposite. Blue was an unnecessary power-up from God in the first place, and UI is an unnecessary level-up from Blue, it could all have been merged into a single true God form and it would have been fine - still with some form of "use SSJ while in God" for a bit of variety, but not presented as a new form of its own, maybe call it God Blue if you really need a new color, but make it more obvious it's really the same thing (the SSGSS name was actually better for that, but it was so dumb).
Spoiler: SSG rant (click to see content)
The SSGSS name is so bad because it drives home the fact that the first SS (in SSG) is not the same thing as the second SS (in SSGSS) at all, which exacerbates how the SSG name was a bad name in the first place, it just shouldn't have been called that. So when they wanted to throw an actual SS form while in SSG mode, since SSGSS was bad, they had to come up with a completely different name (Blue), which just drove the SSG and SSGSS forms apart. Now no one remembers what the point of the SSG form even was in the first movie, and it's just another form in a long list of names with no point that does nothing but put another bar on the power ladder. Which completely voids the whole point SSG tried to make in the first place.
I have zero expectation for Ultra Instinct because now I completely expect it to be the exact same - a pointless bar on the ladder with some meaningless name tag. In the first place, being able to perfectly dodge a punch sounds so stupid when back in the Freeza era everyone was already too busy trying to survive planet busting beams and balls, why is fucking dodging a thing now (except to make DBZA's Piccolo and Gohan so proud - DOOOOOODGE). I mean, the SSG and UI concepts are actually pretty good on paper, but they just couldn't make it work - what the fuck is Jiren going to do if Cell blows up whatever planet Jiren is sitting on. Shoot a beam that's even stronger because apparently power levels I guess, that's what. We're still going back to beam struggles as the endgame (hi Anilaza and Kefla).
If I struggled to the end of my determination, to the end of my way of life with my followers, if the result is ruin, then this ruin is inevitable. Grieve. Shed tears. But you cannot regret.
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January 07, 2018, 05:12:56 am by Byakko