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For some reason I thought the Toei movie WAS Minus. Too many freaking contradicting sources and retcons. Bah. Can we just go back to Potara being permanent and Vegito being the best?
Snark aside, I guess that's one way to look at it, seeing what they're replacing the original OVA with for his background before his big dramatic death. I was personally just fine with the "regular mean killing machine Saiyan". Softening Bardock is one of those annoying bits of edging closer and closer to just coping Superman's whole origin story, I liked that the Jor-El in this case was a crude brute that saved his child for revenge against the Saiyan's genocider. Was weird enough when they introduced Gine. It's not "bad" per say, rather its losing something more unique I find.
But whatever, what's done is done. Guess we'll see now why Bardock actually has a heart of gold under his fierce exterior and Goku inherited his evil gene before hitting his head on a rock as a baby from....his grandfather, I guess?
As an aside for a mini-rant, it really bugs me now that you mention it that they just up and removed Bardock's whole future vision. Like, that was his WHOLE DEAL. It was part of what made the guy cool back in the OVA, getting this freak power planted onto him to make a brash but ultimately fruitful move against Frieza. It would be like if going forward with Dragon Ball, we just no longer had Super Saiyan. It's past its prime, Ultra Instinct is the new cool thing, SSJ just never happened.