(Sep. 23, 2021 9:37 PM)LOL-y Rancher Wrote:(Sep. 23, 2021 9:20 PM)Xeogran Wrote: Does anyone think Beyblade Burst GT tried to make the main cast change and start with new generation of characters (like Fumiya replacing Free or the only season without Shu or Lui), but then with Sparking they said "screw it" and brought all the fan favorites back again. Even Valt looked the oldest he did in GT and now he feels a bit younger again.
That's the one thing I respect about GT as a season and why it has aged better in retrospect. Out of the four post-Evolution seasons, GT is the only one without having the main character's goal from beginning to end be to "defeat the legends". I mean Drum does want to defeat Valt and Aiga, but he ends up sidelining that goal (within his own season anyway), to focus on defeating HELL and trying to reach out to Gwyn when the latter rejected friendship.
GT also allowed the new cast to try and stand on their own with little assistance from the legendary bladers. Sure, it didn't often land as some characters ended up getting ignored but the attempt of trying something different was at least admirable. Granted, we had Valt and Aiga, but they didn't appear very often and didn't impact much of GT. They didn't rely on Shu, Free, Lui, or Rantaro (or any of his lame relatives) like the current seasons feel like they do.
GT/Rise is actually a very good season. It does a good job at progressing plot and character forward, while some of that progression could due with a bit more breathing room, in the end they did a decent job with it.
They also took the time to explore it's theme of friendship in a variety of ways and we see a good culmination of this in rise episode 25: "The Greatest Tag Battle Ever." (Battle Breakdown in the Animanga Random Thoughts thread coming soon!) Another thing I think Rise does really well is that they gave Dante his own journey as a character, different from the previous protags.
Rise also really felt like a story that stands on its own well by adding more to the universe by populating it's season with new characters that are, for the most part, disconnected from the prior seasons.
Another good thing about Rise I think gets overlooked is they avoided the trap that comes with utilizing the increased power state element. They used Hyper Flux in such a way that it didn't sacrifice the story logic of the season, they avoided that pitfall while at the same time adding a simply cool concept, a trap that season 3 and season 5 unfortunately did end up falling into.
All around a good season that I enjoyed and I think gets a undeserved bad rep.