The episode begins right where the last one left off, Goku beating the heck out of Nappa. He even starts saying certain hits were for certain friends, which I find is very bad ass. And soon you even see Nappa’s greatest flaw, a critical part of defining a character. And that is over tempered. Vegeta seems to be the only who can get Nappa to cool off, and thus he’s ironically saving Nappa before he does something stupid. He even calls Nappa away from the fight so he can’t get himself killed. But Nappa as an idiot goes off toward Krillen and Gohan thinking Goku won’t care if he kills them a little bit. Goku hit’s the new Kaioken attack on Nappa, another classic DBZ moment. Then he tosses him like a rag doll towards Vegeta’s feet. Now that’s how you come back after missing a year in the game. But Vegeta then does the one thing you wouldn’t guess, or at least I didn’t as a kid. After all that, after some life long partnership with Nappa, and after he gets the hell beaten out of him, Vegeta just kills what we were to assume was his best friend. Apparently not, as Nappa then dies. I mean after killing four Z-fighters Goku doesn’t finish off Nappa, he tells Vegeta to get him help, but Vegeta kills him instead. I mean in that single moment Vegeta pushed Nappa off the stage for his turned, and in a way that’s where the Vegeta character was born. I’ll borrow a famous quote to compare, our lives are made by the deaths of others, and Vegeta just made his character through killing Nappa. I mean the three surviving Saiyans Nappa, Vegeta, and Raditz are like those friends, but they’re not friends because they talk shit behind the other ones back and secretly hate them. I realized that just now, but except in DBZ they kill each other! Then Goku says his farewell to Krillen and Gohan (he told them to leave the battle) he even tells Vegeta to follow him to a better place to fight, where our episode leaves off. Goku and Vegeta in the future have possibly the best duo relationship in anime history in my eyes, so seeing the two meet is just really interesting. As the episode as a whole, I’ll have to give another great, because that’s what it is. I knew once the Saiyans arrived no more goods or above averages, because I know without a doubt that the Vegeta Saga is just EPIC!
Episode 29 (Lesson Number One) gets a 8/10
DBZ: Episode 29 gets THE CHARACTER BADGE
DBZ: Episode 29 gets THE "CREATIVITY" BADGE
