It really was . Even if you want to have a downer ending you have to do a better job than this . They spent 10 episodes establishing a ton of characters this arc . then killed them forever off screen with hardly a mention . This is followed by basically no reaction from the cast . Goku and Vegeta go home and immediately begin happily celebrating with their families . Trunks is upset for a few minutes until he goes to live with a bunch of copies of the people he let die for no compelling reason . They do not properly explore his reaction to the situation at all , nor do they give it a satisfying conclusion . If you want to tell a darker story , you have to let the characters grieve and adapt properly . You can ' t just gloss over it in favor of cheap gags , and then move immediately into silly filler .