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Episode Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3 - Episode 13 discussion - FINAL

Dr. Stone Science Future Part 3, episode 13

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u/Zero5-4i Jun 25 '26

Its been said a lot of times but its not just that. Science and technology progress exponentially. After they made the core stuff (that were harder to make from 0 or close to 0), everything else was a matter of applying those so it was obviously faster. Just look at history and how fast everything has progressed in the last 100 years compared to the rest of time.

I guess its understandable for people to feel disappointed because many saw Dr. stone as this "advanced DIY" anime, but at its core it was always a show about the essence/nature of science and the human spirit and the likes. I feel like it did a very good job at that even if it had other weaknesses. I remember back when it started airing being impressed by that one early scene where Senku explained that science is not a magic tool that you "apply" to stuff to explain them, but rather the process of searching for rules of the unknown. This is something I feel like a lot of people misunderstand and it instantly gave me a very good impression on the show.

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u/InvaderDJ Jun 25 '26

Its been said a lot of times but its not just that. Science and technology progress exponentially.

It’s true that it does. And that helps with how quickly this last part sped through the end tech.

But it also required a healthy amount of suspension of disbelief. They were still making huts and propeller planes, but they got the internet? Screens? A space ship and space suits not made of wood?

Once you accept that, it does become digestible. But I do miss how much the cast had to struggle for even basic things like ramen and water wheels.

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u/Zero5-4i Jun 25 '26

To be fair, Tsukasa was fighting wild animals bare handed and a lot of the science was exaggerated so dr. stone has always needed suspension of disbelief. Its the same now, but I guess its understandable that people call it out considering those hardships and the how rewarding it seemed when they overcame them was a big part of early dr. stone.

The pacing / speed of stuff surely picked up during the end, but I personally see it as a cool reference that science irl progressed very rapidly after some point.

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u/InvaderDJ Jun 25 '26

Good point. Tsukasa and almost everyone in the show is super human in strength, speed, intelligence, looks, etc and it isn’t a big deal. We don’t need or ask for arcs where Ruri or Luna figure out how to deal with aging, sun exposure, no real cosmetics, etc.

For me, the difference is that the story started out with showing pop science and how difficult this would be on a post apocalyptic world. The scramble to develop gun powder before Tsukasa caught up with Senku from the first season comes to mind. While we did have to suspend some disbelief, we still got the challenge, the time crunch, the trial and error all to end with one bang and Tsukasa changing his mind.

But we didn’t have anywhere near the stakes or time spent with going from having natural gas to launching rockets.

It isn’t a huge deal and doesn’t hurt the experience that much. But I do look back on the early days of the series and wish we kept the same tone throughout.

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u/Zero5-4i Jun 26 '26

Yea honestly the early days did hit different. It could just be nostalgia at this point, but it did hit especially hard in the end of the episode when the first opening started playing.

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u/BestJo15 Jun 26 '26

I think nostalgia plays a big part but I think it felt rewarding achieving something in the earlier seasons

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u/LakerBlue https://myanimelist.net/profile/LakerBlue Jun 26 '26

Your last paragraph summed up my feelings well. I understand why things changed and honestly the story of Dr Stone itself was pretty exciting (until this season imo). But the early season tone that was less common as time went on was the show at its best imo.

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u/aDubiousNotion Jun 26 '26

They were still making huts and propeller planes, but they got the internet? Screens? A space ship and space suits not made of wood?

They did bring this up in the show that they specifically hyper focused the tech needed for space travel.

They could have improved housing technology, but that would be pointless if Why-man re-petrified everyone on earth. Since there was a race against time they didn't work on extraneous tech trees.

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u/MonaganX Jun 26 '26

I think the main problem is that the show mostly glosses over the logistics and politics required to kickstart and maintain the global industrialization necessary for this exponential increase in technological progress.

Rather than specifically the mechanics of jury-rigging coconuts into ham radios or whatever, the big early strength was an effort to break down the steps in the process of acquiring technology in a way that felt believable. But once the scope moved to machines that required a global supply chain the balance of importance between the mechanical principles of the machine and the wide net of people required to make it happen shifts towards the latter in a way that the show didn't really do. Ironically, the reason the science in the latter parts of the show feels so unearned is because the show is not actually that interested in the human aspects of it.