I agree that he didn’t have a plan for 2 primary reasons: Saiyans as a whole are very bad at planning beyond the problem in front of them, and that Toriyama also planned very little of Dragon Ball ahead of time
In universe the explanation I’d give is that while Namek is bigger than Earth it still took Frieza “five minutes” for his blast to actually destroy Namek. Vegeta hadn’t even gone Super Saiyan yet. Even if his blast did connect and destroy the planet (unlikely) he would have had plenty of time to get to a space ship and fuck off
I think Frieza could’ve destroyed Namek instantly if he wanted. That was a deliberate slow destruction on his part. Vegeta is plenty strong enough at this point in the story to essentially instantly destroy Earth.
We see Vegeta and Nappa standing in their open pods out in space when they destroy that bug planet on their way to Earth, so presumably they can tolerate being out in space at least for a little while too, so maybe his “plan” was too call up his pod to his position after things blew up.
I agree that he didn’t have a plan for 2 primary reasons: Saiyans as a whole are very bad at planning beyond the problem in front of them, and that Toriyama also planned very little of Dragon Ball ahead of time
In universe the explanation I’d give is that while Namek is bigger than Earth it still took Frieza “five minutes” for his blast to actually destroy Namek. Vegeta hadn’t even gone Super Saiyan yet. Even if his blast did connect and destroy the planet (unlikely) he would have had plenty of time to get to a space ship and fuck off
I think Frieza could’ve destroyed Namek instantly if he wanted. That was a deliberate slow destruction on his part. Vegeta is plenty strong enough at this point in the story to essentially instantly destroy Earth.
We see Vegeta and Nappa standing in their open pods out in space when they destroy that bug planet on their way to Earth, so presumably they can tolerate being out in space at least for a little while too, so maybe his “plan” was too call up his pod to his position after things blew up.