![]() It's less like a grand story and more like a week by week serializable that you can watch in any order. This is a lot of words to say that 2020 episodes all feel disconnected from one another. In the original series, the evolutions usually came at a major turning point in the main plot with the crest virtue front and center (usually with the character struggling with upholding the crest until the epiphany moment that allows them to evolve.) While for the most part, I can sort of see the character's crest virtue reflected in the situations that allow them to evolve (best examples of this are probably Lilymon and Atlurkabuterimon) those virtues usually take a backseat to the standard Shonen virtue of determination and never giving up. With very few exceptions, the evolutions (even the final forms) are achieved during a villain of the week episode and since the characters don't really have much growth to them (and the crests somewhat poorly explained) the evolution feels somewhat cheap. It's weird to have the symbology be omnipresent throughout the series but be meaningless until the end.īoth of these points sort of tie in to how the evolutions are handled. I still find it weird that a "crest arc" is one of the last ones they're doing and it looks like we're not going to even learn what virtues each crest is supposed to represent until the series is basically over. I think with Taichi especially this is the most notable since he's on-screen the most but it's true for the entire cast. ![]() They're all still exactly the same as they were at the start of the series. Part of the consequence of this is that the characters really don't change. But that resolution frequently comes unannounced. Then they usually have 3 or 4 episodes in a row resolving it. it just keeps them in the background for the entire arc while it does its episodic stuff until suddenly SURPRISE! it's the end of the arc. However the show still maintains some sense of story arcs, like the Devimon arc or the crashing ISS arc. Not even the real easy ones like Taichi and Yamato butting heads or Yamato being overprotective about Takeru. Despite calling itself an adventure, it doesn't really feel like one since the original Adventure typically used conflicts from other sources, like needing to find food/shelter, finding a way to escape back home, or inter-party conflict. Part of this too is that the conflict of every episode is always an evil Digimon doing evil things. If you look at any individual episode, they're all very monster of the week (with a few exceptions that I'll mention in a second.) Generally every episode follows the formula of introducing a problem in the first 5 minutes, then resolving it by the end of the episode usually by punching the offending Digimon in the face. Did they run out of time and money or something? I would have much rather agumon and gabumon have less elaborate evolution sequences if it meant all the main digimon got something worth watching.I think the biggest problem with 2020 is that it tries to be a continuous story but it's afraid to deviate from an episodic formula. ![]() It's like they went all out for agumon and gabumon for their evolution and no one else even gets a half decent sequence, or sometimes any sequence. Now I know it's just an anime series and this shouldn't matter to me, and it's no surprise that agumon and gabumon always got the special treatment with their evolution animations. I don't understand why they went all the way to showing Omnimon? That kind of makes the evolution process possibly less of a surprise for the new audience. The first two episodes however almost made me stop watching. Sure, the introduction of ultamate level digimon as soon as it was caught me off guard a little bit but didn't take away from the enjoyment. ![]() Over all (as of episode 13) I really like the story and I can't wait to see what happens next.
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