hello i realize i’ve been very absent here but lots of work & emotional trash will do that to you. BUT ignoring all that personal shit, I have some Fucking Thoughts about that Reboot episode.
Lemme just start off by saying that Millenniummon looked fucking badass. The sheer scale of that unit, immense. I really, really loved the play on scale here, since we know how big the Chosen Megas also are. That was fantastic designing & representation there. When it was just Wargreymon vs Millennuimmon, you could feel the power in the animation and how it moved. That was excellent.
But, this leads into one of the issues for me.
As soon as Taichi and Wargreymon did their big sacrifice, I had a good idea about how this episode/fight was gonna go. Taichi comes back, big fight, win the day. Easy set up. I was sort of hoping that Yamato and Metalgarurumon would still be around, so that we’d end up at what seemed like the ultimate conclusion to defeat Millenniummon: form Omegamon, like at the fucking beginning of the series.
This didn’t happen. I’m glad it wasn’t technically all just Taichi and Wargreymon, but it really is walking a thin line in that regard.
Also, as soon as the Holy Digimon Mega, the power you feel in the fight goes out the window in the worst way for me. Yes, it’s big and stuff is happening, but it’s slow and just feels...clumsy? Slowing down a fight with massive opponents can work, but it has to have the power behind it and it needs to be utilized well for it all to pay off. In my opinion, it doesn’t hit the mark.
I’ll give them minimum credit here, they tried to include the other kids where it otherwise could have solely been Taichi and Wargreymon. But this is just a massive issue with the Reboot in comparison to og Adventure: the importance of the kids’ strength as a team of equals.
Whether it was VenomMyotismon or Piedmon, or even some of the other adversaries in the series, it was always a team effort. Even when they got separated or split up, they all worked towards the same goal and grew alongside each other. The pacing in Adventure for each kid to have their time was well managed -- which, when you have a cast of regulars this size, you need to do! And Reboot...has not done this and can’t do it, because it wants to elevate one character above the others. Which would work! If we didn’t already know these characters intimately in how they’ve progressed. But we do. We know the bonds, know the learning curves, and by using the same characters in an only slightly altered setting, it’s impossible to not to compare.
I’m still going to watch, and I’m curious that now, fifty episodes in, we’re finally going to see the take on the Crests. But...for all that I’ve enjoyed moments of the Reboot and the more in-depth lore, I’m not impressed with how they’ve used the characters as of right now.














