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HAL14 wrote:

Tamers might have had a larger cast but only the core three digimon went trough multiple digivolutions. The rest either never digivolved (calumon, leomon, marineangemon) or only had one or two. Also some like marineangemon had no speaking lines aside from its attack name. Ryo and his partner unfortunately had most of their backstory in a game. So even with the larger cast most of development was on the core trio, jerry and impmon

Yes, but Tamers is still not a "small" cast by any means. It's the largest cast in the franchise and they still pulled it off. On the flip side, you have Frontier which is the smallest cast of the franchise and that was very divisive with the fandom. But my point is that it's not the size of the cast or how early or late they introduce concepts that matter but how well the writers can balance the writing and it's too early 11 episodes in of a 66 episode show to say definitely so far. Especially with how Digimon has typically been a show with a slow start and a strong second half.

I'm not really seeing any storytelling issues this guy does.

I just found it hilarious that Togemon couldn't help Mimi cause he was holding the giant steel piece, but then once he evolved the piece just... disappeared. Ultimately the evolution didn't do anything to help them, the real hero is steel piece that realize he was in the way and left. Plus the evolution made Togemon much smaller, so even during the evolution it would probably have squished Mimi. Laughing

Oh and Greymon could totally have used his chest missile or fireball while he was holding the piece.

I mean... it's not like all the problems with the show forgoing characterization and emotional investment for plot progression, action and evolutions weren't already present right there from the very beginning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, at least the show has more going for it than tri. At this point, I'm just in it for the animation and cool fights. If I can turn off my brain and enjoy the Michael Bay Transformers movies, I'm sure I can do the same for this.

Maybe part of it is because I was never a big fan of Koushiro whereas I always liked Sora in the original, but I find it odd that I wound up enjoying Sora's a lot more than Koushiro's despite the fact that I can recognize that the latter's evolution upgrade/character development was handled better. From a purely "how well was the idea coming across" point of view, Koushiro's growth felt far more natural, a better pay off to what we'd seen previously. But it was also just about him (and Tentomon). Sora's was pretty clumsy, but I really enjoyed seeing that team working together. Even in Koushiro's episode, my favorite bits were the ones with the other team's personalities bouncing off of each other. Sora's group just seems to be more team focused while Koushiro's is more about the character's individual personalities, and I've just always preferred the former.

I do wish that Yamato's and Sora's had been better executed like Mimi's and Koushiro's. But I also wish we got more group interaction between Taichi, Mimi, and Koushiro (I mean, neither Taichi nor Mimi even seemed to realize anything was wrong with him). I'm hoping that Joe's will manage to hit that sweet spot and have both as he feels better set up for development than Yamato and Sora, but he has also shown that he wants to interact with his teammates.

I don't know what the plan is for the series after next episode, but I really hope we get more episodes like 8, where all the kids were able to have nice moments as a group. And more digimon partner interaction would be welcome too, like Tentomon in this one and Gomamon in the one before.

As a longtime Digimon fan who loved the older seasons because of a lot of the character drama, I'm fine with the reboot being more focused on the action adventure fantasy aspect if that means we don't have to have the whole subplot about Sora and her mom again.