BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY. I CAN GO TWICE AS HIGH. Take a look up there in the sky it's a flying black gear. Don't worry. It's not the only one you'll see.
Our gang is traveling through the forest some more with begs of mercy being cried but with the tears not dropping in hopes of finding other human life in the Digi-World.
*While The Group Is Moving Through The Forest* Sora: Let's remember were in this together. Biyomon: Together sounds good!
Biyomon is getting on my nerves. The road seems to be getting worse for everyone as Tai and the others venture through a desert, burning up, dehydrated and surrounded by TELEPHONE LINES WITH NO CONNECTING WIRING. The kids are losing their sanity here as the whole scene gets repetitious with them mindlessly talking over one another. Boring.
The kids stop for quick comfort after their tour in the desert in Yokomon Village. Who I can't deal with thanks to their annoying squeaky voices. We find the same black gear can infect into other Digimon and make them turn evil and in this case, it controls the ruler of Mihirashi Mountain, Meromon.
Meromon heads for full force in Yokomon Village as Biyomon's bravery leads all of the inhabitants of Yokomon Village to safety along with the help of the rest of the Digi-Destined. Like Kelly Clarkson is Miss Independent, Sora counts on the love of all of her friends inside her to depend on including Biyomon. Meromon shoves Biyomon down the cliff slide like a rag doll and after recovering from the fall Biyomon counts on herself to never give up.
Biyomon: My friends need my help now!
Biyomon digivolves to Birdramon. Birdra and Mero square off with each other with the action going back and forth with Meromon clipping a direct hit on one of Birdramon's wings. Birdramon responses to this by launching her own attack Meteor Wing at Meromon and releasing the black gear free from inside him.
Meromon apologizes for acting bad, the Yokomon trying to greet everyone with dinner which not everyone seems impressed with and we see Sora explaining the bond between her and Biyomon is growing and it only can get stronger.
Verdict: 6.5/10 This was disappointing. Compared to the other three episodes I reviewed, there wasn't anything here that caught my attention I was watching that I liked. The Yokomon were incredibly annoying and most of the screen time was given to the Yokomon/Biyomon speaking goody goody gibberish. Sora didn't really show any development in her character other then being a sweetheart, which was a let down compared to what Matt and Tai have done (so far) but it does get better for her though in the show as it goes on. (In particular in Episode 26 where she's a total EMPRESS.) This episode wasn't the best of what it could of been and it left me wanting more.
Female Character Rankings From Adventure To Frontier: Rika > Sora > Zoe > Yolei > Kari (S1) > Kari (S2) > Mimi
Our episode begins with Tai and the other satyrs exploring more of the island around them figuring out what way they should be heading to next with them planning all of this out on ANOTHER CLIFF SLIDE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM WITH NO CARE FOR DANGER IN THE WORLD. These kids are definitely daring.
The group is then later interrupted by Monochromon. The kids are forced into claustrophobic hiding with Mimi and Palmon suggesting the others to break free and escape into the forest. We see the group adventuring through the forest filled with random ineligibly read street signs. There's something more random (then this) that happens here in this episode. I'll get to that in a minute.
Wait for it. A trolley car in the middle of the forest their marching through also appearing out of nowhere catches our heroes eyes. Is it also alright to mention that beautiful pink sunset we see here in this episode? It's getting late and The Digi-Destined agrees to stop and sleep inside the trolley car for some shut eye. Not everyone is pleased to be sleeping inside the trolley car but you can't blame them for their age right?
As the group falls asleep we see everyone has hit the hay expect for Tai and Matt. Tai and Matt show mild conflict here in this episode and it's get even better then what was seen here as the season goes on. They show some great chemistry with each other. We later find out that Matt and T.K. (despite being dubbed incorrectly) are only "half-brothers" and their parents are divorced. Matt struggles with living up to this where since he doesn't see much of T.K. in his life he wants to be a big brother to him.
Matt walks away by himself underneath the starry sky after talking to Tai and does the unthinkable. He starts playing a harmonica. A FREAKIN HARMONICA.
Tai while being on guard, struggles to stay awake and lights a fire on top of (what apparently our heroes were on top of while sleeping) a Seadramon.
*The Kids Looking Over In Fear In Front of Seadramon* Mimi: Were going to get eaten for sure!
Such positivity from Mimi. As Seadramon unleashes Hulkamania and go wild our heroes try thinking of a plan to defeat the monster. Matt steps in trying to be the hero of the episode distracting the beast from everyone else with Gabumon attacking him by his side. Seadramon drags Matt underwater and tries to plan and foil the unthinkable to him until Gabumon steps in.
Gabumon: Matt!
Gabumon digivolves to Garurumon and our fight of the episode is commencing. It's a back and forth battle with Garurumon biting Seadramon until he whacks his tail at Garurumon shoving him into the water. Seadramon slows his opponent down with his own ice breath until Garurumon gives him a piece of his own medicine with one blast of his Howling Blaster attack sending him to hit the showers never messing with anyone again.
It's morning now. Our heroes now ponder out a thought on how why Gabumon was the only one that could digivolve during the fight and Agumon couldn't and before anyone could give out much thought for it, the group falls into a power-nap except for Tai and Matt. With Matt ending the episode playing more of that HOLY HARMONICA again with soothing sound that plays music to my ears.
Verdict: 8.0/10 Pretty solid all around. Somewhat predictable and the episode definitely had it's flat points. (The Monochromon were completely uncharismatic) it was charming to watch at times. The Garurumon/Seadramon duel was the most entertaining fight we have seen in the series so far and the writers pulling random nonsense out of their hats in the writing of this episode, helped created some laughs for me that left me wanting to watch more we haven't seen yet that leaves a viewer like me left in mystery about what could happen next.
Only real complaint I had with Adventure 02 was that T.K. and Kari were treated like pawns. Kari became nothing more then a "damsel in distress" with her only lime in the light being over bickering Davis and T.K. had over her and arguing over her purpose she had as part of the Digi-Destined. Davis wanted her affection and T.K. knew there was more to it then that and it's not exactly pleasing when the love triangle branches over dialogue in the season that drags on forever.
I never watched Data Squad or gave it much thought to consider watching it. I watched everything from Adventure to Frontier though and my rankings are as follows.
Anyone remember those old Digimon toys that came in Dairy Queen Kid's Meals? I don't know but I just thought about them again.
Episode 2: The Birth Of Greymon
Don't worry this is only rated TV-Y7 so don't expect anything disastrous to happen here to these kids. Our heroes are plunged into the river and Gomamon is doing something! YES! YES! YES! That looked like a fun little ride to take down the river.
As the group recuperates they learn (and we learn) vaguely more about the world it is their in called "The Digi-World" and the process of "Digivolving" They get bigger and stronger just like humans could except we have to pay the "price" for it if you know what I mean.
Our heroes explore down the beach hoping to figure out a way to get back home and...they come across payphones in the middle of the beach that were put there for no rhyme or reason. Yes you heard me right. PAYPHONES. The kids nearly hyperventilate over this discovery (in particular Joe trying all the phones out) with all these kids asking themselves too many questions and not giving themselves an answer to solve one.
*The Group Talking About The Phone Booths* Matt: If we can find a place that delivers let's order pizza. Mimi: Whatever you get no anchovies for me. Sora: The question is what are these phones doing here? Joe: So people can call their parents and take a ride home! Gomamon: Parents....what exactly is a "parents"? *Joe awkwardly stares at him* Joe: .....That's it. I'm out of here. *Heads to another Phone Booth*
The kids try all of the phones out with dubbing over this situation NOT MAKING ANY SENSE at all.
Phone Booth Operator: Tomorrow's forecast calls for clear skies with occasional ice cream. Mimi: What do you wear for that?
Moving on. The gang stops for a quick lunch break until out of nowhere Shellmon attacks and ruins the party. He easily hoses everyone down with Tai stepping in thinking he's James Sunderland and attacking the monster by himself to no avail.
Agumon: Digivolve!
Agumon then digivolves (for the first time being a Champion) to Greymon. A fight between Shellmon and Greymon is set with Greymon setting Tai free from Shellmon's clutches and then...rather then seeing the fight of the century they have more of a test of strength battle with Greymon knocking Shellmon out of his way, knocking him into the ocean with one hit of his Nova Blast attack and we never hear from him again.
The group decides to leave the beach as quickly as they can and march onwards as to hopefully finding a way to get back home or meet other people like them in this world their in sooner then later.
Verdict: 9.0/10 Aside from the disappointing showdown Greymon and Shelldown had in this episode I really liked what happened here. The phone booth scene was a real treat and good for a laugh despite how corny it was all dubbed. The storyline was branching out more then making us fill in the blanks and we saw the first time a Digimon digivolving into the Champion stage with Greymon. It was prodigious. Wait what did I just say? Don't expect every episode to be as good as this one though. Especially after Episode 7 where we fall into the filler territory. Ugh.
To make this seem not like a rushed project I'm just going to chill watching over this and probably only do one episode a day. Can't spend my whole life and summer here. Probably gives you time to over the episode then if you care. :P
I'll have "The Birth of Greymon" up tomorrow morning.
And here I go. The rebellious angel has struck me with one of his arrows and I'm going to go ahead and review over the very first episode right now.
Episode 1: And So It Begins...
DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS. DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS. DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS. DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS. Just like Pokemon we have our cheesy opening at the start of each episode in the show. Get used to it as it becomes more apparent as the series progresses. I wonder how weird it would be to hear this song on a greeting card. Oh great now Grandma's going to ruin Billy's birthday party.
Here we have our cast of characters. Tai, Sora, Joe, Matt, Mimi, T.K. and Izzy. Gotta say some of these dubbed voice actors are pretty good. Colleen O' Shaughnessey and Mona Marshall being the stand outs. Each character shows off personality with some being more grating then others.
Joe: I think we should all head inside before we catch pneumonia.
THAT IS ONE BIG TIDAL WAVE. Now everyone is in the Digital World. Here we get our first glimpse at the Digimon. More on them later. Odd to see that Kuwagamon is like the only Digimon in this whole dub that doesn't have a voice actor. I like how the children mock themselves constantly. Just like how children should be acting yet at the same time being serious around the world there in.
Sora: Hey what happened to that girl in the funny pink hat? (Talking about Mimi) Tai: Now Now, her name is Mimi. Izzy: Maybe she's off picking flowers. Or going off on a nature hike. Or- *Mimi Screams* Izzy: Okay. So she's not picking flowers.
Poor In-Training Digimon. It looks like it's all ov-Oh wait. Their digivolving. The rookie Digimon are definitely alot more likeable then their previous forms. Patamon, Tentomon, Agumon and Gabumon are my favorites. The fight continues with Kuwagamon and GOMAMON DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. Just like Joe. *sigh*
As the children celebrate thinking they have defeated Kuwagamon he comes back, attacks them and then knocks them off the cliff. Literally leaving the episode in a "cliffhanger" Okay I know. That was bad.
Verdict: 9.5/10 I may be generous here with the score but I thought this was an excellent introductory episode. There are many other episodes out there in this season that get annoyingly cheesier then this. We knew some small, but nice personality details about what the kids are like and what the Digimon are like. I feel sad for the Digimon on how they have like one attack in the Rookie/Champion stage yet in their Ultimate/Mega forms their beast. The episode didn't dig much into the story but then again it didn't to be. Short but a sweet ride of twenty minutes I didn't mind wasting here. Don't expect the verdict grade here to be as high as this one was as I review the rest of the season.
Character Rankings: Izzy > Sora > Matt > Tai > T.K. > Mimi > Joe
It's been a long time coming but for I (PrestonStarry) am back on Board 8 momentarily for the time being for the summer to kick back and relax here to chat with anybody here for fun as I do one of those so called projects here again. High School is officially over for me so now I can have some time on my own to do something fun and thrilling that may or may not catch your attention here but I shall do it.
And that involves the very first season of Digimon: Digital Monsters. Or Digimon Adventure if you want to call it by that by it's Japanese name. I will be reviewing all 54 episodes of the first season at some point or another during the whole summer in order. I'll be reviewing all the episodes by a scoring system like so.
Digimon was one of "those" animes that I remember first watching and waking up to in the mornings to watch as a youngster and I didn't want to miss a single minute of it. Before anyone can say anything else about it. Yes I do believe that Pokemon is a better anime series then Digimon in my opinion but I won't like that de dock some entertainment and value I think Digimon had going for it. It certainly had some charming moments to it. Everything that is after Tamers. Bleh.
I will comically review over all these episodes and sometimes mock over these episodes in my reviews of this series as it goes on. (It will different then my Pokemon Season 1 episode rankings I made back on this site about three years ago. Oh where does the time go?)
This anime now that I am watching it at eighteen years old where I remember first watching it when I was like six definitely feels awkward to sometimes watch now. SO CHEESY. No wonder that food is so high on the food pyramid. And yes it will be the dubbed version here of the season I will be grading. Deal with it.
I'll more then likely have the first episode "And So It Begins..." up sometime later on in the afternoon. It's up to anybody else to see if their interested.
Most I ever had was 9 or so hours. No matter if it rained or hailed all night and I was kept up all night from it or sick, I couldn't get it passed counting the hours on both hands.
At least from The Australian Outback at any rate. This season was just amazing and I remember getting into the show just because this happened. I loved Jerri and she still stands as one of my favorite castaways ever since and I did happen to like Colby a lot as well until...something about him changed. That Kimmi/Alicia catfight had nothing on this. Then again I think it over stayed it's welcome for any hardcore Survivor fan.
Aww. I loved Angie and I liked Ace but they probably made it as far as they could.
Richard Hatch Michael Skupin "Big Tom" Buchanan Rob Cesternino Bobby Jon Drinkard Cirie Fields Misty Giles Jonathan Penner Courtney Yates Stephen Fishbach
Achmed Khan (KCF0107) Dante Robinson (KCF0107) Kiesha Phillips (KCF0107) Luanne Lui (mcflubbin) Maria Luna (mcflubbin) Mikey Thomas (Johnbobb) Ricky Johnson (KCF0107) Tony Delvecchio (Johnbobb)
Unsafe Zone: (0 Saves)
Amir Khan Angela Delvecchio Dmitri Petrovich Gretchen Hasselhoff Stephanie Morgan Vicki Kawaguchi
Michael Skupin "Big Tom" Buchanan Helen Glover Angie Jakusz Bobby Jon Drinkard Cirie Fields Misty Giles Randy Bailey Stephen Fishbach Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George
People that like to drink diet soda are like the people that chow down on their birthday cake before blowing out the candles. They are like brainless simpletons.
The rules were changed back in Day 12 and 13 where saving was allowed every 2 hours instead of 3. Before those days in the contest, saving was mostly allowed every 3 hours. I usually go back and forth with whatever I choose just to mix up some fun in the contest.
Billy Jean "Crazy Legs" Blackwood, a southern-born girl that dreams of living her life in the big city like Paris and becoming a hair stylist wasn't greeted with a giveaway as she hoped (who would at her age?) let loose by the people letting her do her own thing as she was the last character to be saved from Day 13. Billy Jean enters the GRAVEYARD and we move on to Day 14 in the contest. Oh well. At least Billy Jean can always try saying "CAN I PLAY FOR SEASON PLAY?" in the sports she's gonna participate in at home.
Rules Update: The rules are only slightly changed for today. You are now saving between intervals of 3 hours instead of 2 hours.
Rules:
1. You can save up to YOUR Top 2 favorite Backyard Sports Kids 2. You can save every 3 hours 3. Characters need 2 saves to move on to Day 15 4. Last Character to be saved is thrown into the Graveyard and Eliminated from the Contest. This process continues until only one Backyard Sports Character is left standing. 5. No Alts 6. Saves MUST be from different users
Backyard Sports Kids Remaining: (17)
Achmed Khan Amir Khan Angela Delvecchio Dante Robinson Dmitri Petrovich Gretchen Hasselhoff Kenny Kawaguchi Kiesha Phillips Luanne Lui Maria Luna Mikey Thomas Pablo Sanchez Pete Wheeler Ricky Johnson Stephanie Morgan Tony Delvecchio Vicki Kawaguchi
Been awhile since I have done this. (Been busy with summer school) so it's time for me to get back into the groove of things.
Richard Hatch Michael Skupin "Big Tom" Buchanan Helen Glover Angie Jakusz Bobby Jon Drinkard Cirie Fields Misty Giles Stephen Fishbach Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George