Episode 3: Garurumon
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.