Episode 8: Evil Shows His Face
Our heroes are exploring up Infinity Mountain and Joe DOESN'T WASTE ANYTIME by opening his trap and complaining. He's such a crybaby.
A loyal and powerful Digimon named Leomon is strolling through the mountain when "another" one of the ill-fated Black Gears catches his attention. He bumps into what is his rival Ogremon and the ruler of the whole island we later found out is called File Island, Devimon. Devimon demands for Doomsday, Armageddon and all of that other dark sinister stuff to strike upon The DigiDestined's soul with Leomon not welcoming the idea to this with him trying to stop Devimon in the process.
Devimon uses his "Touch of Evil" to gain supremacy over him giving him that generic evil voice acting we have come to know throughout a show like this. Ogremon and Leomon have come to senses with each other to attempt a murder (okay so that's going a little too far) on the kids. Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Palmon and Gomamon digivolve to their Champion levels to hold the two of them off and before the conflict could get any worse Devimon creates an avalanche to cause confusion for everyone as Ogremon and Leomon mysteriously disappear.
All exhausted from the previous fight our heroes try to search for a pit stop to stop for the night and rest. I like how Gomamon moves forward by flapping his claws up and down. A beautifully structured mansion is seen in the distance and our heroes are dared about thinking if they should go inside or not and eventfully they do.
The first thing the gang notices as they enter is that the whole place is deserted. AND A PICTURE OF AN ANGEL IS HANGING UPRIGHT ON ONE OF THE MANSION'S WALLS.
*T.K. and Patamon Looking At A Painting Of An Angel*
T.K. Look! It's an Angel!
Patamon: What's an Angel T.K.?
T.K. Something that watches over you. Just like you guys.
The odor of food catches the attention of Gabumon as he leads them to what appears looks like an all-you-can-eat-buffet and the kids dig right in for the grub. Who in the hell likes to put peanut butter and pickles on their pizza?
The kids fall into deep slumber for the night with them not realizing it was a trap set up by Devimon. The whole mansion crumbles apart and he spins all of the kids around in the air (expect for Tai) while still inside their beds spreading them all around to different parts of File Island, separating them hoping they will never be heard from again.
Devimon real talks with Tai claiming they are the true heroes of this world with them being told by legend they will be the saviors of this world and cause his downfall. Leomon is about to decapitate Tai before his Digivice glows turning him back to normal again (but not for long) as Leomon sends Agumon and Tai off for a ride to protect him from Devimon and telling Tai that he must reunite with rest of the DigiDestined at once and stop Devimon at all costs at some other time. Leaving the series off on a cliffhanger for the next five or so episodes.
Verdict: 5.5/10 I honestly didn't like much of what unraveled here. Nothing was ever resolved. The encounter the kids faced with Leomon and Ogremon at the beginning of the episode was lame. It ended unexpectedly and made the point of digivolving pointless other then taking up the two minutes of air time we usually see it gets. Leomon came out rather uninteresting to me and for "a role model all Digimon look after as" looked like a weakling that could easily be swayed to do anything for evil with what happened to him from Devimon. Doesn't this make all other good and powerful Digmon like him in a lower class useless in this world? This wasn't a favorite of mine and I'm sorry to say that. Hopefully it will get better with Episode 9.