Episode 9: Subzero Ice Punch
Thank you for recapping the last episode for me Tai. Does anyone ever notice that Agumon's voice keeps changing pitch periodically? Our prologue of the episode begins with Tai and Agumon realizing the whole group of kids are drifting away from one another on different islands and must be reunited with each other somehow. Agumon and Tai aren't having the best of luck in the snow with Tai's clothes getting frozen at one point. These kids sure have weird fashion statements. I'm sorry but the last thing I would be thinking about wearing in a blizzard are a PAIR OF GOGGLES Tai always seems to be wearing around him on his head.
Tai and Agumon are later ambushed by a Digimon named Frigimon. He greets the two with an extremely corny entrance.
*Frigimon Pops Out Of The Ground*
Frigimon: Frigimon!
Tai and Agumon botch the attempt with trying to release the Black Gear from Frigimon at first but after some trouble they eventually do. Frigimon is so cute. He leads the two of them across an icy lake where Matt and Gabumon are claimed to have been seen. The weather is not cooperating well in favor of Matt as he becomes completely worried about T.K. and wondering what could be the situation he's in right now.
While Gabumon is looking out for T.K. in the blizzard, Matt's devoted stubbornness gets the best of him as he heads out in the storm nearly getting frozen when Gabumon brings him in the place they were hiding in to stay warm. Gabumon has such a deep voice. He yells at Matt at the top of his lungs but you can't hear the anger in him because of his voice.
*Gabumon Yelling At Matt*
Gabumon: MATT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT? I TOLD YOU NOT TO LEAVE! CAN YOU HEAR ME? MATT!
It's morning now and Tai and Matt are reunited with each other with peace that doesn't reconcile with each other that well as while the two are having a discussion Matt believed that what Tai said was that T.K. isn't the main priority to concentrate on for now as the two beat heads and eventually fight with each other. The brawl breaks loose with Matt punching Tai in the face with Tai getting back up and hitting the SPEAR. Spear by Tai! BY GAWD! Tai nearly took Matt's head off!
The two struggle some more near the EDGE of a snowy cliff slide and before Agumon and Gabumon could come to the rescue, Mojyamon (a yeti like Digimon) appears sending the foursome flying off the edge plummeting them to their doom until Frigimon cushions their fall.
Agumon and Gabumon eventually digivolve to Greymon and Garurumon with them using the same old routine here we see them do with releasing the Black Gear from inside of Mojyamon turning him back to normal and turning their direction around to see part of File Island is coming back to pieces again with the hunt for the rest of the DigiDestined on with Matt and Tai putting their differences aside and away...for now.
Verdict: 7.5/10 The first five minutes or so of this was a little underwhelming. I think it may of been a little better for me to get into this if Tai and Agumon were thrown into more grave danger. Since the rest DigiDestined are separated from each other it would of been nice to see Tai and Agumon battle the odds more in the snow with multiple Digimon attacking them rather then having one like Frigimon to deal with. Thankfully the second half of this made it all better. The bickering with Tai and Matt was great with the two of them learning on how they have to put their differences aside with each other and learning how to be a team (which doesn't work out for them here later on in the season.) Everything here may have not been spectacular but how everything was wrapped up together made me kept on the edge of my seat all the way through which made this pretty decent to watch.