Well, since the reboot's finished, anyone have any final thoughts on it? I just couldn't get past the third episode, Koushirou was that goddamn annoying about how super-smart and know-it-all he is about the Digital World despite having never seen it (let alone stepped foot in it) before. That was in the first
three episodes, and I couldn't believe it had anything other than stereotypical archetype characters involved, and I couldn't believe those episodes were getting me to hate a character I actually adore. Reboot, AU, retelling, what have you, that is not Koushirou, that's a skinwalker pretending to be human. (Calling the reboot's character an alien is a disservice to Izzy's belief in aliens.)
I wanted to give my thoughts on the start of my attempted journey with this show back when I had first started it in January, but I was left speechless and irritated that I just had to sit on it. And I haven't gotten back into it. And according to a (
lengthy) review I read, I probably shouldn't bother because it doesn't get better in terms of characters developing. Koushirou never changes.
None of them change because they're already super special superheroes, why
should they change? Millenniumon apparently
not being the final big bad (
how???) is what made me throw my hands up and go "Yeah, no" and not attempt to slog through it. It was also too flashy and bombastic, like it was trying
waaaaaaay too hard to be a shounen while pretending it was "Our War Game".
Then I noticed this:
Uhhhh what do you mean there's only
eight main characters? What do you mean Koushirou, Mimi, Joe, Sora, Biyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon aren't main characters? You serious? Why are the siblings and their Digimon more important than
the entirety of the DigiDestined? I love those characters, too, but I love
all of those characters. Maybe not equally, but not to the extent where I think they're not playing key roles in the story.
So I guess the new Digimon fell into the same problems modern shounen shows have.
Least we still have the original. Been rewatching it, actually, mainly because I want to make sure the DVDs all work fine (had an issue with my first
completely new copy of the 02 DVD set having scratched discs and so I'm paranoid not all of the four season DVDs may have working discs lol), but also I've just been bored. Nostalgia talking or not, it's still so entertaining. Characters grow and have human interactions with each other that's
not just snark and exposition, they learn as they go along together. They were worried sick about their families frantically looking for them back home, they pined for TV and fast food and just the hustle-and-bustle of city life, and in their frustrations, they would have scuffles. And they weren't worried at all about having to save the Digital World at first, they just wanted to go back home and pretend it was just a bad dream later, but begrudgingly accepted their fate as the DigiDestined over time once it hit them everything was actually real. They were kids first, and heroes second.
But the reboot completely forgot that within the first three episodes, probably within the
first episode if I remember right.
Ghost Game at least isn't another
Adventure, but I have that unsinkable feeling the same problems plaguing modern entertainment will still be prevalent in it--but hopefully it's more original in its presentation. I think I'll also end up laughing if the ratings for it aren't as good as the previous seasons, then cry because it just means Toei and Bandai will continue to milk
Adventure despite them trying to get the adults to stop buying
Adventure merchandise and such.
