08-18-2006, 03:43 AM
Adventure Zero-Two was the best. Tamers was second, Adventure third, and Frontier fourth. But they're all still close. I won't judge Savers till I've seen all of it, but right now it seems just above Frontier to me.
Zero Two helped fulfil the characterizations of Season 1, while giving us a nice 25 year timeframe of an epilogue without details on how any of those 25 years occurred. It gives me free license to shape a messed up world that can lead to the epilogue point without seeming mechanical or forced. It had Miyako and Hikari, who were, in my opinion, two of the best females in any Digimon series, complicated and unique in their own ways.
Tamers gave an appeal to my sci-fi geek with how they exp.ained everything, but sadly that put it over the heads of most of the intended audience. And so, as the D-Reaper grew, ratings declined. It has my all-time favorite Digimon, though, as well as the one child with whom I most identify -- Renamon and Jenrya, respectively.
Adventure has a place simply because it was the first and it had some vibrant, if occasionally over-the-top, characterizations. Not one of thos echaracterizations ever felt solid to me until Season wo, though, because these kids didn't really get enough character time to themselves, whereas even the kids in the background felt more solid in Zero Two, at least, to me.
Frontier was nice, but it was the wrong method at the wrong time. Ratings may have gone up had Toei chosen a different approach to this season, particularly by keeping partnerships instead of using Spirit Evolution. The characters are almost too predictable to me, and feel a bit dull, even with the non-standard "overweight" kid, with whom I was supposed to associate better (overweight characters are typically made for overweight viewers to identify with).
So far I like Savers more than Frontier, but I'm still not saying it's great. Something about how contrived the story is, combined with the fact that Touma is (in my mind) a Gary Stu, rings just a bit untrue to me. It feels less like Digimon and more like a sentai show...
Zero Two helped fulfil the characterizations of Season 1, while giving us a nice 25 year timeframe of an epilogue without details on how any of those 25 years occurred. It gives me free license to shape a messed up world that can lead to the epilogue point without seeming mechanical or forced. It had Miyako and Hikari, who were, in my opinion, two of the best females in any Digimon series, complicated and unique in their own ways.
Tamers gave an appeal to my sci-fi geek with how they exp.ained everything, but sadly that put it over the heads of most of the intended audience. And so, as the D-Reaper grew, ratings declined. It has my all-time favorite Digimon, though, as well as the one child with whom I most identify -- Renamon and Jenrya, respectively.
Adventure has a place simply because it was the first and it had some vibrant, if occasionally over-the-top, characterizations. Not one of thos echaracterizations ever felt solid to me until Season wo, though, because these kids didn't really get enough character time to themselves, whereas even the kids in the background felt more solid in Zero Two, at least, to me.
Frontier was nice, but it was the wrong method at the wrong time. Ratings may have gone up had Toei chosen a different approach to this season, particularly by keeping partnerships instead of using Spirit Evolution. The characters are almost too predictable to me, and feel a bit dull, even with the non-standard "overweight" kid, with whom I was supposed to associate better (overweight characters are typically made for overweight viewers to identify with).
So far I like Savers more than Frontier, but I'm still not saying it's great. Something about how contrived the story is, combined with the fact that Touma is (in my mind) a Gary Stu, rings just a bit untrue to me. It feels less like Digimon and more like a sentai show...