The best of both worlds

[CloneWarrior]

Just incase you didn't know... I thought I was a superfan, but I just found this out recently... I guess that originally Digimon was going to only be 13 eps, they defeat Devimon and went home. But the ratings were so well that they tried to make it longer, which short term didn't work well... Etemon... *Shudders* ... But in the long run it worked itself out.

I wish people would stop repeating this rumor.

The show was never intended to be 13 episodes. It would have been completely impossible to produce entirely new episodes on a weekly basis if they didn't start until far enough in the series to decide it was doing well.