Digimon Tri - Loss (part 4)
This thing banks so heavily on nostalgia that I feel like there's barely any substance beneath it. Not having more episodes to actually set the fights up and carry them out obviously means the bad guys show up out of nowhere and the digidestined overcome their personal issues and their partners ultra-super-mega digivolve to turn things around in a matter of seconds, and the same holds true for Sora and Biyomon's underwhelming arc.
For example, that part in a previous episode where the kids were all sent to different locations they had been to throughout the first series also felt like a very cheap attempt to bank on people's memories of those places, when none of them ended up mattering at all except for the nursery place Takeru was sent to. The rest could've very well been sent to a white void and it would've been the exact same thing, since we were only shown the places for a couple scenes and then they were all back together thanks to the portals magically showing up again for some reason.
Having so little prep time also makes the power of friendship climaxes feel unearned and pretty underwhelming. Like I said before, this arc could've been really intersting in that it'd be the equivalent of finding somebody from the future or an alternate timeline forcing all their memories down your throat... would you really trust them and accept the "you" you have absolutely no recollection of being? Wouldn't it be awfully inconsiderate of them to force you into a role an alternate version of you used to fill merely to fulfill their desire of reuniting with that other version of yourself? Wouldn't that constitue a time-travel version of grooming? So far only Biyomon and Tapirmon have doubted random humans showing up and claiming to be their partners, but Biyomon's arc with Sora felt badly handled with how they made up within the span of a single scene after not really getting along for almost three episodes.
This thing banks so heavily on nostalgia that I feel like there's barely any substance beneath it. Not having more episodes to actually set the fights up and carry them out obviously means the bad guys show up out of nowhere and the digidestined overcome their personal issues and their partners ultra-super-mega digivolve to turn things around in a matter of seconds, and the same holds true for Sora and Biyomon's underwhelming arc.
For example, that part in a previous episode where the kids were all sent to different locations they had been to throughout the first series also felt like a very cheap attempt to bank on people's memories of those places, when none of them ended up mattering at all except for the nursery place Takeru was sent to. The rest could've very well been sent to a white void and it would've been the exact same thing, since we were only shown the places for a couple scenes and then they were all back together thanks to the portals magically showing up again for some reason.
Having so little prep time also makes the power of friendship climaxes feel unearned and pretty underwhelming. Like I said before, this arc could've been really intersting in that it'd be the equivalent of finding somebody from the future or an alternate timeline forcing all their memories down your throat... would you really trust them and accept the "you" you have absolutely no recollection of being? Wouldn't it be awfully inconsiderate of them to force you into a role an alternate version of you used to fill merely to fulfill their desire of reuniting with that other version of yourself? Wouldn't that constitue a time-travel version of grooming? So far only Biyomon and Tapirmon have doubted random humans showing up and claiming to be their partners, but Biyomon's arc with Sora felt badly handled with how they made up within the span of a single scene after not really getting along for almost three episodes.
