What They Say:
“THE ANGELS’ DETERMINATION”
The Chosen Ones have each attained their crests and aim to reunite now. However, they receive an emergency call from Wisemon and Gerbemon that the laboratory is under attack. The Chosen Ones fight to protect the lab from a swarm of Digimon.
“THE GREAT CATASTROPHE, NEGAMON”
The Chosen Ones are separated from their partner Digimon and captured in the white void. There, the terrifying true form of the Great Catastrophe is revealed through Algomon’s words.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
The end is upon us and it’s going out with a whimper. I wonder what happened to that bang that started this series. It just lost its way as it kept going on random tangents. Algomon started as the first monster of the week but that got lost somewhere along the way. The roadmap that the show was promising to be the great threat was Milleniumon and the Holy War, not the Great Catastrophe. If there were some breadcrumbs that the Great Catatosphere had a role to play in everything then this ending would have been acceptable.
The villain, Negamon is finally out and about, and …. couldn’t anyone else be the villain to end the show. His motivations, his designs don’t scream main villain material. Light and darkness are typically set against each other due to their nature. This villain wants to destroy the world because light and darkness have gotten out of control. Everything is bad and it must go away. I want something more about this villain. Millenniummon could have been pushed back and been properly developed to be the villain that this series needed.
Episode 64 levels the playfield as much as it can before the final battle. Devimon rises from the ashes to give Takeru and Patamon one last piece of advice before they end it all. The tragedy in this story is that Patamon and Devimon were always friends but it was never explored how these two came to be separated so much. All hope lies with the youngest children, Takeru and Hikaru. The tree of knowledge comes under attack in one last stand against the forces of nothingness. Patamon and Gatomon digivolve to their mega forms Seraphimon and Ofanimon.
Algomon has been here since the beginning but he hasn’t had much of a notable presence. It would have seemed like he had a major role but he just ends up being a puppet of the big bad. Not the prettiest way to go out but Algomon gets taken out in almost gore beautiful fashion. As all of the Digimon are digivolving they attack Algomon and expand as they’re in his body. My ears were hurt by everyone yelling “Shinkai” so many times in such a short period. It was a nice way to commemorate how far everyone comes as all the Digimon digivolved from their rookies form to champion to ultimate and finally mega form.
In Summary:
This series started with an incredible mood and now I’m just wondering how we get so low. It just never found that fitting after aiming so high. All the cards have been played and everyone has been introduced so I’m just hoping that the finale goes all out with incredible battles. Everyone has their mega digivolutions and Omnimon is finally available once again. The battle has shifted from light vs darkness to one between absolute chaos vs hope. It’s not such an easy transition and it would help if this trial has started earlier.
Grade for Episode 64: C
Grade for Episode 65: D
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