With a franchise like this that has been around for about 15 years now, of course there'll be a lot of emotions involved concerning this new approach on Digimon.
Nonetheless, I don't quite understand the extremely harsh judgement of those "movies". With some even going as far as to say it was "ruining everyone's childhood".
The story still unfolds; yes, there are only four tri parts with 4 episodes each but we're only halfway there with episodes 5-8; you can't expect them going full gear every single episode.
The original "Adventure" had more time and thus was forgiven when there were episodes that didn't handle intense fighting.
Admittedly, it gets confusing seeing Ken popping up everywhere, acting shady but you don't know what's going on. The plot to this point leaves a lot of questions unanswered - which doesn't neccessarily have to be bad.
I've read (more than once) that the characters have little development and the story falls flat because of topics like "the school festival" and such.
Can't agree with that. Everything about Mimi and Joe hit so close to home I had to pause and take a breath because those were topics that concerned me so much. Most kids that grew up with Digimon (like me) would be in their early to mid twenties by now and you have to face the thoughts about growing up and deciding what you're going to do and who you want to be.
I loved the fact that they included this into the story.
Talking about plot line flaws, I'd rather list the kinda obvious thing about Meicoomon bringing some kind of dark side to everything with its appearance. Or the fact that Taichi and Yamato still have issues with each other and you don't really know the complete reason behind it.
And how most of the kids didn't have their time to shine, yet.
That's what was bothering me.
Man, the sound. THE MUSIC. If the feeling of being at home returns as soon as the first few seconds of the opening play, that's when you know they did it right.
How they intertwined some moments with the music, goodness gracious, beautifully done.
Can't wait to watch the other parts.
