Digimon TRI part one Reunion episode 2

Yaaaaassss, an actual opening credits showing the Digimon companions, including Gatomon! Aww yeah, Gatomon!

There's some nice throwbacks like in the original where the Digidestined were shown hurtling from the sky towards the Digiworld but with new twists. When they were kids, they mostly looked terrified or determined, now we have casual dropping from the sky, the occasional flip and the fun posing from Mimi, then theres this guy.....

Oh Koushiro, will we ever tame your wild ways?

Jumping into it - our first introduction is of a kid being stage dived on by his mother. They flop over onto the ground and wait for a moment. No real context, until we see Kuwagamon swooping them. Their eyes look notably more mainstream anime but whatever. Kuwagamon can't fly for shit and causes insurance premiums around Odaiba to skyrocket. 

Can you imagine that conversation? "Yeah hi, a giant digital creature destroyed my car and then vanished.." Sure sure, drunky. 

Digimon TRI part one Reunion episode 1

I'll be blunt, I enjoyed my snarky review of Digimon Tri part four Loss so much that I'm going to go back and do them all. Also I can barely remember what happened in the previous instalments due to the huge gaps between the movies.
I am still a fan of Digimon but Tri is not what I expected to be honest.

I first started watching Digimon when I was young and only had access to the dub version (since watching the sub I can never go back - the dubs butchered that series in lieu of jokes!)

Example: Kari tells Gatomon she's not allowed pets in her apartment yet OWNS a bloody 'real life' cat. It would have taken all of two seconds for the writers to fact check this especially since Mika the cat was instrumental in screwing up Kari's digivice in a few previous episodes.

That said, I will use a mix of dub and sub terminology depending on personal preferences and what I feel like typing at the time. Sorry!

Now -  onto Reunion episode one -

So we open on some random box thing hurtling through space. I get that it's supposed to represent digital data but all I'm thinking of is those Odyssey monkeys jumping around the obelisk.
Helpful narration only gives us vague information about this one black or evil, if you will, piece of data going into a pure white digi-egg. Hmm.. something about soulless Demiurges and the teenage existential angst?

This leads us out to Tai's bedroom which has probably never been this neat before until he was told about the Reunion special.

Bloody child stars.

Digimon TRI: Soushitsu/Loss Ep 4

I find the flashback openers to the new episodes annoying, especially when the whole thing about Tri is that it's meant to be a set of 'movies'.

Anyway, the actual opener is Joe, Mimi and TK running from Gennai and Machinedramon. Gennai is monologueing about Digimons being life, humans can die, Digimon die in the real world and don't revive but a reboot can bring them back.

 Then this happens.

Geez Gennai, are you gonna lick TK too??

A well placed Boom Bubble Puff almost takes off Gennai's creepy head and then freakin' Joe charges him and lays the smackdown on Gennai! Gooooo Jo-bra! 

"How do you like being on the receiving end, jerk?!"

Gomamon then sends out the sassiest Marching Fishes you ever saw, headbutting and slapping the sense out of Gennai. Palmon traps him with her Poison Ivy but then Gennai sees Sora and Biyomon and his Pedo-power level raises enough to let him escape. 

Turns out Koshirou's plan is to project a large hologram of Tentomon to distract the baddies?

It's kinda cool but begs the question can Koshirou just do anything and we can put it down as technology power or what?

Digimon TRI: Soushitsu/Loss Ep 3

This time open on Sora and Mei - Mei is apparently a super Girl Scout now while Sora seems to have retained none of the survival skills she gained from her previous years in the Digiworld. That's disappointing. Stop being shown up by these poncey newcomers!

The angriest food delivery system ever

Unfortunately, Mei does seem to care about Sora and Biyomon so I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of them together and talking. It's not even as though Mei herself is a bad character, but the series already has more characters than it knows what to do with and does not need another dorky nerd character with a super OP/messed up Digimon.

Turns out Gennai has sent Hackmon. Hackmon, like every male protagonist in this damn series, has to wear goggles by Digimon law. He drops the bombshell that Himekawa is in the Digimon world. Oh woah! Nishijima is so surprised that his Digimon obsessed partner who is currently missing and shown previously to be looking up locations of Digimons in the Digiworld has found more to life than just boning his dorky ass. WHAT A TWIST!

There's also a dire warning about something or other and calling Meicoomon the 'Libra' which just sounds stupid. Look, my star sign is Libra, which is an awesome sign but the sub makes it sound like they're just going with random English words to sound cool.

Digimon Tri - Soushitsu/Loss ep2

The episode starts with a little recap of How I met your mother.. I mean, How my Digimon got so fat during a food coma that it digivolved.




The rookie Digimon seem more like their old selves with a touch of bemusement about what they are now.

Yeah Matt, stop creeping already!

"Patamon!" Yells Takeru with glee.
"Oh, so I'm called Patamon am I?" he replies.

Well.. normally you'd call it out yourself but sure, we'll exposition you out of nostalgia, I guess.

Lazy ass Digmon, eating all the food, forgetting their names and stuff.

How cute is Biyomon here?

Like their first taste of illicit drugs, the Digimon decide they like being big and want MORE of a hit, they need to get bigger.

There's still some forced drama with Biyomon and Sora. Again, no one else cares. No wonder she had that issue with her love crest back in season one.

"Eff this noise, I'm out!"

Meanwhile, Meicoomon who we last saw fleeing into the jungle and vaulting into a convenient distortion is now back in front of the kids (although they're not stupid enough to get back in that trolley car so they don't know) and is about to have a sook so fierce that she briefly becomes Satan.

Digimon Tri - Soushitsu/Loss ep1

Digimon Tri movie 4 has come out and it wasn't what I expected. 

For one thing, nothing much happened. They're even reusing old sets!

Hello, Seadramon set from like, episode three of the original run!

After the last movie, the kids were all sucked back into the digital world and their Digimon - who had reverted back into their 'in-training' forms - had forgotten who they were. 

This doesn't seem to be a problem. The general attitude of the chosen children is that 'yeah we can see you're freaked out and confused and sometimes afraid that we're gonna eat ya but it's okay, we know we're cool so we'll just hang around and laugh at your antics!' 

Ha ha, oh you!

They halfheartedly moan about being back where they were and not knowing more about their situation or how to get home.

No-one really seems to care though?

They all seem fine to just stand around and weirdly bond with their Digimon again.

"You just came to the wrong Digi-village..."

Then this happens. Yokomon is the grumpiest little pink flower thing this side of Super Mario.

Everything Sora does is wrong - she steps on her head flower accidentally (although in her defense, Yokomon was pretty much lying prone in the path for some reason) she forcibly restrains Yokomon with a well intentioned but poorly thought out hug and then..

...then she says this.

The short and thicke of it

Time to chime in on Robin Thicke. Sorry, Robin #Thicke. Or something. I don't know. I was a lot happier before I knew that this guy was alive, or somewhere in this world.

I don't know why he has to hash tag everything. I don't know why he wants to look like a creepier version of Justin Timberlake. I don't know why he thinks he's too cool to dance. I don't know why he thinks his stupid song empowers women? Hell, I don't know why someone saw this guy and thought, my word, this man must be made into a singer because... wait for it... HE CAN'T SING.

This song is terrible and should never have been released. It bothers me, because everytime someone makes a joke about Miley Cyrus being a full blown whore after all this controversy to make her star shine brighter.. I think, well... isn't that what Thickehead is doing?

Let's see, both have famous parentage, both have songs, both keep getting in the news, both had a VMAs headline..

BUT that's where it gets funny. Personally, I'm convinced that Miley was mocking the hell out of Thickehead's video with what she was doing. No, it doesn't make it right or less creepy but I think that's what she was saying. Basically she copped all the flack and he danced away to count his rape-millions.