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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 5:20:26 GMT -5
It seems to be a pattern in Digimon that odd numbered seasons are good, but even numbered ones aren't.
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Post by skyfire on Jul 22, 2009 8:26:24 GMT -5
And the first season was by far the best followed by the third. I've only seen a few episodes from the fifth season and it wasn't too bad. Agumon's voice is hellishly annoying and the only awesome about RizGreymon is that one of his arms is a bigass revolver otherwise Metal Greymon is way better. Someone on YouTube set up season 5 as a playlist, with each episode broken into three parts. The video quality sucks, but unless you're looking to blow $50+ for the two boxed sets it's about your only option.
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Post by The_L on Jul 22, 2009 9:09:29 GMT -5
It seems to be a pattern in Digimon that odd numbered seasons are good, but even numbered ones aren't. "DIGI-ARMOR ENER.......................GIZE!" I missed chunks of seasons 1 and 3, but had the misfortune to watch all of season 2. Even without having seen 4, I agree with you.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 9:20:25 GMT -5
It seems to be a pattern in Digimon that odd numbered seasons are good, but even numbered ones aren't. "DIGI-ARMOR ENER.......................GIZE!" I missed chunks of seasons 1 and 3, but had the misfortune to watch all of season 2. Even without having seen 4, I agree with you. Season 4 is awful. Season 2 was at least tolerable. If Season 5 is the one I'm thinking of, it's pretty entertaining. Season 3 made the...interesting choice of drawing a lot from NGE, so it was significantly darker than the others, but it was good, regardless.
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Post by Spark on Jul 22, 2009 9:28:56 GMT -5
Seasons 1 and 3 were also my favorites. Season 2 was just OK and I couldn't stand to watch more than a few episodes of Season 4. I haven't seen any of Season 5 yet.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 10:08:02 GMT -5
That's about how I was, Impious. Season 5, if it's the one I'm thinking of, has a main character who frequently sucker punches the Digimon he's up against. Which, somehow, facilitates Agumon's Digivolution.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 22, 2009 11:23:20 GMT -5
And then SEGA chopped its own wang off by replacing the regular VAs for the games with the 4Kids! VAs. Dicks. To be fair, Eggman's VA from Sonic Adventure died a couple years back, and his Sonic X VA was both pretty damned decent, and instantly recognizable by kids as Eggman. The aspect of the Unleashed cinema scenes I couldn't stand was Chip. It's like they picked some random lady off the street and said, "You're going to be a voice actor for an overly-excitable tutorial character in a video game. Here are your lines. You have 3 hours." The same goes for Rouge from Sonic Adventure 2. When I went back through to get all the emblems, I changed the voice setting to Japanese. At least her Japanese VA was tolerable. I honestly haven't played any of the games since SA2:B, so there goes any credibility I may have...I DID, however, have the misfortune of watching a whopping 30 minutes of some nerds playing Unleashed. Goddamn. I'd rather have Omochao back than Chip. I understand the Eggman thing, but to replace Ryan and David with the SonicX jackoffs? Gawds. TRUST ME, SEGA, Sonic's annoying enough with a DECENT voice actor. Fucking Gary Stu... ...aaaand wait, wait wait wait. Chip's VA was a woman?
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Post by skyfire on Jul 22, 2009 12:07:06 GMT -5
Season 3 made the...interesting choice of drawing a lot from NGE, so it was significantly darker than the others, but it was good, regardless. That's because some of the people who worked on Tamers had worked on Eva. Remember - after Eva, there was a revolt among the staff at Gainax. I'm thinking that some of the staffers most likely jumped ship, which would explain why a few ended up @ Toei (or whoever else did 3).
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 12:28:00 GMT -5
Still, I find it weird that they jumped to a kid's cartoon & basically said, "Hey, let's bring over some aspects from our incredibly depressing, creepy anime that comments on sociological & psychological problems in teenagers!"
I find it even weirder that it WORKED.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jul 22, 2009 13:42:28 GMT -5
I liked Digimon season 2 Please don't kill me.
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Post by Hades on Jul 22, 2009 15:38:02 GMT -5
Was season 2 of Digimon the one about this kid who draws his own Digimon and it comes to life or something? I think I watched all if not most of that season. It was ok. Season 1 is still my favorite.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 15:40:16 GMT -5
Was season 2 of Digimon the one about this kid who draws his own Digimon and it comes to life or something? I think I watched all if not most of that season. It was ok. Season 1 is still my favorite. That was 3. Started about as much as, if not more innocent than any of the rest, but it steadily got disturbing, then quickly dove into a complete & utter mindfuck after Leomon died. Also, I didn't HATE Season 2, it just wasn't one of the best. My favorite is 3. Then 1.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jul 22, 2009 15:53:46 GMT -5
That's about how I was, Impious. Season 5, if it's the one I'm thinking of, has a main character who frequently sucker punches the Digimon he's up against. Which, somehow, facilitates Agumon's Digivolution. That was seriously weird how the main characters hand would glow and somehow he's able to jump extrodinary heights and punch something that is the same hieght as a small office building in the face. Otherwise from what I've seen it's pretty good with the exception of Agumon's voice and RizGreymon not being Metal Greymon. Season two was good. It was nothing compared to season 1 but it had some good points to it such as characters from season one appearing every so often even as minor characters.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Jul 22, 2009 15:57:46 GMT -5
A lot of the alternate Digivolution paths in 5 bugged me. The punching thing? Not really. It was sort of a way to have the human character be consistently useful in a way that wasn't stupid.*
*By that, I mean by turning into Digimon, as in Season 4.
3 had the cards, but they eventually stopped using them. Then the fusion thing at the end was weird & pointless. Not necessarily bad, but weird & pointless.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jul 22, 2009 16:06:11 GMT -5
I've only seen one episode of season four and that bothered me more than the fact there were several different train type Digimon.
The card thing didn't really do all that much except for give the Digimon a slight boost. And the fusion thing was kinda cool. I mean if it wasn't for fusion there might not have been teh awesome that is Galitmon and the Terriormon's mega form that shot a whole bunch of missiles.
What was really awesome about season 1 was how T.K is better than everyone put together. Especially Joe who was a big wuss.
Two things got to me though. What kind of summer camp makes the kids sleep in tents and why does Sora wear a helmet?
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