Episode One - "Enter Flamedramon"

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Summary

Four years after the adventures of the original DigiDestined, a lot has changed. Tai is now in high school, although he still plays soccer. Sora plays tennis and helps her mom at the flower shop, Joe is enrolled in a special school to learn to be a doctor, Izzy's...pretty much the same, Mimi and her folks moved to New York, and Matt is a guitar player and vocalist for his own rock band.

After the opening sequence, we see the Digimon Emperor, the new enemy who is human instead of digimon, sending out dark rings that attach to digimon and turn them into the Digimon Emperor's slaves. Gatomon is one of the digimon being attacked, but her tail ring stops the dark ring. Then Unimon attacks her.

Meanwhile in the real world, TK heads off to his first day of school in 7th grade. Along the way, he meets up with Yolei and Cody, two kids who also live in his building. When they get to school, TK thinks he sees Tai on the soccer field, but it turns out to be a kid named Davis who also wears goggles and looks a lot like Tai. TK is introduced to his new class, which just so happens to have Kari in it, as well as Davis. Davis sees TK talking with Kari and gets jealous, thinking TK is moving in on "his girl."

As dark rings continue to capture digimon, Agumon calls out for Tai, and Tai's digivice is activated. He arrives in the Digital World and tells Agumon to digivolve, but Agumon explains that he can't digivolve. With nothing else to do, Tai and Agumon run from the attacking enslaved digimon, meeting up with Gatomon and Patamon along the way. Hiding in a cave, Tai sends an email to the other DigiDestined for help. In that same cave, they discover what looks like a digiegg with a spike through it and the Crest of Courage on it. Tai tries to pick it up, but he can't. Instead, three balls of light come out of it and fly up into the sky.

In the real world, school has just let out, and Yolei received the email Tai sent to Kari. Yolei, Davis, Kari, and TK head to the computer room, meeting Izzy along the way. They get to the computer room and prepare to go to the Digital World, and Davis says he wants to go as well. Just as TK explains that Davis needs a digivice, three new digivices come out of the computer; one for Davis, one for Yolei, and one for Cody. TK, Kari, and Davis go through the gate to the DigiWorld and find Tai. Gatomon explains that the Digimon Emperor has a new dark digivice that drains the digimon's power and makes them unable to digivolve. After everyone else tries, Davis is able to pick up the digiegg, releasing his new partner digimon, Veemon.

Shortly after that, the kids are attacked by a controlled Monochromon, and they run out of the cave. Veemon tells Davis he has to have courage to open the digiegg, which will allow him to digivolve. When Monochromon gets ready to attack Kari, Davis finds that courage and yells "digi-armor, energize!" Veemon then armor-digivolves into Flamedramon, the fire of Courage. Flamedramon destroys the dark ring with his Fire Rocket, and Monochromon returns to normal. After that, the kids all return to the real world.

Trivia

What floor is TK's apartment on?
According to Yolei, how long does it take to walk from their apartment building to school?

Thoughts and Rating

Incredible episode! When it started up before the opening showing the picture taken at the end of the last season, I got pretty happy. From what I'd read of it, I didn't think there'd be any reference to the first season at all. Great seeing the kids older, great seeing the new kids, great new digimon, great start to a great storyline. Overall, a great episode. I thought the scene where Yolei is yelling at Izzy for an explanation of what's going on was really funny, but my favorite part was during Veemon's armor-digivolving sequence, when Agumon's digivolutions appeared over top. I hadn't expected that at all, so I was pretty happy. I give this episode a 9.5.

Favorite Quotes

"Our teacher looks like Ogremon." - TK to Kari
"Move aside! This is a woman's job." - Kari
"Too bad we don't have a woman here to help!" - TK
"Davis, tell me, what hurts?" - Veemon
"Everything but my earlobes." - Davis
"Get off, you're crushing my brownies!" - Izzy, after the kids come back to the real world

Nits

In the first season, "Snimon" was pronounced "sny mon." Now it's pronounced "snee mon."
How did Tai get into the Digital World? In "Iron Vegiemon," Izzy explains that only the new digivices can open the gate to the Digital World. Since Tai has an old digivice, how'd he get in? The only explanation is that the gate was open for ANYONE to get in at the time.
When Tai meets up with Agumon, he tells him to digivolve. Agumon says "That's why I need your help, Tai. I can't digivolve." The first season clearly said that in order for the digimon to digivolve, they needed energy and their partner to be nearby. There's no way Agumon could know that he can't digivolve before Tai gets there, because Digimon Emperor or not, Agumon can't digivolve without Tai with him. He'd need Tai's help either way!
COMMERCIAL ONE
When did Tai, Agumon, and Gatomon meet up with Patamon? I suppose they could've done that during the commercial, but we never get to see it.
Tai emails the others with what looks like a D-Terminal. Izzy also seems to have a D-Terminal. This doesn't make any sense, because the D-Terminal is something that holds the digieggs, and the only way Davis could get one was after Flamedramon turned back into Veemon. Plus, we never see Tai and Izzy's D-Terminals in any future episodes, which is why it must be a mistake.
How in the world did Yolei get an email meant for Kari? Everyone knows email is password protected, so only Kari should have been able to get that email. Maybe Yolei has been practicing some hacking. ^_^
Tai sent his email to the other seven DigiDestined from season 1. Kari got the email, but it doesn't seem like TK ever did. And why didn't Sora, Matt, or Joe respond to the email. We don't ever see them in this episode, even though Tai said in his email that the situation was an emergency.
Why is Yolei so clueless as to what a digimon is? She saw the battle during the Digimon Movie between Diaboromon and Omnimon, and since other kids watching the battle knew they were digimon (Izzy reads an email from one of the kids that specifically calls Wargreymon a digimon) I'd think Yolei should know they're digimon as well.
Davis mentions that Tai told him about the Digital World once. TK is surprised Davis and Tai know each other, and Kari explains that they play on the same soccer team. How could Davis and Tai play on the same soccer team? Davis is in middle school and Tai is in high school. I don't see how they could play on the same team, considering the age difference.
A program that becomes quite familiar to us appears in this episode. It's the one that spirals onto the computer screen and shows whether the gate is opened or closed and has an area in it for viewing into the Digital World from the real world. My question is, where did that program come from, and how does Izzy know how to use it? In future episodes, the program only comes up when one of the new digivices is nearby, so why did it come up now?
While Tai, TK, Kari, and Davis hang out in the cave with the Digiegg of Courage, Gatomon fills them in on the situation. To spy on them, the Digimon Emperor sends one of his dark rings into the cave to hover above and watch them. Why didn't he try to capture one of the digimon with that ring? I mean, it's right there, and the kids never saw it, so why not? Better yet, why not send a couple more rings to meet up with that one and catch all the digimon?
COMMERCIAL TWO
When Monochromon starts breaking into the cave, Davis yells "It's a monster!" Kari corrects him by saying, "No, that's a digimon!" But technically, Davis was at least partly right. I mean, a digimon is a digital monster, so saying Monochromon is a monster is correct.
As the kids run from the cave, Davis has the digiegg in his right hand. Outside of the cave, Davis stops for breath and the digiegg is nowhere to be seen. Just as Monochromon attacks, the digiegg is mysteriously back in Davis's right hand.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how taking his goggles off proved that Davis had courage. He did nothing courageous at all that I could see, but apparently he didn't need to. The digiegg still opened.
Speaking of the digiegg, how in the world did Davis know what to say? "Digi-armor, energize" is not something that comes to mind naturally. In fact, until Veemon does digivolve, we don't know it's an armor digivolution, so where did Davis come up with "digi-armor, energize"?
Flamedramon has to stop Monochromon because Kari can't get out of the way. She says she can't move her ankle, and since it's not caught in anything, one would assume that it's hurt in some way. But right after the dark ring is destroyed, she's perfectly fine, up on her feet next to Monochromon. Didn't take long for that ankle to heal, did it?
COMMERCIAL THREE
Tai gives Davis his goggles because Davis broke his, and because "the leader of the DigiDestined wouldn't look right without them." Why is Davis the new leader of the group? At this point there are three new DigiDestined: Davis, Yolei, and Cody. Tai doesn't know who the other two digivices belong at this point, so why does he assume Davis is the new leader? Maybe one of the other two could do the job just as well or better, but Tai doesn't seem to even give them a chance.

Trivia Answers

The 8th. (Watch to the right of the elevator as Yolei and Cody arrive on his floor.)
12.3 minutes, if there's no wind.

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