Episode Two - "The Digiteam Complete"

Summary

Davis, TK, Kari, and Tai return from the Digital World. Yolei and Cody are excited to go, but decide it would be best to wait until after school tomorrow. That night, all the original DigiDestined except for Mimi meet in a playground to talk about the new threat to the DigiWorld (Mimi was emailed about it). Tai, Izzy, Sora, TK, and Kari decide to join the three new kids in the DigiWorld the next day.

When they do go, Tai stays behind to distract Mr. Fujiyama, now in charge of the computer room, while the others go to the DigiWorld. When they get there, Davis meets up with Veemon while the Sora, Izzy, TK, and Kari reunite with their digimon. Shortly thereafter, though, they're attacked by Snimon. Davis gets ready to have Veemon armor-digivolve, but Drimogemon opens up a hole under him suddenly and he falls in. Mojyamon shows up and knocks Veemon into the hole as well. At this point Yolei and Cody realize that the DigiWorld is a very real and very dangerous place. The kids manage to get away from their attackers.

Meanwhile, the Digimon Emperor has Davis and Veemon attached to the sides of cliffs and has Davis's digivice and D-Terminal. Davis talks to the Digimon Emperor and realizes that he's a kid the same age as Davis. While they hang there helpless, the other kids discover two digieggs in a temple; one with the Crest of Love on it, and another with the Crest of Knowledge. Sora and Izzy try to lift them but fail, but Yolei and Cody are successful. Yolei meets her digimon, Hawkmon, while Cody meets his, Armadillomon. Yolei talks to Sora and Cody talks to Izzy, and both show they have the trait on the digiegg. Hawkmon armor-digivolves to Halsemon, the wings of Love, and Armadillomon armor-digivolves into Digmon, the drill of power.

They manage to find and rescue Davis and Veemon just before Veemon gets caught in a dark ring. Veemon armor-digivolves, and each armor-digimon takes on one of the three digimon from earlier and frees them. All the kids return to the real world, as well as the three new digimon and Gatomon and Patamon. The three new digimon return to their In-Training forms in the real world.

Trivia

What did Cody and his family have for dinner the night before he went to the DigiWorld?
What do Yolei and her sister fight over?

Thoughts and Rating

Like the first one, this was a great episode. Seeing all the original DigiDestined as older kids was really neat, and seeing Biyomon and Tentomon was great too. When Hawkmon and Armadillomon started digivolving, I hoped we'd see their Mega forms, but it never happened. That was a little disappointing, but besides that it was another great episode. I give it a 9.

Favorite Quotes

"That's right. It's 'Pork Surprise' at my place." - Tai regarding that night's meal
"I can't. I've got an oral test tomorrow on laryngitis." - Joe (this was a really subtle joke, which is why I love it)
"All day long it's 'destroy this,' 'destroy that,' 'get me a cappuchino,' oy!" - the newly freed digimon
"The birds and the bees, huh? Thanks, Mr. Fujiyama. Boy, when it comes to girls, this guy's got a lot to learn." - Tai

Nits

When Yolei works on Cody's computer, she has one part on the floor on it's side and the rest nearby standing upright. The only problem is that it doesn't look like the part she's working on would go with the rest of it. The shapes don't match up, and the part standing upright doesn't look like it's been taken apart at all.
COMMERCIAL ONE
The Digimon Emperor shows a lot more control over the actual terrain of the DigiWorld in this episode than he does in future episodes. He just snaps his fingers and parts of a cliff move around to reveal Veemon, etc. This ability disappears later on.
COMMERCIAL TWO
Where did the three digimon that were attacking Sora, Izzy, Yolei, Cody, TK, and Kari go? Before the commercial they were under attack, and after the commercial they're calmly walking through the woods with no enemies in sight.
Cody says "This digivice you were nice enough to give me...." No one gave him the digivice. It came straight from the computer to him, so I don't know why he says one of the kids there gave it to him.
Why does Yolei get a male digimon? Up until now, the tradition was that a DigiDestined got a digimon of the same gender, but Hawkmon is definitely not a girl, so this tradition was broken. I don't understand why, though.
Not so much a nit as an observation, but Hawkmon sounded a lot like Piedmon when he said "Why do I get stuck with a defective human?"
Yolei mentions her sister in this episode and at least one other, but we never see her, and eventually we don't even hear about her anymore.
One of the biggest things that bugged me about this episode when I first watched it was, why does Digmon say "the drill of power"? The other digimon all use the name of their digiegg in their little tag phrase, but Armadillomon doesn't. He should say "the drill of Knowledge." I kinda let this go when I first heard it because, as the saying goes, "knowledge is power."
Veemon tells the Digimon Emperor that he'll never been his slave and that he might as well destroy him right now. The Digimon Emperor says "As you wish," but nothing changes. The ring still heads for Veemon to enslave him.
Suddenly Flamedramon's "Fire Rocket" attack isn't the same as it was last episode. Last time it meant Flamedramon basically caught on fire and charged at his enemy. Now he throws fireballs, but calls it the same thing.
COMMERCIAL THREE
After they return from the DigiWorld, Sora talks to Biyomon through the computer and tells her to get some rest for tomorrow because she'll need it. This makes it sound like she'll be fighting tomorrow, but we don't see her again for quite some time.

Trivia Answers

Macaroni and cheese
Who gets the last cookie

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