Episode Five - "Old Reliable"
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In a frozen wasteland far to the north of the DigiWorld, the
Digimon Emperor is forcing a group of Gizamon to build a prison
for him. He starts to whip one that fell down from exhaustion,
but Gomamon jumps in and stops him. Annoyed, the Digimon Emperor
tells the Gizamon they will receive something nice for beating
Gomamon, and they attack him. With Gomamon badly hurt, the
Gizamon receive their prize: dark rings that turn them into loyal
slaves. After the Digimon Emperor leaves, Gomamon barely makes it
to a TV to call Joe.
The DigiDestined receive an SOS from the DigiWorld and head to
the computer room. However, Cody is not with them because he is
practicing Kendo with his grandfather. Eventually his grandfather
helps him realize that he should be with the others, and he
arrives just in time to accompany Joe and the others to the
DigiWorld. After rescuing Gomamon and nursing him back to health,
the DigiDestined build a sled to go to the control spire. They're
attacked by Frigimon and Cody falls off the sled into icy water.
Gomamon saves him and he, Joe, Cody, and Armadillomon stay behind
in a cave while the others go off to destroy the spire. They are
then attacked by a controlled Shellmon. Realizing that they can
give the others time to destroy the spire, Digmon fights Shellmon
and frees him, but then Ebidramon attacks, pulling Digmon into
the water.
Luckily, the other kids manage to destroy the control spire,
and Gomamon digivolves to Ikkakkumon to save Digmon, and the two
of them free Ebidramon.
- What day does Gomamon think it is?
- What day is it really?
Another good episode. Seeing Gomamon and Joe again was great.
I was happy to finally see the attacks of the new Rookies, as
well, even though we did see Veemon's V-headbutt attack before.
The other really cool thing was the conversation about how Cody
was part Izzy and part Joe, like Yolei is Sora and Mimi and Davis
is Tai and Matt. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5.
- "Yeah, I spent the whole night looking in the mirror."
- Joe's friend regarding studying for an anatomy test
- "I just remembered that I forgot to remember
something." - Joe
- "I have been to many lands and met many people, and
in all my travels, I have found only one thing I can
count on: prune juice!" - Cody's grandfather
- "Why did one Shellmon take the other Shellmon's
lunch? Because it was Shellfish!" - Gomamon
"That's the great Gomamon charm?" - Joe
- "Try the knock-knock jokes!" - Joe
- "That's not Plan B you fool!" - The Digimon
Emperor
"Don't blame me, I can't spell!" - Wormmon
- COMMERCIAL ONE
- Okay, I know it serves to move the plot along in this
episode, but really, it doesn't make sense for Cody to
choose Kendo practice over the DigiWorld. There are
innocent digimon being hurt in the DigiWorld, and Cody
decides to go practice with sticks? It's very
uncharacteristic of him.
- When Joe arrives in the computer room, he says that
"Even though Tai told me about it, it's still
strange seeing the digimon in the real world." Why
would that be strange to him? He saw a lot more than
those five digimon in the real world while Myotismon was
around. All of the DigiDestined's digimon were there, as
well as countless enemy digimon.
- Why is it that Davis, wearing long pants and a heavy
jacket, is colder than Kari, who's wearing shorts and a
sleeveless shirt?
- COMMERCIAL TWO
- When the digimon-drawn sled jumps across the canyon, the
sled tilts up at least 45 degrees, but yet everyone
manages to stay perfectly still seated on the sled, even
though they aren't really holding onto anything.
- After Cody is rescued, the scene shifts to the cave where
Cody is warming up. TK says to the other three that
they'll have to leave Cody behind. All three, including
Davis, nod in agreement. Immediately after that, Davis
stands up and says "What?!?" as if he thinks
it's a bad idea.
- The second time they show Flamedramon attacking the
Frigimon, he instead says "Flamedramon, the fire of
Courage." This is the first and only time this ever
happens in the second season.
- COMMERCIAL THREE
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