

Last week's episode of the Digimon Adventure reboot was... controversial. A sudden character reveal coming out of nowhere surprised fans and caused a schism in the fandom the likes of which I have never seen before. Okay, that's an overexaggeration. Anyway, let's get to the review of this week's episode: And to the Digital World. Last week's episode of the Digimon Adventure reboot was... controversial. A sudden character reveal coming out of nowhere surprised fans and caused a schism in the fandom the likes of which I have never seen before. Okay, that's an overexaggeration. Anyway, let's get to the review of this week's episode: And to the Digital World.





After the big hype appearance of Omegamon at the end of last week's episode, this episode was mostly boring. Izzy was like, "Who is that?" and then Omegamon fought Algomon... and then the fight was over. Algomon didn't multiply or keep changing the password on the missile. People from around the world don't join in to help. There's no doomsday clock. After the big hype appearance of Omegamon at the end of last week's episode, this episode was mostly boring. Izzy was like, "Who is that?" and then Omegamon fought Algomon... and then the fight was over. Algomon didn't multiply or keep changing the password on the missile. People from around the world don't join in to help. There's no doomsday clock.





They just fight. Again: Digimon is not about battles, so when there's a single fight between two underdeveloped characters that isn't even interrupted by dialogue - the whole thing just kinda happens before your eyes. Remember this isn't even the same Algomon who attacked the trains.



I guess it's neat that defeating the enemy doesn't stop the missile. Instead, Omegamon has to do some nonsense to stop it. But when I say nonsense, I mean nonsense. In previous versions of this story, the doomsday object was either disarmed or rerouted to a safe distance. Here, they somehow turn it around so that it flies back into space and explodes in the lower atmosphere. Fun fact: that's not how missiles work.



I guess it's neat that defeating the enemy doesn't stop the missile. Instead, Omegamon has to do some nonsense to stop it. But when I say nonsense, I mean nonsense. In previous versions of this story, the doomsday object was either disarmed or rerouted to a safe distance. Here, they somehowso that it flies back into space and explodes in the lower atmosphere. Fun fact: that's not how missiles work.



After the missile crises is dealt with, Tai returns to the real world and reunites with Izzy. The U.S. military releases a statement about the missile and then everyone moves on and almost instantly forgets about it. This certainly captures the present day Internet's tendency to move on quickly.



There's a brief conversation between Matt and TK. We don't actually see it and can assume it's a phonecall - but since this is 2020 I kinda wanted to see a skype call. This scene confirms the theory that Matt doesn't live in Tokyo like before - instead, he appears to live out in the country.



Then: summer camp. Yay! After a brief cameo by the always wonderful Joe, Tai introduces Izzy to Sora. Here it's confirmed that, as with the original series, Tai and Sora are childhood friends and in the same class. I'm not the biggest Sora fan, but I always liked the dynamic these two shared so I'm glad it's one of the things that's carried over.





Then... summer camp ends? I guess? The campground is mostly made up of tents so it can't be a day camp, right? Did we just go there to meet Sora and then skip 4 weeks?





Back home, Izzy says something about the Net and apparently Tokyo is going to experience a city-wise blackout. Something like that would be cataclysmic in 2020, so naturally Tai jumps to action... and heads to the train station where Izzy is for some reason.





On the way to adventure, Tai passes Sora who follows him and as he meets up with Izzy and jumps into the Digital World. Tai reunites with Agumon, gets a glimpse of the larger world of Digimon, and then the episode ends.