18:50 The D Reaper itself reminds me of Guilmon’s dark evolution into Megidramon, heck, even the concept of Dark Evolution in general. The D Reaper wasn’t supposed to be evil, but it ultimately became a weapon rather than an individual. Once the Megidramon fiasco takes place, Takato learns his mistakes. After which Guilmon and Takato become true friends rather than just pet and master.
Well, no questions I don't think, but as I said in chat love the analysis into philosophies and your reviews are likely some of the best I've seen of an anime.
I think the reason why Tamers crew appear so stilted when they give this kind of dialogue, which was less of an issue in Adventure, is that unlike every single one of the other series, the kids in tamer aren't really what i would call "Abnormally developed kids". By that i dont mean that there is anything wrong about them, or theyre unrealistic per say, but that theyre a bit... Different than Tamers kids. Tamers kids(Other than Juri, but that is a topic for a different day) are all very normal children. They haven't really developed to the point where you can take a look at them and pinpoint what sort of person they'll be in their future. The adventure kids by contrast, are. They've all developed much further along their path to the people they'll become(Provided the writing in the later years isn't shit of course), where you can easily see and predict what sort of adults and teenagers they'll become. They're unusually developed in that regard, where every single one of them stands out strongly from the rest of both each other and their peers. Of course, that's not really unrealistic. That sort of kids DO exist. But they tend to be rather rare, and the fact that every single one of them are like this stands out, especially when compared to Tamers crew, where the only one who truly fits this bill is Juri. The rest of the kids... Well Rika is probably the best example, in that she is both so immature and underdeveloped(In the sense she's a child still, not that she's a bad character, far from it) that she's able to turn around completely from the person she was at the start. While this is good, and helps it stand out from what came before it, it does have the side effect that when the characters speak like the Adventure kids, it doesn't... Quite work the way it did in adventure. In adventure, this worked, because it was just the way everyone was. Here though, where the show tries to distinctly separate itself from what came before, it appears as stilted. Also, this is probably WAY too early for this, given how much farther we are from these events, but given you are probably the biggest Digimon reviewer who comes at digimon with a look at how it fits in on a theological meta, what is your thoughts on the fact that Megidramon, Takato and Guilemon's first array into Ultimate level is speciffically named after Har Məgīddō, the hebrew name for the Valley where the world shall end, better known under the Greek and latin variants, which are Armageddon?
Japanese people are still living under the shadow of World War II. As such, their end-of-the-world imagery instilled within their art is often related in some way to nuclear Armageddon. Takato, in that moment of rage, essentially wanted to destroy the world in his passion to avenge Leomon. So his spirit is directly reflected in his Digimon partner. It's another interesting complication in that Takato is right in wanting to correct an injustice, but allows his anger to overcome him. That and the event comes directly off the cuff of Takato's assumption that Guilmon wasn't real after all (Shibumi's revelation had made him question Guilmon's legitimacy). In the end Guilmon transforms into a living weapon as a result of Takato's depersonaling their former relationship.
Speaking of megidramon… are you gonna go over the digital hazard? Despite being on all of guilmons evolutions, and being the source of megidramons apocalypse, it didn’t appear on takatos drawing of guilmons. Do you think it has anything to do with takatos unexplained psychic powers?
