#mainly to answer questions and try to fill in plotholes

[staticstardust]

I just had a cool idea for a whole scenario and headcanon- Syringeon has gone into his "Hellish" form one single time since he was made, the first, last, and only time he's ever done so. (I have tons of ideas and headcanons about givanium and what exactly the "Hellish" forms of the characters are, though I haven't really touched on them in any of my posts yet. Basically though I headcanon a character mutates into their Hellish form via one of three mean; either an overabundance/overdose of GV ((i.e. LittleBeak falling into the barrel)) which can be undone via purging the body of the excess GV, a drastic lacking of GV like blood loss from an injury ((a character getting hurt and then acting like when a boss fight has a 2nd phase)) which can be undone just via healing the individual back up, or the outlier of the three being that odd "modified Givanium solution" that's mentioned in notes) Anyway though, new headcanon/idea; Syringeon has mutated into his Hellish form one single time in his life, and it was in order to protect his family and friends on Layer-4.

I had an idea for a scenario that happens around the middle of the failed-revolution-arc, a team of armed site personnel are sent down to Layer-4 in an attempt to quell the mutants growing revolution, quelling quickly turns into threatening and the situation spirals into a full on attack. Most all mutants who can fight back do, but things go wrong and everyone ends up needing to fall back to the kingdom. Syrin ends up staying behind to buy the others more time. Syrin heads back to the attacking armed force of humans, manages to easily take a few down, but is quickly and severely outnumbered by the site personnel and surrounded. He bides for more time by getting into an argument with Uthman, who's also there, but not even that plan holds out for long before Uthman is giving orders for the guards to take down and capture Syrin so they can continue onto the kingdom and the other cases. Syrin starts panicking as the guards start to close in on him. He's damn near impossible to kill thanks to his hammerhead worm genomes letting him heal and regenerate, but he can still be subdued and restrained, and if that happens then the guards will get to the kingdom. Not only will his family and friends most likely get hurt, but he won't be there to heal them up either. Syrin is panicking and wracking his brain for a way out, before a realization suddenly hits him- He and the guards are currently at a location in the facility that's an upper floor overlooking a lower floor, and not only that, but there's a multitude of very large GV barrels scattered around the lower floor bellow. Some of which have been left open with no covering. Syrin knows what he has to do, and is cringing at what he knows is about to come, but knows that he has no other choice if he's gonna hold the humans off to protect everyone. Syrin makes a break for it, managing to duck and dodge past the surrounding guards and getting only a few gunshots as a result, before running full-tilt to the nearest balcony and just fucking vaulting over the railing. Diving headfirst into an open vat of GV. His last thoughts before losing consciousness are "I won't let them get to my family." followed by "It hurts it hurts ithurtsithurtsITHURTS-!" before the world went black for him. The guards and the site personnel all crowed around the spot of the railing the case had jumped over, and look over the edge at the open vat of GV down below that the case had disappeared into, their blood running cold as they realize what's about to happen... And after a moment, a hand emerges from the teal liquid and grabs the edge of the vat, mirrored by a second hand on the other side. Followed by another hand, and another hand... and another, and another, and another, and another. A horrifying amount of hands and arms emerging from the GV to grip the edges of the vat, while a horrifyingly large and mutated body hauls its way up and out of the liquid. The mutant now more than long enough that once his pendulum-like head is pulled up, he towers over and looks down on the humans on the second floor. And just-

[dreamerydoll]

My Thoughts On Digimon Adventure tri.: Loss

... a lot of things about the newest Digimon tri movie don’t really make sense and leave more questions than answers... 4 movies into a 6 movie series...

Biyomon being mean to Sora makes no sense, her character changed entirely after her memory was erased. Before she was sweet and caring, but then they made her... angsty and borderline abusive to Sora... for no reason at all. Sora accidentally stepped on Yokomon’s flower petal (why she was laying on the ground like that I’m not entirely sure... just moments before this she was with everyone else at the beach so it’s not like she was taking a nap...) and then suddenly she absolutely HATES Sora and... it just didn’t work. No explanation as to how Meiko got to the digital world. Personally I like Meiko’s character but she is being handled horribly... they’re doing all of the wrong things when it comes to introducing a new character to an already established cast. Fans aren’t going to want to accept change and a new face, that’s with any series (though, personally I appreciate it) so when writing one single character into the plot you have to do it carefully... try to make her likable so that people will care about her character so they’ll be more likely to care about her contribution to the story. They just wrote her in, gave her one personality trait, had her do little to nothing, all while being the partner to the most destructive and threatening digimon companion out of the main characters. This also brings me to Meicoomon... she doesn’t seem to be very consistent in terms of personality... every digimon and chosen child has a dynamic that just works for them. Jou and Gomamon are a very good example of this, they bring out aspects of each other that you wouldn’t normally see... this goes for all of them, their personalities all complement one another. With Meicoomon and Meiko it’s not like this though, they have no actual chemistry... the partnership doesn’t feel real to me and this is coming from a person who likes Meiko and wants to see it.

Also Meicoomon throwing temper tantrums isn’t... good. She’s far too destructive, I understand she is supposed to be like a baby but... the scene when she literally attacked Meiko for not appearing in the digital world sooner was... bad. She could have seriously hurt her, Meiko is just a normal human so Meicoomon attacking her continuously just makes no sense no matter how upset she got. Also Meicoomon is an adult digimon I believe too (like Gatomon/Tailmon) so it kind of makes it even worse. Now... I know this isn’t a complaint about this movie specifically but I’m also going to add... Meicoomon’s design doesn’t match any of the other digimon’s designs at all... she sticks out and it’s not in a way I would call very... good.

The way Meiko and Meicoomon were introduced and treated up to this point have been awful and even though I personally am very happy to see her and Hikari sharing a poster for the next film... I can understand why at this point others who don’t like her character might feel upset, because the writing has given us no real reason to care about Meiko at all. I only like her because I like her design and personality, not because of her role in the story or any of her actions... I also believe that adding just one character to an already established cast makes it a lot harder for them to blend and fit in... now... Digimon has a lot of characters already and is suffering from pacing and plot issues so I’m not sure if I can say that would be fixed by adding another chosen child along with Meiko so that they can bounce off of each other and the rest of the cast and make their inclusions feel more organic... because these are movies, not only is there not enough time to do all of that but everything has to be paced a specific way so that it works as a movie. Which kind of brings me to my next point...

Digimon Tri doesn’t really work as a set of movies... or a set of separate episodes to me. There is a lot going on in the plot, honestly... far too much for the amount of characters and time. This film in particular felt very... chaotic to me, there was so much happening and not enough explanation for a lot of the things that happened. At this point I would’ve hoped the loose ends introduced in the first 3 films would have been tied up since this is the later half of the series and there isn’t really a lot of time left to explain everything, have everything come to a peak, and then resolve all of the problems introduced to the series. We have two films left... that’s it... and we still don’t know a lot of things... a lot of things aren’t even being given the attention they deserve... Sora and Yamato’s relationship... the whereabouts of the 02 children... the general Digimon lore and how everything ties together...

Which brings me to how badly Sora’s character was handled in this film... it was supposed to be about her, she was supposed to get her time to shine but... it didn’t do her character any justice. Her relationship with Biyomon was sour and then she saves her and gains Biyomon’s approval... and then risks her life and is thrashed into an ice cliff twice and still somehow not only survives but also walks away with no injuries... and rides on top of Hououmon mid-battle only to basically be thrown off without Hououmon seemingly knowing... it was all just sloppy and Biyomon’s character was butchered completely, very little about her character was even consistent from the past films let alone the original series.

And since I am talking about Hououmon... why did they cram 3 Digimon evolving from rookie to mega in one battle...? :)It... was a lot... Biyomon to Birdramon to Garudamon to Hououmon... and then they did the same with Patamon and Tentomon... there was so much time being filled by evolutions and that’s not even counting Agumon and Gabumon’s evolutions earlier in the movie. I know that Patamon and Tentomon weren’t able to evolve to mega in the previous movie but... they should have found a more organic way to do it. For instance showing their evolutions to ultimate in the last film (another reason why I think they should’ve evolved to ultimate in the last film other than the reason that it just made no sense to only evolve to champion and then stop there... but also another reason is that I wanted to see Lillymon again... and I wanted to see Mimi and Jou evolve their digimon to mega... since that also would have made sense... especially since I’m guessing from this point onward Mimi and Jou aren’t going to really be getting much more spotlight) so that they could skip the evolutions this time and just have them go from ultimate to mega.

Seraphimon’s debut was lackluster... Takeru and Patamon usually have the most buildup and the most interesting climax when it comes to their arcs and evolutions but... this time they kind of just threw it in there mid-battle just to get it out of the way. Also at this point they all left Meiko and Meicoomon alone... in the digital world... where Meiko has never been before. Gennai found her and after a very very uncomfortable scene where he seems to be molesting her (oh yeah... earlier in the film he literally pinned Sora to the ground and licked her face... :) it was... bad... :) maybe they should’ve looked that part over and :) cut it out so that it didn’t make it to the final product maybe??? :) ) he uses his powers to choke her to activate Meicoomon’s anger so that she would evolve and become destructive. So basically the movie ends with Meiko lying lifelessly on the ground and Meicoomon’s evolution going on a rampage. :)

IT. WAS. A. MESS. At this point I’m not sure how the next films can compensate for the nonsense that happened in this one. There was just too much going on, too many plotholes, poor decisions being made, characters (mainly just Biyomon) changing their personalities, and at this point I feel like the writers bit off way more than they could chew. Maybe if the franchise only had like... 1 or 2 main characters a story like this could work... but with an ensemble cast of (now) 9 characters it is just way too much. There’s far too much going on and not much of anything being explained. I’m also not entirely sure if the films are supposed to be aimed at newcomers or longtime fans and I’m really not sure how they could really appeal to either because there’s a lot of stuff included that alludes to the original series but also just a lot of stuff left out for no reason. It feels like a complete mess right now and that cliffhanger (after like, 10 minutes of digimon evolutions) just... made the already weak film end on an extremely weak note. If fans had to wait like, a week or so in between films it would be one thing... still bad... but not as bad as waiting months and months for the next film only to be left with more questions than answers... 

... that all being said it was okay. I liked it, I mean I liked all of the films and I’m really looking forward to the next one... yay Meiko and Hikari!! ^o^