Well this week it appears that the kids have wandered into a Chiaki J. Konaka plot.
Group A (naturally) takes centre stage as Mimi completely buys that they are back in the Real World, and wastes virtually no time in inviting Palmon home to meet her parents (plus the baby brother they keep locked in the attic) and scoff high calorie food.
The plot quickly thickens as it dawns on the boys that the subway they are on is supposed to be in Tokyo and not London, as they can't seem to get anywhere.
Realizing that they're a wee bit shit at this whole deception thing when even someone like Mimi has managed to clock it, the Notshademon decide to give the group nightmares instead and pursue them back upstairs.
"Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."
Where-upon they form a bizarre Biollante/Hedorah like construct called Eyesmon. Which for me then raises the question, is there like a whole family of Digimon made up entirely of singular body parts wandering around cyberspace? Say for example, Earsmon, Nosesmon, Scr-Nah, I'm not going to stoop to that.
Back in the real-Real World, things are their usual chaotic self. Taichi's mother seems oddly chill (guess that's where he gets it from) about her Son going walk-about for three days, and with reports of rioting and the like going on...
Fortunately for the Partners, Eyesmon isn't as bigger a prick compared to those Kuwagamon and allows them time to evolve to Perfect. You know, it's almost tragic in a way seeing Alturkabuterimon and Lillymon immediately right after Metalgreymon's sequence.
Showing that they mean business the three throw the animation budget at Eyesmon, who responds in kind by essentially trolling them. This goes on until someone remembers Group B exists. How did they get there? Who cares, it's Group B!
I am honestly starting to get the impression the writers would have been happier just having Taichi, Mimi and Koushiro as the main characters.
If there's a possible downside to this episode, is that whilst Eyesmon's data-warpshitting abilities make for an entertaining enough spectacle, the solution for overcoming it boils down to a quite mundane 'throw more power at the problem' as it just stands there (could it not simply have separated back into its smaller forms?), instead of something perhaps a bit more creative.
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It feels like such a long time now, but ever since the assault on the fortress this Reboot for me has been steadily stagnating, and at long last we appear to finally be getting back to the events from episode three.
Though with Devimon and the Holy Digimon put on hold for the time being to focus on what I presume to be more action orientated eps. Unless this all turns out to be a big setup for a string of Ultimate debuts...
Orochimon is quite a random choice for Eyesmon's next stage. Hopefully no one this time has the bright idea to try and give it Sake.
