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This is something I've been muddling over since this morning, and quite literally, this very second came up with an alternate means to retain the 02 cast while keeping them all within the continuity of Adventure.
As we all know, the original Adventure canon (sans 02) has been expanded with each new film debuting in the franchise. As we learn in Tri and Kizuna, there were two Chosen Children who would have been contemporaries of the original Adventure brigade. Both Maiko and Menoa, along with Ken (In-Universe he's technically an OG, in spite of being introduced in 02.) are Chosen Children that existed devoid of a team. We see in both Ken and Menoa the pitfalls of DigiDestined left to their own devices, and to a lesser degree, the same is true of Maiko and Meicoomoon. That taken into consideration, they are introduced much later into the franchise with very little in the way of character development, though their storylines are quite interesting and add much-needed depth and lore to the Adventure canon.
It made me wonder if they do consider rebooting 02, or rather, retconning it, perhaps they might consider using that trio, instead of Davis, Yolei, and Cody. I have misgivings about adding Ryo, but given his past relationship with Ken, perhaps he could figure into the reboot. Anyway, perhaps this is a feature of the dub, but I generally found them uninteresting and caricatures of the children they were meant to replace. Not to get into the matter too exhaustively, but were they to be included in some way shape, or form, I'd elect for them to be the children of the original cast. I wouldn't be against them having their own series, after a new threat presents itself within the digital world (I'm all for Armor Evolution.), with the same partners, but perhaps with their own set of Virtues. Yolei could possess Justice, Cody would have Prudence, and oddly enough, and Davis would have Chastity (I'm not sure how different this one is from Mimi's Sincerity..., so I am open to suggestions. Sorry for the detour into fan-fic territory!) As for Menoa, Ken, and Maiko, I think the theme of Kizuna works quite well in the context of a series. Menoa becoming corrupted over the loss of Morphomon and conducting experiments to restore her partner, Ken could retain his storyline with the loss of Sam (In spite of being a Ken and Kari shipper, I like the pairing of Menoa and Ken...), and Maiko would be the odd one out, but who somehow gets wrapped between the former two, which results in the corruption of Meicoomon.
I apologize for this coming off more like a fan-fic, but the more I think about the expanded canon of the original 01 cast, and how those events concerning them played out in the movie, the more I think that the way 02 played out, in retrospect, could have been resolved. The story for the cast of Adventure would have been finalized, without constantly revisiting them later on to resolve their stories. I believe the epilogue of 02 and the ending of Kizuna can coexist with an actual new generation of children, with their own unique partner digimon. The epilogue was bizarre in that it gives the impression that the OG partners gave birth to their children's partner digimon by them being replicas of their parent's partners (Perhaps this is how some resolve Kizuna's ending?). And yes, I have my own headcanon for whose child each of the new children from 02 would be.
But yes, a rebooted and retconned expanded universe of OG Adventure could work with the introduction of Ken, Maiko, Menoa, and possbly Ryo.
As we all know, the original Adventure canon (sans 02) has been expanded with each new film debuting in the franchise. As we learn in Tri and Kizuna, there were two Chosen Children who would have been contemporaries of the original Adventure brigade. Both Maiko and Menoa, along with Ken (In-Universe he's technically an OG, in spite of being introduced in 02.) are Chosen Children that existed devoid of a team. We see in both Ken and Menoa the pitfalls of DigiDestined left to their own devices, and to a lesser degree, the same is true of Maiko and Meicoomoon. That taken into consideration, they are introduced much later into the franchise with very little in the way of character development, though their storylines are quite interesting and add much-needed depth and lore to the Adventure canon.
It made me wonder if they do consider rebooting 02, or rather, retconning it, perhaps they might consider using that trio, instead of Davis, Yolei, and Cody. I have misgivings about adding Ryo, but given his past relationship with Ken, perhaps he could figure into the reboot. Anyway, perhaps this is a feature of the dub, but I generally found them uninteresting and caricatures of the children they were meant to replace. Not to get into the matter too exhaustively, but were they to be included in some way shape, or form, I'd elect for them to be the children of the original cast. I wouldn't be against them having their own series, after a new threat presents itself within the digital world (I'm all for Armor Evolution.), with the same partners, but perhaps with their own set of Virtues. Yolei could possess Justice, Cody would have Prudence, and oddly enough, and Davis would have Chastity (I'm not sure how different this one is from Mimi's Sincerity..., so I am open to suggestions. Sorry for the detour into fan-fic territory!) As for Menoa, Ken, and Maiko, I think the theme of Kizuna works quite well in the context of a series. Menoa becoming corrupted over the loss of Morphomon and conducting experiments to restore her partner, Ken could retain his storyline with the loss of Sam (In spite of being a Ken and Kari shipper, I like the pairing of Menoa and Ken...), and Maiko would be the odd one out, but who somehow gets wrapped between the former two, which results in the corruption of Meicoomon.
I apologize for this coming off more like a fan-fic, but the more I think about the expanded canon of the original 01 cast, and how those events concerning them played out in the movie, the more I think that the way 02 played out, in retrospect, could have been resolved. The story for the cast of Adventure would have been finalized, without constantly revisiting them later on to resolve their stories. I believe the epilogue of 02 and the ending of Kizuna can coexist with an actual new generation of children, with their own unique partner digimon. The epilogue was bizarre in that it gives the impression that the OG partners gave birth to their children's partner digimon by them being replicas of their parent's partners (Perhaps this is how some resolve Kizuna's ending?). And yes, I have my own headcanon for whose child each of the new children from 02 would be.
But yes, a rebooted and retconned expanded universe of OG Adventure could work with the introduction of Ken, Maiko, Menoa, and possbly Ryo.
, Sora being available but unable to battle 
