In this episode, Takuya and Koji are
incapacitated and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Early in Tamers, there was an episode
all about IceDevimon creeping on Rika. He's notable for having all
the personality of a child molester and gave us all the icks long
before D-Reaper entered the picture. Frontier somehow saw this as a
challenge- to take a much less interesting scenario involving the
same Digimon, but nevertheless strive to make him even creepier.
Mission accomplished. Welcome to Digimon, where the only answer to a
monster with an unhealthy fixation on Rika is Christopher Walken.
It's not even a good Christopher Walken
impersonation! It's certainly no better than Digitamamon's Peter
Lorre or Cherrymon's Marlon Brando. Digimon voices that impersonate
assorted celebrities is a longstanding tradition and one of the
charms of the dub. Rarely is it worth talking about. But this is so
perfect that it's a little frightening. It's truly a match made in
hell. IceDevimon is a seriously disturbed monster; Christopher Walken
is Christopher Walken.
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Really, IceDevimon is nothing more than
halftime entertainment in this boss battle, which is totally
inconsistent with the danger he poses. This is a pure sociopath who
revels in the pain of others, kills for fun and mugs his way through
the whole encounter. His joy for cruelty should have us absolutely
despising him, to the point where we'd actually be angry that he
enjoys such an advantage over the digidestined early in the battle.
But give him a Walken voice and the whole thing's a hoot. We don't
really dwell on just how nasty this guy is because we just naturally
expect that somebody with a Walken voice is going to have something
up his ass. Perhaps a gold watch.
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By the time they all get freed up and
slide evolve into their beast spirits, you realize that even as
they'll never be remembered as the greatest fighters of all time,
we're still going to miss seeing these guys as part of the regular
roster. Korikakumon has this weird size/agility combo,
MetalKabuterimon packs a real wallop (on anything that stays still
for long enough) and JagerLoweemon looks just cool enough that you
wish you could see more of him to get a better sense of his
abilities. Zephyrmon's still crap, but she does contribute to a
variety of effective combo attacks. It's ultimately this impressive
use of teamwork that defeats IceDevimon, and, while not more
powerful, it's certainly more entertaining than anything we ever see
out of EmperorGreymon or MagnaGarurumon. Call me crazy, but in this
late stage I kinda would rather see these guys serving as my weapon of choice.
My Grade: B+
Loose Data:
- While Koji's still fairly stoic as MagnaGarurumon, Takuya just acts like cock of the walk as EmperorGreymon. “I'll do my best, and my best is awesome!” How much would you pay to hear Nathan Fillion say that line?
- How resigned are the B-Team to their fate? They actually blush when Takuya says they're not totally worthless.
- JP's line of not thinking he'd ever be happy to “see something I can't eat” just hits the wrong note on so many levels.
- Wait... did Korikakumon just teleport? I just he just teleported... can he do that?
- IceDevimon appeared to trap Koji and Takuya in that little fortress of solitude, yet Koji was able to shove Takuya out of it. If that was all it took, why were they worried?
What about Etemon's Elvis impersonation?
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