In this episode, just about
everybody's pretty sick of Nene being the main character and will go
to extreme lengths to steal the spotlight.
The proof is in this simple question:
what's the most memorable thing about this episode? There are two
possible answers (three if you count the episode's sly but persistent
fanservice-y Nene animation). They're all wrong. Both the Dance of
the True Heart and the amazing interplay between the three generals
in the final act should be heralded as series-defining moments. Why
the hell did they get squeezed into the same episode?
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However, after picking our jaws up off
the floor from that display, they immediately drop again, but for an
entirely different reason. In an instant, everything happens at once
and the stories of both Nene and Christopher come into focus. Mikey
realizes that AxeKnightmon is using Nene and tries to free her, but
she is too focused on her brother's well-being and AxeKnightmon's
promise of getting them home safely.
It makes you see that Nene is both
incredibly strong and helplessly broken. The fact that she's willing
to go through everything she does without complaining shows some
impressive dedication. Even after the Lucemon incident, she obeys
AxeKnightmon's orders, turning a blind eye to his evil and focusing
only on saving Ewan and going home. One mention that she's doing it
for her brother and you can already throw her up into Tai, Matt and
Koji territory for dedication towards siblings. Where that backfires
is when Mikey and Christopher give her an out. Mikey wants to help
her rescue Ewan without empowering AxeKnightmon and with Christopher
it looks like they're strong enough to do so. She refuses to pursue a
best case scenario, so you wonder if she may end up in Jeri territory
too.
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Now if only Angie and Jeremy weren't
stuck in those hideous and distracting costumes through all of that.
My Grade: A-
Loose Data:
- Before Angie was just really annoyed at Mikey's insistence on helping others. Now she's downright furious that he wants to help Nene so badly. It doesn't help that when confronted with this outrageous dance, all she gets from Mikey is a thumb's up and a vote of confidence.
- Given how Fusion is pretty much the anti-Tamers in how quickly the censorship button is being pressed, surely everyone was a little worried about how much of the Dance of the True Heart would be left in. Thankfully it seems to have survived intact and only marred by some unfortunate rhymes in the chant. All this while Jeremy was dressed as a bee dancing with Angie dressed as a flower.
- The Fusion Fighters roster was divided among those into the dance and those repulsed by it (including Cutemon, unless he was just hanging with Dorulumon to act cool). Oddly, while most of them were dancing along, one solitary PawnChessmon was in the repulsed column. That one now has more personality than half the team combined.
- Dorulumon says he can go through his travel log to get to Dust Zone, which feels like a way to explain their ability to travel there according to zone transfer rules. Thing is, nobody else bothers to follow these rules and I doubt anyone remembers what they actually are.
- Remember how Mikey named his team as a response to Christopher's cold attitude towards his Digimon? Good thing it doesn't involve the term “heart” because he'd look mighty silly now! This would be one of those times when a dub change accidentally made more sense, but Fusion Fighters is still a stupid name and I just can't reward that sort of thing. Points still go to the dub for Deckerdramon looking for “heart” instead of “love.” Big difference.
Don't see the big deal with "Fusion Fighters." Of all the stupid stuff in Digimon, THAT gets your goat?
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