I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I enjoyed some of Frontier, though the continuous "epic fail" moments in the Royal Knights arc - JUST being beaten - were rather annoying, and with its deliberate reversion to the more childish concepts of the Adventure series, Frontier wasn't as good as Tamers.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think that you should feel embarrassed for liking a show. From most of the posts I've read about Frontier on this and other forums, most people did enjoy it, or at least some part of it, up until the Royal Knights arc came along and weaken the series' interesting spark, at least for me.
PC! said:
I enjoyed season 2 after the Kaiser arc, personally. He was an interesting character, but I think the arc dragged on a little too long.
Now the BlackWarGreymon arc, that was fun. I don't know why I enjoyed it so much, I guess it was just kind of fun never knowing if the Digidestined were going to win or lose each battle.
I agree. Outside of the arc's ending and a couple of episodes focused on Agumon, I didn't really find the Kaiser arc to be that interesting. It just went on a bit too long and it didn't really have much development for the characters until near the end. I liked the BlackWarGreymon arc too. I liked seeing how he searched for an answer for his existence and why he had feelings. I thought that was a nice bit of depth to the series. And unlike with how the Royal Knights arc worked in Frontier, it didn't seem so annoying to see the kids losing each battle. It probably helped that we couldn't really tell who would win in some of the battles and it didn't drag on for too long either.
PC! said:
Not a huge fan of the Dark Spore arc. I don't think the series fell apart, though; it was when everything came to a head. And Myotismon's return was definitely a huge plot twist that came out of nowhere, but he's my favorite villain, so I'm not complaining.
I kind of liked some of the episodes in the Dark Spore arc. Though, I haven't seen those episodes in ages, despite how they're on crunchyroll right now. I do remember not really caring for the World Tour arc, even though the original kids were helping out there. I don't know why though. Maybe it didn't just seem as interesting as it was to me then on paper. I personally loved the Myotismon return plot twist. Sure, it totally came out of nowhere, but I thought that he was the best villain in 01, so I was happy with a surprise appearance.
PC! said:
I think a lot of complaints the viewers have over 02 is the epilogue.
That's certainly true. Whenever I've read discussions for 02, the epilogue is usually the one aspect of the series that had the most complaints. I can understand that since some of the pairings and jobs were weird. I was surprised that Yamatto and Sora ended up getting married since there weren't too many hints about them having feelings for each other, as apposed to Taichi and Sora all throughout Adventure 01 and the second Digimon movie. I was also surprised that Hikari and Takeru didn't end up together since I thought that it was hinted at a bit in both series.
As for Ken and Miyako, I wasn't really that bothered with it when I first saw the epilogue. It was a surprise, but not something that felt completely wrong to me either. I don't believe I thought of the crush Miyako had on Ken when she first saw his picture. It was really how she treated him after the Kaiser arc. Besides Daisuke, Miyako was one the only kids in the group that was open to Ken joining with them. Considering the epilogue takes place twenty-five years ahead in the future, that amount of time also implies that a lot of feelings could have happened or changed for the kids.
(Now, that's the adult level)
