302. Digimon Don't Always Want to Be the Champions

We’re back to dive further into Tamers! In these episodes, we start to learn about Calumon and Rika, meet Impmon, round out champion digivolutions, and spend an episode trying to de-digivolve. We discuss the Calumon-Impmon dichotomy, digivolution mechanics, learning culture, and several gender issues.

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Sections

• 0:00:00: Intro
• 0:03:29: General
• 0:22:44: Impmon vs. Calumon
• 0:43:44: Digivolution Mechanics
• 1:01:13: Dreams & Jokes
• 1:07:33: Gender
• 1:25:26: Pew Pew Pew
• 1:37:16: Unanswered Questions
• 1:41:43: RDD
• 1:52:09: Terminal Judgment
• 1:58:55: Outro

Episodes Covered

• Ep. 5: “Dream a Little Dream”
• Ep. 6: “O Partner, Where Art Thou?”
• Ep. 7: “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”
• Ep. 8: “A Question of Trust”
• Ep. 9: “Not As Seen on TV”

Spoilers

• 0:27:21: Tamers ending (50 seconds—until 0:28:10)
• 0:48:09: Tamers digivolution mystery (60 seconds—until 0:49:10)

Things Mentioned

• 0:19:39: Fox Kids commercial (for eps 5-6)
• 0:29:08: Steve Blum
• 0:29:14: Derek Stephen Prince
• 0:32:17: Pokemon: the First Movie
• 0:32:45: Soul Eater
• 0:33:17: Digimon: Original and Dub Differences
• 1:25:37: Another Round
• 2:03:53: Final Fantasy X
• 2:04:09: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
• 2:12:25: “Dream a Dream” (Caption Jack)
• 2:12:31: Dance Dance Revolution
• 2:12:55: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
• 2:13:21: Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue
• 2:16:15: Taiyaki
• 2:16:49: Digipedia’s Fanatic’s Guide to Tamers
• 2:18:24: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
• 2:20:29: Tri PV with “Here We Go”