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Tamers does a lot of good things, but it fails to follow through on some core ideas and the middle third or so is kind of a slow. The whole early season aspect of the kids and their digimon having weird disconnects or Takato having to actually raise Guilmon and coming into his own by having to explain things he took for granted to him is great. But it largely disappears once the Devas show up and we spend the next third of the season just kind of puttering around until the D-Reaper shows up and we get to the fun lovecraft stuff.
The simple truth is Adventure aims lower but hits its target a lot better. Literally no other season has managed to juggle seven characters as well as any other season, which increasingly fuck up less than half that number. When considering the basic idea of "kids go on adventure, and work out their emotional kid baggage through monster filled conflicts," Adventure has never been matched, much less topped. Tamers attempts to take a different tact with it, but either due to studio demands or simple inability, never conclusively follows through. It's still great and easily the second best season on narrative terms, but it's disappointing nowadays on rewatches in a way Adventure isn't.
The simple truth is Adventure aims lower but hits its target a lot better. Literally no other season has managed to juggle seven characters as well as any other season, which increasingly fuck up less than half that number. When considering the basic idea of "kids go on adventure, and work out their emotional kid baggage through monster filled conflicts," Adventure has never been matched, much less topped. Tamers attempts to take a different tact with it, but either due to studio demands or simple inability, never conclusively follows through. It's still great and easily the second best season on narrative terms, but it's disappointing nowadays on rewatches in a way Adventure isn't.
