This post goes out to all those who are fans of the first three seasons of the Digimon anime.
When the Digimon anime came out, I think I was just starting high-school, and it took me a little while to get into the series, about five or six episodes. After that though, I really got into the show. Season one was quite good. Than season two came and Digimon became really, really good. When Digimon season three, or Tamers started, I was a little thrown off that the show was an "alternate reality," but it had a good story line, great characters, and some really cool Digimon. Than Digimon Frontier started and that's when the franchise started to lose me. By the time Digimon Data Squad/Savers started, the show was moved to another network and it was on during another show I watched on a different channel. Plus I had no great desire to watch it. After that, the Digimon franchise disappeared for a few years. Than last year, the franchise came back with Xros Wars. I haven't actually watched Xros Wars. I could probably find the episodes on Youtube, but I've had neither the time or desire to watch them. I have been reading a few things about Xros Wars lately though, mostly out of boredom, and I don't really like some of the stuff I've read. Instead of digivolving, the Digimon combine like Transformers. I guess I'm a little okay with that, but the part I don't like is that they've changed the way some of the Digimon look. Greymon has been turned into some kind of cyborg, and Cyberdramon, one of my favorite Digimon from Tamers, has been turned into some kind of weird alien monster. I liked Cyberdramon much better as a snarling humanoid dragon who had a bloodlust for killing evil Digimon. I guess they've just changed what the Digimon franchise was. It happened to Pokemon, and sadly it'll probably happen to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise eventually. The only thing to do is just remember the Digimon anime the way it used to be. Thanks for reading.