THE FANATIC'S GUIDE TO

"Juggernaut"

English Version Written by Adele Lim

Guest Starring: DarkLizardmon

• In the episode recap for "Divided They Stand," Davis the Narrator says "Impmon freaked when he imagined what it would be like to be with humans!" - but that scene was not imaginary, it was an actual flashback to his past.

• As Takato slashes the MetalGarurumon card, and Guilmon powers up, DarkLizardmon is just... standing there. When Guilmon blasts her, she doesn't make any kind of move to defend herself, she just stands there and lets herself get blasted. What, are they having a turn-based battle?

• Take a good look at the guy in the mask and goggles behind Yamaki (see screenshot). On his chest, you'll see the same pin that Yamaki always wears on his lapel (though he wears his at an angle). Is this the Hypnos logo?

• When Takato talks with Miss Asaji outside school, he pronounces her name "Esaji," as he did in "A Question of Trust," not once, not twice, but three times. Brian Beacock is really focusing on pronouncing it this way, too - you can tell by the way he stresses the "e" sound. Then Mori comes along and pronounces it just fine. What's going on with this, seriously?

• We don't get a wide-angle look at Takato's class in this episode, but the seat next to him is now occupied by a girl in a blue shirt. In an attempt to explain the ever-changing layout, Aaron Thall suggests that perhaps the kids pick and choose their seats, which I'd consider a fine explanation, if Takato, Kazu, Jeri and Jeri's brunette friend weren't always in the same seats (especially given that Takato is almost always one of the last kids into the room, which wouldn't leave him with a lot of choice, seat-wise).

• The silhouetted Digimon who appear on the computer Terriermon is playing on are:

Apemon
Crabmon
Dolphmon
WaruMonzaemon

• Suzie is now referring to her doll/dress-up game as "Princess Pretty Pants," as she and others will continue to do from now on.

• When Yamaki talks with the chiefs of staff (above), the character in the top left hand corner of the screen speaks with the voice of the Chief Cabinet Secretary, has his personality, and is referred to as "the chief" - undoubtedly, in the dub, he is written as being the secretary. However, the character depicted in the animation is not the secretary - this character has grey hair (the screenshot makes it look darker than it is), and is wearing clear glasses, while the secretary has black hair and wears dark glasses (see the screenshot on the right).
  The character in the bottom right hand corner resembles the secretary on a superficial level, but his hair and glasses, while the right colour, are a different style to the secretary's, and his head is also somewhat more square - all these things become more evident when you see this man directly from the front, when he turns his head to look straight into the screen at one point during the meeting (which I have not been able to find a screenshot of). Also, he is eating during the meeting, and doesn't say much, which isn't like the secretary, given his demeanour in his other appearances. Naturally, he does not have the secretary's voice, instead being vocalised by Robert Martin Klein.
  It's possible that neither of these characters is supposed the secretary, but this seems odd, given that the secretary is the one Yamaki always reports to in all other instances. It's possible the animators may have drawn the grey-haired man in place of the secretary - note that he is communicating from the back seat of a car, which the secretary will later be seen to do, in "The Boar Wars."

• When the official with the golf club (bottom left), delivers his lines about his cat during the female official's (top right) explanation of Digimon, his screen never lights up, as it should when he is speaking. Obviously enough, it's because he wasn't speaking in the original version.

• When the officials in the bottom right and bottom left screens say, "So they're like a pack of freak circus animals, what's the big deal?" and, "I agree - I mean, who doesn't love the circus?" respectively, their screens do not light up, for the same reason as above. And I'm not especially fond of the circus...

• When "the chief" resumes speaking after Yamaki tells him the Juggernaut's name, a second or so into his line, his screen briefly fades to grey before returning to colour again, but his dialogue is uninterrupted. Presumably, in the original, this brief fade to grey was when Yamaki spoke and gave the Juggernaut's name.

• When the official in the bottom left questions, "How do I know you won't blow up my swimming pool?" - surprise, his screen doesn't light up.

• The footage of the kids running past Takato and Guilmon, just before the kid goes down the slide in the background, is re-used a few seconds later.

• Takato remarks "I wish I could change too!" and Guilmon says, "Takato, Digivolve!" I love foreshadowing, don't you?

• I know that it's done for dramatic, eerie effect, and all that jazz, but in all seriousness, how *does* the Man in Black disappear like that?

• This isn't a mistake, or even an observation, but more an idle wondering - what's in the envelope Henry's holding when he returns home?