Plot: The Chosen Children are determined to free the Digimon who are under the Digimon Kaiser’s control. Gabumon, caught up in the mess, sends out an SOS. Yamato and the others arrive to help him as well as some captive Digimon, but a Redvegiemon and his Vegiemon cohorts won’t let them leave in one piece. With a control spire over their heads, Daisuke butting heads with everyone, and V-mon getting into trouble of his own, they’ll need to find some way to make Gabumon evolve to help get them out of this mess.
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Entire Series Edit: The clips for the recap are different from the original, but the recap itself is the same.
Title Card: 
Title Change: King of Darkness, Digimon Kaiser is changed to Iron Vegiemon.
Taichi says they should get back to school because Koushiro and Miyako are probably worried. Tai says he can smell the cafeteria food from there, to which Davis responds that it’s the peanut butter and jelly bean sandwich he’s had in his pocket all week.
Cody: “Yuck!” My sentiments exactly, Cody.
The Dark Towers are called Control Spires in the dub.
They cut out Gabumon getting hit by Redvegiemon.
Also, everyone giggle at the fact that the Digimon Index screen shows Redvegiemon as Red Vagimon.
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Dubbed: 
And shouldn’t veggie be spelled with two g’s?
I kinda like Redvegiemon’s dub voice over the original’s. I dunno, there’s just something about him sounding like his VA is doing a Jack Nicholson impression that gets to me.
Originally, Redvegiemon says the punishment for trying to escape is 100 hits. In the dub, the punishment is smelling his rotten roots. This is to cover up the fact that Gabumon is getting pretty badly beaten in this scene. Likewise, all of the shots of him getting beaten are removed and the dialogue is merely Gabumon saying the smell is gross.
They keep in the final strike, which sends Gabumon flying, but they edit in Redvegiemon going down to the ground in the dub where he didn’t in the original.
They obviously completely change the song that Yamato sings, but they kinda sound similar. I really like both of them. However, I remember the dub song gets repetitive throughout the series since it seems to be the only song his band sings…
Needless to say, the rock puns in the next scene aren’t in the original.
Jun says she gets all the cute boys to sign her shirt, but it’s a perfectly white shirt. You can’t even see where Matt just signed it.
Jun originally doesn’t say that she hasn’t washed the shirt in two years nor does Takeru say that there isn’t much room on the, again, perfectly white shirt.
The e-mail that Takeru receives from Miyako is translated for the dub.
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Dubbed: 
Tailmon originally said that the TVs that are strewn about the Digital World can be used to send an SOS to the real world. Agumon did the same thing in a previous episode. In the dub, Gatomon asks why the things on top of the TV are called rabbit ears. She believes they should be called cat ears since rabbits don’t sleep on top of TVs, cats do.
Another instance of very clear ‘poop’ being changed to ‘digisludge’.
Daisuke berates Takeru for not having any ‘telepathy’. Iori corrects him and says he means to say ‘delicacy’ and then Hikari, Takeru and Iori laugh at him. In the dub, Davis again gets TK’s name wrong calling him TA. Cody laughs that Davis forgot how to spell TK and the others join in.
In the dub, Patamon acts like a prisoner, which he shouldn’t considering he’s wearing a fake Dark Ring.
I don’t get it. Why is it perfectly okay to show V-Mon pinning down a Vegiemon and punching him repeatedly in the face, but the earlier scene with Gabumon had to be censored and changed to him smelling gross roots? It’s basically saying ‘Good guy beating up bad guy (who is really just a good Digimon under the control of an evil being) is perfectly fine. Bad guy beating up good guy, showing the wrongness of the situation and creating deep sympathy for Gabumon, is bad.’
(Late-Stage Edit: After doing more comparisons on the other Digimon series…..yeah, it really does seem to be a double standard with Saban that the good guys are commonly censored when being hit, but the bad guys rarely if ever get the same treatment. Is it because little kids might get upset when their heroes are hit while they’ll be happy when their enemies are hit? I really struggle to understand this.)
Daisuke just says that his sister always talks bad about him behind his back. She doesn’t like him, but he doesn’t like her either so they’re even. In the dub, Davis lists off all this embarrassing stuff about him that he thinks Jun told TK, like chewing his toenails, sucking him thumb and wetting the bed.
Yamato gets mad because Daisuke is badmouthing Jun. Matt gets mad because Davis has a big mouth….but really all he said was that Jun badmouths him and then went on to explain completely embarrassing stuff about himself, so I don’t see why Matt would get that mad about it. He also only spoke with her for a minute, so for all he knows she does indeed constantly talk shit about him behind his back. At least in the original, there was the added comment of saying Daisuke dislikes his sister to help justify Yamato’s anger a little.
Takeru doesn’t add the fact that Daisuke’s younger than Yamato thus he ‘doesn’t know any better’. And TK, really, you’re using that excuse? He’s the same age as you are, and you know better than to act like that about your siblings.
V-mon just says ‘Daisuke’ before the scene cuts back to the others. In the dub, Veemon starts a knock knock joke.
The Gazimon say they’ll go find a rope as thanks for saving them. In the dub, they say they’ll hang onto each other and make a rope out of themselves so they can ‘hop down the bunny slope’. You’d think Gabumon would refuse and just say to help him get a rope, but, nope, he says it’s a great idea….
It’s very brief, but they cut a tiny sliver of the first strike Redvegiemon gives to V-mon and put a white flash in there to help censor the punch.
Attack Name Change: Red Hot Machine Gun is changed to Chili Pepper Pummel.
Attack Name Change: Hazard Breath is changed to Stink Jet.
For some reason they remove the yellow strike marks near V-mon when he gets slammed down by Redvegiemon.
They do the same ‘cut out of a bit of the strike, add a flash’ censorship when Veemon’s getting beaten.
They cut out the strike to his stomach.
They cut out two more hits to V-mon’s face.
They cut out V-mon trying to crawl to Daisuke and then getting hit in the back….Wow, that’s pretty sad.
They technically remove the shots of V-mon getting beaten, which is just reshowing the previous beatings being treated as new ones. They keep the overlaid shots of them, but they only show stillshots of each beating instead of showing the animated version like the original does.
In addition, the four-way splitscreen showing V-mon’s pained expressions is supposed to come on one piece at a time. In the dub, they all show up at once.
They remove another strike to V-mon’s stomach.
They remove recycled animation of V-mon getting beaten some more and instead just steal a stillshot of it to show him standing up against Redvegiemon.
Daisuke offers to take V-mon’s place in the torture. Davis just tries to convince Veemon that he’s happy now to……I….uh…don’t know. He got into this to cheer Davis up, but he can’t get out because Davis is saying he’s happy. He could just give up, but he’ll still keep getting beat anyway.
Again, the strike to V-mon’s head is slightly cut and a flash is thrown in to censor it a bit.
They remove more of the beating, which, again, is really just slightly altered recycled animation.
Another stomach strike censored with a little cut and flash.
Redvegiemon originally says he’ll send V-mon to hell. He obviously doesn’t do so in the dub. As a bonus, Yamato and Gabumon don’t originally tell V-mon to duck when he’s about to get hit again, he just does it on his own.
Entire Series Edit: Like the original series, there’s a vocal song accompanying every evolution in the original. It’s the same every time, though changed between types of evolution. In the dub, they also use the same song for Digivolutions, but it’s just the Digimon theme song.
Redvegiemon just screams when he’s on fire. In the dub, he says “I’ve heard of grilled vegetables before but this is ridiculous.”
Revegiemon asks what he’s been doing the whole time. In the dub, he asks, when he sees the Dark Ring, if he got married when he was asleep.
Taichi says they have to destroy the spire at the Gotsumon’s home as well. They just say they’re taking them home in the dub.
Daisuke apologizes for his behavior and the fact that V-mon got into trouble because of it. V-mon then says Daisuke’s matured quite a bit now. In the dub, Yolei says she’s happy the Gotsumon are gone because they’d scratch her CDs just by touching them. Cody then says that they’d clog the sink every time they’d brush their teeth. Davis says that they were still pretty cool.
Because the final shot of the original fades to white, they have to use a stillshot of Ken’s face taken from earlier in the scene and place it at the very end of the scene to add ‘To be continued’ and the final narration in the dub.
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This episode was….meh. Nothing really interesting happened, though this is probably the most edited episode of Digimon I’ve ever dealt with so far. Usually all I have to note in these series are dialogue edits, but they did a lot of censoring here. It wasn’t 4Kids level, but still.
Other than that, Davis was a brat, the Vegiemon and Redvegiemon weren’t threatening very much outside of the extended beatings. The story was just more ‘rescue Digimon from controlled evil Digimon’ and there was a lot more recycled footage than usual. The main revelation for this episode was the spawning of the control spires and learning that their new mission is to destroy them all, though Davis has a really good point in saying that the Digimon Emperor could just build more. The old Digimon can’t protect all those areas.
Next episode looks like basically the same episode only replace Yamato’s presence with Jo, Daisuke’s little character development with Iori’s and put snow on it.
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