After several months and being stuck in a forest, the final Trailmon is leaving the station. It’s time for our special season-wide Frontier retrospective review! We dive into season 4 podcast stats, announce the winners of the Frontier Fantasy Draft, and discuss the results of the Frontier Listener Favorites Polls as we gab about our favorite kids, ships, allies, enemies, Lucemon forms, Trailmon, arcs, and episodes. We also pick the best dialogue from the season in the Omega Dialogue Draft, update our Digimon season rankings, and introduce The Newlysib Game!
If you have a minute, we’d really appreciate filling out our listener survey so we can improve the podcast for next season. Thanks!
Podigious Frontier Listener Favorites Polls Results
Chapters
- 0:00:00: Intro
- 0:04:34: General Impressions
- 0:21:40: Digi Final Feud
- 0:30:38: Podcast Stats
- 0:37:55: Humans
- 1:05:32: Digimon
- 1:21:22: Narrative Structure
- 1:36:47: Themes
- 1:48:06: The Newlysib Game
- 1:54:07: Fantasy Draft Results
- 2:02:58: Omega RDD
- 2:05:40: Frontier Terminal Judgment
- 2:07:38: Recommendation Articulation
- 2:09:49: Outro
Things Mentioned
- Lone Wolf / I Work Alone trope [tvtropes.org]
- Character scan breakdown [digistarlight.net]
- The Goldbergs [en.wikipedia.org]
- Re:Creators [en.wikipedia.org]
- Yaoi [en.wikipedia.org]
- Yaoi-Con [en.wikipedia.org]
- Brian Beacock [en.wikipedia.org]
- White savior narrative [en.wikipedia.org]
- Game of Thrones [en.wikipedia.org]
- Game of Thrones and the white savior narrative [flavorwire.com]
- The Amercian frontier [en.wikipedia.org]
- Susanoo-no-Mikoto [en.wikipedia.org]
- Agni [en.wikipedia.org] (inspiration for Agunimon)
- Vritra [en.wikipedia.org] (inspiration for BurningGreymon/Vritramon)
- Garmr [en.wikipedia.org] (inspiration for KendoGarurumon/Garummon)
- Shutu [en.wikipedia.org] (inspiration for Zephyrmon/Shutumon)
Imagery Mentioned
Ships Mentioned
Characters Mentioned
(Show image attributions)
Recommendation Articulation
- Ashely: Watch 2 hours of K-Pop videos (Top Recommendation: As If It’s Your Last by BLACKPINK)
- Asher: So You Think You Can Dance
- Andrew: New DuckTales
- Jeff: Astra: Lost in Space
Special Thanks
Our Agunimon artwork is by MaJo, who you can find on Deviantart and Instagram.
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Music used in this episode:
- Intro and outro: “A World For Us All” by Dave Feldstein and Chris Horvath
- Transitions: “With the Will” by Wada Kouji, available on iTunes JPN and Amazon JPN.
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