It picks up pretty much immediately after you complained. Which is funny because my friend and I thought the same thing when we watched it. We were like, "surprisingly strong but is this going anywhere?"
A lot of shows are like that though, regardless of how serialized they eventually are. There needs to be a "look, this new show is on and you should watch it; don't worry, it isn't going to confuse you" period before things start happening.
I can assure you it doesn't stop being awesome (by Digimon standards) from hereon out.
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