Eternal's disappoints me too. Eternal's feels way too fast, the music doesn't suit it (all the transformation music even sounds the same in a way) it's a bit choppier than the original one (0:29 probably shows what I mean best and you'd expect an anime from 2020 to look better than one from 1995), and once again, it's just the same as the 90's one, with only I wanted something more original, hell, even Season III of Crystal had some original movements for the Inners' transformations, and as much as it pains me to say it, the awful CGI transformations from seasons 1-2 had more energy!! Unfortunately seeing how some of the Inners' attacks were (and they even drew Mercury's brooch wrong as a circle instead of a heart for hers, I've seen a fan made Sailor Moon series where sometimes when editing, the creator forgot to add new brooches/the Sailors' suit costume details were inconsistent, but
they were not a professional animator), I'm afraid they may do the same thing, recycling the 90's anime again which was already a problem with Season III somewhat, we want some new movements or something, not the same ones from before and if we wanted something like the 90's anime, we wanted it to capture the
soul of that series. Unfortunately my hopes for the Eternal movies have gone down somewhat. Still will give it a chance, but, I dunno...it's just like rushed.
And if the movies of Eternal flop, then well, call this a strange comparison, but Crystal/Eternal will have gone the same route as the WWF Wrestlemania NES game series: Both started out with abominations (Seasons 1 and 2 of Crystal in this case), then improved to fairly decent (Season 3 to me), and we don't want it to drop back to terrible and then just get lazy and just mailing it in; and at this point, compared to the original anime (not counting SuperS), Crystal/Eternal kinda hasn't really progressed much, more regressed, especially in aesthetics here (I'm still amazed it has a 7.9 on IMDB, two awful seasons followed by a fairly decent one deserves only a 4/10).
If I think the Eternal movies suck, I may as well go and watch Healin' Good Precure on Crunchyroll (yes, it's being streamed there) or rewatch the R movie, instead, it's infuriating compared to how Toei seemed to put so much effort in Precure (the recent season actually looks like it's a lot of fun), and the original anime and its films and the Ami-chan OVA, despite whatever flaws they had, felt like projects with a lot of heart, effort and passion put into it, it used the animation medium to tell the grand story, characters, action and world/lore, push forth the possibilities/quality of anime in the United States/Japan and expand the magical girl genre (and the manga did the same thing for manga/the genre too), but with Crystal, it doesn't feel like it was made with love and compassion, but just to make money and cash on people's nostalgia for the anime/manga, they didn't care about living up to the legacy of the anime/manga or tell a new story/version based on it or introduce it to a new generation of anime/manga/magical girl fans who didn't get to read the manga when it first got printed in Nakayoshi or see the anime on the small screen, they're aiming specifically for the annoying, nitpicky manga purists and they just wanted to make money off of it. If it was some generic magical girl anime then, it wouldn't be so disappointing, but it isn't a stand alone anime, it's a re-adaptation/reboot of a huge icon in the anime/manga industry and living up to the legacy of a giant from Toei Animation's prime, if it's just going to be a shot by shot version of the manga mostly with shot by shot versions of the 90's anime's attacks/transformations, then what's the point?
Sorry for that rant, but I've mostly been disappointed with how this new Sailor Moon reboot turned out and I hoped it would be better, but I guess my expectations (along with others) were too high. Sigh.
It's not even just the animation... It's like... Everything from the timing to the visual effects are off. SuperS' choreography is very snappy, whereas Eternal's copies it but has these weird pauses like the video is somehow lagging?
And the music is so low energy even for Yasuharu Takanashi... At this point can people even tell between the first three seasons' transformation themes and this new one? They're all so same-y.
And I thought I was the only one who thought all the music sounded the same for Crystal...and unlike how the original anime's transformation music and Precure's transformation music were elegant, uplifting and kept you humming them even 5 years later, these ones never leave the ground and are just going through the motions.