āThe Trickening!ā was the right mix of sweet and funny and supernatural for me. Having the cast of Hellboy and Spike from Buffy was a nice touch. They used to make original Ducktales comics for Disney Adventures and this definitely has the same kinda cozy feel as one of those, just with a more modern sensibility. The special Halloween opening was okay but thereās really no beating the Christmas one.
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āThe Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!ā was one of the worst episodes of the show, so far. Man. Whose idea was it to have the entire last half of this episode take place poolside?
āLetās Get Dangerous!ā, on the other hand, was a true delight from start to finish. I really love the voice actors for Drake Mallard, Fenton, and Gosling, and the slapstick is fun without getting annoying. Them playing up the bond between Drake and Gosling was a good choice.
I hadnāt really been feeling the show since the hiatus and letās get dangerous was a welcome balm
looks like the show is basically done which seems like a pretty decent little run assuming they end with a nice ducks vs F.O.W.L. finale
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yeah, I donāt mind them wrapping here ā absolutely adored catching up with the first 2 seasons after the fact, real treat, and I donāt want to see them run out of energy. this year has been a little bit contrived (yes for a kidsā show) so just as well
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i honestly canāt think of a ton of real lingering plotlines either, this show is very gravity falls inspired but it certainly is not that multilayered kind of mystery. would be neat to put together all those disparate fake lupin iii elements running in the background into a real episode tho lol
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I do love these villains and characters a lot, wouldāve liked to see them do some larger arcs. Particularly Magicka de Spell. But yeah, does feel like theyāve mined most of the gold out of this nugg.
Would love to see the team take on any of the spinoffs theyāve set up, but if this is due to the show not having high enough ratings on Disney XD, thereās no fixing that. Anything they air on that network is going to fail to bring in the ratings theyāre after.
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Guess weāre in the final stretch now until the show ends next month.
Beaks in the Shell! was pretty fun if just sort of a generic kids action thing. I mean this kind of plot basically fits into any show so the only sort of Ducktales-ish things about it are the characterizations. Fenton and Gandra as a relationship areā¦fine even with it developing offscreen although I feel like they will be better served on a rewatch without Disney scheduling considering we havenāt seen them even interact in like two years?
Also now there is a Darkwing Duck reboot in the works at Disney+ from Seth Rogen for some reason? Seems doubtful that it would follow up from this show even though it kinda had a backdoor pilot but who knows? Plus thereās that weird Andy Samberg and John Mulaney Rescue Rangers
The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker! really had the good balance I like of actually fun action adventure and emotion and it was interesting to see Kit in sort of the kid friendly version of Venture Bros style burnout for a bit. Interesting that this is also a Happy Endings reunion of sort with Kit and Mollyās actors considering Wandavision also had a Happy Endings style intro the other week. Someone at Disney still likes that show. The Wuzzles continue to be terrifying.
The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck! was fantastic. Real best of Duck comics type stuff and exactly the kind of idea that works wonderfully to sort of cap off the series.
Also surprised to see April, May, and June in the trailer for the season. Funny to remember that separate Three Cabelleros adventure show that featured them was running at the same time as this show despite feeling like ten years ago.
The Last Adventure!
Much like any cable kids show worth anything the pacing was murdered by the release schedule but still this show is pretty overall fantastic and the finale was great. The April, May, June thing was kinda predictable to Disney nerds but I think it fits in with this version of the characters. Maybe Webbyās existence is a little too Rise of Skywalker-y, but the emotional beats were much more intelligently deployed here than in Star Wars. Also absolutely amazing way to work in Keith David and the Gargoyles theme at the last minute. Bradfordās villany was actually very well thought out as an anti-Scrooge. I feel like this will be much more satisfying on a rewatch. Pretty much all my complaints about the show are more about focus and pacing than anything else. They really stuck the landing as far as Iām concerned.
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I started finally watching this recently. Itās kinda nice to watch a show that you know is pretty much always gonna be good vibes (well, except for the introduction episode of Mark Beaks, which went surprisingly hard on the silicon valley tech bro satireā¦ the guy is one of the most annoying characters Iāve ever seen in a TV show). Iām 10 episodes in now.
I really truly appreciate how unhinged they made Donald Duck in this, and what a sadsack he is. They really committed to giving him the fully incomprehensible quack voice! Any time heās on screen the show is like 10 times funnier. Like, this show has a lot of kid humor that I know would have worked on me when I was 9 but falls flat for me nowā¦ But the Donald shit lands every time.
I just watched McMystery at McDuck McManor! and the way they casually drop that Duckworth the butler is fucking DEAD in this show made me laugh out loud. That alone is more interesting than that character ever was before.
Speaking of which, Webby has got to take it for Most Improved since the 80ās. The ultimate latch key kid whoās reached her full power level. Love it.
Also enjoyed seeing an archivist whoās spent too much time alone in the stacks and gone apeshit. Iāve met a librarian or two who had a small amount of that energy irl.
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yeah i really liked the new ducktales too. i can kind of see how maybe the problem was it appealed to a likely tiny demographic of adult fans of the original version rather than actual children. but part of me wishes theyād go all the way and just let someone do a ducktales-verse series with the tone of like tuca and bertie or something. maybe just retcon tuca and bertie into the ducktales-verse. i donāt know. just make a cartoon sitcom for adults that doesnāt rely on edginess to be appealing, and also doesnāt look like shit. i love bobās burgers and the great north so much but still hate the way both of those shows lookā¦ oh well
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the places this show goes with Donald Duck and specifically his voice are so fucking funny
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does such a good job meshing barks-rosa donald with cartoon donald, especially the frustrated divide between his interiority and his ability to effectively engage with the people around him.
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Wow, they put Doofus in this? Chalk him up as another character they made much more interesting. I enjoyed the āItās a Good Lifeā vibe with his parents.
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i think literally every character that appeared in the old show (and the movie!!) shows up in this fleshed (feathered??) out in the most unexpectedly great way
itās wild this is in every way a reboot of the original series thatās closer to the comics but also rewards you immensely for growing up with/being a fan of the OG (without expecting that knowledgeā¦ but come the hell on some of the Disney Afternoon references are aimed straight at the heart of me)
god i gotta rewatch hgggggg
Life is like a hurricane
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that quack pack episode
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larry king would never understand
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