“The Trickening!” 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 there’s really no beating the Christmas one.
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“The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades!” 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?
“Let’s Get Dangerous!”, 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 hadn’t really been feeling the show since the hiatus and let’s 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 don’t mind them wrapping here – absolutely adored catching up with the first 2 seasons after the fact, real treat, and I don’t want to see them run out of energy. this year has been a little bit contrived (yes for a kids’ show) so just as well
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i honestly can’t 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, would’ve liked to see them do some larger arcs. Particularly Magicka de Spell. But yeah, does feel like they’ve mined most of the gold out of this nugg.
Would love to see the team take on any of the spinoffs they’ve set up, but if this is due to the show not having high enough ratings on Disney XD, there’s no fixing that. Anything they air on that network is going to fail to bring in the ratings they’re after.
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Guess we’re 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 are…fine even with it developing offscreen although I feel like they will be better served on a rewatch without Disney scheduling considering we haven’t 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 there’s 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 Molly’s 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 Webby’s 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. Bradford’s 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 I’m concerned.
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