Watched the Only Child oneā¦ and yeah. I just donāt love the nephews.
Which is weird, because I love the three voice actors that do them, itās just, weāre almost done with season 1 and I still canāt remember who has what personality quirk. Is Louie supposed to be the lazy one or something? Are both Huey and Dewey equally as brash and selfish? I guess!
I did enjoy Louieās talk show though. That was p. cute.
Man, looking at the titles of the remaining three episodes, the chances of another Lena-focused ep are getting less and less likely.
louie is fundamentally lazy, greedy and hedonistic, a fast talking scammer and pleasure seeker
huey is a nerdy, uptight, rules following, logical, go-getter
i think the reason that they all blur together is that deweyās personality traits as defined so far (being an outgoing weirdo, thrill seeking, wanting to be a scrooge style adventurer) have too much overlap with the other three kids
Dewey is concerned with standing out. Itās a middle child thing. Heās not the responsible old one; heās not the coddled young one. Heās the one that completes the set. So, heās in constant search for self-definition.
Man that Gizmoduck ep was a mess. It was like the start of six plot threads jammed together with no middle to any of em.
Really love Fenton, though, and Iām glad theyāre fleshing out his family a bit more. Had no idea that was Lin-Manuel Miranda voicing him, either. Awesome.
Next weekās looks to be Lena/Webby-centric ep so I am fugginā A M P E D
And I guess next season weāre scraping the weird European comic scene with Cousin Feathry and John D Rockerduck. And then, uh, Bubba. And the Three Caballeros again?
Hound of the Whiskervilles from the comics/Curse of Castle McDuck from the original show is one of my favorite stories so todayās Duck Lore heavy episode was exactly right up my alley.
Glad that everyoneās on the same page about Della now and it looks like next week is gonna take another big step in that plot so thatās nice. Was kind of genuinely emotionally affecting to see Louie so sad and in shock even if it was just for a moment.
Appreciate the boys laughing at the name āDirty Dingusā lol. Launchpadās Donald impression actually working when he threw a tantrum was kind of amazing hahaha.
Scrooge ending up in the classic miserable alone in his chair scene heās usually introduced in.
Thatās an interesting fate for Della, reminds me of Disneyās old concept for a Horace Horsecollar show which explained why he was āgoneā for so long. Seems like they used a version of the plot from a Dutch comic where she was also lost in space.
I feel like I wish the clues were more clueful as opposed to it eventually coming down to just asking Scrooge but I guess I sort of had the same complaint about Gravity Falls and this is by a lot of the same people. I really do like the heaviness of the emotions weāve gotten the last few episodes but I feel like the pathos and drama could have been more evenly spread out among the more jokey episodes?
I know they are building these emotional stakes for the big showdown with Magica next week, but it still felt kind of weird to just have possessed Lena walking around for some indeterminate amount of time. I guess thatās my biggest complaint about the show. Just weird pacing in general. Although part of that, of course, is the episode order.
Funny to just have Duckworth walk out with everyone else for some weird reason, lol.
I understand all the writers were required to own a copy of Rosaās Life and Times, and itās never showed more than here. Emotionally, this is so close to the penultimate chapter of that.
The pacing is really screwy. Even the right episode sequence doesnāt mask some of the strange tonal balance and judgment along the way. But, when it hits it really hits. Maybe season 1 was a learning experience? Itās been renewed for a while to come, so I guess time will tell.
pissed off webby is actually a pretty terrifying force to be reckoned with. she really held her own.
everything between lena and magica was creepy and genuinely terrifying and affecting stuff. really well done.
don cheadle as donald was amazing
that one second of gladstone was pretty funny
speaking of which considering that Della is played by Paget Brewster I hope she and Paul F. Tompkins get some screen time together cause they have done great stuff together in the past.
i know itās a kids show but just letting magic go felt kinda wild even if she was technically powerless
Almost embarrassed at how excited was to hear the NES moon theme lol
Crazy thing is, Magica at the very end, desperately scampering away from a failed smokescreen ā thatās actually closer to her book depiction than anything Iāve seen in an adaptation.
Something about this feels over-egged, in that same way much of the season has been a little off, but I like what they were trying to do here. Like, theyāve got all the right elements in this show. Theyāre just balanced really strangely.
I think my favorite episode was the Terry-Fermie one. It had about the best balance of action, comedy, character drama, story development, and reverence, and came at about the right point in the season.
They glossed over it a bit, butā¦ kinda? Kinda she never really existed? Kinda sheās living on in Webbyās shadow now? Iām not totally sure what they did with her character. It seems like they had, like, three conflicting ideas about her going on at once and then didnāt choose to strip it down and provide one clear narrative.
Itās a mess, but like many weird things in this season itās reasonable to think it could be cleared up with a careful explanation later on.
I did really like the twist with her, that sheās always only ever been a shadow of Magica. I hope they donāt lose that aspect of her if they bring her back.
New season started today! That was a really fun kind of character building ep for Louie if not sort of extremely busy. I guess thatās the trade-off for actually using the whole cast. Really sharp way of more specifically defining all the boys honestly. Plus Iām always a sucker for Louie With Pathosā¢.
wow today was probably the most straightforward adventure adventure theyāve done maybe? like in the vain of something out of boyās life? extremely stripped down with just 2 kids and Fethry. not even an antagonist or treasure to find. just ducks against the elements. really almost felt like a comedy episode of jonny quest or something. kind of expected fethry to have more of a beatnik voice but i guess tom kenny doing like a 45 degrees off ice king also fits the character. launchpadās offscreen adventures are a good runner lol
Fethry? Lawd. Iāve never gotten a grip on his character. Doesnāt help that heās uniquely a European phenomenon, and the European Duck writers areā¦ uh, often notā¦ good?
Curious to see how heās handled here.
You touch on something Iām not sure if Iāve groused about: that since the pilot the show basically has done no straight-laced, serious adventure stories. The closest we get in tone is the Terrie-Fermie business, which remains my favorite episode to date.
Okay, I still donāt quite get the āwhy?ā behind Fethry, but heās far less Jerry Lewis here than in the comics. Heāsā¦ just there, as opposed to actively making me want to do something else.
The environment here is really neat.
Launchpad with his random untold adventure paramours.
I love the attention to detail on the sea life. Blobfish. That super-detailed octopus.
This is a really good one. Monster Sea Monkeys and all. It may feel the closest the show has come to DuckTales 1987, so far.
