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DuckTales! Life, hurricane, woo-oo, etc.

SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)
I stopped watching the reboot close to the end of the first season largely due to being unable to find reliable places to view it online. But now that I sold my soul to the House of Mouse for Disney+ I can catch up on the first two seasons, and I can barely notice the creeping sense of dread accompanying the ever-growing media conglomerate owning more and more of popular culture. Hooray!

Anyway, I'm nearly done with Season 2, just the finale two-parter to go, and I'm sure it doesn't need to be said but this show is great. The reboot has worked shockingly well overall, and I love the way they sneak in elements of the old Disney Afternoon series (most unexpected: Gummy Bears). I've heard the first half of season 3 has even more, and when the show returns the fall there'll be a rather massive Darkwing Duck episode? I'll have to wait for Disney+ to get Season 3, probably after said season ends, but nevertheless, I'm looking forward to it.

One thread that seemed to be dropped in Season 2 I'm still not sure about: Back in the Duke Baloney episode we see that Flintheart swiped a money clip from Scrooge when he was a child, leading them to placing their season-long bet. Said bet seems to be resolved, but the money clip was never mentioned again, which is kind of odd given Scrooge's rather significant reaction to it. Was this just forgotten, or will it come up later either in the finale or season 3?
 

Red Silvers

Pokemon Red w/ 1 Nidoran
So, guess this is good timing because I just finished watching my brother's 3 DVDs of the original series. (This isn't the entire series, it's mainly the first season, the 5 parter that introduces Bubba, and the 5 parter that introduces Gizmoduck.) There's a lot of memories watching the old series but thee was a lot I didn't remember!
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
I am very happy that Ducktales now has three compelling girl characters which are both
A) Very different from one another, but believably friends, and
B) Not gender-swapped versions of the boy characters

Vi's the secret sauce for me. Her dry pragmatism is a nice foil to Webby's pure Leslie Knope energy, and she's less precious about Lena's feelings while still loving and supporting Lena. Also, man, Lena. Definitely the best new character of this show.
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
I was already chuckling, but her reaction to Dewey eating a popcorn himself was just priceless.
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
I mean they weren't so much giving hints as blowing up fireworks in the sky about it since their "Odd Couple" episode in S2.
 

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
Well, I dunno. I think an obviously dead person heavily lifting themselves out of a well or pit and shambling while pointing is pretty terrifying even without knowing the reference. YMMV.
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
Universal monsters running a fake haunted house because their real haunted house wasn't scary anymore is a brilliant twist. I absolutely lost it laughing.

It's also just a really, really good episode, and a great ensemble piece.
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
Gotta say, Launchpad attacking people with real-life, dangerous power tools was uncharacteristically violent for the show o_O

The Ring reference is honestly really out of place because that movie is 20 years old now and hyper-specific, whereas clowns and dolls work as both evergreen creepy concepts and as timely references to whatever you care to think they are (in this case, I assume Pennywise and either FNAF or Annabelle).

I dunno, there was also a subtle Amityville Horror ref (the house, though the middle divider is much taller and wider, has the same loft) that the main audience would likely miss entirely, and the reference to the Overlook Hotel's "party photo" is considerably more obscure than the other Shining refs they threw in there.

But as a Ring/Ringu fan I REALLY appreciated how the witch actually cracked all her bones all the way up as she stood upright. Even within Ring lore, that's a laser-focused reference to Ring 0: Birthday! :D
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
Welp, Taurus Bulba.

I dunno if this is the start of a spinoff show, but I would be thrilled to see if both DW and Scrooge can time-share with St. Canard's very own Kingpin. Scrooge has got to face some smart, calculating competition on his level.

(Although with grown-up Kit and Molly eventually showing up, Shere Khan still has to be around to antagonize McDuck Enterprises, right?)
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
I’ve been pretty skittish about the lack of news about a season four, and worried that Gene’s remark in “Quack Pack” about “at least three seasons, plus spin-offs” was a meta wink that they’ll opt for a Darkwing spin-off instead. And, like, that’d be cool, Darkwing is fun, but he doesn’t hold a candle to Scrooge.
 

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
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Soooooo, does this mean
Bonkers won't be showing up again in the series
?

Also love how
Darkwing is "I am better than Gizmoduck" but is very chummy chummy with Fenton.
Darkwing Duck needs to be a series again and soon.

Otherwise, other than some nitpicks I thoroughly enjoyed the two parter.
 

LBD_Nytetrayn

..and his little cat, too
(He/him)
I thought the villains would have stuck around.

Also, I thought for sure that SHUSH would be Darkwing's benefactor. Having it be Fenton is providing some amusing material, though.

Kind of weird that Darkwing was already relocated to St. Canard without any explanation.

I think the next time we see Bulba, he's going to look a bit different... and a lot more dangerous.

I like how they aren't going to push the "it's too dangerous" thing on Gosalyn this time. I was also thrown off by the crossbow, so didn't realize they were foreshadowing her costumed identity.

Think the arrows might be a reference to arrow gas from the NES game? Between that and deflecting attacks with his cape, I think it got a bit of love here.

Incidentally, needed more gas gun.

Man, this version of Bushroot was creepy.

After seeing an embed for a video I avoided watching, I thought we were getting a Darkwing Duck theme remix for the intro -- didn't realize until now it was someone putting the old theme over the preview. I'm more than a little disappointed about that.

Overall, though? This was great. We need a spin-off already.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
I’m still way back in the first season.

Ill say that Don Karnage is the first character redesign I didn’t like more than the original, but I’ll also admit that his original look wouldn’t have fit his character, which was much more enjoyable.

Also, while an excellent pun, the actor who plays Darkwing Duck is Jim Starling, and I’m not sure if that’s a Clumsy reference to Jim Cummings Or Jim Starlin (which fits better but he‘s not associated those kind of superhero stories).

Also, I’m so pleased that the triplets are discernable now. I even can identify them by name now!
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
I'm still digesting the ep, all I know is I loved the taste and it's settling in very nicely, but one thing I've never understood from his introductory episode, and I'll never understand going forward, is why the weird cuffs on DW's new costume.

Yes I know they match the waist but they still look really weird they make the sleeves look like they're one or two sizes too small for him.
 

Sprite

(He/Him/His)
I liked it! Bulba is a better villain than this show typically puts out, and between him and Nega Duck they have a good foundation for the spin-off they clearly want to make.
I was a little disappointed when the supervillains got zapped back, though it would be awkward having four villains whose origin story is that they were zapped here from a TV show in which they also had a different, separate origin story. I imagine we'll see them again, though, either with copycat villains or with Nega Duck zapping them back once he learns about a dimension where his TV show is real. Now that I think about it, the TV show world would make for a good stand-in for the Negaverse.

What was up with Bushroot being mute?

I'm guessing one of the reasons they made Della a pilot was to have a good excuse for Launchpad hanging out with Darkwing full-time should the spin-off happen. Ducktales could survive without him, though I don't think Darkwing could.

Darkwing and Fenton being buds is the best thing.

Back on the Scrooge side, I love that Bradford's motivation is that he thinks adventures are stupid.
I guarantee they’ve been looking for excuses from day one to get Tennant to read this line.
 

Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
Soooooo, does this mean
Bonkers won't be showing up again in the series
?

He could always show up again, as the hapless victim du jour ;)

I thought the villains would have stuck around.

Honestly, I'm fine with their roles in this ep. I was initially disappointed that we wouldn't be getting their origin stories in this incarnation, since Bushroot and Liquidator's Secret Origins were so much fun (and, TBH, Liquidator doesn't work as well as a standalone villain afterwards) but then, when they were sucked back into their home dimension, I was just fine with it because, after all, this isn't Darkwing Classic. This is Darkwing Beyond.

So, considering the FOWLies that the show has already created whole-cloth, I'm VERY hyped to see the kind of Beyond rogues this Drake gets. They can even use the Ramrod explosion as their origin story, much like the Flash TV show used the Star Labs accident as a metahuman factory!


Kind of weird that Darkwing was already relocated to St. Canard without any explanation.

Well, they do mention at the beginning that "St. Canard is the crime capital of the world!" Clearly Mayor Owlson cleaned it up, but that's probably why jumped in headfirst to "make a difference."

I think the next time we see Bulba, he's going to look a bit different... and a lot more dangerous.

No kidding. I loved the new incarnation. He may not have been blown to chunks like the original one was (BTW, LOOOVED the Ramrod's destruction, and subsequent ring-like shockwave, mimicking the original's explosion that blew the top off of Canard Tower) but he was still hit directly by the blast and he was already scarred by Gos's earlier attack. And since he's a scientist himself in this version, he'll probably "cyberbull" himself.

Looking forward to the Gizmo/DW dynamic, since Fenton will be a lot more sensitive to DW's... idiosyncrasies, and Drake yearns to inspire people much more than seek fame as a superhero (and with Huey being Gizmo's fan, and Dewey being DW's, Louie is the only one who needs an excuse to have regular crossover cameos.)

Latina Gos was great.

DW's sassy British AI was a delight. Not at alllllll inspired by Jarvis, no, of course not, why would you think that, uh-uh.

Pretty damn sure the multiple colors of the circuit key will eventually reference the Ramrod's color-coded activation, too.

The old villains were a nice nostalgic sendoff of the old concept to make way for whatever comes next, and all those winks at the original DW conventions (the arrows, the Ratcatcher, Gos's Quiverwing persona) were amusing.

It's awesome that FOWL can bedevil both Scrooge and Drake now --I was initially disappointed with the modern, dumb-instead-of-suave Steelbeak, but now there's many more storytelling opportunities with him as Launchpad's nemesis. I'm just wondering how much of a chaotic element Taurus Bulba will be, and how hard FOWL will come after him too. He definitely needs to become an underworld kingpin rather than just a big cyber-tank.

It's hard to pick a favorite piece of dialogue between, "Well, technically Bushroot isn't a villain per se..." "Oh right, you're nerds!" and the entire shoutout to the underrated fan-favorite "Just Us Justice Ducks!" from the original show (I just checked, they even used the actual episode number, because of course they did) but all the banter throughout the special was delightful. Bradford's locator glowing through his throat had me in stitches.

Now bring over the rest of the Talespin characters already. I'm dying to see if Shere Khan comes along.
 
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Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
This was a meaty episode.
“I suppose you’d prefer an unmarked helicopter?”
”YES!”
 

LBD_Nytetrayn

..and his little cat, too
(He/him)
Why are their heads so round?

Are... are you not familiar with classic Disney?

I'm still digesting the ep, all I know is I loved the taste and it's settling in very nicely, but one thing I've never understood from his introductory episode, and I'll never understand going forward, is why the weird cuffs on DW's new costume.

Yes I know they match the waist but they still look really weird they make the sleeves look like they're one or two sizes too small for him.

I noticed those, too, where I didn't before, and... I think they're gloves? White gloves?
 

Red Silvers

Pokemon Red w/ 1 Nidoran
I watched the Darkwing episode on Youtube. It's my first real exposure to the reboot series, and as someone who watched it as their first episode: It works really well!
 
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