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Ducktales (2017) |OT| Solving a mystery while resetting history!
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I enjoyed the Darkwing episodes well enough but this season has been pretty mediocre compared to the previous in my opinion. There are way too many characters on the show and they're not great at balancing them.
One thing that struck me as odd in the Darkwing two-parter... So the machine pulls things from alternate universes. Right? Current Darkwing was a fan / actor who replaced previous Darkwing, also an actor. So since when is an in-universe TV show an alternate reality? Also, why were the villains real? Shouldn't they have been actors playing roles? This stuff is too convoluted for its own good. My recollection of the previous DW stuff isn't great so it's certainly possible I've forgotten some old explanation that clears this all right up!
One thing that struck me as odd in the Darkwing two-parter... So the machine pulls things from alternate universes. Right? Current Darkwing was a fan / actor who replaced previous Darkwing, also an actor. So since when is an in-universe TV show an alternate reality? Also, why were the villains real? Shouldn't they have been actors playing roles? This stuff is too convoluted for its own good. My recollection of the previous DW stuff isn't great so it's certainly possible I've forgotten some old explanation that clears this all right up!
the book had a line from the person who invented the alternate universe device before, talking about how fiction is a window into other dimensions. a thoery which I, as someone who came up with that same idea when i was a kid, am a fan of.
Well, this was a hell of a deep cut. Somebody at Disney loves their job;
And yes, I had to look up what it was in reference to, I was four when this originally aired.
And yes, I had to look up what it was in reference to, I was four when this originally aired.
Also wouldn't be surprise something like the device from a Darkwing Duck episode where a human created a device to view dimensions and made a cartoon show base on them.
Well, this was a hell of a deep cut. Somebody at Disney loves their job;
And yes, I had to look up what it was in reference to, I was four when this originally aired.
It would be hilarious/great if a 30+ year pilot finally saw it's characters get popularity and have more done with them all because the right kids caught the show when it aired.
The 'every story is real in another dimension' was also the plot of a REALLY good episode of Justice League ("Legends" if anyone is interested). They did it in reverse though, with the League being transported into a fictional comic book world, but there was still a Launchpad (Green Lantern) who was a huge nerd for the source material and owed his career and life to it, same as in Ducktales.
I mean it's a really old school idea, you can go back to the tale of 2 flash's comic where up till that point most golden Age heroes were comics in the silver age dc universe(and where Barry got his name), bit it turned out they were in an alternate parallel timeline instead(that later got remerged)
Well, this was a hell of a deep cut. Somebody at Disney loves their job;
And yes, I had to look up what it was in reference to, I was four when this originally aired.
I feel like the shot immediately *after* that one must be A Thing too, but I've no idea what.
Yeah, I saw that one too but wasn't sure, maybe it's a Sword in the Stone reference, that looks a little like Archimedes and Arthur in squirrel form.
Funny that people are reaching for examples of fiction being alternate dimensions in other shows, when it was already the premise of a Darkwing Duck episode, "Twitching Channels".
Just caught up on the last three episodes on a binge last night. All three were great—the Darkwing episode was amazing. This show can do no wrong.
Late reminder that a new episode premieres tomorrow night on Disney XD and all-day on DisneyNOW and cable VOD.
Monday, Oct. 26
DuckTales "Escape from the ImpossiBin!"
(7:00-7:30 P.M. EDT)
Monday, Oct. 26
DuckTales "Escape from the ImpossiBin!"
(7:00-7:30 P.M. EDT)
With F.O.W.L. at their heels, Scrooge tests out the Money Bin's new security system on Louie and Della, while Beakley and Webby train the others for an enemy attack.
So I really liked last week's Darkwing Duck episode. I really want a Darkwing Reboot.
... I finished this week's episode noticiably more excited and pumped than I did last week's special event. This episode felt like the mid-season shake-up/halfway point that last week was advertised as.
... I finished this week's episode noticiably more excited and pumped than I did last week's special event. This episode felt like the mid-season shake-up/halfway point that last week was advertised as.
It is the long awaited payoff to all of FOWL's toiling in the background that they have been doing for most of the season and escalates the stakes now that they can no longer do that.
I wonder if this is an actual thing or just the paranoia talking.
I wonder if this is important:
1876 was the year Hortense McDuck, Donald's Mother, was born. Hortense was mentioned and shown when Webby first met the nephews in the first episode.
"The traitor" is on a note near Hortense and Quackmore.
1876 was the year Hortense McDuck, Donald's Mother, was born. Hortense was mentioned and shown when Webby first met the nephews in the first episode.
"The traitor" is on a note near Hortense and Quackmore.
I doubt she's a traitor, but she's lying about her relationship with Webby and it probably has something to do with FOWL.
1876 was the year Hortense McDuck, Donald's Mother, was born. Hortense was mentioned and shown when Webby first met the nephews in the first episode.
"The traitor" is on a note near Hortense and Quackmore.
BUT we did see BEAkLEy being attached to the BEAGLE boys =O
It looks like that thread is connected to something unseen pinned behind the McDuck's Shadow note and below the "Friend or FOWL?" note.
It took us 7 months to get here but his week's episode was long overdue. Looking forward to Season 3's rebound in the back half.
Escape from the ImpossiBin!
I'll agree that this was the best episode in a while, with fun traps and Webby being a menace.
The bit with the villain knowing everything Scrooge does is odd, though. I mean, it makes perfect sense, but they already used that gimmick last season with the moon guy (where it made less sense). It kind of reminds me of how Naruto filler arcs often had a filler villain with the same gimmick as a canon villain before the arc with that canon villain.
Also, my biggest wish for this adaptation was a straightforward adaptation of the Don Rosa story where Magica has control of gravity before Jojo Part 6 came out, which had an extremely similar stand battle (complete with taking place at an airport), and unfortunately this episode dooms that.
I'll agree that this was the best episode in a while, with fun traps and Webby being a menace.
The bit with the villain knowing everything Scrooge does is odd, though. I mean, it makes perfect sense, but they already used that gimmick last season with the moon guy (where it made less sense). It kind of reminds me of how Naruto filler arcs often had a filler villain with the same gimmick as a canon villain before the arc with that canon villain.
Also, my biggest wish for this adaptation was a straightforward adaptation of the Don Rosa story where Magica has control of gravity before Jojo Part 6 came out, which had an extremely similar stand battle (complete with taking place at an airport), and unfortunately this episode dooms that.
General Lunaris also had the virtue of sucking like a filler villain.
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I specifically wanted the sequence at the airport so people could make comparison videos once Jojo Part 6 is animated.
Reminder that a new episode premieres tomorrow!
Monday, Nov. 2
DuckTales "The Split Sword of Swanstantine!"
(7:00-7:30 P.M. EDT)
Monday, Nov. 2
DuckTales "The Split Sword of Swanstantine!"
(7:00-7:30 P.M. EDT)
The kids pair off to find the missing pieces of a mystical sword hidden throughout a marketplace unless F.O.W.L. gets to them first.
*Flula Borg ("Pitch Perfect 2") guest stars as Spice Baron. John Hodgman ("The Tick") and Jason Mantzoukas ("The League") return as John Rockerduck and Steelbeak, respectively.
*Flula Borg ("Pitch Perfect 2") guest stars as Spice Baron. John Hodgman ("The Tick") and Jason Mantzoukas ("The League") return as John Rockerduck and Steelbeak, respectively.
I was wondering if that was a callback! I completely forgot about that!
Also, additional comments going into spoiler tag:
I find it hilarious that last week Dewey didn't pull a "surprisingly able to keep up with Webby when she says expect the unexpected", yet this week Webby is caught off guard by a flash bomb and wasn't prepared for moving around without vision, and now they play that card with Dewey.
Also, kind of wondering now if FOWL with that ending tease is either making a clone of Scrooge or is heading towards an endgame similar to Ducktales Remaster with either a bunch of items coming together to either fullfill the Dracula Duck tease or fullfill that Gummi Bears tease from awhile back.
Also, kind of wondering now if FOWL with that ending tease is either making a clone of Scrooge or is heading towards an endgame similar to Ducktales Remaster with either a bunch of items coming together to either fullfill the Dracula Duck tease or fullfill that Gummi Bears tease from awhile back.
This episode was nearly as good as Impossibin, and with those + the Darkwing special I finally feel like the season is as good as the last one. My only complaint is the ending twist, which I would have preferred be a Plan B style thing. It doesn't make a ton of sense to me that they'd actively go to fail at something in order to get a feather which would presumably be way easier to come by in some other way. Why send four FOWL agents just for it?
Also, I cannot take Rockerduck seriously as a villain with John Hodgeman's voice coming out of him. The writing is great and he's a great VO artist but I have a hard time imagining John Hodgeman as evil.
Also, I cannot take Rockerduck seriously as a villain with John Hodgeman's voice coming out of him. The writing is great and he's a great VO artist but I have a hard time imagining John Hodgeman as evil.
It was nice seeing the (almost) full range of FOWL agents now being an active threat though clearly there have been some off screen encounters as everybody knows everybody now.
Beakley and Scrooge probably just briefed the whole family on all the current FOWL agents and FOWL has been spying on the duck family this whole time.
Yeah that was what i was reffering to. It could be a concidence though
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