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gamersonthego · 2 years ago
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Matt Giguere's Top 25 Game Boy & Game Boy Color Games
Ed. note: Thanks to “Giggysan” for joining on GOTG’s GB & GBC Top 25 episode. The following list are his personal top games for the system, which include none of the restrictions we used in our shared list.
25. Boxxle
24. Shadowgate Classic
23. Balloon Kid
22. DuckTales
21. Super Mario Land
20. Shantae
19. Kwirk
18. Metroid II: Return of Samus
17. Final Fantasy Legend II
16. Kirby's Dream Land
15. Warlocked
14. Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
13. Wario Land 3
12. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
11. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
10. The Final Fantasy Legend 
While it may be a very basic RPG (you can make whatever party you want at the beginning) this game is no pushover. There are neat, but often obtuse battle mechanics that may put off those not willing to bend to the whims of the RNG gods, but I still find that as part of this game’s charm. For an early turn-based RPG on the Game Boy, the first Final Fantasy Legend is worth a look for what it accomplished in its time.
9. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
While a bit of a wonky platformer, Super Mario Land 2 manages to make for a very memorable and engaging time. The larger sprites make it easier to follow the action on screen, and while Mario might feel a bit floatier than usual, it still manages to be a solid game from beginning to end.
8. Final Fantasy Adventure
While not as good or transformative as Link’s Awakening, FF Adventure gets points for trying to bring the Zelda formula to the portable screen when few were tapping into that well. Just like Awakening, there is a full adventure to be had with this one, and a surprisingly engaging story.
7. Gargoyle’s Quest
A special little early Game Boy game from Capcom that is surprisingly deep for its time. Mixing both platforming and a character who levels up, this might feel like home to fans of the Adventures of Link on the NES, but here Gargoyle feels a bit more competent with its blend of genres.
6. Mario Golf
THE sports game to grab for the Game Boy Color. Somehow, Camelot made the best feeling and most fulfilling golf game on this small portable, and it remains as one of the best sports games made today.
5. Kirby’s Dream Land 2
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While the first Kirby game on Game Boy started the series, it was Kirby on the NES that gave him his personality. Dream Land 2 expands upon the NES game with animal companions that add a dual layer of mixing and matching abilities. It offers a feature-rich Kirby game right in your pocket with all the charm of the originals.
4. Donkey Kong '94
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A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one! Donkey Kong '94 is one of the most pleasant surprises on the Game Boy that, on its face, would have been a very decent port of the original arcade game from 1981. Instead, Nintendo flipped the script on the archaic moveset of Jumpman to make him feel more like modern Mario. There is also an astounding amount of content to be played here with just over 100 levels to test your puzzle-solving and platforming skills.
3. Pokemon Red/Blue
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The games that started it all and spawned a billion-dollar franchise. While my love of the mainline Pocket Monsters franchise began and ended with this release, I still think back to the countless hours spent during recess with my friends grinding, trading and, most especially, battling each other to see who was the very best. Much like Link’s Awakening, Pokemon Red and Blue exemplifies how very little in terms of hardware power can produce a whole lot to play.
2. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
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Link’s Awakening is a good example of how to get a lot out of something with so little by making a full-fledged adventure on a handheld with all the trappings of the home console versions. Few games can make the same claim that Link’s Awakening manages to pull off. Even though this game has been picked apart critically for years, it still remains fresh and a delight to play.
Tetris
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You probably saw this coming like a desperately needed line tetromino on a five row setup. Yes, Tetris is one of the best games ever made. Yes, it is one of the greatest pack-in titles. Yes, it is one of the perfect examples of handheld and on-the-go gaming. Kids played it. Their parents and siblings played it. Everyone, for a time, played Tetris on a Game Boy. Tetris and the Game Boy are linked to the hip, and for that it deserves the number 1 spot.
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violetganache42 · 2 years ago
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Longest Tag: 140 characters
#it popped into my head earlier today because i've been overbooked with so much college work recently and i'm trying to get them done on time
My Top Posts in 2022:
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AFTER FACING DELAYS SINCE ITS 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT, WALT DISNEY WORLD AND THE EPCOT VICE PRESIDENT CONFIRMED THAT DUCKTALES WORLD SHOWCASE ADVENTURE IS FINALLY DEBUTING LATER THIS YEAR! I AM SO HAPPY! I HAVE BEEN ANTICIPATING WHAT IT HAS IN STORE FOR A FEW YEARS NOW!
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Confirmed: Coolmath Games watches Amphibia!
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I was watching some Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives last night when I saw this. I literally sat up from my bed because I immediately recognized the 5Ds logo; looking at it closer, I think it may be the first volume of its manga adaptation! This absolutely blew my mind!
(For those who are curious, it's from the season 23 episode, "Finger Lickin' Food". In it, Guy visits a restuarant in Minneapolis called George and the Dragon, which has a bookshelf filled with books for kids to read, including manga.)
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My #1 post of 2022
DEPLOY THE CRABS AND THE HAL STEWARTS!
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blaithnne · 3 years ago
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Let's go with 5!
5. Favourite Little Detail in a Drawing you did?
I’ve gotta go with this drawing, it is FULL of references, and you know what imma go into them now-
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GREEN - This is all just Character Portraits
1 is The Bellkeeper (in what is quite possibly my worst drawing of him)
4 is The Raven, with writing saying “where is he?” And “dead?” In reference to the fact that he doesn’t appear in season 2
7 is David’s Marra
18 is Kaisa
21 is Two of The Three Witches
23 is The Kraken’s Eye
30 is a shitpost esque doodle of the Lost Clan’s Pigeon caption “free pigeon, please take her”
32 is Victoria Van Gale
PINK - The Most Populated Cateogry, this section is in universe posters, drawings, notes, things like that!
2 is one of Johanna’s Bell Ceremony Posters
5 is a poster that hangs in Hilda”s room with the words “always watching?” Scribbled on it. Bc. It’s an eye
6 is the plans from The Old Bells of Trollberg, with writing saying “diagrams now inaccurate” as the bell tower was partially destroyed in that episode
9 is the “shed some light” poster from the library
11 is a Troll Awareness Poster that I think was hung in the school?
15 is Johanna’s doodles from “The Tide Mice”
17 is another one of Johanna’s Bell Posters
22 is a poster I think was hung in the library
24 I actually can’t remember? From the look of it I think it’s a reference to an in universe poster but I can’t for the life of me think what it was
26 is a poster in Saftey Patrol Headquarters
27 is the Oracle Page we see in The Jorts Episode
28 is The Bellkeeper’s Woff Migration Trackings
31 is a doodle that was stuck to Hilda’s fridge
33 is from the old bells of Trollberg but I’m not sure exactly what it is
38 is a Automated Bellkeeper Diagram
RED - This is all references to Fandom Stuff, Comics, Characters, etc
8 is a missing poster for my OC Lauren
10 is a drawing of a background character with the words “conservative?” written on it, in reference to this post where I called her a Tory
14 is the cover of the wonderful @randomwords247’s comic “Hilda and The Lost Future”, which you should go read by the way
29 says “Gays?” On it and has some writing that I can no longer read, and I got a few questions about who the charcaters underneath were! These charcaters are Mine and Randy’s Ducktales OCs Winnie and Shaelyn, they r girlfriends :]
YELLOW - The Filler section, this is all stuff I made up lol
3, 35, 36, and 37 are all just scribbles to fill space, I couldn’t fit any actual references in their small spaces so these ones don’t actually have any hidden meanings
12 is Troll Hilda with the words Trollda written on it
34 is a Trolls Awareness Poster that I made up myself
20 is an pamphlet encouraging people to join the saftey patrol (I believe I took the bit of the number you can see from another poster), that Hilda has drawn a large cross over
15 is a bullet point list entitled “Who is Luke?”, that says ���God? The Creator, Unknown Spillages, Scarf???, and Don’t Look”
19 is another list, that says “went camping, [lite] rock suck[s], David fucking died, it’s fine”
Forgot to number this one, but it’s circled, there’s a lil “Luke Pearson” signature in the corner of a drawing that is mostly covered up
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animationadventures · 4 years ago
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I heard the news about Owl House season 3 that was announced during Dana’s latest livestream.
To say the least, I am disappointed.
I hate how this keeps happening. As far back as I can remember, this has happened to Danny Phantom, The Secret Saturdays, Glitch Techs, DuckTales, Infinity Train, and now The Owl House.
Shows with amazing story potential keep getting shafted in favor of unfunny sitcom junk like Teen Titans Go or BUNK’D, and it’s upsetting. Nobody is going to remember the show where heroes act immature and make fart jokes for half an hour or kids at camp complaining about how terrible their camp is and play it off as comedy.
People are going to remember the show where the kid was a half-ghost, where game glitches came to life and gamers had a job to contain them, and people are definitely going to remember the show where a girl learns to become a witch and rediscovers a lost form of magic.
Give me more of Danny using his ghost powers to protect Amity Park.
Give me more of the McDuck clan solving mysteries and rewriting history.
Give me more of passengers boarding a supernatural train to become better people and discover how their train works.
Give me more of weirdoes sticking together and figuring themselves out in a world of magic and demons.
DO NOT give me more of heroes acting immature and spending all of an episode saying waffles.
DO NOT give me more of kids complaining about how awful their camp is and being jerks to each other while playing it off as comedy and friendship.
Danny Phantom, The Secret Saturdays, Glitch Techs, DuckTales, Infinity Train, and The Owl House all deserve better treatment from their studios.
Please help Infinity Train get Books 5 thru 8 on HBO Max, and please help DuckTales and The Owl House get fourth seasons.
Write letters, not emails, to Cartoon Network and Disney to show these shows your support. I do not have the address for Cartoon Network or HBO Max, but I do have the one for Disney. Here it is!
DisneyTVA
811 Sonora Avenue
Glendale, CA
91201, USA
Politely inform Disney that you want season 4 of The Owl House (and DuckTales if you wish). I heard if you write anything rude or sounds accusatory, it will get tossed out. So please be polite when asking them about season 4. And make sure to watch The Owl House on Disney + if you can because they are watching the numbers on that too.
It may be too late to change season 3 into a full season, but we can still try for a fourth season. Cartoons like Kim Possible managed to make a comeback. I feel The Owl House has the power to do that too.
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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago
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Patreon Membership Drive
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Hello all you happy people! And welcome one and all to my blog. If your seeing my blog for the first time i’m Jake. I review various animated shows and comic books, with such projects as an exaustive look at the animated history of The Three Cablleros, Every Lena episode of Ducktales 2017, a look at all of Scott Pilgrim that’s wrapping up in august and currently a look at the 2017 Ducktales. I also review Owl House every weekend as it comes out and do the same for Amphibia and did the same for Ducktales. 
Point is I like reviewing episodes or full seasons of shows, arcs of comics or just doing full retrospectives on something and i’ve made a good stab at making a living: I’ve picked up two Patreons: Superfan @weirdkev27​ and Emma Fici, a close friend of mine, and Kev pays for a LOT of reviews each month i’m happy to do, said Lena and Cabs Retrospectives were his ideas and ones I would’ve gladly done on my own time had I thought of them first. 
But while i’m greatful for both, especailly Kev, i’m just not making enough to really contribute at my house, to buy meals or groceries and to really do more than just pay the streaming bills each month and buy shit for myself on occasion. So i’ve TRIED for months and months to get more patrons. For those unaware of what Patreon is, Patreon is a platform where creators, such as myself can get paid monthly by fine folks such as yourself. This helps them get paid when say, the webstie they’ve hitched themselves too dosen’t pay them any ad revenue , hint hint. 
Most patreons have goals attached to earnings: they make a certain amount a month, the person will do a thing, and for reviewers that’s a special review of some sort. I’ve tried doing this but it only worked up to 15 bucks and since then no one else has bit and the whole thing has stalled. But luckily for me there’s another way patreon can measure goals so i’ve switched to that: 
THE BOTTOM LINE: FROM HERE ON OUT EVERY PATRON WHO JOINS MY PATREON, EVEN AT JUST A DOLLAR A MONTH, HELPS ME REACH A GOAL, AND THUS GETS A CERTAIN REVIEW OR RETROSPECTIVE ON MY SCHEDULE AND GUARANTEED TO BE DONE BY ME AS SOON AS I CAN. 
That means if you pledge just one buck a month, though more is appricated and 5 a month gets you a review of your chocie a month, you help me reach one of many fabulous goals. So what are they?
GOALS:
1 New Patron: Reviews of Amphibia Season 1 and BOTH seasons of Tuca and Bertie!  2 New Patrons: For my Scottaholics reviews of Brian Lee O Malley’s OTHER comics Lost at Sea, Seconds and Snotgirl.  3 New Patrons: A complete season one review of the Owl House! 4 New Patrons: For you duck fans a review of a Carl Barks comic EVERY month 5 New Patrons: A review of America, An utterly batshit and terrible solo title for a great character aka...
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6 new patrons: A Complete Gravity Falls Retrospective! Season 1, the shorts, Season 2, Lost Legends and Journal 3! All reveiwed, all for you! 7 New Patrons:  Chuck Austen’s X-Men Reviewed! For the unintaited, it’s a run where Angel’s blood can magically cure aids, Nightcrawler is a demon, a group of anti mutant extremists inact a plan to make nightcrawler pope, and Angel has sex with an underaged girl in front of her parents. Ha ha i’m in hell.  8 New Patrons: A Review of the ORIGINAL She Ra series from the 80s! For those less familiar with it myself included it’ll be a rich full look at what she ra was like before it was OPENLY gay. It will be vast as it is rediculous.  9. New Patrons: Darkwing Duck Comics Retrospective! A look at the utterly awesome Boom and Joe Books ongoings that updated our daring duck of mystery for a new era.  10 New Patrons: She Ra and the Pricnesses of Power Retrospective: all 5 seasons of the gayest, grandest space opera in animation history! 
And if that wasn’t enough i’m adding THREE BONUS GOALS. While the rest of these goals will stay put, these goals are exclusive to this pledge drive.
5 New Patrons by End of August: A review of the “This Duckburg Life” Podcast , Seasons 1 and 2 of final space and seasons 1-5, the movie and future of steven unvierse reviewed! 10 New Patrons by End of August: Infinity Train: Seasons 1-4 reviewed.  1 New Patron By the End of July: The Great North Season 1 5 New Patrons by End of July: A Review of the Danny Phantom Film “The Ultimate Enemy” It’s Eric Roberts as an evil future Danny whose a combination of the Maestro and Venom do you really need a hard sell here?  10 New Patreons by the End of July: A look at All 5 Seasons of Rick and Morty. Yes i’m throwing myself into that fandom snakepit. 
So yeah a LOT of stuff. I can’t promise it’ll be done all at once especailly if I somehow magically hit ALL these goals by july, i’ll have to meter it out but I do promise you WILL get all of this if you help me. I get some fincial security and you get a shit ton of review content. 
So if you want to help me review ANY of the stuff you see simply sign up at PATREON.COM/POPCULTUREBUFFET TODAY. That’s  PATREON.COM/POPCULTUREBUFFET in case you mention it. Help me pitch in on the groceries TODAY. Just ONE DOLLAR a month helps and will reach hit a goal. 
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fly-pow-bye · 4 years ago
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The Final Four
The final four episodes of DuckTales 2017 have been revealed by DisneyTVA. Here they are:
2/22 - Beaks In The Shell - Fenton teams with Gandra Dee on a top-secret experiment.
3/1 - The Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker! - A new (but familiar) ally helps find treasure on an island full of monsters.
3/8 - The Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck! - In a mystical karmic court, Scrooge's enemies accuse him of making them evil.
3/15 - The Last Adventure! - The family must stop FOWL's plot to end their adventures once and for all. (90 minute long series finale!)
To me, DuckTales 2017 had a great run, and I have little reason to believe that it wouldn’t end on a high note. Sure, there may be some adventures they could have had that they did not, and I wouldn’t have been against a Season 4, but it is what it is. Stay tuned.
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disneywizard · 5 years ago
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Disney Wizard Top 10! Animated series for 2019
Yeah, you read that right. This year, I’m doing a full list of 10 shows, instead of a mere 9. Look at me, all double digits and everything.
First a Disclaimer. Steven Universe continues to elude my ability to watch, as well as it’s new sequel series Steven Universe: Future. I want to watch ‘em, but I can’t legally, so I can’t rank them on my list.
Next up, Honorable mentions:
(No images on these, due to Tumblr’s stupid rules on image #s per post. Anyone got another forum I can move to for this list in the future?)
Cleopatra in Space.
I’ll have more to say on this show once it becomes Legally Available in the U.S. next year. It’s not legally available yet, so that’s why it can’t make the cut this year.
Miraculous Ladybug makes the Honorable Mentions this year, not because of a lack of U.S. Availability, but rather because of the HORRIBLE AIRING ORDER ACROSS MULTIPLE COUNTRIES. Seriously, not one episode in any country that airs the show actually aired the EXTREMELY CONTINUITY HEAVY third season in proper order, and it seriously hurt the show, and did irrevocable damage to first impressions of important episodes. It’s not the fault of the show runners nor the writers that this happened, but it did happen, and in 2019...it shouldn’t happen.
The Last Kids on Earth: Great TV movie pilot! Where...where’s the rest of the show?
Young Justice: Outsiders.
By all rights this show SHOULD be my #1 slot. Like...it’s not even a contest. If you asked me what the best show I watched in 2019 was, it was Young Justice’s long awaited third season. But unfortunately, my rule for this list is “Animation is for Everyone”. Due to graphic violence and implied sexual content, I cannot put the show on the list, much as it pains me to exclude it. I struggled with this decision all year, but I made the rules for the list years ago, for my own personal integrity, I won’t change them now, just because I don’t like them anymore. I’ll be posting about “adult” animated series soon. I have some thoughts that I want to share.
The list proper:
10) The Deep
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After a two year long hiatus, my favorite adventure series returns. The story of the Nekton family, and their long hunt for lost Lemuria finally comes to a close...just in time for some new mysteries to arise.
Available on: Netflix
9) Fast & The Furious: Spy Racers
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I hate this show. It has NO business being as good as it is. Because annoyingly, it is. It’s very good. I have no interest in the movie franchise it came from. I think I saw one movie from it, at a friend’s house. I don’t remember anything that happened in it, I just remembered that I thought it was stupid.
But this show manages like able characters and an engaging plot line, that requires no knowledge of the movies that spawned it, so...it ended up being good, to my eternal chagrin.
Available on: Netflix
8) Legend of the Three Caballeros
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Honorable Mention from last year, now a legitimate part of the list. The system works. This amazing show is fun, funny, and I wish there was more of it.
Available on: Disney+
Our first ever Disney+ Show! Yay!!!
7) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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Two seasons of this show came out this year, continuing the trend from last year, and...
They’re magnificent.
Seriously. Watch this show. I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Available on: Netflix
6) Carmen Sandiego
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I said most of what I needed to say about Carmen early this year. She’s great.
Available on: Netflix
5) The Dragon Prince
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This show still feels like what would happen if Game of Thrones and Avatar: The Last Airbender had a beautiful secret love child together. Magic, mystery, romance, political intrigue, dragons, jelly tarts, this show has it all.
Available on: Netflix
4) Amphibia
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Described by several of my friends as ‘Frog “isekai”’ this fun little series aired its entire first season in one month, and it was delightful. A Thai-American girl named Anne gets sucked into a world of Sapient Amphibians and has to learn to live with them. It’s mostly slice of life stories, but it’s extremely well done, and I love every moment of it.
Available on: Disney+
3) Green Eggs & Ham
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This is my sleeper hit this year. This show is EXTREMELY well done, and I cannot say anything more about how good it is without spoiling stuff for you. Bring snacks, you will get hungry watching it.
Available on: Netflix
2) Ducktales
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This reboot of the classic 1987 series continues to be the quintessential how-to guide to make a successful reboot of a show. “Whatever Happened to Della Duck” is an incredible bottle episode.
Available on: Disney+
1) Infinity Train
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The number one show of the year, and the first time that a non-Netflix or Disney show hit my #1 spot. This show about loss and grief is as relatable to kids as it is adults. I cannot recommend this show enough to anyone. It’s a beautiful, well written, amazingly brilliant show. Plus it has corgis. Who doesn’t love corgis?
Available on: Cartoon Network App (I know, I’m sorry, but this show IS worth the pain of that app)
There you go. Until next year my friends. Disney Wizard wizzes out!
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pinkyshy101 · 4 years ago
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So I got bored and decided to type out a list of the cartoons/tv shows I’ve watched, cause why not! I think this is all I’ve watched, or at least recent enough (I’m thinking like…. 2014/15 onward, when I actively started to watch more cartoons)
It’s kinda long, and I’m kinda rambley, so I’ll put it under a keep reading thing (if I can) so you don’t have to scroll through that if you don’t want to. Idk who will actually read this, but hey maybe it’s an idea of what kind of things I might reblog on here! I’m always taking any suggestions for shows to watch, I love learning about and watching more and more cartoons! So if there’s something I didn’t list as something I watched and you think of be interested, feel free to please recommend it! I may update this with a reblog or an edit or something at some point in the future, idk though. For now, its September 19, 2020, and here’s what I got for ya
This ended up way more rambley than I meant for it to be but I started writing it at maybe 12:30ish am and now its almost 2am when I’m getting ready to post it so oops 👀 I’m not really expecting anyone to read this but hey, it’s something! Read if you wanna know what shows and other stuff I watched lol idc
Cartoons I’ve watched in their entirety (or what’s all aired as of today 9/19/20):
(updated 12/2/20 as starting with ATLA)
Gravity Falls - watched since late 2014
Steven Universe (including the movie and Future) - watched since mid June 2015, right before the second stevenbomb/sworn to the sword (early season 2)
Over The Garden Wall - watched back around when it first came out, can’t remember exactly when but sometime in 2015
Star vs The Forces of Evil - watched the first 2 seasons as they aired, then stopped watching for a while and rewatched the whole show in June 2019
Hilda - watched for the first time in I think October 2018, rewatched in May quarantine
She-ra and the Princesses of Power - watched all 5 seasons about/not even a week after season 5 came out, idk why I waited so long to watch it
The Owl House - started watching it after the grom episode aired, idk why I waited so long to watch it but molly and noelle and everyone was screaming about grom on twitter, so of course I had to watch it then
Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts - watched it all in early August, right before I watched The Owl House
Infinity Train - watched the pilot back in 2016, then the first season when it came out, but then I started college and didn’t get the chance to watch the 2nd/3rd season until I decided to watch the whole series (s1 again, 2/3 for the first time) this past week
Ouran High School Host Club - ok I know it’s anime not a cartoon and I can’t see myself reblogging anything from it but it’s literally the only anime I’ve watched more than like 1 or 2 episodes of/the only one I’ve seen in its entirety so I figured eh I’ll mention it
Camp Camp - I almost forgot to mention this one! I started watching it when there was I think only 3 episodes of season 1, so back in 2016, and I’ve loved it since then! I guess this summer’s season couldn’t happen cause of covid.... But I’m still excited for when/if it does eventually come out!
Avatar the Last Airbender
Shows that I’ve partially watched but not completely:
We Bare Bears - I’ve seen the first 2 seasons, maybe some of the third I can’t remember, I watched it when it first came out but I haven’t watched it in a while, so I would probably need to rewatch a bunch of it (I did rewatch I think the first season sometime this year? But it was while working on school projects so I wasn’t giving it my full attention), apparently there’s also a movie now???
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - I was huge into the brony fandom from roughly 2013ish-2017ish, I’ve seen up to season 8 and a few episodes of season 9, and the 4 equestria girls movies, and the mlp movie; I probably know seasons 1 - 4 the most, maybe a little of 5, 6 and 7 are kinda fuzzy but I’ve seen them, 8 I watched over quarantine (since it’d been a few years since I had watched any of it, I also rewatched bits of 5-7) as well as I think the first episode or so of season 9, but I don’t remember them too well. I watched the movie (the pony one, not eqg) when it came out in theaters, and not too long after that I drifted away from the mlp fandom (tbh I was drifting a little bit before it came out, but I knew I had to stick in there at least until it came out since I had been waiting for so long for it). The equestria girls movies, I saw them all when they first came out (I even saw rainbow rocks in the theater). I think there’s like, half hour shorts or episodes or something?? That’s in the eqg universe?? But I don’t think I’ve seen any of them, and if I have it was probably a really early one a long time ago because I haven’t really kept up with anything after Legend of Everfree came out
Animaniacs reboot - I’ve seen the first 5 episodes and it’s nice!
Shows that I’ve only seen an episode or few of that I (probably) intend on continuing to watch:
Glitch Techs - I saw the first episode! Definitely want to continue it
Rick and Morty - I watched a few episodes of the first season in like March/April quarantine, but I was still dealing with online school at home finishing out last semester then. I think I want to watch this eventually, but I have other shows that I want to catch up on/watch before I’d get to this one
Tangled the Series - idk if that’s the name I’ve seen multiple names but I hope you know what I’m talking about, I saw a handful of episodes from the first season I think sometime around fall 2019, but I’d probably have to rewatch the whole thing
Adventure Time - I’ve never had cable/cartoon network so I didn’t watch this growing up, but I’ve heard really good things about it and seen a bunch of stuff from it (I’d have to be living under a rock to have not seen anything lol) but it’s so long and I just haven’t gotten around to it yet! Well I’ve seen maybe a dozen or so episodes of the first season but it was a while ago so I’d have/want to start over probably
Shows I haven’t started
Amphibia - I’ve heard it’s good! I just haven’t gotten around to it yet
Avatar the Last Airbender - probably next on my list to watch, I’ve been meaning to watch it for years but I haven’t yet, its on Netflix now so that should make it easier to watch and a friend from school made me promise that this would be the next one I’d watch so that’s what I’m doing (I did watch the last 2 seasons of infinity train that night though, since I was really wanting to finish it first… But atla is next) watched it! (updated 12/2/20)
The Legend of Korra - obviously I’m waiting to watch it until after alta, and I’m probably going to watch it right after I finish atla
The Dragon Prince - idk really anything about it other than I think it’s on netflix? and apparently it’s good and maybe gay idk but I’ve heard it’s good thus why it’s on here lol
Black Horseman - idk too too much about this other than apparently it’s good but also kinda depressing. Similarly to rick and morty I want to watch it eventually but its not insanely high on my list
OK KO - don’t know a ton about it other than it’s decent, a step up from r+m/bojack on where I want to watch it but not urgently
Ducktales Reboot - similarly to OK KO, don’t know much about it other than it’s decent, same level of want to watch
Milo Murphy’s Law - saw a couple episodes when it came out, haven’t watched it in forever so if I ever do want to rewatch it I’d have to restart it, not super high on my priority list though
Bee and Puppycat - another one I almost forgot! I don’t know a ton about this but I’ve heard its nice! Plus from what I’ve seen I like the artstyle so  👀 maybe someday
Animaniacs (original) - I started to watch the reboot and I think I want to watch the original eventually! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet
Clone High - listen it’s not that I desperately WANT to watch this, I just have friends who are like, hey, watch this lol it’s apparently not super long so why not
Other non cartoon shows I’ve watched:
Brooklyn 99 - idk when I started watching it, maybe around season 4/5ish? I think sometime in 2018 so idk the season, idk, most of the episodes I’ve only seen once so I couldn’t tell you exactly what happens in every episode but I still like it
Rise - ugh I miss this show, I started watching it after/around when the 3rd episode came out (end of March 2018?), and I don’t think I’ve watched any of it since it ended (mid may 2018) cause its not on any streaming services anymore :/ at least not that I know of but I loved it and would love to rewatch it
Andi Mack - I’d heard it was good but hadn’t watched it after it ended (early august 2019 I think I watched it), haven’t rewatched it since then but it was decent, I mainly watched it cause I had seen clips of gay but yknow it was alright
Sex Education - watched 1st season sometime in 2019, when rewatched it/watched season 2 when it came out January 2020, this is like WAY more mature than like anything on this list but like it has an interesting story
Love Victor - watched first/currently only season when it came out mid june 2017 (how was June so long ago what)
Queer Eye - I’ve seen a couple seasons of it idk I figured why not add it lol
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist - I think I watched this around when there were maybe a few episodes of season 1 left (well there’s only one season now but still), idk I liked it cause like musicals and stuff idk
Idk what else to add to this section but if I think of anything (to any category on this list) I’ll probably update it later maybe idk (again I’m not necessarily going to be reblogging stuff from all/any of these but like, I figured I’d mention it cause idk)
Musicals:
Another thing I love is musicals, like I’m a design/tech major in college rn so yeah I like theatre lol so I’m going to list some I’ve seen (mostly watched bootlegs of, but I’ll list some professional/tour ones I’ve seen in person)(but if it doesn’t say anything special I probably just watched a bootleg, 2017 was a big year for me and my google drive being filled with bootlegs…) This might not be all of them and I won’t go into as much detail (I hope, I haven’t typed it yet) but we’ll see:
Broadway tours I’ve seen: (I swear this isn’t bragging they were cheap seats way up high lol)
Dear Evan Hansen (May 2019)
Wicked (first professional show I saw, October 2017, haven’t watched a bootleg or anything of it since then and I went in completely blind)
Mean Girls (November 2019, last professional show I saw before quarantine)
Come From Away (September 2019)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (November 2018)
The Book of Mormon (August 2018, was hoping to again this August but quarantine :( )
Non professional/high school/college/other shows I’ve seen in person/been on crew for (not all of them, but some) (assume I’ve also seen bootlegs/proshots if there are any)
Newsies
Spring Awakening (spot op)
Shrek (props)
Legally Blonde
I’ve seen done way more but I don’t feel like listing them or that they’re anything I’d want go reblog/actively look at fandom content for (that’s not saying it reblog stuff from shrek the musical but still lol)
Other shows I’ve seen only in proshot/bootleg form:
Basically every Starkid show
Spies are Forever
The Solve it Squad
Hamilton
Heathers
Be More Chill (yes I was in that big amalgamation of musical fandom stuff with these and deh in 2017 aaaa)
Falsettos
Beetlejuice
Spongebob
21 Chump Street
Les Mis
Phantom
(Again maybe not necessarily all but some there’s a slight chance I might reblog things about)
Musicals I still need/want to watch/listen to:
The Prom
Six
The Great Comet (not typing it all out)
Hadestown
Waitress
Bonnie and Clyde
Something Rotten
Tuck Everlasting
Again there’s more I want to see I’m sure but I haven’t really watched bootlegs in a while…. Idk feel free to suggest shows tho
Movies I’ve seen/like: obviously I’m not gonna just every single movie I’ve seen but heres a few I like:
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz - these 2 have actually always been my favorite movies since I was little, I can’t dee myself reblogging much of anything about them but figured I’d mention them cause why not
Love Simon
Some but not all Disney movies (I grew up with no cable/mostly just pbs)
Most pixar movies?
I don’t think John Mulaney shows count as movies but eh whatever I’ve seen them on netflix
Idk what else lol I know I’ve seen more movies than this but eh
If anyone actually read all of this... Wow I’m surprised honestly lol have a free cookie or something for your struggles or smth, idk, thanks for reading this though lol I appreciate you (but also slightly worry, this was a lot of words and a lot of rambling)
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Ten(eight) favorite shows and tag ten people
Thank you @ramblinseahorsey for tagging me!
(These really aren't in much of an order and I’m sorry there are only 8 but I really don’t watch a lot of tv shows apparently??)
Hilda:
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One of the biggest jolts of serotonin ive ever seen! Just such a lovely lovely show! It feels like a hug in animation form a lot of the time! My favorite is the Woodman lol. Can't wait for season 2!
Good Omens:
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Absolutely came to me at the exact right time! My current hyperfixation so sorry to all my mutuals. A lovely show, with great great main characters and witty writing! If you were turned off by the initial Tumblr hype the fandom has settled, so now is an excellent time to check it out!
Wander Over Yonder:
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This show kept me ALIVE back in 2015! I hopped on the bandwagon right as season 2 premiered and let me tell you. This show may be fun and silly with lots of laughs but I think it holds the record for a show making me cry. Lots of love to WOY please go check this one out! #saveWOY
The Great British Baking Show: 
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I don’t believe I’ve ever mentioned it on here but I really love to bake and armed with my antique cookbook I crank out the occasional delicious treat. The Great British Baking show is delightfully funny and really puts its contestants through the ringer! Any time I watch any other baking show I always find myself saying “pfft, these guys wouldn’t last a day on The Great British Baking Show” 
Gravity Falls: 
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What can I say? I’m a bit of an O.G, fan...I’ve been around since the very first episode but really fell hard for the show when “Dreamscapers” premiered. I have ancient fan art to prove it! A great show all around. Mystery, comedy, and heart! 
Ducktales 2017: 
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I watched the premier on a whim one day when I was home alone and was pleasantly surprised by just how good this show is! Seasons 1 and 2 have hit home and season 3 surely will as well when it premiers! Now unlike the first few mentioned on this list...I have my fair share of problems with the show. But its still an absolute delight and I love it and highly recommend it! 
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Steven Universe (Future and Original):
The Tumblr Darling itself. Back in the early days of season 2 I saw a few episodes in hotel rooms. Then I went and tried to watch it from the beginning...and...well I was underwhelmed...then I happened to catch the Malachite vs. Alexandrite battle on tv one day and I was like “hhjsnfkrgj???” so I finally broke down and tried again. And man did I fall for it hard...Peridot’s arch is the highpoint of the entire show for me. This is another I have my fair share of problems with, however, it has really earned its hype!
She-Ra (Netflix)
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About three days after it premiered on Netflix I locked myself in my room one Sunday and binge watched the whole first season. This show is a gorgeous, well written, masterpiece full of character and a drive to tell a compelling story. The first season had me hooked but boooooy lemme tell you if Season two didn’t blow me outta the water! Season three was good too and I have high hopes for season four. Would recommend if really only for my Scorpion wife. 
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mai-fanblog · 5 years ago
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The 10 best moments of Ducktales in the first season
Here only one scene per chapter will be emphasized, plus the critical score of the good of the chapter, that is memorable and that left a certain continuity.
10° "Lena's Nightmare" (T1 Ep 19 “The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck!")
 This would have been higher, if it weren't for the subplot that led to nothing (Gavy is hated more by Mark); however, that doesn't take away from the importance in Lena's development, where it shows her biggest nightmare graphically incredible and giving more depth where she feels imprisoned both physically and psychologically, because she doesn't want to lose the first friend who really loved her and have her captor hurt her.
Lena from that moment was crowned as the best secondary and original character of the reboot, but that would be the tip of the iceberg
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(This part hurts)
9° "Call me Uncle Scrooge" (S1 Ep 17 "From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22!")
A tender moment in the series no doubt, Webby always had that admiration for Scrooge as the great adventurer he is and wants to be like him, when Mrs. Beakley is captured by an agent F.O.W.L and Scrooge and Webby (sneaking in) come to the rescue, there is a good development between them and a pair of interesting flashbacks, the best part is the end where Scrooge tells her to call Webby "Uncle Scrooge" and she hugs him, it is an important part, their relationship becomes stronger until a certain moment that later almost destroys it. This moment must be recognized.
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8° "Scrodie in the best" (S1 Ep 15 "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!")
Scrooge and Goldie as a couple is interesting to me, it doesn't drive you crazy like other couples from other series, but I recognize that it has certain tips that there might be something; the specific part of their confrontation while dancing in the golden pond is memorable, adding that Flintheart has good gags when he tries to separate them, and the part where Goldie saves Scrooge from the liquid gold that would kill him gives a good closing, referring to the fact that Goldie can show off on her own, but it doesn’t detract from the fact that their relationship with Scrooge, although complicated there are feelings, that is, Goldie's happiness doesn’t depend on Scrooge because of their very opposite views of life, but that they both know each other so well that they know what they are like and find out things they didn’t know.
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7° "We are almost at the top" (S1 Ep 9 "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!")
This chapter is very much underrated, but it leaves something important; Scrooge was about to reach the top of the mountain, which has portals leading to a random spot, and Huey dictates that they should leave it that way for the good of all, and Scrooge listens to him at the end; even his descent down the mountain during the avalanche is epic when he reaches the beginning. Apart from that, Scrooge gives Huey the confidence to keep going until he knows how much to stop. It's a good lesson from an underrated chapter.
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6° "The race of the lucky and fighting man of life" (S1 Ep  6 "The House of the Lucky Gander!")
Of the best chapters with a relative of Donald with the most imbecilely charming cousin, the parts of Gladstone and Donald are well represented, especially near the end where Gladstone and Donald must make a race to the death to be free or imprisoned by a lucky frog demon, obviously Donald gets the punches and wounds, while Gladstone is still intact and almost wins, when Donald was about to surrender, Louie yells at him encouraging him to keep going even if it is difficult, at that moment the first gesture of recognition that Donald has in the series and there he wins (and a 20 dollars that seemed for convenience). One of the best moments Donald and showing the contrast that exists with the character who was born with luck and the character who struggles to overcome their own obstacles.
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(Donald is the best of the best)
5° "The ransom in car against B.U.D.D.Y" (S1 Ep 11  "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System!")
Pure action in this scene and also in one of the best chapters, the roles of Launchpad and Fenton shine more than ever in this scene. As Launchpad demonstrates that a full-fledged driver while trying to save his boss and the others is great, Fenton's participation with the suit was a very good debut; both fulfilled their goals in this chapter and the end of the scene where they almost fall to the cliff and Fenton saves them and saying Woo-Hoo while Launchpad comments on Fenton's first car is a good closing to that scene.
This episode is very good and gives another good introduction to an important secondary character for the series, besides leaving a good demonstration to the audience.
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EPIC
4° "Behind the Dime" (S1 Ep 23 "The Shadow War!")
One of the best plot twists in the series and the correct introduction of a final villain; when the moment of truth arrives for Magica De Spell both Scrooge and the fans (at that time) were amazed and all his physical introduction is memorable so far. Showing the awesomeness of her presence when she uses magic against her enemy.
This is how it introduces itself to a final boss, not that alien son of a b**ch with a Napoleon complex.
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Magica is majestic in that presentation
3° "The lesson of independence that turned out very well" (S1 Ep 21 "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!")
This scene exemplifies all that Scrooge represents with his number one dime and its meaning, when he discusses again with his father that he never helped him and that he alone had to make his independence, revealing that indeed his father helps more than Scrooge thought, giving an American dime to a worker so that Scrooge learns to get what he wants with effort is spectacular; after this revelation Scrooge and his father strengthen their bond again, and Scrooge sees his father with different eyes.
This gives a nice message of how a father can support a son no matter what, unlike the comics it is sadder because he cannot forgive his father who has passed away; in the reboot Scrooge takes advantage of that moment to reconcile the man who helped him indirectly as he is now.
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2° "Mom?" (S1 Ep 1 "Woo-oo!")
This scene is short but powerful, showing that less is more, where Dewey sees in the painting at the beginning of the series Della in the painting saying: Mom?
It was a tremendous shock and the most important initial part of the plot at that time.
This was a good closing for the first episode and that we were interested in that mystery that we didn't know before.
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1° "The breaking of the family in The Sun Chaser !" (S1 Ep 22 "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!")
The most distressing scene in the series deserves this first place; the truth of Della's disappearance and the consequent reactions while they were on the plane is majestic and painful, the children blaming Scrooge (although he knows that Della was more responsible), Scrooge breaks down wanting to be left alone and the most painful part is when Scrooge shouts at Webby "You are not of my family" was a severe blow to the girl who admired him. Surely this moment must be at the top. It left most of them hurt, crying and distressed as a truth that was hidden for so long destroyed them in an instant, here Frank gave us one of the best moments of the show and played with our feelings.
(Still in the air Scrooge's apologies to Webby, she deserves an apology)
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(This hurts three times)  :,(
This list is my opinion
Here ends this list, later I will do it of the second season.
If you have other scenes that are good, you can share them without any problem.
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sleepykittypaws · 5 years ago
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Animated Special Advent Calendar
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Updated: December 23, 2019
Every year since my oldest first became interested in TV watching, we’ve watched classic Christmas specials annually. What started as a happy accident with an enamored three-year-old wanting a nightly dose of cartoon Christmas goodness, became a family tradition, and we now try and watch a different special every night between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, with family members rotating picks, youngest to oldest. 
After mentioning this several times online, a few folks expressed interest in what we watch, so I’ll try to keep this page updated with daily entries, though I admit we’re not tyrants about doing this (it’s supposed to be fun!), so if we miss a night, we just try to watch two (or more) another time to catch up. The daily picks mean our line-up changes every season (variety is good!), though there are definitely a handful of annual must-watch specials on every family member’s mental lists, and we always finish on Christmas Eve with the 1966 classic, Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
We’ve got a huge collection of DVDs and digital specials we own, but I’ll try and note where our picks are available to watch, if possible. And, if you’re looking for ideas to fill up your own Christmas Special advent calendar, you can check out my Top 25 Animated Holiday Special list, or the results of our Holiday Special Showdown, where 64 animated classics went head-to-head for viewer’s votes in 2017.
Nov. 28: We kicked things off on Thanksgiving with Phineas and Ferb’s Christmas Vacation, a music-filled Disney Channel original now available on Disney+ (Season 2, episode 21). It’s an annual must-see for us.  
Nov. 29: Night two was British imports Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire and Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe. The first of these Aardman Animation originals is better than the sequel, but both still air annually on CBS. There’s also a third, UK-only entry, Close Encounters of the Herd Kind, that never made it to the US. Fun Fact: 100% of all 3 specials’ profits go to charity, as they were produced by Comic Relief.
Nov. 30: A Chipmunk Christmas. Though it had several DVD releases, they’re all of out print currently and this 1981 classic, a staple of my childhood, has become distressingly hard to find, even though we, personally, have multiple DVD copies.
Dec. 1: Our first special of December was The Happy Elf. This 2005 Harry Connick-voiced special got little love on its release, but is a family favorite. Rare to find on TV, it’s still widely available via digital or DVD, and worth checking out.
Dec. 2: With Frozen fever rampant, we revisited a lesser known entry in the franchise, 2016′s LEGO Frozen Northern Lights. This clever send-up isn’t specifically Christmas, but it’s snowy and so much fun. And it’s now available, though oddly broken into segments, on Disney+. (The Disney Channel is also showing it in one 30 min package all this month.)
Dec. 3: On this busy school night we needed something short, so I picked Pluto’s Christmas Tree, now on Disney+. Kids had never seen this 1952 animated short, and we all really enjoyed it.
Dec. 4: One of those days we wandered off the beaten path and tried the Opus-led A Wish for Wings that Work from 1991, based on the book and comic strip by Berkeley Breathed. A bit long for littles, but the ending landed, and it was a nice change of pace. Not streaming, but available very cheaply on DVD.
Dec. 5: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire was my son’s pick. This pilot episode for the 30-year-old series works as the stand alone holiday special it was first conceived as, and can be found on Disney+.
Dec. 6: Ducktales: Last Christmas! This fun, 2018 special can be found on Disney+ (season 2, episode 6 of the rebooted series). We watched it several times last year, and it’s just good as I remember. Timey-wimey fun.
Dec. 7: This 2006 direct-to-DVD release isn’t the classic Looney Tunes of the 1930s-40s, but Looney Tunes: Bah, Humduck (available digitally or DVD) is still a fun Christmas Carol take with Daffy as Scrooge and a fairly faithful adaptation of Dickens’ tale.
Dec. 8: Time for a classic: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, playing this year on Freeform, as well as CBS, and also available in an infinite variety of DVD collections and via iTunes.
Dec. 9: Did you know that Hallmark Channel used to make original animated specials? They did, and they were good, too! 2011′s Hoops and Yoyo Ruin Christmas was our pick last night and it’s smart, and cute, and fun. I miss that Hallmark Channel. Released on DVD, it’s out of print, but copies can still be found, and Amazon offers it for digital purchase.
Dec. 10: As a kid the anticipation of this special’s debut was almost too much to bear for my then, 7-year-old self. 1982′s The Smurf’s Christmas Special was my pick last night, and I vividly recalled how it was a such huge event for me at the time that I danced around the basement during the commercials, too full of excitement to sit. It isn’t streaming, but can be found on the still-available 2011 DVD The Smurf’s Holiday Celebration.
Dec. 11 and 12: Busy evenings the past few, so missed the 11th, but still managed to watch Merry Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda Holiday last night—and I almost managed to stay awake, too. (Both are on Netflix.)
Dec. 13: Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special, this charming, under-rated 2016 Disney Channel original is, oddly, NOT available on Disney+, though it can be purchased digitally or watched this month via Disney Channel On Demand. A family favorite since its debut.
Dec. 14: Last night, instead of a traditional animated offering, we had our annual viewing of (mostly) animated British Christmas adverts, which are a very big deal in the UK and, frankly, often more awesome than any 30 minute special. I’ve tweeted a lot about my love for these often tear-jerking mini-movies, but here are what I think are my top 5…5) From Sainsbury’s, 2018′s The Big Night builds to an awesome ending. 4) Sainsbury’s The Greatest Gift (2016) has an original song that’s become a Christmas favorite in our house. 3) John Lewis is the master purveyor of this emotionally manipulative—in the best way—three-minute extravaganzas. Lots to choose from, but 2014′s Monty the Penguin is probably my fave. 2) In 2015, Sainsbury’s delivered the perfect mix of comedy and heart with Mog’s Christmas Calamity. 1) And my fave—a bit of cheat since it’s Canadian—is Cineplex’s Lily and the Snowman. Seen it probably 100 times now, and cried every one. There’s plenty more to explore, from the UK and beyond, and falling down a rabbit hole of these ads on YouTube is an utterly delightful way to spend an evening. To get you started, here’s a compilation of what one YouTube reviewer calls the top 10 Christmas ads of 2019.
Dec. 15: Returned to a classic with 1969′s Frosty the Snowman, which still airs annually on CBS. Happy Birthday! 
Dec. 16: Finally watched NBC’s new How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, available on Hulu.
Dec. 17: My pick, and I chose a Rankin-Bass we hadn’t seen in a while, 1970′s Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. Unfortunately, forgot how long and slow this one was. My kids were kind of bored.
Dec. 18: Shrek the Halls, which really is laugh-out-loud family fun. For some reason, this is the only Dreamworks special not on Netflix, but does still air annually on ABC.
Dec. 19: I have no clue how Olive the Other Reindeer, this super-charming, Drew Barrymore-voiced special about a dog who mishears a radio bulletin and thinks Santa needs her, didn’t become a classic. It’s not streaming, but is available very inexpensively on DVD and well worth a watch.
Dec. 20: How Murray Saved Christmas, another overlooked gem, this 2014 rhyming special first appeared on NBC, and is airing this season as part of AMC’s Best Christmas Ever. (It’s also available on DVD and digital.)
Dec. 21: As we realize we’re quickly running out of days till Christmas, time to make sure we pack in some classics, like, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Dec. 22: Santa, Baby! This 2001special featuring Eartha Kitt is the last of the Rankin-Bass originals and it’s…fine. Lots of music and a magical partridge. Not something you see everyday. (Was available on DVD, now out of print, and can sometimes be found on YouTube.)
Dec. 23: Saving the best for (almost) last, the whole family got up this morning and watched Prep & Landing, and its sequel, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice, in our jammies, to kick off Christmas vacation.
Dec. 24: Christmas Eve is always the 1966 version of Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas to remind us all that Christmas doesn't come from a store. Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more.
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felicianacariocapistoles · 5 years ago
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Jay’s favorite cartoons of the decade
I’m bored, so I’m gonna join that bandwagon. Here are my favorites in no particular order and reasons why they’re my favorites and even favorite characters.
1. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
The animation is bright and colorful. This is also the first cartoon I watched with my first born niece so it has a special place in my heart because of it. Also this may sound corny-- but it showed me how to be a better friend (and also how to spot the phony friends that I had left) Fav characters- Pinkie Pie and Discord
2. Young Justice 
I was born a bat fan. My dad’s fav is Batman. The first thing I learned to read? Batman comics. So you better believe I’ve seen/read all things DC Comic related (this blog used to be all about DC Comics) and when this was announced? I was super excited. I was even constantly binge watching it just in hopes of having a 3rd season (which I’m disappointed in, but not wanna get into that) Fav characters- Nighting, Superboy, Wally West, Batman, Bart Allen, Artemis, Brion, Halo, and Forager 
3. Gravity Falls
It’s Disney, how can I resist? It has wonderful animation and a town full of fun characters, lore, and mystery. What’s not to love about it? Fav characters- Stanley Pines, Bill Cipher, and Soos
4. Dreamworks Dragons
I’m a fan of the HTTD movies, so hearing they got a show? Fantastic! They kept most of the same voice cast and introduced us to more awesome dragons and characters! Fav characters- Hiccup, Daggur, Gobber
5. TMNT (2012)
I grew up on re-runs of  the corny 80s series and later the fantastic 2003 series (which is STILL the best TMNT series ever) so when this came out? I was both excited and hesitant because...CGI animation and I have an iffy relationship. I watched this version with my nieces, we all loved it. This version has my favorite Splinter origin story (but not my fav Splinter-- that’s 2003) Fav characters- Raph, Mickey, Donnie, Casey, Karai
6. Rick and Morty
The first adult cartoon I ever liked tbh. Interdimensional travel and family drama? Love that shit, lol Fav characters- Morty, Summer, Beth, Rick, Bird Person
7. Star vs The Forces of Evil
It’s a little weird and a little wild. Also I’m a slut for anything to do with magic so of course this is gonna grab my attention! (until season 3, but again, I digress) Fav characters- Star, Marco, Eclipsa, Globgor, Janna, Tom
8. Ducktales (2017)
Funny...At first I didn’t want to give the show a chance. A reboot of a classic childhood cartoon? No thanks. Wasn’t a fan of the animation either or some of the characters redesigns at first. (some I’m still not fond of tbh) Then it premiered the day after my birthday for a full 24 hours, replaying the same 1 hour episode...I must’ve watched it at least ten times that day. Never go by your first impression and always give something a shot is what this show taught me! Fav characters- Donald Duck, Louie Duck, Huey Duck, Violet Saberwing, Launchpad McQuack
9. Tangled the Series/Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure
BEST PRINCESS/MOST RELATE-ABLE PRINCESS IS GETTING A SHOW? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!!! Much like TMNT 2012, I was excited and hesitant about this. The promos said she had her hair back? I was so confused and was hoping they’d give a logical explanation and not like “lol its back, deal with it” and I’m so glad they didn’t do that. The cast is the same as the movies and some new fun characters added along with backstories of them and lore of the kingdom.  Fav characters- Rapunzel, Eugene, Lance, Varian
10. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
When I was a little kid I didn’t have much for television, but my older sister had a bunch of She-Ra and He-Man episodes on VHS so I would watch those...I forgot they existed until memes of them popped up. Then the show was announced. Gonna give it a shot aaaaaaand. Oh no. I fell in love. Fantastic animation. Written by a woman? Strong female characters galore? Yaaaaaas. Fav characters- Catra, Bow, Adora, Double Trouble, Scorpia, Entrapta
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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago
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Ducktales Della Arc Reviews: The Spear of Selene or THE INCREDIBLE STORKULES, GOD OF HOMEROTIC SUBTEXT OUT OF MYTH!
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Hello all you happy people and welcome back to my coverage of the Della arc! It’s our last 2017 episode before the Finale, and it’s a huge one as we delve into a fan faviorite that introduces a pair of fan faviorites, a drum of tzatkiki sauce worth of gay,  an asshole so odious getting sent to the bowls of hades and laughed at for all enternity after being cast out by eveyrone he knows really was getting off light, and at last some plot progression on this arc. At the time it aired mind you at this point Dellas been a beloved cast member for three years, and we’ve known what happened to her for longer than that. 
At the time though.. it’d been 8 MONTHS since the Great Dime Chase. Let that sink in. The Della reveal was the biggest hook of an already exceptional pilot: It not only promised to flesh out a character who’d had all of one story in the comics at this point in present day, but solve the mystery of why she was gone. Not only that but Scrooge and Donald’s feud clearly stemmed from this exact moment. And the first full episode in the arc confirmed it: Della had taken whatever “The Spear of Selene” was and apologized to Scrooge for it. So why had she taken it, why did Donald blame scrooge, why did Scrooge not blame himself, at least outwardly, where was she, what was the spear of selene...
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As I pointed out last time airing order didn’t help and due to airing the arc episodes really close together, gave the impression the arc would not only move fast but take up more of the season than it did. In practice both arcs take up a fourth of the season not including the finale, which would take both up to about a third. The expectation on how much of the season would be taken up by the arc.. was on Disney for airing things badly. I will give credit where it’s do as they moved this episode up in the order to try and make up for it (and give themselves a huge mid season opener).. but then for some reason shoved the last episode before last crash, ie. the only one they coudln’t move, way back to right before that episode. “ Here’s an actual photo of the person who made this decision
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As I said they did get better next season with only a few swaps and only for good reason. So props. 
HOWEVER.... this episode still has some  flaws with pacing and revealing info, with or without Disney drunk driving the schedule. The wait between episodes in this plot is an episode LONGER in production order... and dosen’t move the plot forward by much. I will get to that when the time comes.. and that DESPITE this treatment of the fans.. this episode is still one of the seasons best. How are both things true? Join me under the cut to find out. 
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Thunderstormy to be precise and the Sunchaser is natrually encountering loads of turbulence with Launchpad barely holding int here while Donald’s buffeted around the back. Why Donald’s with them... 
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But it’’s one of his only five starring episodes in the season, out of 9 appearances total the rest of which are cameos.  Yeah now seems as good as time as any to talk about Season 1′s Donald Duck problem. 
See Donald was promoted as a major part of the series, rightly so since he was reduced to a guest star for the 87 series due to a combination of Disney not wanting to overexpose the characters, people possibly not being able to understand his voice and thus making plots hard to understand, and Tony Anselmo being new to the roll at the time. So the reboot went all out promoting the fact Donald would be in it, front and center and gave him TWO character shorts to the rest of the casts one. Disney really went out of their way to show he’d be in there so as a certified Donald Fanatic, I was sure he’d actually be in the show a lot and on the adventures a lot. The crew were not blameless as both promotional arts featured him. Launchpad and Beakly conversely were asbent, so the impression given by all of this was that Donald would be central to the series and in a lot of episodes, given equal focus to scrooge and the kids. 
This.. didn’t happen as you all know. Instead as stated he’s up front and center for 5 episodes, and makes cameos in others, but generally is hardly around. Now there is KINDA an excuse to this as he doesn’t want to adventure, be in the mansion or any of that.. but it’s a REALLY weak one. He still at least could’ve made more cameos, the fact he was working on the boat all that time isn’t made clear till last crash, and his two spotlight episodes both have him dragged along on the adventure anyway, so it’s not like his not wanting to be there meant he woudln’t be forced to join in anyway. There were ways to include him, still have him in a supporting role instead of leaving him back at the mansion.. and even the second episode proved there was still comedy to be mliked from that.. and pathos don’t forget the pathos. So yeah this was easily the biggest mistake of the season and one season 2 largely corrected: He got four dedicated plots, and was around a decent amount in the first half of the season and while he DID get shot up to the moon... it was for valid reasons. They wanted to focus on Della and the kids, give her room to breathe as a brand new major addition to the show, and thus him being around and the elephant in the room of his and scrooge’s feud that was never dealt with on screen, would’ve distracted from that. And even with that they still gave him a focus episode that somehow added more depth and MASSIVELY advanced the main plot, and a sizeable roll in the finale. Season 3 likewise had things better: while he shows up as much as in season 1, the episode count is lower by one, and he’s a major part of the plot in every one BUT Last Christmas, with four of those having the spotlight on him in some way. They eventually did figure out how to use him far more ballanced. So yeah credit where it’s do it got MUCH better, but he still felt like a recurring character in his own series, that was still bad, and I still needed to give out about it. 
But Webby and Dewey have a mission even if Dewey dosen’t quite get what’s going on so they flip a switch to turn on a warning light of some kind forcing Launchpad to make an emergency landing on a gorgeous tropical island. To Huey’s amazement, as the place was apparenlty only a myth, though naturally the guidebook did have it’s aproximate location listed... Ithaquack, home of the gods. Naturally Scrooge and Donald want to leave as soon as possible for reasons we’ll get into but Launchpad , for once is being a responsible pilot “Better safe than.. something right? Scrooge is of course irate that Launchpad picked NOW of all times to be safe, and the Kids.. don’t listen because Huey sees a beautiful realm of myth, Louie sees a beach vacation and Dewey and Webby.. have work to do. Webby eventually fills Dewey in on why their here, having wrongly assumed he got why they were going to a mythical greek island. As Dewey delightfully puts it later “Don’t assume I know anything. “ So she pieces it together for him: Selene was the greek goddess of the moon... Della took the SPEAR of Selene. Ergo this island is the best place to find the Spear and failing that, Selene herself to get more info on it and Della. 
So we have our two plots. Scrooge and Donald dealing with their pasts and the gods, and Dewey and Webby diving into his mom’s past. And unlike the last review where a genuinely unsettling story about an abuse victim forced to manipulate her girlfriend not going into a murder vault was paired with Louie having to deal with a Sasquatch while Huey catches a case of Dewey’s stupidity somehow, these two plots are perfectly paired: Their both perfectly thematically connected, both dealing with the past, Della’s absence and Scrooge and the Twins past encounters with the gods.. but both being self contained outside of that, entirely unconnected but stilll necessary to be in the same episode. THIS is how you do two plots. But since they don’t really synch up again till the end, let’s cover each one at a time shall we?
“What if My Mom was a Bad Person?” 
The plot is pretty straight forward but expertly done: Dewey and Webby first check your standard Zelda dungeon which apparently has a cursed weapon at the end. We also get an utterly adorable and sweet shot of Webby comforting Dewey after he’s clearly shook from it. Awwww. Turns out it’s the SWORD of Selene. and quickly turns into a game of put the Cursed Sword back before we all die. 
Next up is a monster who nearly kills both protecting it’s spear.. the spear of POSIDEN. (Look at meeeeee). And since they aren’t going to be on a boat that isn’t a house boat anytime soon, they don’t need that and the monster cheerfully redirects them, with Dewey apologizing for calling it ugly. 
So all pretty standard stuff for the show and really good stuff.. but it’s the building tension underneath that truly makes the episode and leads to one hell of a climax for this plot. All the while Dewey is DESPERATE for some explination for his mom’s disapperance that isn’t her betraying Scrooge, maybe returning the spear because it was cursed or getting eaten by a monster. Just ANYTHING but the mounting and horrifying suspicion.. that his mom was a bad person who destroyed her family and betrayed her uncle and laughed all the while. Webby.. does not help, backing that side of things and constantly voicing hte idea Della betrayed Scrooge, so obsessed with solving the mystery of her life.. but so unfamilliar with people she dosen’t see the very real toll this is taking on her best friend. To her she’s just making a logical counterpoint.. to him it’s just another idea in his head about the way his mom could’ve betrayed everyone she cared about. 
So that climax is where it explodes. Our heroes find a scale model of ithaquack (Complete with Tiny Maniticore! It’s so cute Webby just wants to slay it)  and an opening.. with an ominous message about incurring the wrath of the god seemingly conforming the worst. So Webby prepares to find out the whole story.. only for Dewey to stop her. No one’s finding this out, whatever it is, no matter how far they’ve come. And given this is the biggest mystery of her life and she simply dosen’t understand WHY Dewey dosen’t want to know.. both sides are ready to fight for this. And Webby DOES try to back him down, pointing out he really can’t beat her in a fight. But Dewey’s already grown leaps and bounds form the pilot and is working smarter not harder. Beat Webby, who spent a good chunk of her life being honed into the most badass child on the parent, one who can take on several of scrooge’s worst foes one on one? Not on his life. But hold her off long enough for the gate to close? He can do that. 
So the result? One of the best fights of the series... and given the sheer amount of great ones we’ve gottten since this one it still says something it holds up THIS well. It’s an even, furiously paced fight, with Dewey using every advantage he has including tossing said manticore to keep up, but not slowing down one bit. It’s heartbreaking to see the two come to this but it’s an delight to watch. Webby DOES win eventually, though time’s running out to get in and she finally asks WHY. And  while the stakes have been crystal clear for both this whole time.. we get them laid out in the most painful way for both. 
Webby: We're so close to the truth! Why won't you let us find it?! Dewey: Because...*his voice cracks* what if my mom was a bad person?
It hits VERY hard. For Webby this has been a puzzle something to solve the greatest achivment of her life, her chance to make her mark... and her best friend just wanted to abandon it. But in one swift response, he disarms all of that.. and makes her see how insnstivie she’s been: He may not know his mom.. but he can’t bear the thought she was a bad person. That she left or WORSE, because she didn’t care about him, or scrooge or ANYONE. Knowing nothing is better than knowing she was a monster. 
Webby realizes what she’s been doing to her friend and is horrified and offers to back out. The answers.. aren’t worth destroying her brother. But her willingness to back down.. finally gets Dewey to see the light. His fear was valid.. but at the end of the day,  it’d never go away. it’d just keep eating him for the rest of his life, every time she was mentioned or he found something else out he’d just wonder if it was a lie and wonder wht he COULD’VE learned this day. And if Webby’s willing to sacrifice THIS MUCH to give him peace of mind... then he can sacrifice that peace of mind for the truth, for her, and for himself. So he pulls them inside. 
Inside they find Selene who suprises them.. and is then confused. Their not della. Also I guarantee mentally she’s thiking “Thank me I didn’t do it naked this time. “. After some confusion as to who this is, Webby explains that IS Selene, and Dewey begs for answers about the spear... only to find out she dosen’t have one. Nope. The sword seen before and a SPHERE, yes.. but no Spear. So the poor boy breaks down, back to square one. It’s hard not to see why... all this effort, all of this sacrifice.. and he’s no closer than when they first set down. 
Selene does help though... giving him an idea of who his mom WAS: one of her closest friends (And let’s face it  Della named the ship after Selene and Selene casually uses Della’s shower. If they didn’t go out at least once, I am an outer god. And I very much am not and they very much banged hard. Goodnight. ) , a good person who brought fun to everyone, and loved her family more than anything. Wether she betrayed Scrooge or not, she wasn’t a bad person. And her own orb shows it showing Della in her prime, brightly smiling next ot her family. Selene encourages the boy not to give up, that his mom always loved a mystery.. and he can solve this one and gently hugs the sobbing child.. with Dewey quickly pulling webby in. It’s genuinely touching and a satisfying ISH ending. 
The ish... is because while this is a VERY good plot, i’ll gush more about it at the end, it does have one supreme flaw: the mystery dosen’t progress. And with the huge gaps between this episode and hte next one, in BOTH airing orders... it’s unforgivable to not have EITHER plot give us any hints about what happened. I don’t ask for much, but they could’ve found a clue in the sphere Dewey got, or saw a memory of her that brought up the next place they look, just something a little. While it’s still a very fine story, the main plot suffers a bit by having one of the ONLY three episodes delving into the della mystery before it’s fully revealed in sunchaaser have almost no progress. Della was probably a good person, which comes from her ex who clearly still loves her so that’s not really reliable, and the spear isn’t literal. While the lack of progress works for the story in the episode itself.. it comes at the cost of any actual plot progression. We end up exactly where we started and have to wait SOME TIME before we get to the next spot on the tour. Well we did, you guys will find out Monday or Tuesday depending on if the finale goes up in the morning or Disney holds it till the actual airing. Please don’t you bastards. Point is it’s  VERY good plot, but it’s hampred by not really progressing the arc. 
The arc progression for this storyline is painfully slow, and tha’ts not on disney. In either order there’s a MASSIVE gap of 15+ episodes between what we learned in the great dime chase and what we learn in castle mcduck. It’s sloppy writing and I expect better from this team, especially since the Lena plot the same season is far tighter paced: each one builds a bit, both on Lena as a character (Why she’s doing this etc), her development as a person, her relationship with webby growing and Magica and her growing more and more spiteful with one another. They could’ve had at least ONE MORE subplot to build this up, especially since we really dind’t need the sasquatch episode but just.. didn’t for whatever reason and it’s still frustrating.  But as always credit where it’s due.. the next two seasons were better about it. 
Season 2 while not perfect, and we’ll get to it’s plots someday.. and I do say plots as not alternating between the two plots for season 1 was a mistake if a well meaning one as not to drive up the price for Kev but for future refrence if any of you want me to cover an arc for something I WILL have to cover all of it or any adjacent to it that flow into it. Point is they move faster and both Glomgold and Louie’s are pretty lowkey and low stakes so while enjoyable, their not moving incredibly fast dosen’t hurt the show. And the Moon plot has the best pacing of the three and possibly of the series plots period: We get filled in on Della fairly quick, getting answers on her WAY faster, get introduced to the moon and it’s people right away, get a whole episode on them, and the most importantly in sharp contrast? She returns HOME halfway into the season. 
I will probably go into this again when I get to nothing will stop della duck but Season 1′s pacing and general wisdowm made me think she wouldn’t get home anytime soon and she’d return in the finale. Instead? We get a whole half a season fleshing her out further, seeing her connect with her kids, all that good stuff, WITH an episode advancing the moon arc, without that arc feeling unimportant, but still having the slow pacing. 
Season 3 meanwhile while again not without bugs, the last few episodes before the finale having no real build up to it really wasnt a good idea and I question why these two episodes were the ones leading into it, has two seemingly barely related plots.. that EFFORTLESLY merge into one, with one hell of a huge twist in impossibin that ratchets up the stakes. I don’t know how it’ll payoff.. but we’ll see. 
So they did get better, i’m still hard on it because it happened.. but I will never stop stressing how this crew usually corrected a mistake. If they fucked up, they LEARNED FROM IT, course corrected, and made it better and they listened to US. IN the good way, not letting fans run the series but listening to valid concerns and adapting to them. And given how fucking rare that is and how hard it must’ve been with the tight schedule, I.. I really appricate it and i’m going to miss it. And I can’t think of a segue so enjoy this picture of a turtle hitting a trapper in the face with a bat instead. 
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“Someone Always Gets Hurt”
So let’s take it back a few hours. Hit it boys!
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Donald tries getting the boys back on the ship, clearly fearing something coming for him.. and we soon meet that something. Yes it’s the hero of legend, the stork out of myth, the star of a LOT of Donald Duck Slash FanFiction only half of which he wrote, STORKULES!
In case I didn’t make it clear when I reviewed New Gods on the Block! I love this guy. He reminds me a LOT of the marvel version: Boisterious , horny (if in a far more pg version), Gay (Pansexual for the marvel version), flawed but still immensley likeable. Stork is a bit diffrent, a bit more naive, a bit peppier and entirely blind to the fact his father is a terrible person. But my love of the marvel herc means Stork was an easy sell for me and Chris Dimatopolis’ performance is second to none, only topped in this series by his later work as Darkwing where he got a bit more range than “Joyous ham who wants to bang”. Also I’m 100% convenced he’s made this memetic expression to donald at some point... 
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If someone hasn’t redrawn that with Storkules yet, we have failed as an internet. And if someone has please show me. 
His crush on Donald is also endearing even if I don’t ship the two. And if your curious as to why it’s simple: Storkules is attracted to a version of Donald that no longer exists. Storkules craves a Donald whose a brave daring hero who loves adventure. And while still a brave hero when the situation calls for it as this episode will bare out.. he just.. dosen’t have the passion for adventure he did as a kid. While a LOT of that is loosing his sister for a decade, even once he makes peace with that and later gets her back... he just wants a normal life. His greatest wish was for one. He apparenlty “wishes for this every day”. He dosen’t hate adventuering anymore and by season 3 has come to terms with the fact he’ll never get everyone else to stop.. but I also think it’s always been obvious he clearly wants to one day. To have a normal life, settle down, find a girl, and if she wants to get married. Get old , fat and happy. I honestly think that’s the direction the finale’s heading in judging from the previews. I don’t think he’ll ever stop entirely, his family life’s too insane for that.. but he just dosen’t want to keep going forever and Stork, being an immortal hero does. They want diffrent things entirely and that just won’t work. Though that’s also JUST me and if you ship them or have a way around that, feel free. This is just my opinon. 
Anyways Donald’s not happy, the kids are confused  and Scrooge. has problesm bigger than simply not knowing how to say i’m not into you.... aka Zeus, king of the gods and of all assholes. He was originally supposed to be a swan due to a certian myth.. but they realized since that myth is both really fucked up and really not for children to not do that because why the fuck would you. Point is Zeus in myth is an asshole, a rapist, a cheating husband, and a vengeful, petty dick and that’s with barely any knowledge of Greek Myth on my part. He’s played by Micheal Chiklis whose famous for The Comissh and the Shield.. but whose famous to me for playing the ever loving Blue Eyed thing in the Tim Story Fantastic Four movies.. and honeslty, at least till marvel takes a crack at it soon, is the best screen version of the character. Look the film is flawed and I don’t remember a lot of it.. but his stuff in it just NAILS the character perfectly, at least the first one, and while the look is.. eh, he was the perfect casting. He just wasn’t in the right movie. So he’s naturally awesome here as history’s greatest douchebag. 
As for why Zeus is pissed at him unlike say Donald (The whole Spear of Selene fiasco) or Magica (Who while even worse than Zeus still lost her brother because of his callousness), or others he’s wronged.. Scrooge did absolutely nothing wrong here. During a beach party Storkules intiates, he reveals he used to be king of the beach and loved and worshipped by the people of ithaquack, which last time the adult ducks visited was a lovely hideaway for heroes. Scrooge naturally did a bunch of heroic and cool stuff, and upstaged him, and then bested him in various games and what not. Zeus claims they ran off because of this and because they didn’t want to party with a god bested by a mortal.. but scrooge reveals pottery showing it’s because Zeus threw a temper tantrum aka “a year long lightning storm”. So yeah for once all Scrooge did was just upstage someone who was already objectively horrible and who brought all of htis on himself. Scrooge even points it out perfectly “They didn’t leave because they liked me, they left because they didn’t like YOU. “ 
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Pissing off the god who already didn’t like you for stupid reason goes about how you’d expect and when Storkules tries to cool things down by suggesting a game, Zeus turns it into a contest. His son against Scrooge’s nephews. Because he uh dosen’t want to lower himself. Yeah that’s it, totally not that Scrooge would kick his ass and then fucking kick his ass. Yeah that’s the ticket. 
So our boys don Toga’s, and gear up for the first challenge: grabbing the bag of winds. In case you thought Spongebob just made that up. Zeus of course opens it so Donald can’t just leave, but Huey simply thinks his way out and wins , Zeus demands best 2/3 and we soon get a montage of various events from chariot racing to sculpture where we get our title picture, lest you thought I was kidding abotu Storkules obession with donald. I mean there’s subtextually having a character have a crush on another and then ther’es making a naked muscular statue of him. I.. I don’t even have a joke here. He made a naked muscular statue of Donald. The only way they could be less obvious without just coming outright and saying it was if hte statue was of hima nd storkules making out. And i’m 100% sure Frank, Matt and Dana, yes Dana Terrace was involved in this one i’m as unsurpised as you are, only didn’t do that because Disney said no. 
Zeus declares one final round because he’s tired of this..e ven though he CLEARLY won the last one while Donald once again tries to just leave and Storkules finally calls him on it wondering why he’s given up adventuring and wondering what della would say if she could see him like this, having just given up and not caring anymore about any of ths stuff.  “Well she can’t! Someone always gets hurt....”
And that one very sharp and painful line both outlines Donald’s arc here, and for the season, and makes it VERY clear why he retired and why I felt like he was already on his way and the spear of selene was simply the final straw. He gave up.. because he was just tired of it. Tired of being the one who got hurt.. and devistated when it wasn’t him that time. When he lost his sister for what he felt was NOTHING. Sure hte stars would be great but they’d done everything and gone everywhere..w asn’t.. wasn’t that enough/ Couldn’t they just be done? Couldn’t he just stop. The spear gave him an excuse to do what he always wanted, but it also caused him to harden up and view EVERYTHING about his old days of adventuring as bad when like most things i’ts not that simple., There were good times, sunshine, giant sized gay men obessing over you.. okay maybe the last part isn’t a plus in his book, but point is there was good and his arc is seeing that and realizing he can’t just cling to his pain. He has to let go so he can move on heathliy. 
As for said final challenge Zeus tasks the boys and Storkules with stealing the golden fleece from a little girl. While this is part of a whole scheme... he undereistmaed his son’s valour and Storkules is naturally sent spinning over having to steal from a child and is sent into a crisis. Louie however has no such qualms, as he is a children.. and he’s also louie.. but as he tries to the child starts singing. As Scrooge puts it “nothing good happens when creepy children start singing. “ Very true, it’s usually a sign freddy kruger’s about to show up or your  about to be taken by a miltiary orginzation obssed with The Doctor. 
The boys plug their ears.. and Zeus’ plan becomes horrifically clear. Turns out he had no real interest in an actual contest this time, and has the child take control of Storkules to murder them. And gives the doucheist shrug imaginable when his OWN SON IS BEGGING HIM NOT TO MAKE HIM MURDER SOME CHILDREN. 
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Scrooge naturally gets involved. Meanwhile Donald is trying to escape the lightning cage Zeus is using to make sure no one leaves... when he hears the boys cries of terror. He may hate this kind of thing.. but there’s one thing and only one thing that can make him snap back into who he used to be like it was yesterday. And that’s harming his boys. So Donald snaps into action and it’s a glory to see as Scrooge snaps back with him “Just like old times”. The two once again get a little closer to reconclisation by wrestling a golden pansexual to prevent him from brainwashdely murdering two children. God I love this show and this job. 
Huey however is more of the aim for the head sort and Louie simply uses his natural talent to talk the siren into working with him, with him as her agent. As he puts it Zeus just wants to use her.. he wants to use her too.. but to make them BOTH rich. She agrees, Louie wins, and Donald finally accepts storkules is his friend. Scrooge TRIES to use this to mend fences with Zeus.. but Zeus being a petulant dick wants another game and Scrooge simply throws a game of billiards or something like it to get this over with. 
So we get our wrapup. Dewey and Webby return, and Storkules and Donald say their goodbyes. Donald finally admits he’s his friend.. and in that one act finally admits he can’t just bury his past because parts of it are painful. And as Storkules puts it he may be done with adventure.. btu adventure’s not done with him. He’s got more of his old self in who he is now than he thought. Dewey also accidently wins and our family finds launchpad took the plane apart. There.. there’s no real ending. I can only assume Selene said knock this shit off when she found out or beakly later came in guns blazing. I don’t know. 
Final Thoughts: This episode is excellent. It has it’s fault: there’s no plot progression, and the ending is just stupid and is the only one of the series that feels like nothing was resolved. That being said.. the rest of the episode makes up for it. It’s filled with great gags as usual.. but the real meat is the character work. Dewey’s worries about his mom, and Donald’s attempt to literally leave his past behind, it’s really amazing stuff that elevates the episode past it’s flaws and into one fo the series best. Wheras revisting Other Bin reminded me it had a bad subplot that drug it down.. revisiting this one showed me just HOW near perfect it is with only a few things holding it back. Even with the dispaoitnment factor.. this one’s still excellent, with Ben, Kate and Tony all at the top of their games. Great stuff. 
Next Time on this Arc: Dewey has to face the future when the truth comes out. And Scrooge.. bitches with his dad for half the episode. Sure beats his dad sadly btu sweetly passing on to be with his wife huh?!
Next time on this blog: Amphibia time! Speaking of facing the consequences of lying to your family, Hop Pop’s FINALLY forced to face hiding the Box from Anne, and we also get an ivy episode. Super fuckin shooters. 
If you liked this review, consdier joining my patreon, link’s in the blog and next stretchgoal is a darkwing duck episode a month. Until the next rainbow it’s been a pleasure. 
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loreweaver-universe · 6 years ago
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LAST EDITED ON 7/9/2020
I got @’d on Twitter about a liveblog recommendation list, so let me reiterate what I said there regarding my status on potential liveblogs that they mentioned.  In fact, here’s a whole rundown!
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the biggest one that they wanted me to liveblog, as I’ve only ever seen the first episode and a smattering of clips from elsewhere.  Unfortunately, this is one I will almost certainly never do as a main-lineup show; patrons can pledge enough to get me to do episodes, but that’s the only way I’m going to liveblog it, as I have almost no interest in it whatsoever, and considering how hard it’s been for me to blog Wander, I can’t imagine I’ll have any kind of a good time with MLP.
Also, I’m a little scared of the fandom, as it’d be a rough time staving off the less pleasant groups.  I should know, I grew up in the online Sonic fandom.
Gravity Falls is, unfortunately, not on the table.  For the exact opposite reason; I’ve seen all but, like, eight episodes, and am heavily spoiled on the rest.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, to remind everybody, is the show that already replaced Madoka Magica in my main lineup.  You’ll be seeing more of that as I catch up on Steven Universe and repair my shattered mental health.
Star Vs the Forces of Evil is on the potential liveblogs list for my patrons to vote on whenever I catch up on a main-lineup show and need to replace it.
Amphibia is also on that list, and is a show I’m very excited about--for obvious reasons.
They also mentioned The Owl House, The Loud House, and Victor and Valentino.  I’ve never heard of any of these, so I guess when I finish She-Ra I’ll ask my staff if they’re shows I should add to the poll.
EDIT: Zombieland Saga keeps getting brought up as a liveblog possibility, as well.
THE CURRENT LINEUP
MAIN SHOWS
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power--Have done the first thirteen episodes.
INACTIVE SHOWS
Steven Universe--Completed. :’(
Over the Garden Wall--Completed.
Madoka Magica--I stopped liveblogging this show due to my declining mental health not being able to handle its pessimism and negativity.  This is never coming back..
Wander Over Yonder--I wasn’t enjoying the show, and, more importantly, nobody was enjoying me not enjoying the show.
Infinity Train--Completed through the end of season 2.  Waiting on season 3.
PATRON PICKS
Currently, I have three slots on my Patreon (valued at fifty dollars per liveblog) where a patron can straight-up pick a show for me to do--either a full ten-minute episode or half of a twenty-minute episode per month.  Once I’m mentally able to handle working consistently again and get ahead of my responsibilities, I might do extra liveblogs of these shows in a month beyond what I’ve been commissioned for--but that’s a maybe and a someday, so don’t plan on it.
Baccano--Currently halfway through episode 10.  Really enjoying how funny it is.
Paranoia Agent--Currently completed episode 10.  Very high-quality.
A Place Further Than the Universe--Currently halfway through episode 8.  this show is so cute you guys
OTHER POTENTIAL PATRON PICKS
Some of my patrons have backup shows they might have me switch to or do after I complete theirs.  These are those shows.
Re:Zero
POTENTIAL PICKS
These are shows that are definitely on the voting list for when my patrons collectively vote on a new show.  It’s not the entirety of the list, but these won’t change.
Amphibia
Star vs the Forces of Evil
DuckTales 2017
Samurai Jack
Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts
The Dragon Prince
Hilda
Mob Psycho
Camp Camp
The Owl House
Anyways, that’s the status of my shows, past, present, and future.  Hope that cleared stuff up!
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fly-pow-bye · 4 years ago
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DuckTales 2017 - The Absolute Best!
After doing the least best this series has done, it's time for a much, much harder list to put together: the absolute best episodes of DuckTales 2017. I am not going to lie: this was hard to put together. Anyone could guess that based on how I once planned to have this list alongside the worst list and that did not happen. I can also see myself forgetting about other really good episodes of this show. However, after days of pondering, I believe I have a good list here.
Same rules as the last list.
It has to be an episode of DuckTales 2017. No shorts, even if the shorts combined can make up a full episode.
With this list, I have to say something bad about each of these episodes. Not necessarily the worst part of the episode, but a bad part nonetheless. These are going to be more nitpicky, but it is only fair to prove the constant that there is no such thing as a perfect piece of media and it is a decent challenge for me.
This is my opinion and my opinion alone. There are episodes I didn't like as much that a lot of people did. The last list should be a huge hint at that.
Alright, let's begin.
10. Jaw$!
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I mentioned this episode in my Least Best as the better example of the show establishing the relationship between Lena and Magica De Spell. It establishes Magica De Spell better than either of the episodes that featured her before this one. One was a tease put in the very last minute of the episode to show how Lena is going to be far more important than the "cool new goth girl", and the other was the Terra-Firmians episode that used her as a way to improve what would otherwise be a not-so-good filler episode. This one is a far better example, and it's not just because a money-shark is a lot more interesting and threatening than a bunch of cutesy rock creatures.
It also has a B-plot about Scrooge's Board of Directors scheduling an interview to improve his PR, and hilarity ensues when Scrooge has to defend his zillionaire antics when a shark made of his own fortune is causing havoc throughout the town. Glomgold also makes an appearance during this, which only makes it better. Along with some neat Jaws references along the way, this is not an episode to miss.
Bad thing: They really did not want to mention the obvious plot hole of the kids being able to go into the money bin. This was long before F.O.W.L. began their plans against Scrooge or even the 87 cent problem, but still, one would think this would be one of the most highly secure places at Killmotor Hill considering all of his enemies. Considering I didn't particularly love the Impossibin episode, as much as I love the idea of it, it might be for the best.
9. The First Adventure!
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Going from an arc from season 1 to an arc from season 3, though some may argue the F.O.W.L. arc has been happening since season 1. Anyway, this is an episode that brings back the younger Donald and younger Della that was first seen in "Last Christmas!" in their first adventure with their Uncle Scrooge. It's very interesting to see the similarities between their first adventure with Scrooge and the first adventure with Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Even though this does give good development to the arc, arguably even bigger characters in this episode are Bradford Buzzard and Black Heron, as this episode details the origins of the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny. Their antics throughout this episode are very entertaining, with the plot toying with the dynamic of the more chaotic evil Heron and the more lawful evil Buzzard. With all it all ties together, I had to put the First Adventure on this list.
Bad thing: The sense of time in this episode is odd. We get a title card showing that it's the 60's in the opening scene, and yet there is very little suggestion of any passing of time between the opening scene and the scenes that I assumed took place in the 80's.
8. Quack Pack!
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It would be too easy to just put in episodes that are important to any of the various story arcs that went throughout this series, so here's an episode that could be taken out of the series without harming anything. However, it is still a very memorable episode of the show, where the cast of characters have to be in this weird sitcom. There's also a mystery element, as there is a culprit to why these characters are in this sitcom world.
I really like the whole meta element, with the characters picking apart all not only the clichés in sitcoms, but sitcom production as well. I also really appreciated the "special guest", another sitcom staple, being a character from a different Disney Afternoon show with some great references to it. Quack Pack turns out to be the antithesis of the show it was named after; it's not dated, it's really funny, and it realistically portrays how freaked out these characters would be if they saw those weird hairless apes.
Bad thing: I wish they did more with the concept of this world being made up by someone who was locked away from the world since 1990. Maybe not references to the era of Disney that gave us "Gotta Be Gettin' Goofy", but more jokes about how the 90's were different from now. They kind of ignore this, as if they only mentioned 1990 because of the DuckTales movie they were referencing.
7. Last Christmas!
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Wait, a Christmas episode in a Top 10? I have my reasons for including this one. It's not just because the idea is pretty great, as it uses the very tale that inspired Scrooge's entire character in the first place. Obviously, we already had one of the best cartoon renditions of A Christmas Carol, and this episode does not try to recreate that. Instead, we get a different tale, mostly featuring Scrooge and Jiminy Cricket, er, the ghost of Christmas Past, going back to the past to experience a good Christmas party. If only we can do the same, like Dewey accidentally does in the episode.
This was also the first time we also got to see a young version of Donald, who, in this episode, is voiced by none other than the late, great Russi Taylor. It was almost like having one of the siblings from the old show interact with one of the new ones. This is also the first time we got to see and hear her outside of a painting, and it's heartbreaking and yet understandable when we get to the scene where Dewey has to say goodbye. It's a good scene, and they weren't afraid to even throw in a joke that does not ruin the moment.
Bad thing: No, episode, this is the Scrooge they were looking for. Were they trying to make it seem like Scrooge was always a hero and not a miser who would deserve getting three ghosts to visit him with that line? I don’t buy it.
6. The Ballad of Duke Baloney!
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Got to pay some respect to Scrooge's arch-rival with an episode that really shows off his character, which is a bit ironic as this is an episode about him getting amnesia and getting a brand new, at least to us, persona named Duke Baloney. Amnesia episodes tend to be a dime-a-dozen, and anyone could predict this new persona is not going to last, but the way this episode develops is actually much more interesting. This is the episode for Glomgold character development, with dream sequences, flashbacks, and a great scene in the ending that takes place in a storm that he may or may not have made up in his head. I may not have given a lot of his episodes high-rated reviews, but this is easily not only one of his best appearances, but one of the best episodes of DuckTales 2017.
Bad thing: The dream sequence really subtly implies that Duke Baloney is about to become Glomgold again. How? By having him outright say "this gold, it's GLOOMING onto me!" ...okay, I'll admit, that was a stretch for a bad thing, but with a dream sequence with subtleties, that took me out of it.
5. The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!
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I called this episode "the best episode of the series so far" when I reviewed it, a pretty late episode in a season with lots of good episodes, I would say that's a good sign that this one was going to be a shoo-in for at least the Top 10. What I love most about this episode is that it gives a little more humanity to the legendary Scrooge McDuck. Sure, this was shown a bit in "Woo-oo!" and "Mount Never-Rest!", but I felt this episodes was one of the best examples of that. Throughout this episode, he sees himself as this legendary figure, as everyone sees him, and he ends up failing to live up to those impossible standards by crashing in a plane in a way where they may not survive.
Much like Quack Pack, there's no traditional villain like Glomgold or Magica. Eventually, this leads to Scrooge finally bringing up his biggest failure: his loss of the Spear of Selene and a certain relative that was piloting it, and it is one of the biggest emotional moments of the series, both in and out of universe. It's one of the most important episodes in the series, and it is also one of the best.
Bad thing: The Last Crash of the Sunchaser is a neat title, but it doesn't really fit the episode. The Sunchaser will certainly crash again. At most, maybe it could be referring to Scrooge crashing down to the lowest point he gets to in the series, but that's not the Sunchaser's fault.
4. Moonvasion!
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My big hot take: the season 2 finale, the best of the season finales in my opinion, is not the best episode of the series. However, it is very close. It's actually kind of funny; I had plenty of criticism against the build-up to his finale, especially the Louie Inc. plot that led to an episode that was just kind of lackluster to me, and of all the, some alien commander from the Moon who thinks the Earth revolved around his "planet" wasn't exactly as threatening as an all powerful witch or the scheming businessman who knew Scrooge's every move. Okay, when I put it like that, the alien does sound more threatening, but trust me, even Bradford had his moments.
The biggest thing about this episode is the sheer scale of it. It really did feel like every major player in the series had a part in this, from Scrooge and the nephews, to Dijon and Amunet, to the new Darkwing Duck, to Donald and Della, to even the Greek pantheon! Oh, and Glomgold, too, in what may be his finest moment in the series! It really does feel like a finale for the series, and I say this even if I felt The Last Adventure was a great one as well.
Bad thing: In hindsight, this would have been a good time for the Terries and Fermies to come back. They're in the earth! That episode wasn't bad because of them.
3. Let's Get Dangerous!
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I'll tell you a secret: I did not watch Darkwing Duck as a kid. It was just DuckTales '87, and even then, I did not remember a lot of episodes of that. This show was made for people who did not grow up with DuckTales '87, because they were not even alive. Though there are parts of this episode that can be appreciated by those who were familiar with the heroes of the Disney Afternoon, I will still say this episode works very well as its own superhero movie. That is what it is, really!
This special is the true continuation of another episode, though we saw this defictionalized-within-the-fiction Darkwing Duck in the Moonvasion, and it may as well be a pilot for a Darkwing Duck reboot that spins off from this show, with its villains, its origin stories, its sidekicks, and its memorable catchphrases. It all works very well. Who knows where the new Darkwing Duck reboot will go, though I would at least imagine that they would eventually get to certain Darkwing-related plot threads that never got resolved.
Bad thing: Outside of using a few cliche moments to extend the episode that end rather predictably, in the attempt to make Darkwing Duck as cool as he wants to be, the regular cast essentially become jobbers in their own show.
2. What Ever Happened To Della Duck?!
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It's the question everyone wanted to know ever since Dewey said the last line in the first episode: what ever happened to Della Duck? This is one of the more artsy episodes of the show, focusing on one duck on what she assumes is a barren moon until she finds a monster that seems to do nothing but impede on her quest to get someone to save her. It does heavily expand from there, to the point where we get to see some more new characters, one who I thought was going to be way more important than the other. I decided to call that guy "General Not Penumbra", and that name could still be fitting as an insult.
This episode would be made or broken by how good Della is, and this is a very good episode for her first voiced debut as an adult. We did get to see her in the IDW comics, but this episode is where her character is developed. Throughout the episode, she has elements of her kids and especially her brother Donald. While there are future episodes that develop her further as a mother who wants to make up for all of those years she missed, one of the biggest defining moments is right in this episode, where she sings a version of the Capcom game's famous moon theme. An amazing episode all around.
Bad thing: Do I have to? Uh, flares do not work on the Moon? No, seriously, I can't think of anything worse than that.
Honorable mentions from each season:
The Shadow War! - An excellent way to end Season 1 that would only be topped by the Moonvasion.
Nightmare on Killmotor Hill! - A dream episode that really works with the concept, especially how Lena is the one involved with it.
Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice! - This is an action packed episode where Launchpad really shines.
And now, #1:
1. The Duck Knight Returns!
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Yes, I decided to put the prequel episode to Let's Get Dangerous as higher than the big Darkwing Duck episode, and part of this may be a little bias on my part. While it was not the very original intention of it, Fly Pow Bye started as a project to review a reboot, so of course an episode about Darkwing Duck, a fictional show within the fiction, getting a dark and gritty reboot would be right up my alley. We have Launchpad, a Darkwing Duck superfan, reacting to how they're going to ruin Darkwing Duck. We got the conflict between what the big studio execs wanted Darkwing Duck to be and Dewey's version of it. Finally, we have the conflict between Jim Starling, an obvious reference to original Darkwing Duck voice actor Jim Cummings who is even voiced by him, and his replacement, who appears to be some guy named Drake Mallard.
A lot of these plots converge in very interesting ways, with plenty of twists. Drake Mallard, the guy Launchpad was trying to replace with the original, turns out to be very worthy of the role by also being a superfan! Dewey's version has dancers, just like that Batdance music video! Okay, maybe that last one isn't that great, but it does not overstay its welcome. And, of course, Jim Starling ends up causing a huge cliffhanger that, despite the show being over, we will still be hanging from. We can only wonder what was going to come next, but I do not have to wonder what the best episode of DuckTales 2017 is.
Bad thing: I can't really think of a bad thing for this episode, but I can say that it is odd that there's no real transition from "TV character" to "real hero". It does help that it's not the TV actor that ends up becoming Darkwing, but "fanboy of TV character turning into a real hero" is just as much of a leap, even with an incompetent hero like Darkwing. I would also consider the show never following up on this episode's cliffhanger a bad thing, but that's not this episode's fault.
How does the whole show stack up?
It is an excellent modern take on the Disney Ducks. Opinions may vary on how this will compare with the original, since it is very much a modern take, with a different style of humor than the one from the original or the one in the original comics. Anyone who loves shows like Gravity Falls will be right at home here. Any fan of the original comics or the original cartoon may balk at some of the creative decisions made with the characters, but I would say it pays some good respect to them.
Oh, and before anyone asks, no, I am not going to give a rating for the whole series. I've already imposed a 10 image limit on myself, and since I grade on a relative scale, the average is always, in theory, going to be in the middle. It's a good show, that's what you're going to get from me.
And that's it for DuckTales 2017. Hurrah for Disney and Clan McDuck. Bye.
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