#honestly i wanted to watch the aladdin series tonight but disney has not deigned to make that available to purchase legally anywhere so

[glowyjellyfish]

I decided to (re)watch Talespin tonight, and...

-I still would like to know what possessed Disney to make the leap from “what can we make a TV show about? The Jungle Book maybe?” to “DIESELPUNK ADVENTURE STARRING SEVERAL JUNGLE BOOK CHARACTERS IN AN URBAN ANTHROPOMORPHIC ANIMAL SETTING AS PILOTS AND BARKEEPS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND A DETERMINED COLLEGE-EDUCATED SINGLE MOM TRYING TO RUN HER OWN BUSINESS AND A SMART-ALEC BUT NICE KID WHO USED TO BE A PIRATE AND HAS A DIESELPUNK SKATEBOARD BECAUSE 90s, AND ALSO PIRATES AND MACHINE GUNS AND AIRSHIPS AND INDIANA JONES-STYLE ADVENTURES.” Not that it was a bad decision, but... how?

-It took Baloo approximately 5 seconds of screen time to put on a skirt. It was the 90s copying a character trait from the 60s that was played for laughs in a way that would be kinda awkward today, but if I recall this show correctly he does it so often. I am just going to pretend it is a genuine character trait. Balo enjoys cross-dressing.

-It occurred to me that Talespin could conceivably take place in the same universe as Zootopia and Robin Hood, and I had to stop and deal with that thought for a moment. It is the only one of the classic Disney Afternoon shows that does, I think, because Rescue Rangers I’m pretty sure has a fairly normal human society above the rodent and small animal society, Duck Tales takes place in the duck-verse much like the various duck comics, same for Darkwing Duck, and Goof Troop is populated entirely by the barely-recognizable-as-dog-or-cat-people that Disney does. Anyway, new headcanon.

-Don Karnage is among the top 5 Disney TV-only cartoon villains, although the others on that list would probably chew him up and spit him out. (The others, including Xanatos, Demona, Mozenrath... I can’t think of a fifth, actually.)

-If I had control of the fictional multiverse, I would love to put Semi-Corrupt Corporate Executive Shere Khan, Lord Vetinari, and David Xanatos in a conference room together and... just watch. It would be amazing.

-Also, I don’t think I ever realized until tonight that it is dieselpunk. I mean... more diesel and less punk, perhaps, because Disney. But nonetheless.