#the impossible summit of mt everrest

[owlsong74]

assorted thoughts on the Neverrest ep

Non-spoilery overall thoughts: I enjoyed this one more than both the Mark Beaks and the Mummies episode, but I’m not sure where it fits among the rest yet… mmm.. probably not as good as Beagle Birthday or Gander but better than Dime and Daytrip. A lot of fun either way, with some great character moments with Dewey & Webby and Huey & Scrooge! The music was also really good here (this is the first episode it really stood out to me). There were a couple things that didn’t work for me but overall still super enjoyable.

Ducktales Spoilers below the cut

- …so there actually is an xmas reference right in the first 30 secs. moving the episode up actually makes sense then i guesssss…

- im sorta disappointed tbh. i was happy DT wasn’t doing an xmas special. oh well. it’s like two lines, so not a huge deal

- Huey getting excited over surveying and cartography =D that’s my boy

- more Dewey and Webby friendship

- oh, i love you dearly Launchpad. but even you are not this idiotic. can we give this poor comic relief character some brains please?

- I love all of their winter outfits!

- Scrooge has no idea what hes doing leading kids into this situation, and there’s no Donald or Beakley to talk him out of it. they’re doomed- help!

- “Just because it’s a myth doesn’t mean it’s not real” yes especially in the disney ducks universe haha…

-… also is that foreshadowing for Della??? bc she’s supposedly connected to the greek godess of selene?

- “We don’t need anything but grit, gumption, and an unwavering–” NO SCROOGE!!! stop! do not pass go! do not collect $20! you’re gonna get your kids fucking killed!

- New info on timeline stuff! as of DT17, “75 years ago” Scrooge had “just made his first million”  2017-75=1942 meaning 1938-40 ish for the DTverse equivalent of the Klondike

- …maybe he’s not 150, but making his first million in 1940 still means he’s really fucking old

- This also makes the anachronistic Statue of Liberty in “great dime chase” make sense. it’s anachronistic for the 1880s but not the 1910s-30s, whenever he came to the US in this universe.

- LOUIE CONSIDERS LP AS FAMILY

- THANK YOU HUEY. VOICE OF REASON.

- I don’t think we’ve had a Scrooge Character Development episode since the pilot, so this is nice.

- portals? this is really, really weird.

- “you’ve made it further than anyone else has, isn’t that enough?… sometimes the bravest thing an explorer can do is walk away.” thanks, Huey. thank you for curbing your grand-uncle’s deadly fucking ambition.

- (i expected this to be a Huey-learns-a-lesson episode and it turned out to be the Scrooge-learns-a-lesson-episode. cool)

- man, this is the sled ride of Webby’s life!!

- “meh”? Webby….c’mon.

- The portals were a bit far-fetched for me? I think mostly because they remained unexplained. Like, everything else either had some sort of connection to the culture, or an explanation, or was just a new take on a Normal Supernatural Thing. These portals, just… didn’t work for me idk. Too far out of left field I guess haha

- also it’s good to get new timeline stuff, but a small part of me is a little sad that scrooge isn’t. just. inexplicably 150 years old. (even tho i know that wouldn’t really work)