#they had some DT87 figures too but they only had Dewey

[usertransducks]

normal again 👍

anyways here’s the 2 new guys for my collection:

[alltingfinns]

Thoughts on new Ducktales episodes:

Spoiler ish!!

Even before we got so much as a trailer and we mainly had only the tease from s2 finale and the promise of Huey focus to go on, I figured (or at least hoped really strongly) that’d we’d also get added Donald focus.

This was based on the observation that each season doesn’t just focus on one of the triplets but also on an adult in their family. S1 focused on Dewey and Scrooge, S2 focused on Louie and Della, so it stood to reason that S3 would focus on Huey and Donald.

Not just by process of elimination but (which Quack Pack especially demonstrated) Huey and Donald share a “fatal flaw” similar to ones previously explored. Scrooge and Dewey both valued adventure, excitement and mystery to the point of pushing their family away. Della and Louie were so focused on the angles and what they could do that they didn’t stop to consider if they should do it.

Donald and Huey both take their sense of security too far as they shoulder the burden of responsibility. (Makes me wonder if Donald’s the elder twin. Or do I remember Angones already confirming that Della hatched first?) Huey still wants to adventure but he needs the security of his guidebook and appealing to authority, while Donald just wishes his family had less dangers to worry about.

This appeals greatly to me because Huey’s easily my favorite triplet and Donald is just a lifelong favorite. The reboot’s main draw for me has always been his inclusion. The fact that he’s the sole (or at least main) objector to going on adventures is an important factor from the comics.

Because (brace for impact) I have never really been a fan of Launchpad. If you grew up reading Disney comics, and then watch the original Ducktales run, his flaws as an apparent Donald stand in are abundantly clear. Let me explain: in the comics Scrooge would say “come on cheap lab- I mean family! Treasure’s awaiting!” And the triplets would say “yippee! Adventure!” and Donald “aww, phoey!” So the DT87 version just becomes Scrooge: “treasure’s awaiting” and triplets + Launchpad “yippe! Adventure!”

You see? The former version has an internal conflict that drives storytelling and fuels humor. Donald Duck is an absolute snark machine in the comics, calling out his uncle’s greed and stinginess. In many ways most millennials and gen-z’ers can relate to his eternal question “why do we only get 30 cents/hour to risk our lives so that a zillionaire who never uses his money should get more millions to never use?”

I am a bit off topic since the reboot version of Scrooge cares more about adventure than money (still hard to get used to). I could go on and on about how Scrooge is the quintessential representation of one of the two big billionaire myths in (mainly American) media, the bootstraps puller. (The other’s the philanthropist, where I’d say any billionaire that freelances as a superhero represents it but especially Batman.) But that’s still off topic.

Donald and Huey will both have to face their fatal flaw and towards the end of the season their storylines will intertwine in some way to force them both to face it. Basically rewatch the last crash of the sunchaser + timephoon, extrapolate and replace with Donald and Huey. Yeah, my heart will not survive this climax.

I wonder where in Duckburg Goofy lives. He can’t very well live right next door to the McDuck mansion. (Besides exorbitant property prices, that would be a bit much of a coincidence.)

[drummergirl231-2]

Oh man... oh shoot dang I have a speculation about this out-of-context quote:

I know some of us were thinking it’s gonna be a Magica thing. I was thinking maybe Zeus, especially since I think he was behind the cosmic storm and if Storkules can come to Duckburg then Zeus can. It’d be interesting to see Della confront Selene only to find out Zeus was behind the storm and keeping Selene away from the moon (if that’s what happened).

But now I’m thinking the storm is gonna be a Magica thing.

I was watching some DT87 episodes to tide me over until “Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!” and I stumbled across S01E59: “Nothing to Fear.”

THIS EPISODE WRECKED MEEEEEE.

Like what the heck DT87 I did not expect these feels! (I was born in ‘92 so I remember some DT87 from reruns but not everything).

In this episode, Magica sends a magic storm cloud to rain just over McDuck Manor that makes Duckworth, Doofus, Scrooge, and HDL hallucinate their worst fears. 

Most of the fears were silly things. Like at first, HDL saw a video game villain come to life and their teacher giving them heck for not doing their homework.

But then... oh gosh this KILLED ME. The boys confess to each other that they’ve always been super afraid of their teacher getting mad at them, and of the video game villain.

Dewey: “It’s almost as if someone knows what our worst fears are, and is usin’ ‘em against us!” Huey: “But... who would know that much about us?”

Fake Scrooge: “Figured it out, did ye? Well MY worst fears came true when I got you three little television-leaver-onners!”

Fake Scrooge: “I’ve been doing all this to scare you out of my life!” Louie: “B-but how could you do all those things?” Fake Scrooge: “I’m rich! I can do anything! And I’ll be even richer when you’re outta here!” HDL: *starting to cry* “Uncle Scrooge! Uncle Scrooge! Uncle Scrooge!” Fake Scrooge: “Don’t call me that! I don’t want to be your uncle anymore!” *storms out*

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LOOK AT THEM!!! </3 And what makes it so awful is they saw this because they already feared it deep down. We don’t know what happened to Della or their dad in DT87, but they wound up with Donald and then he dumped them on Scrooge because he joined the navy to “see the world.” So they feared Scrooge would one day decide he didn’t want them, either. It all got sorted out in the end when they realized what they were seeing wasn’t real, but guys... I was gasping, my eyes were bugging out of my head, my hands were cupped over my mouth... normally I don’t react to TV like that. Everything’s internalized. I was so shocked I couldn’t keep it all in. 

Suppose they’re doing this plot now in DT17?

There’s so much more angst in DT17. And what if it’s not a fake Scrooge this time that says those things to one or all of the boys? What if it’s a fake Donald?

“I could’ve done so much with my life! But I got stuck with you three! If I wanted to be a dad, I would’ve had my own kids eventually, not wound up raising my sister’s brood!”

What if it’s a fake Della?

“I took the rocket because I never wanted you! And I wish I’d stayed up there on the moon where I didn’t have to deal with all of your questions, and racket, and ‘Mom! Mom! Mom!’ every three seconds!”

And in the DT87 episode, Scrooge hallucinated things about the boys hating him, too.

UGH Imagine poor Della hearing horrible things from her babies!

“We were better off without you!” “You think we’ll ever forgive you for what you did? We don’t care why you left. You left!” “Go back to the moon! We hate you!”

And what about Mrs. Beakley? And Webby? And Lena??? (Launchpad’s fears would probably just be the comic relief of the episode.)

THERE’S SO MUCH ROOM FOR ANGST WITH A PLOT LIKE THIS AND I’M NOT SURE I CAN HANDLE IT.

But at the same time omigosh please do this dt17.