Hmm. Sorry for the long silence here. I've been busy with, um…well, not writing cartoon posts, apparently. Anyway, here's this, which is pretty entertaining, and I'm certainly not gonna complain about the Douglas Adams title.
At the end of a Fearsome-Five heist, Quackerjack wonders why Negaduck never wants to "hang out" with them afterwards. Truly, it's hard in any circumstance to wonder why anyone would want to hang out with Negaduck, but his response--because "I hate you guys 'cause you're just a bunch of losers!"--seems ill-advised; I mean, how masochistic are these people meant to be? Pretty substantially, it seems.
Anyway, what ultimately happens is, DW gets sucked into the Negaverse, where everyone's personalities are reversed. I like that they include pretty much all the important characters in this (well, except Morgana, I suppose), and there's a lot of fun stuff: punk Launchpad with five o'clock shadow is nice; the leather-fetish-Nazi-biker-chic Muddlefoot family is even nicer (no swastikas, obviously, but I'm pretty sure if the show could've gotten away with it, there would be). Unfortunately, not everyone fares so well: Gosalyn is all demure and "lady-like" in a pink dress with her hair in curls--in contrast to her normal-universe obstreperousness, sure, but given that everyone <i>else</i> goes from 'good' to 'evil' or vice versa, it's distractingly inconsistent. More irksomely still, the 'good' versions of Bushroot, Megavolt, Quackerjack, and Liquidator aren't visually distinguished in any way from their regular versions--nor do they do anything really memorable to make them stand out. I enjoy the conclusion when they all get Darkwing costumes and are apparently set to become Nega-Gosalyn's new daughter, but this really raises the question of why Negaduck would possibly have adopted her in the first place. I would've liked it if they'd complexified his character a bit by deciding that, in spite of everything, he was a good father figure…but they don't. So what gives?
Regardless, not a bad effort.
Stray Observation
-Negaduck keeps calling his enemies "knobs." Clearly not a British-produced episode, then.
-"So long--I'm off to create MORE unnecessary pain and suffering--losers!" Okay, which onea you jokers leaked Romney's victory speech?
I was always confused by the sweetness-and-light Nega-Gosalyn. If the Nega-Gosalyn is unquestionably good, could the real-world Gosalyn... BE SECRETLY EVIL?
ReplyDeleteNegaduck is clearly Canadian. Royal Canadian Air Farce even had a segment called the Knob Of The Week; where they mock a person who acts like a jackass.
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