Sunday, November 5, 2017

New Ducktales, Season One, Episode Eight: "The Living Mummies of Toth Ra"

I'll tell you why it took me so long to get around to this one: because the title and premise filled me with apathy, that's why. Blah blah mummies, blah. Blah! Makes me think of Original Ducktales in a nonspecific but kind of boring way.


Anyway, now I've seen it, and...I'm STILL kinda filled with apathy. I mean, I guess it's not awful, as these things go, but it kinda feels like an Original Ducktales episode. The character stuff with Webby and Louie is fine, I guess, and the whole set up is at least potentially interesting, but the reality is a bunch of lame jokes about burritos. And then the mummy's real for no reason except that we need to have some kind of climax to all this nonsense? Bah. Seriously. Generally, the whole thing's pitched a little too dumb, the writers are a little too willing to sacrifice character in the name of lame jokes, and I really hope the next one is better.  Otherwise, I may lose faith.  Do we know when the show's returning?