Okay okay, I watched it. Leave off,
you vultures!
So there are things I liked and things
I did not like about this episode. Here's what I liked: the fact
that Scrooge has a more-or-less believable motive other than
financial to climb the mountain. The trippy-ass portals at the top
with no explanation. The fact that Mallardy's corpse is wearing an
"I didn't survive Mount Neverrest" t-shirt. Okay, and
Huey's motive was fine, and so was Dewey and Webby's.
Right. So all that is reasonable
enough. Here's what I didn't like: the fact that Louie is just going
to decline to go on this trip. And Launchpad's nonstop excessive
stupidity with the "ice fever" thing. Admittedly, those
are fewer things than the things I claimed to like, but did I say
"didn't like" above? What I actually meant was "found
just absolutely fucking intolerable." Especially the Launchpad
stuff. Somebody needs to wire the writers' eyes open
Ludovico-Technique-style and force them to watch the
Launchpad-centric episodes of original-Ducktales' first season to
teach them that that's not all there is to the character. Fucking
hell, man. Oh, and I also hate Louie's personality. And the fact
that only Huey is a Woodchuck. But that's neither here nor there.
This could have been a servicable mini-episode shorn of all the stuff
down-mountain, but as it is, bah. BAH, I say.
Random Observations
-So Scrooge is apparently in his
nineties in this continuity, if we're accepting that he really tried to
climb the mountain seventy-five years ago. A bit hard to buy,
really. He was seventy-five in that one Barks one-pager where he
uses a lightbulb instead of candles on his birthday cake. That
seems a lot more reasonable to me.
-"Louie put it on his corporate
credit card!" "Louie doesn't have a corporate credit
card." "Oh. Louie gave me your credit card."
-It's kind of weird that there were
seven episodes in quick succession, then a month-long pause, then one
more episode, then...an even longer pause. What's going on here?!?
