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?!?
I believe an extremely old Scrooge has been the norm ever since Rosa and his 80-year-old-Scrooge-in-1947 timeline. Hell, we were told in early material that the question of how Scrooge could have made his fortune in the Klondike while still being alive in the present-day was going to be "one of the show's running mysteries", so…
ReplyDeleteIf people still believe the writers have read the comic books, then they can go ahead...and continue to wonder why we're getting the stories we've been getting.
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DeleteSeriously, I still suspect executive tinkering. "Oh, kids don't want to see that old stuff. The nephews need to be cool and the adults need to be stupid."
I like Lunchpad in this episode tad more then in the Mummies episode where he was just annoying. Again I mix - yhe, this is more Homer Simpson then Lunchpad but at the same time he did had few of the best lines in episode that made me laugh so It's hard to complain ("Is this this the end of Lunchpad McQuack? NO! I won't die this way! It will be by plain crash or nothing else!")
ReplyDeleteAlso some people didn't like that Scrooge has no-profit motive here but I think it's a nice idea. He do have more personality then being bunch of greedy-jokes.
Finally great to see some big open spaces on this show. So far we either got claustrophobic locations or city center stuff.
I belive the only reason this episode air in december and not in... whenever the reast of the season will air is do it being sort-of winter (which equal CHRISTMAS) related.
It does, actually, takes place on Christmas; listen closely to the dialogue on the plane at the beginning. I'll paraphrase from memory:
DeleteLouie: I can't believe we're spending Christmas here instead of in our luxuriously-furnished family mansion! …What about the presents?
Launchpad: And what about Santa Claus?
Scrooge: Santa Claus? Pfah! That man is not allowed in my house.
Louie: What?
Scrooge (through clenched teeth) : He knows what he did!…
Yhe, I remember that, should have mention in as one "token Christmas refrence". To be honest that dialog felt like something they sneak in last second just to make the episode somewat Christmas related... Still nice joke.
DeleteI WISH they would made (and there is possibility whey will) a Junior Wouldchucks centric episode -like they would go on a camping trip or something just to have the other two join as JW members, even if it means Louie would be force to do so.
ReplyDelete- But I don't whana...
(SMACK IN THE HEAD)
- Quite! You will be a Junior Woodchuck! That's how it was in Barks comics and by Cornelius Coot that how it will be here!
- Hey you just broke 4'th wall...
(SMACK IN THE HEAD)
- I WLL BRAKE YOUR BONES IF YOU WON'T CO-OPERATE YOU ADOPTED BASTARD!
- "Adopted"? How the hell that works...
(SMACK IN THE HEAD)
- Ok, Ok! Geesh!
- Man Huey got crancky ever since Lena and Webby join the JW, huh?
- IT'S NOT CANNONICAL!!!! CANNONICAL!!! (Cries hysterically on the grown)
Thanks for my biggest laughs of the day, Pan!
DeleteYeah, get used to the whole "short burst of episodes then half a year of nothing" bit along with MAYBE a snow-themed episode around Christmas (you know, if the gods are feeling generous)because that's become the MO of cartoon-centric networks these days. Just ask fans of Steven Universe. We just got TWO episodes after months only to hear that we will need to wait several MORE months. It's just a thing now.
ReplyDeleteSo, will you be reviewing "The Spear of Selene"? In my opinion, it's one of the best in the series so far.
ReplyDeleteYES GEOX! FACE THE "SPEAR OF SELENE"! It's your destiny!
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