tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post6517883257967064780..comments2023-06-14T06:26:45.442-07:00Comments on Duck Cartoons Revue: Ducktales, Pilot Episode: "Treasure of the Golden Suns," Part Five: "Too Much of a Gold Thing"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post-38404547014720542042011-02-02T14:22:14.717-08:002011-02-02T14:22:14.717-08:00...actually, I should clarify that I was not bemoa......actually, I should clarify that I was not bemoaning on a philosophical level the lack of sentimentality; just that if they ARE going for such a thing--and they clearly were, here--they shouldn't botch it as they did.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post-37604312856657181972011-02-02T14:18:13.946-08:002011-02-02T14:18:13.946-08:00Mmm...maybe I should be careful what I wish for. ...Mmm...maybe I should be careful what I wish for. Still, this just seemed clumsy.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post-33810109718191139362011-02-02T09:29:03.220-08:002011-02-02T09:29:03.220-08:00You'll get lots of What's Really Important...You'll get lots of What's Really Important—with all the subtlety of a charging, defrosted giant walrus—later in the series. Often.<br /><br />Molten duck fondue sounds great, except I guess you couldn't eat the gold.<br /><br />I'd have liked to see L. Capitan meet his fate in the molten metal, too. (...yes, internal documents make clear that "L. Capitan" is really the spelling of his name; it couldn't be "El Capitan" when there was a pun to be made, even though we never *see* the name in writing in the show, so there's no way we can know the pun is there!)ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post-83759820393965284382011-02-01T22:09:49.689-08:002011-02-01T22:09:49.689-08:00Maybe, but that's not exactly exalting, is it?...Maybe, but that's not exactly exalting, is it? I mean, if the show wanted to be cynical about it that would be one thing, but it's pretty clear that the real problem with the TERRIBLE GOLD FEVER is supposed to be that it causes him to forget the importance of family &c, and if the change of heart comes about not because "oops--I forgot that some things are more important than money but rather because "if I pursue this it will have negative consequences on my physical well-being"--well, that makes it quite a different sort of show than I think it's trying to be. Perhaps I of all people shouldn't be putting that much weight on intentionality, but this just seems to me to be the result of the writers screwing up.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586574010029073142.post-6775984126008244842011-02-01T21:50:25.576-08:002011-02-01T21:50:25.576-08:00I would assert that discovering that it's bett...I would assert that discovering that it's better to be alive and impossibly rich than to be turned into duck molten gold fondue counts as Learning What's Really Important.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03343947041898057102noreply@blogger.com