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DuckTales reboot coming to Disney XD in 2017

I loved the newest episode. A great mix of spy parodies of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Batman (specifically Alfred's backstory), Get Smart, The Prisonor, and probably a few others I missed. Plus, were those suppose to be an emulation of the Beagle bots (albeit smaller)?

The plot itself was pretty straight forward but I enjoyed both the backstory for Mrs. Beakley and Scrooge and the bonding between Scrooge and Webby. This is a step in the right direction for more adventure-oriented stories and hopefully they'll happen more often.

Peach Wookiee said:
I'm just getting to episode 16. I can see why they might make Doofus a spoiled brat instead of a loveable fat kid. They changed Burger Beagle to skinny to avoid fat jokes.
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Ehhh...that's a stretch and I still think the change is a bad choice, especially how they changed him.
 
A fun spy-caper episode and a good Scrooge-Webby bonding episode. I'm not sure why they put a bowler hat on their homage to Rover from The Prisoner, unless they were mashing it up with John Steed for some reason.

And while the music was obviously trying to evoke John Barry's Bond scores, it actually reminded me more of Michael Giacchino's The Incredibles score, which was of course largely a Barry pastiche.


Emh said:
Plus, were those suppose to be an emulation of the Beagle bots (albeit smaller)?
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Sort of. That design first appeared in the episode "Armstrong" as the title robot-run-amok, and was then used again in the following episode "Robot Robbers," in which Gyro adapted Armstrong's technology into a supposedly safer "human"-operated form, which of course got stolen by the Beagle Boys. The latter episode was based on a Carl Barks comic called "The Giant Robot Robbers," but Barks's robots had a different design.
 
Christopher said:
A fun spy-caper episode and a good Scrooge-Webby bonding episode. I'm not sure why they put a bowler hat on their homage to Rover from The Prisoner, unless they were mashing it up with John Steed for some reason.
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I wondered about the bowler hat, too, but a reference to John Steed does make sense.

Christopher said:
Sort of. That design first appeared in the episode "Armstrong" as the title robot-run-amok, and was then used again in the following episode "Robot Robbers," in which Gyro adapted Armstrong's technology into a supposedly safer "human"-operated form, which of course got stolen by the Beagle Boys. The latter episode was based on a Carl Barks comic called "The Giant Robot Robbers," but Barks's robots had a different design.
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Ah, thanks for the refresher. It's clearly been too long since I watched the original series and I need to watch it again.
 
Always good to have another Gizmoduck episode, so I'll forgive it for another round of annoying Mark Beaks. At least he was properly molded as the outright villain of the story, complete with commercializing a superhero and prioritizing certain people for rescuing.

The best part of the episode was the much-needed retooling of Fenton's mother from a couch potato to a cop, while still maintaining her love for soap operas (now hilarious telenovelas) and nagging Fenton about his life. I adore Selenis Leyva, so naturally I think she's a great casting choice as Fenton's mother. :D
 
Emh said:
The best part of the episode was the much-needed retooling of Fenton's mother from a couch potato to a cop
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Is that really an improvement, though, given that this version is clueless that her son is Gizmoduck despite his very poor ability to hide it from her? It kind of undermines the idea of making her a detective if she can't detect something so obvious about her own son.
 
Christopher said:
Is that really an improvement, though, given that this version is clueless that her son is Gizmoduck despite his very poor ability to hide it from her? It kind of undermines the idea of making her a detective if she can't detect something so obvious about her own son.
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I didn't get that she didn't know he was Gizmoduck at all. I thought it was clear she knew at the end.
 
The Caballeros will be making an appearance

When Donald’s bird buddies show up on DuckTales, Bernardo de Paula will voice José and Arturo del Puerto will voice Panchito, while Tony Anselmo will continue to voice Donald (who, on the new DuckTales, enjoys a much bigger recurring presence than in the original ‘80s series).

The Caballeros will appear in a second-season episode, giving fans something juicy to look forward to as the first season of DuckTales comes to a close on August 18. Among the other promises of season 2: more race cars, more lasers, and definitely more aeroplanes.
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Don Cheadle will be voicing Donald in the season finale.

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Yes. That Don Cheadle of "Hotel Rawanda" acclaim.

Also Disney jumped to another franchise when they put Cheadle's name up and lists 'Thanos survivor' underneath.

The show really does their homework. They don't cast some big name star and not play with it.

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I actually want to see the show do a "Doctor Who" type of joke

Huey- He travels in space!

Dewey- and time!

Louie- and sometimes parallel dimensions

Scrooge- Ugh. The lead actor is so overrated.
 
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Samurai8472 said:
I actually want to see the show do a "Doctor Who" type of joke

Huey- He travels in space!

Dewey- and time!

Louie- and sometimes parallel dimensions

Scrooge- Ugh. The lead actor is so overrated.
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Considering Catherine Tate voices Magica, I imagine we'll get at least one proper Doctor Who reference when she and Scrooge finally face off.
 
Trailer for the rest of the season:

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A very silly episode that didn't really amount to much. Really, the best part of the whole episode was Webby getting revenge on Louie for telling her not to make treasure about learning. Her initial joke was funny enough but the follow-up was a great second punch.

I'm guessing this episode had some connection to TaleSpin based on earlier press coverage. I never watched the show so any and all connections went over my head and I didn't really care.
 
Emh said:
I'm guessing this episode had some connection to TaleSpin based on earlier press coverage. I never watched the show so any and all connections went over my head and I didn't really care.
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Basically just reusing the Don Karnage character and his pirate airship. TaleSpin was a weird show that basically plagiarized the 1930s South Pacific aviation adventure premise of the Donald Bellisario show Tales of the Gold Monkey (the creators have admitted to being "inspired" by the show) and inexplicably grafted the animal characters from The Jungle Book into it, with Baloo the Bear in the Stephen Collins role. It would be hard to incorporate too much of it into DuckTales, since that's set in modern times and its anthropomorphic animals tend to be limited to fowl and canines for the most part.
 
This was easily one of my favorite episodes of the new show. Wonderful introspection about family for the triplets among themselves as well as for Scrooge and his father.

The only downsides are how Webby is sidelined from the adventure due to her Scrooge obsession knocking her senseless (a clumsy mechanism to give the triplets a chance to bond) and Scrooge's mum acting a one-note character that had no involvement with the rest of the plot. Really, both women are sidelined so the guys can bond without interference. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but it does stand out when you look beyond the surface.

On a more positive side, more clues about Della's disappearance via an amusing prank against Donald. Speaking of whom, while it was a little odd he wasn't part of the family excursion, I loved Launchpad's imitation of him. :lol:
 
Today's episode was beautiful and an emotionally-satisfying conclusion to the mystery behind The Spear of Selene. I wasn't sure what direction the show was going with it, but I'm quite happy with the results. While the story started off as a basic bottle episode, I loved how it, er, nosedived into something deeper and finally provided a proper explanation for what happened to Della and why Donald hates Scrooge.

I suspect the conclusion of the season (it appears next week's episode is the season finale) will bring forth all of the season's elements together (this mystery, Magica de Spell, Gizmoduck) and will end with everyone reconciling in the face of the Magica threat, while setting up next season as the Search for Della. I also hope that after the immediate threat of Magica is resolved, Lena sticks around and is part of that search. Duckworth, too, now that he finally reappeared, if only for a sight gag.
 
Interesting choice, to do a bottle show where there's no external threat, just a crucible to bring out all the character conflicts.

Although I have to agree with Mrs. Beakley. Why does Scrooge keep letting Launchpad control any vehicle, especially when there are kids aboard it?
 
I'm catching up on episodes and I love the quick humor when Louie dealt with bigfoot

"Oh bigfoot you just poked the bear."

"Simple minded? He's making a sandwich on a panini breads!"
 
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