It's also cool that they didn't have the boys reluctant to play with a girl, and that they even invited her on their own initiative (or at least one of them did).
But why was Webby so impressed about a dog in a bowtie... when the bus driver she was talking to was also a dog? But then, Disney's always drawn a distinction between its anthropomorphic animals and its conventional animals (cf. Goofy vs. Pluto, or all the cartoons about Donald hunting fowl). Despite the use of avian surnames like Duck, McDuck, McQuack, Vanderquack, Beakley, and Beagle, the anthropomorphic-animal characters seem to think of themselves as human, e.g. when Gyro told the vending machine "I am Man, you are Machine." Then again, both Beakley and Beagle are actual human surnames. (As is Duckworth. Is he even in this show?)
I also kinda liked it that Donald was at least trying to respect Beakley's wishes and address her complaints, just doing so ineptly. It's an improvement on the classic angry and hostile Donald. I still need to turn on captions when he talks, though.
I have no idea who she is, and I didn't find her performance all that impressive. So far I think the most impressive voice actor other than David Tennant is Kate Micucci (did I get that right?) as Webby.
But we did get foreshadowing of Gizmoduck, with Gyro initiating "Project Blatherskite."
When Louie so casually snatched the #1 Dime out of the case, I was wondering, what about all the security systems Scrooge keeps around that dime to keep Magica from stealing it? Learning that it was a decoy helped a bit, but still, you'd think that if he wanted the decoy to be convincing, he'd still put a ton of security around it.
Anyway, I thought both episodes were very funny and had some good character work too. The animation and music may not be quite as good as the original, I'm still not entirely sold on the voices, but the writing is probably better than the original's.
