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I somehow missed The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck until a couple of days ago and I just want to say I'm enjoying the gently caress out of the crazy roller coaster that is Catherine Tate's voice acting for Magica. Whoever cast Tate for the role scored a goddamn coup, she just so charismatic and I can't wait for the finale to see her and Scrooge finally come face to face, because her and David Tennant always have a blast in whatever they're in together.
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Catherine Tate is Magica De Spell?  Like I knew most of the other voice cast, but guess I didn't bother looking up the villains and poo poo. Doctor Who parody ep when?
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Pretty funny given her casting was at first controversial in Doctor Who, being known more for cringe comedy, but she turns out to play off David Tennant really well and has a lot more range than they thought. She can clearly do cartoon supervillainy.
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Donna is the best 10th Companion and I'll die on this hill  gently caress Rose forever.
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Aug 6, 2018 09:34
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Infinitum posted:gently caress Rose forever. There was a clone of the Doctor for that.
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Aug 6, 2018 09:52
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Blehhhhhh she reached levels of Mary Sue that shouldn't even be possible. I wish 10 had more Moffat episodes.
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Oh back during the one good season that was true...
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Infinitum posted:Now where have I seen that Spear before? We had subtitles on and they put in "Imitating Donald's tantrum"
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Infinitum posted:Blehhhhhh she reached levels of Mary Sue that shouldn't even be possible. can someone explain this comic to me, I have never watched Doctor Who in my life but I like this comic and wish to understand it
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paradoxGentleman posted:can someone explain this comic to me, I have never watched Doctor Who in my life but I like this comic and wish to understand it 10th doctor was an angsty anime, 11th doctor was a goofy manchild/grandpa in a young man's body.
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paradoxGentleman posted:can someone explain this comic to me, I have never watched Doctor Who in my life but I like this comic and wish to understand it The Doctor is an alien who upon death "regenerates" with all his memories intact, but a new body and different personality.
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Aug 6, 2018 18:41
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Avalerion posted:The Doctor is an alien who upon death "regenerates" with all his memories intact, but a new body and different personality. Also he travels around time and space* with a sexy young lady, who is replaced frequently with a younger sexier lady. *Approximately 60% of all space adventures take place in modern London
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Aug 6, 2018 19:15
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Which one was Kilgrave in Jessica Jones?
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Scrooge.
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Moon Slayer posted:Which one was Kilgrave in Jessica Jones? Doctor Ten(nant)
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Infinitum posted:Catherine Tate is Magica De Spell? Honestly so far in this series I feel like Kate Micucci is stealing the show in terms of the voice acting. It probably helps that she's not really doing a "voice" she just naturally sounds exactly like that. I also thought it was neat that Lin-Manuel Miranda did not go full on WACKY but gave a relatively restrained performance. I have to wonder if they weren't planning to bring him in for the Sky Pirates in the Sky captain character and then changed their minds to give him bigger billing. Also since I just found this thread let me call back a bit: I fuckin' loved the Gummi Bears episode as soon as I saw that silhouette I was bouncing here and there and everywhere
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Honestly so far in this series I feel like Kate Micucci is stealing the show in terms of the voice acting. It probably helps that she's not really doing a "voice" she just naturally sounds exactly like that. quote:I also thought it was neat that Lin-Manuel Miranda did not go full on WACKY but gave a relatively restrained performance. I have to wonder if they weren't planning to bring him in for the Sky Pirates in the Sky captain character and then changed their minds to give him bigger billing.
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Scrolling back through the thread:HIJK posted:I put forth that both Gyros are good and that the old Duck Tales holds up so long as you remember it for the ridiculously sweet and cute 80s piece that it is. I actually went back and rewatched the first season of the original series a few years ago, before this relaunch was announced, and it absolutely holds up. It's not as sophisticated as the current incarnation, but it nails the sense of Indiana-Jonesy fun that's the core of the franchise. Also, fight me on this I dare you, but the original series version of the theme song is just better. Not everything is improved by vocal fry. What's actually hard to read are the original Carl Barks comics. I picked up a volume from a Fantagraphics sale a while back and while the story was brilliant every few pages there would be the casual racism we all expect from 1950's era Disney. Even Scrooge himself is a bit of a racist stereotype (as being tight-fisted is a stereotype of the Scots). Still excellent storytelling etc, just every few pages, *wince*, like reading old TinTin
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I mean, if you read pretty much any classic adventure fiction you're going to encounter that sort of stuff in spades. The entire genre is built on exoticizing and othering non-Western cultures. Hell, the Indiana Jones movies are full of that sort of stereotype-driven, cartoonish racism themselves. It's something where everyone's tolerance is going to be different, but I have no issue taking that stuff as a product of its era 
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, if you read pretty much any classic adventure fiction you're going to encounter that sort of stuff in spades. The entire genre is built on exoticizing and othering non-Western cultures. Hell, the Indiana Jones movies are full of that sort of stereotype-driven, cartoonish racism themselves. It's something where everyone's tolerance is going to be different, but I have no issue taking that stuff as a product of its era Oh yeah. The problem is that one of the seminal texts of archaeology-pulp was the Fu Manchu series, which was explicitly, "The Nazis are literally the strong aryan protagonists fighting the Yellow Devil" racist, to the point that the last novel in the series was published in 1939 for *reasons* It's actually bizarre reading Fu Manchu today because any modern reader, you get more than a few pages in, you start to realize Fu Manchu is actually the hero to any modern audience and the purported protagonists are the clearly racist villains. The central stroke of genius behind the entire Indiana Jones franchise was "Ok, let's write Fu Manchu stories, but this time we make the Nazis the villains" You just have to be able to read it with a certain amount of academic distance I think is all.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh yeah. The problem is that one of the seminal texts of archaeology-pulp was the Fu Manchu series, which was explicitly, "The Nazis are literally the strong aryan protagonists fighting the Yellow Devil" racist, to the point that the last novel in the series was published in 1939 for *reasons* I've got a copy of the first Fu Manchu book, and I've been meaning to read it
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https://twitter.com/GLove39/status/1025727777063006208 Fictional duck billionaire publicly drags fictional orange billionaire.
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I recall hearing the American government explicitly told them to stop making Fu Manchu stories because the Chinese are their allies against the Japanese now. He mostly appears solely in parodies now, famously in that one joke trailer played by Nicholas Cage, and also in a one-panel joke in the TF2 comics where he was the original Spy.
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I believe there's also some sort of copyright issue around Fu Manchu so you can never actually name the character if you use him. So in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he's only ever called "the Doctor" or "the Lord of Limehouse" while in Kim Newman novels he's exclusively referred to as "the Lord of Strange Deaths".
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe there's also some sort of copyright issue around Fu Manchu so you can never actually name the character if you use him. So in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he's only ever called "the Doctor" or "the Lord of Limehouse" while in Kim Newman novels he's exclusively referred to as "the Lord of Strange Deaths". If I recall properly it's mostly just that the estate of his creator are pretty aggressive in both protecting and licensing his trademarks
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Will we ever find out about Webby's folks?
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RandomPauI posted:Will we ever find out about Webby's folks? Assuming she's actually from the comics and not another creation of the original show like Launchpad, have we ever actually seen or heard of either of her birth parents in any form of media?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I recall hearing the American government explicitly told them to stop making Fu Manchu stories because the Chinese are their allies against the Japanese now. It was also that the original books were explicitly pro-fascist. Like, I can't emphasize this enough. The final Fu Manchu book, published in 1939, features a dastardly plot by Fu Manchu to prevent international race war by assassinating a hitler analogue, and the heroes are working to save Hitler so that a glorious Aryan race war can still happen.
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You honestly can’t make that sort of poo poo up.
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You mean he didn't get his start building weather machines to make ships sink and double-crossing the three-piece-suit wearing daughter of a drug dealer? This is a double disappointment.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It was also that the original books were explicitly pro-fascist. I don't know about the fascism content, but according to Wikipedia the Fu Manchu series lasted until 1959.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I don't know about the fascism content, but according to Wikipedia the Fu Manchu series lasted until 1959. Weird, yeah, this is like a Berenstain Bears moment for me. But yeah the title I was talking about was Drums of Fu Manchu I'm pretty sure.
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Speaking of the Barks comics, does anyone have a collection they'd recommend if I wanted to dip my feet into it? I read some of the comics when I was younger but have kept meaning to get to back to the classics as an adult.
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feedmyleg posted:Speaking of the Barks comics, does anyone have a collection they'd recommend if I wanted to dip my feet into it? I read some of the comics when I was younger but have kept meaning to get to back to the classics as an adult. I'd probably point you here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/series/the-complete-carl-barks-disney-library/
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I'd probably point you here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/series/the-complete-carl-barks-disney-library/ Recco's on which of these lovely-looking tomes to purchase? Or just choose the one that looks most up my alley because they're all equally quality?
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feedmyleg posted:Recco's on which of these lovely-looking tomes to purchase? Or just choose the one that looks most up my alley because they're all equally quality? Sorry. I ended up getting one ("Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn") as a kickstarter reward when Fantagraphics had a "please help us not go out of business" sale a while back, and it was excellent, with very well-done introduction and story notes, but I have no reason to believe it was better or worse than any other volume, essentially just a random pick. A lot of them look like they might be out of print right now unfortunately, but it looks like they have fairly large preview sections up on their website for each volume (e.g., http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/previews/wdus01-preview.pdf )
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feedmyleg posted:Recco's on which of these lovely-looking tomes to purchase? Or just choose the one that looks most up my alley because they're all equally quality? I've been getting these (and the Don Rosa collection) as a future present to give to my nephew when he's old enough It's all nice clean artwork, with crisp colouring, and some behind the scenes stuff which is pretty interesting. I'd say go with what takes your fancy.
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Great ep, but the first 3/4 of it was frustrating as gently caress with the teeter-tooter grabbin the paper bit dragging on for wayyyyy too long. Launchpad continues to be the best. DEWEY THE DARKWING DUCK VIDEO IS STILL RUNNING! DO YOU WANT ME TO PAUSE IT UNTIL YOU GET BACK?
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It's already aired, dude, no need for spoiler tags. The ghost butler walking out at the end too was just insult to injury.
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So, that just leaves the finale next week, then? And then a long wait for the next season to pop out.
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