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Phylodox posted:Actual duck in a top hat! That made me gasp harder than anything else this show's done so far. God that dream sequence was so good.
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Das Boo posted:I think it's neat they ended up going with the South African background. It's tremendously touchy given the history of colonialism and exploitation and I'm interested to see how they work with it in the future. Not doing it at all would've been the safe route, so there must be a lot of consideration put into tackling it. I thought that was the original point with making him a boer. While Scrooge made his money off of his own physical hard work before going into finance and investments, it's kind of implicit that a wealthy man out in South Africa is going to have made his fortune off of the suffering of others. Either that or most big ways to become a wealthy industrialist back in the 19th century were implicitly immoral and while they worked out a way for Scrooge to have mostly clean hands, Glomgold didn't get the same treatment. On the other hand, they could go draw parallels with America's current most famous wealthy South African industrialist involved in contests with other wealthy industrialists has a rivalry with do-gooders who creates half-baked over-elaborate schemes, and has a serious issue with bragging about his schemes. 
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Oh wow, Scrooge tried to give young Glomgold his number one dime. That's actually a super nice gesture. Of course, nice gestures are meaningless and sometimes even insulting if the other person doesn't actually understand what's nice about them; and that's how Scrooge's inability to understand the emotions of others or properly communicate his own feelings ended up creating a lifelong mortal enemy. I don't think it was THE Number One Dime, just a dime he hoped would serve as something similar for Duke. Obviously it backfired, and the pickpocketed golden money clip taught Duke a different lesson. SlothfulCobra posted:I thought that was the original point with making him a boer. While Scrooge made his money off of his own physical hard work before going into finance and investments, it's kind of implicit that a wealthy man out in South Africa is going to have made his fortune off of the suffering of others. While we do have Mark Beaks as the resident tech bro billionaire, I've made that amusing comparison before.
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This episode was really good But I thought this week was going to be the Three Caballeros episode so I’m a bit miffed
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People are already speculating now that the mission to rescue Della from the moon is going to drain just enough money from Scooge’s fortune to allow Glomgold to win the bet and gain control over McDuck Enterprises. I think that’s where this’ll end up too, because there’s no way Glomgold is winning that bet legitimately or illegitimately either.
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Amazing the sort of interesting backstory you can get by combining two character backgrounds into one.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I thought that was the original point with making him a boer. While Scrooge made his money off of his own physical hard work before going into finance and investments, it's kind of implicit that a wealthy man out in South Africa is going to have made his fortune off of the suffering of others. It was the original point, but the comics come from a place of commentary and maturity that had kinda been pushed out of animation for years. Even being able to include a glance of something with a deep and ugly history still surprises me. But I also work on a show where S&P has a problem with showing a kid use a sewing machine, I guess.  Also Ghost Leviathan nailed it, that last bit can easily fit Mark Beaks.
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Mark Beaks is more directly a Mark Zuckerberg riff mind, and his company Waddle is a mix of Google and Uber. Also he's a magical girl.
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nine-gear crow posted:People are already speculating now that the mission to rescue Della from the moon is going to drain just enough money from Scooge’s fortune to allow Glomgold to win the bet and gain control over McDuck Enterprises. I think that’s where this’ll end up too, because there’s no way Glomgold is winning that bet legitimately or illegitimately either. That seems like a legitimate win to me. None of that is Glomgold's fault.
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Hasn't there been a comic storyline or two where Glomgold steals Scrooge's fortune and holdings, enough to affect the Forbes Fictional 15? And on the note of tech bro spoofs; Scrooge in this incarnation was ahead of the curve in an ill-advised private space program. I wonder if a plot hook that might get Scrooge back in the game would be Glomgold or Beaks starting their own space exploration ventures. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 4, 2018 |
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Rockerduck is also going to show up this season. And he is the one Scrooge gambles with the most. Though unlike the Glomgold bet, Rockerduck and Scrooge bets are pretty low stake. Normally the loser's punishment is having to eat their hat.
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Seeing Scrooge get pissed at Glomgold was amazing.
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I feel like there's definitely more to that money clip than it just being a clip, but I have no idea what it could be
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Xelkelvos posted:I feel like there's definitely more to that money clip than it just being a clip, but I have no idea what it could be The way they were juxtaposing it with Zan Owlson in the dream sequence I thought it was some kind of mind control device or restraining bolt she'd planted on Glomgold to try and keep him from remembering who he really was and thereby coming back and ruining the company she was trying to save, possibly prefiguring her as villain herself. But no, she's apparently on the level and Glomgold was just having a hosed up dream.
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this episode sure did make every episode with Glomgold retroactively disturbing
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Everyone should follow Sam King on Twitter. https://twitter.com/samanthacking/status/1059243010179747841?s=21
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I found the episode to be a real clunker. It was just boring for long stretches. Enjoyed the origin story at the end, but the Fisherperson stuff went nowhere and was just fluff.
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A Scrooge vs Glomgold richest duck in the world competition? Are they making an adaptation of the old 'Quest for Gold' PC game? :O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales:_The_Quest_for_Gold
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The old series had a multi episode storyline with that premise too - one of them also involved fish people.
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Avalerion posted:The old series had a multi episode storyline with that premise too - one of them also involved fish people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZISTZJr3fg
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It likely isn't coincidence that the Glomgold origins episode features Louie and Webby- who have ambition, greed and guile, and physical prowess respectively.
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Conclusions posted:A Scrooge vs Glomgold richest duck in the world competition? That is the exact thing I thought of too. I played that game to death as a kid!
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DuckTales is going full on Mickey's Christmas Carol for its Christmas episode this year--actually airing at Christmas time this time around rather than pulling a random episode of its order for dumb reasons. It's also going full on Doctor Who too: quote:In a nod to “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” Scrooge avoids the pressures of the holidays by traveling back in time with a trio of fun-loving ghosts to crash history’s greatest Christmas parties instead. Meanwhile, time-lost Dewey teams up with young Donald Duck to find his mom on Christmas. Also... Launchpad is Jewish. Who knew...
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Mazel tov!
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nine-gear crow posted:DuckTales is going full on Mickey's Christmas Carol for its Christmas episode this year--actually airing at Christmas time this time around rather than pulling a random episode of its order for dumb reasons. Wow, there's, uh, a pretty huge spoiler for what is presumably part of the seasonal arc in that link.
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Tomorrow!! 
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Look at those beautiful boys.
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Does that mean this Donald served in ww2?
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Senerio posted:Tomorrow!! I can't believe Donald was the only white guy in a Latin boy band.
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Senerio posted:Tomorrow!! Are those cards in the holsters?
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maltesh posted:Are those cards in the holsters? Cell phones  They won't let him have pistols anymore because this isn't the 1940s.
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Next thing you'll tell me that Jose Carioca isn't a greasy flirt anymore.
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They did the thing! Good episode.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Donald's college years sound wild. Donald doesn't strike me as the college type. And I'm pretty confident that he hasn't gotten his degree. I wonder what his major was. Nautical engineering? History? He did apply for an office job in the first episode, so maybe he studied something completely mundane like economics. I want to believe the he tried to study computer science and was thrown out when he smashed the university's main frame in a fit of rage after a slight error in his programming.
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Can we uhhhh get Jose and Panchito as recurring characters please
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I really enjoyed the episode! I was imagining earlier this week what Donald's old college band could have been like. Donald was probably in college ~15-20 years ago, so thinking about what genres of music were popular back then... the thought of the caballeros as a pop punk trio was pretty funny to me. Looking like a thrift store green day or mcr or something.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Donald doesn't strike me as the college type. Maybe not back in the day, but now it totally fits for a college graduate to still be unable to find gainful employment and live on a boat because they can't afford a house. A better question might be who paid for that college. Did Scrooge bankroll it, or did he pay Donald enough for his services as an adventuring companion to afford it, or did he serve in the navy and just got through on the GI bill?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Maybe not back in the day, but now it totally fits for a college graduate to still be unable to find gainful employment and live on a boat because they can't afford a house. That last one begs the question of what the heck Panchito and José would be doing in the navy.
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