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drrockso20 posted:So what's the song? Pretty sure it's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXF9qtNfu-M
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Mark Beaks just goes between incompetent and hypercompetent depending on his comfort zones so quickly it's kind of amazing. His head got very Armstrong-shaped too when he was in Mega Beaks mode. So yeah I think that was more the idea all along.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Mark Beaks just goes between incompetent and hypercompetent depending on his comfort zones so quickly it's kind of amazing. He literally used nanomachines to hulk out.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:We're gonna end up with a whole goddamn superhero team, I tells ya, and it's gonna be great. Superhero teams do seem to be rather useful for fighting off sudden alien invasions.
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Finally got a chance to watch the last two episodes. Beaks continues to be hilariously inept at being a villain. I hope Gandra shows up again. Darkwing episode was completely amazing. I really hope it turns into a spinoff, because they leaned into that hard.
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I'm not sure if I've ever seen an absentee mother relationship like they have in this show before. Kinda weird. Weird duck anatomy letting Della leave before her kids were born. MichiganCubbie posted:Can they use "Jungle Book" characters in order to bring in Tailspin? Obviously we've had Don Karnage and references to Cape Suzette, but I don't know if they can use Baloo, Louie, and Shere Khan. That's not what public domain means. Not having the exclusive copyright means anyone can use those characters, including Disney. That's why there's like 500 adaptations and derivations of Wizard of Oz (including 4 by Disney). It's a freer experience that keeps things alive in the public consciousness. However, modern copyright law also allows for companies to copyright their versions of public domain figures, which means that for example, MGM's version of the wicked witch of the west is under copyright, and can't be freely used without riskink lawsuit. It's also how Disney trolls most people who try to reference its properties based off of the public domain, so Baloo and all the others would still be covered within Disney's hellgrasp for long after everyone involved in the making of the movie is dead.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'm not sure if I've ever seen an absentee mother relationship like they have in this show before. Kinda weird. I never said public domain? I was talking about the Disney versions of the Jungle Book characters.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'm not sure if I've ever seen an absentee mother relationship like they have in this show before. Kinda weird. There's something I find oddly familiar about it, though it might be mixing a few things together in my head. The Shazam movie has Billy Batson finally find his mother only to have her basically rebuff him and want nothing to do with him, maybe? Though it's rare to have the mother be the one actively seeking her children for once. Funny thing is there's a fair amount of visual foreshadowing with Jim Starling, his yellow-ringed eyes, him picking up a chainsaw just like the ones Negaduck likes to use and looking at his reflection in it, and far more readily turning to violence against bystanders and enemies alike, even the tone of his voice.
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I really liked the latest episode, but I've never seen Darkwing Duck, so I think this might be a sign that I should watch it?
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stratofarius posted:I really liked the latest episode, but I've never seen Darkwing Duck, so I think this might be a sign that I should watch it? Probably. Also the (relatively) recent comics
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The muscular dog on the water cooler billboard Launchpad poses in front of looks a lot like the new Liquidator.
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Assuming the show's roughly set in the modern day, and going by how Donald and Della grew up in the 90s, I get the impression that they're roughly in their mid 30s, while Launchpad has a canon birthdate and is a little younger. It's scary how well Donald adapts as being a millennial stand-in; a college graduate (well, presuming he graduated) whose degree isn't even worth mention, chronically unemployed except in an underpaid family business job, and gave up on his own dreams long ago to just try to survive.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Assuming the show's roughly set in the modern day, and going by how Donald and Della grew up in the 90s, I get the impression that they're roughly in their mid 30s, while Launchpad has a canon birthdate and is a little younger. It really bothers me that Launchpad is now canonically younger than me.
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MichiganCubbie posted:It really bothers me that Launchpad is now canonically younger than me. duck time follows its own laws. A duck year can't possibly be a human year.
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MichiganCubbie posted:It really bothers me that Launchpad is now canonically younger than me. Yep. If you were alive on the day the original DuckTales premiered on television, 2017 Launchpad is younger than you are. Let that sink in.
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glad I'm younger than Launchpad, means I still have time for some other show to get remade and make me feel old 
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MichiganCubbie posted:It really bothers me that Donald is now canonically younger than me.
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It bothers me that I am Donald Duck.
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tribbledirigible posted:It bothers me that I am Donald Duck. This but my sister hasn't dumped 3 kids on me, so there's that i guess.
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Donald Duck is 85. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are 82. Scrooge is 72. Glomgold is 63. Launchpad is 32. Darkwing is 28. To put that in further perspective, Phineas and Ferb are 12, Adventure time is 9, Gravity Falls is 7.
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IRQ posted:This but my sister hasn't dumped 3 kids on me, so there's that i guess. My sister tries...
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kidcoelacanth posted:Promo, show coming back in September: I hope that school scene gives us some familiar characters into Ducktales.
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I keep thinking Gandra Dee sounds like the name of a lost city, not a person. Her episode kinda got forgotten being sandwiched in between Della and Darkwing, but I get the impression she's being set up to be a recurring character. Maybe a Catwoman type to Gizmoduck. Her whole deal seems to be nanites rather than Gizmoduck's cyber-armour, and I have a feeling she could be as revolutionary as Gyro if she could get reliable funding. Funny thing is I just realised that the fall-apart armour from Iron Man 3 is pretty much the Gizmoduck suit.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I keep thinking Gandra Dee sounds like the name of a lost city, not a person. It's a play on Sandra Dee.
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Hi, I've been directed over here because I have So I thought I'd keep doing that while not reading any posts not responding to this one, and then go back and catch up on the thread proper. But I could just as easily not do that. Let me know. I've just had my mind blown by Darkwing Duck and (insanely telegraphed) Gizmoduck in the same episode. Webby wasn't in this episode, which imo prevents it from reaching true greatness. Edit: wanted to mention that the captions for Mark Beaks call Launchpad and Gyro Scrooge's Drivr and Inventr, with that specific spelling. Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 06:35 on May 25, 2019 |
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S1E12 Glomgold is just the best, while Webby continues to be just the absolute best. I love her very genuine if misplaced enthusiasm. She has boundless enthusiasm and a grappling hook and is willing to use either one for any purpose. "Talking animals wearing clothes!" Also, they sound like Tara Strong and whoever voices Pinkie Pie. (Edit: they are) Ok this episode is fantastic. The pro being annoyed at the natural is a little hackneyed, but the comic relief this episode is off the charts. I've almost entirely succeeded at not hearing The Doctor now. Edit: I feel like Launchpad is a little too dumb in this series. Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 07:09 on May 25, 2019 |
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I'm interested in knowing why you have 4 days to binge Ducktales (or else?).
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Argue posted:I'm interested in knowing why you have 4 days to binge Ducktales (or else?). It's free on-demand until the 30th. We just got cable, but it doesn't include XD.
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Beachcomber posted:I've almost entirely succeeded at not hearing The Doctor now. The natural Scottish accent definitely helps with that, as does the scriptwriters leaning into the Scottish tropes.
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S1: E13 gently caress, Duckworth's dead? Is it weird that I'm starting to think he's not dead? This is nuts. Chekov's Butler. S1: E14 My running theory with Lena is that she's going to change her mind. Webby: the best. Yeah, Lena's going to heelturn hard. Is it weird that I miss Magica's crazy Natasha accent? That reporter looks like Plucky. Have we ever seen Ducks of Color before? Tiffany is channeling Gyo hard.  Grappling hook! Is that Glomgold as Michael Moore wearing a Money Shark Truther hat? Some Numbers posted:The natural Scottish accent definitely helps with that, as does the scriptwriters leaning into the Scottish tropes. It will be really interesting once I go back to Doctor Who. Particularly the Donna Noble season.
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S1:E15 Scrooge with sound financial advice. The wealthiest people are cheap as gently caress. Glittering Goldie! I wonder if Scrooge kept her as a slave in this continuity. She sounds like the West Wing lady. I wish I didn't have an ear for these things. I'm really digging Glomgold's whole Dick Dastardly vibe. I love the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. (Re: riding Apex predators) I get why the boys are there, but I kind of wish they weren't, which is probably what they were going for. This show is so good.
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S1:e16 Huey gives me Dipper vibes. Reboot Doofus is terrifying. This is the Twilight Zone. Webby in the robot  ED-209. I'm not getting anything major from this episode other than Webby continues to be the best.
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S1:e17 I kind of want them to do the whole theme sometime. Both verses. Possibly during some kind of climax at the end of the season. Webby is so delightfully broken. Almighty gently caress the Gummi Bears. All of a suddenly I'm 5 in my grandmother's kitchen and there's going to be pancakes. Pancakes neither I nor my mother has ever succeeded in replicating. The Prisoner now. Still need to watch that series. Holy loving poo poo. They should have sent a poet. How can this possibly be happening? Literally tearing up a little with the nostalgia. Ok, I'm going to try to do this from memory: Singing in chorus They bounce through the forest Guarding the secret Of gummi bear juice Courageous and caring Dashing and daring Something something Hearts through the air Gummi Bears! Bouncing Here and there And everywhere High Adventure that's beyond compare They are the gummi Bears! (High pitched) they are the gummi Bears! Ok, checking. Not great, but not bad for 30 years. I remember I had a massive crush on the yellow tomboy gummi. This show is too good to me.
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I look forward to your reaction to the Christmas episode.
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Beachcomber posted:S1: E13 Oh, just you waaaaiit Webby has invited comparisons to both Mabel Pines and Hank Venture, though she's more a Damian Wayne kind of thing with the archetype of a hypercompetent adventurer/hero/warrior type who is excellent at everything except basic social skills because of their specialised upbringing. I'd say it's not something you often see applied to girls but quite a few examples are actually female, come to think of it. (Hank is kind of an incompetent/realistic version of that since he has a fair few skills but rarely gets much of a chance to use them, and once exposed to the real world tends to not do too much worse than a typical dopey teenager, it's more the enthusiasm for adventuring that invites comparison)
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The problem with the Venture Bros comparison is that there are multiples of a few characters. While Huey is the best Dean, you could argue that Dewey, Webby, and Louie all encompass aspects of Hank. Just like Beaksley, Launchpad, Donald and it looks like Della are aspects of Brock. I just want more Community actors to pop up. Dean Gyro is something that I never knew I needed.
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MichiganCubbie posted:I just want more Community actors to pop up. Dean Gyro is something that I never knew I needed. John Oliver's probably too busy now, but I'd love for him to voice someone.
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Beachcomber posted:I'm really digging Glomgold's whole Dick Dastardly vibe. Glomgold's pretty amazing. I really love just how much fun he's having with his schemes. What makes him work is that despite being silly in a lot of ways, he's still a pretty credible threat and he'd kill Scrooge if possible. Hell, he's actually come close to killing Scrooge a few times now. The only reason he hasn't won is because he doesn't have family and friends to back him up, as well as his fatal flaw of never thinking things through.
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S1:E18 Who is Gizmoduck? I've always wanted to see Donald v. Hulk in an angry-off. Digging Bouncer's Mighty Ducks mask. Fenton with the Ghostbusters reference. Loving Mr. Bulby. I don't think cartoons as a kid would have been allowed to admit a corpse was inside a mummy. Reboot-M'ma giving me shades of Renee Montoya. I wonder if she does MMA? Solid episode
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