Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jan 31, 2016 16:25:00 GMT
DuckTales episodes seem to be divided in two kinds: episodes that, on various levels, are adaptations of preexisting comic stories (like Back to the Klondike or Down and Out in Duckburg); and episodes that have a close-to-100% original script (like Magica's Shadow War, Time is Money…). To those we can had those that were apparently inspired by Barks comics on some level but can't be called "adaptations" (like for that matter the very first episode of the show, Treasure of the Golden Suns , that is in part reminiscent of King Scrooge the First and The Seven Cities of Cibola).
During the show's original run, both have cohabited… but not always very well. Here are the main opinions I am aware of among viewers:
— DuckTales should have been made only of adaptations, preferentially of Barks comics, but in practice the episodes that were labelled as adaptations were disrespectful to the original material; as for the original episodes, they're best not talked about.
— DuckTales had its best moment in episodes based on Barks's comics; they had no business writing new plots and should have stuck with the adaptations.
— DuckTales is just plain bad and irredeemable, an insult to the source material.
— Regardless of their quality, the adaptation episodes are downright problematic continuity-wise since the Boom! comics reestablished that the show takes place in the comics's continuity, which leads to the unpleasant problems of, for instance, there being two Crowns of Gengis Khan or Scrooge McDuck having first set foot in the land of Tralla La twice.
— DuckTales is fine as it is.
— The original comics were not so bright; DuckTales was going in the right direction when doing original works that departed from them, and was dragging itself down when trying to replicate the comics. (Yes I know this opinion is very rare and has chances of being rarer than anywhere else on a Disney Comics Forum, but it is an opinion I've seen on the Internet, so I have to mention it.)
Now, since the show is supposedly getting a revival pretty soon, I'd like to know what all of you would like to see in it… based on what they liked/didn't like in the first three seasons.
During the show's original run, both have cohabited… but not always very well. Here are the main opinions I am aware of among viewers:
— DuckTales should have been made only of adaptations, preferentially of Barks comics, but in practice the episodes that were labelled as adaptations were disrespectful to the original material; as for the original episodes, they're best not talked about.
— DuckTales had its best moment in episodes based on Barks's comics; they had no business writing new plots and should have stuck with the adaptations.
— DuckTales is just plain bad and irredeemable, an insult to the source material.
— Regardless of their quality, the adaptation episodes are downright problematic continuity-wise since the Boom! comics reestablished that the show takes place in the comics's continuity, which leads to the unpleasant problems of, for instance, there being two Crowns of Gengis Khan or Scrooge McDuck having first set foot in the land of Tralla La twice.
— DuckTales is fine as it is.
— The original comics were not so bright; DuckTales was going in the right direction when doing original works that departed from them, and was dragging itself down when trying to replicate the comics. (Yes I know this opinion is very rare and has chances of being rarer than anywhere else on a Disney Comics Forum, but it is an opinion I've seen on the Internet, so I have to mention it.)
Now, since the show is supposedly getting a revival pretty soon, I'd like to know what all of you would like to see in it… based on what they liked/didn't like in the first three seasons.