Post by Matilda on Sept 12, 2019 4:17:52 GMT
"Happy Birthday, Doofus"--hate this Goldie, dislike this Louie, so.... The only part I liked was Scrooge opening the doors in the beginning.
"Nightmare on Killmotor Hill"--mildly interesting and visually fun to see the different characters' dreams. Agree with Pan, Dewey's "love interest" was funny. And agree with Baar Baar Jinx, the disappearing unicorn was cute. I continue to be disappointed that Lena isn't a real person, so the whole Lena/Magica thing doesn't work very well for me. Yeah, I know she's supposed to function as a real person, having freed herself from Magica's-shadow-dom, but I was invested in her in the first season and imagined her to be a more realistic character. And why is she still calling Magica "Aunt Magica"? (Maybe that's in another episode, I just watched all these in a row.) What is supposed to be the joke of Dewey's tear-moon? Is there a reference I'm not getting?
"Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot"--Webby's voice got really, really irritating to me in this one. When she's excited, it can get very grating. Agree with Pan, her drive to equal Della in particular came out of nowhere. And the spiders didn't work for me at all, just icky, not scary or funny. But I did like the corn/popcorn aspect. Not only did the popcorn recall Rosa's story, the "golden treasure" being corn reminded me of one of my childhood favorite stories, Barks' "All at Sea". Also, it put me off at the beginning that the Coot statue was holding weapons rather than corn, so it was great to have that rectified in the end. It seems that the writers have bad childhood memories of being taken to historical-reenactment villages under the guise of vacation! The revamped (rebooted?) Fort Duckburg historical-reenactment village at the end was well done.
"Nightmare on Killmotor Hill"--mildly interesting and visually fun to see the different characters' dreams. Agree with Pan, Dewey's "love interest" was funny. And agree with Baar Baar Jinx, the disappearing unicorn was cute. I continue to be disappointed that Lena isn't a real person, so the whole Lena/Magica thing doesn't work very well for me. Yeah, I know she's supposed to function as a real person, having freed herself from Magica's-shadow-dom, but I was invested in her in the first season and imagined her to be a more realistic character. And why is she still calling Magica "Aunt Magica"? (Maybe that's in another episode, I just watched all these in a row.) What is supposed to be the joke of Dewey's tear-moon? Is there a reference I'm not getting?
"Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot"--Webby's voice got really, really irritating to me in this one. When she's excited, it can get very grating. Agree with Pan, her drive to equal Della in particular came out of nowhere. And the spiders didn't work for me at all, just icky, not scary or funny. But I did like the corn/popcorn aspect. Not only did the popcorn recall Rosa's story, the "golden treasure" being corn reminded me of one of my childhood favorite stories, Barks' "All at Sea". Also, it put me off at the beginning that the Coot statue was holding weapons rather than corn, so it was great to have that rectified in the end. It seems that the writers have bad childhood memories of being taken to historical-reenactment villages under the guise of vacation! The revamped (rebooted?) Fort Duckburg historical-reenactment village at the end was well done.
"Timephoon"--I very much liked Scrooge's line (in response to the description of what the instigator must be like) "It's one of the kids." Perfect delivery.
"GlomTales"--Like Pan, I thought the best joke of this shaggy episode is how people repeatedly see Magica as the Main Villain, not Glomgold. I'm also confused about what all is supposed to have happened, and disturbed by the possibility that Louie was out to take over Scrooge's business/fortune. I am happy to see Magica becoming more like Barks' Magica, though, as others have noted.