Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Sept 12, 2019 21:01:21 GMT
Brilliant finale as far as I'm concerned, though I think (and I never thought I would have to say this) they've kind of underutilized Darkwing. Lance Reddick did much better as the unhinged Lunaris than he had been doing with the clipped, precise diction of his cool, collected personal, which always felt ever so slightly forced to me.
Several laugh-out-loud moments this episode, of which the biggest has to be the fact that Lunaris's main evil scheme is to get the Moon to revolve around the Earth. Some of the jokes do fall flat (Launchpad's "thumbs" misunderstanding comes to mind), but the rest more than make up for it.
The army of Li'l Helpers was adorable, and perhaps I'm being too hopeful, but if we're creating tons of Little Bulbs, mightn't one develop a sweeter personality than the average one and become more like the Prime Helper? Ah, I'm probably just dreaming. But for a moment I did think that's where they were going when one of the Helpers stopped frowning and looked shy and timid as the others marched into battle, there. The way the rest of the scene played out kinda jossed the idea for now, but… hm.
Also, Feathery Society, get your act together! You can't simultaneously complain that Owlson isn't an evil mastermind but just a down-to-earth businessperson, and yet wish the Buzzards hadn't been revealed to be evil masterminds as opposed to just down-to-earth businesspeople. (I am, for myself, totally down with both; fantastic ending teaser. Glad Rockerduck will be back, though I'm sort of worried about where they're going with Frankenstein-Jeeves. The Phantom Blot twist was… unexpected to say the least, and consequently sort of amazing, but my my, they've made him… plump… haven't they? We'll see how that turns out. Or maybe it's not even the Blot at all and we're just seeing things?… The glowing green eyes seem to be a lift from Epic Mickey, which is a bit of a weird move, but it looks good. …Oh, and speaking of the show not having the guts to kill off characters, Black Heron survived. Of course she did. Well, I'm not opposed to more April Winchell, you understand. But there you have it.)
It is maddening to the Duck genealogist in me that Angones had Scrooge mention something his great-grandfather used to say, yet fail to tell us who that great-grandfather is.
On the other hand, they were so recently created that they had only, what, a couple of days' time to diverge from the original Gyro. So in some sense, we can look at this as there having only been one Gyro, acting through many bodies, who lost a few days' worth of memories but essentially survived.
All that being said, I am fairly sure that the shocking death Angones was referring to was Gladstone eating Mickey alive.
No reason to keep upping the scales, or things would get really ridiculous really quickly. I mean, they already did. Hello? Trying to make the Earth revolve around the Moon to prove a point?
Several laugh-out-loud moments this episode, of which the biggest has to be the fact that Lunaris's main evil scheme is to get the Moon to revolve around the Earth. Some of the jokes do fall flat (Launchpad's "thumbs" misunderstanding comes to mind), but the rest more than make up for it.
The army of Li'l Helpers was adorable, and perhaps I'm being too hopeful, but if we're creating tons of Little Bulbs, mightn't one develop a sweeter personality than the average one and become more like the Prime Helper? Ah, I'm probably just dreaming. But for a moment I did think that's where they were going when one of the Helpers stopped frowning and looked shy and timid as the others marched into battle, there. The way the rest of the scene played out kinda jossed the idea for now, but… hm.
Also, Feathery Society, get your act together! You can't simultaneously complain that Owlson isn't an evil mastermind but just a down-to-earth businessperson, and yet wish the Buzzards hadn't been revealed to be evil masterminds as opposed to just down-to-earth businesspeople. (I am, for myself, totally down with both; fantastic ending teaser. Glad Rockerduck will be back, though I'm sort of worried about where they're going with Frankenstein-Jeeves. The Phantom Blot twist was… unexpected to say the least, and consequently sort of amazing, but my my, they've made him… plump… haven't they? We'll see how that turns out. Or maybe it's not even the Blot at all and we're just seeing things?… The glowing green eyes seem to be a lift from Epic Mickey, which is a bit of a weird move, but it looks good. …Oh, and speaking of the show not having the guts to kill off characters, Black Heron survived. Of course she did. Well, I'm not opposed to more April Winchell, you understand. But there you have it.)
It is maddening to the Duck genealogist in me that Angones had Scrooge mention something his great-grandfather used to say, yet fail to tell us who that great-grandfather is.
But yhe, as dismaldowns mention most likley he ment Gyro clones... whic his still pretty dark when you think about it. Duplicates or not they are still living beings who feel pain and such...
All that being said, I am fairly sure that the shocking death Angones was referring to was Gladstone eating Mickey alive.
II like the idea to have F.O.W.L. as the main antagonists of season 3 but... how the heck, they will top Lunaris as far the scale of villany go? I mean, he pretty much tried to destroyed the earth, including his own kind. That's like way more evil then anything the more comical Duckburg villains tried to do so far...