Angones has said Fethry is a "strong maybe" for season 2 and that they want "to pull from as broad a spectrum of the Duck Universe as possible". He already said he is not really a Scarpa guy although he respects his creations and now he is saying they want to introduce them the second season.
That is probably well known in the forum but I felt like sharing.
Also:
"I am sitting here looking at over 70 episode pitches for awesome sounding DuckTales eps we haven’t made yet. If we get the chance, we’re gonna get to every one of them!"
I hope this series last! Yes, it can frustrate us at times but it still the best shot we have of having so many beloved characters interacting in animated form.
Last Edit: May 15, 2018 23:42:26 GMT by dismaldowns
I would say it's very stereotypical to give an antagonist British accent.
You're confusing two things. The "Evil Brit" trope is sort of an inexplicable oddity of fiction, which relies on the idea that a British accent sounds "cultured" and thus feeds into the idea of an upper-class, educated, diabolically intelligent villain. But it's unique to fiction; there's no true racism from Americans towards Britons, to my knowledge. Whereas a "stereotypical Italian" character, especially to an American audience, may come across to an American audience as being as genuinely racist as one of those horrible caricatures of Irishmen or Japanese people.
Why did they give her an accent anyway? Besides, Scrooge doesn't have any accent in Barks' story.
Everyone's got an accent. You can't speak "blank" English. Therefore, you may argue that Scrooge didn't have a Scottish accent, but he most definitely had to have an agent. And by the same token, they had to give Magica some accent, and while "standard American accent" may appear straightforward for Huey, Dewey and Louie or Rockerduck, it's not the same for magcia. Magica is not a native speaker, any accent is equally justifiable — a lot of European schools teach Oxford English, not American English, so it makes sense
You're right. I don't mean she should not have any accent at all, but she should sound more like everybody else in the show. The point is, you can hardly see any protagonist with British accent, unless the story happens in Britain. I won't say that's straight-out racism in this case, but it does feel unfair.
Yet another one of those "Duck Week" crossover things has been released:
Okay, so the way they shoehorned a fourth character in what is very obviously supposed to be a trio by splitting Phineas between Webby and Huey is kind of silly (they could just have had Webby play, say, Emily, or Constance, or the Tightrope Girl), but this still makes me very happy.
Anyway, from over on Twitter, apparent confirmation that the ducks also hatch from eggs in the 2017verse:
Yet another one of those "Duck Week" crossover things has been released:
Okay, so the way they shoehorned a fourth character in what is very obviously supposed to be a trio by splitting Phineas between Webby and Huey is kind of silly (they could just have had Webby play, say, Emily, or Constance, or the Tightrope Girl), but this still makes me very happy.
Anyway, from over on Twitter, apparent confirmation that the ducks also hatch from eggs in the 2017verse:
But can we really believe these people's Twitter accounts? Because if we do, per Angones', DuckTales apparently might take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, maybe if we just ignore that.....
Last Edit: May 16, 2018 22:54:25 GMT by drleevezan
Okay, so the way they shoehorned a fourth character in what is very obviously supposed to be a trio by splitting Phineas between Webby and Huey is kind of silly (they could just have had Webby play, say, Emily, or Constance, or the Tightrope Girl), but this still makes me very happy.
Anyway, from over on Twitter, apparent confirmation that the ducks also hatch from eggs in the 2017verse:
But can we really believe these people's Twitter accounts? Because if we do, per Angones', DuckTales apparently might take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well, maybe if we just ignore that.....
I think what he's getting at is, if he had his way, the M.C.U.'s Howard the Duck wouldn't come from an alternate planet, but rather from the DuckTales 2017 version of Duckburg.
I quite enjoyed "The Missing Links of Mooreshire". Maybe I'm just getting used to the show's sense of humor and writing style, but this one was a lot of fun to watch and had some good gags from most of the characters, as well as some nice character interaction between the perfectionist Uncle Scrooge and the more impulsive Dewey. Louie as Glomgold's caddy, Glomgold's stupid golfing, Huey and Launchpad's running commentary and the running gag with the kelpies (a.k.a. "murder ponies") all worked very well to keep this episode moving along. It's a shame the animators didn't actually illustrate Scrooge's story about Black Donald McDuck inventing the game of golf, though. It was interesting to see one of Don Rosa's discarded ideas used in this episode.
I would say it's very stereotypical to give an antagonist British accent.
You're confusing two things. The "Evil Brit" trope is sort of an inexplicable oddity of fiction, which relies on the idea that a British accent sounds "cultured" and thus feeds into the idea of an upper-class, educated, diabolically intelligent villain. But it's unique to fiction; there's no true racism from Americans towards Britons, to my knowledge. Whereas a "stereotypical Italian" character, especially to an American audience, may come across to an American audience as being as genuinely racist as one of those horrible caricatures of Irishmen or Japanese people.
Why did they give her an accent anyway? Besides, Scrooge doesn't have any accent in Barks' story.
Everyone's got an accent. You can't speak "blank" English. Therefore, you may argue that Scrooge didn't have a Scottish accent, but he most definitely had to have an agent. And by the same token, they had to give Magica some accent, and while "standard American accent" may appear straightforward for Huey, Dewey and Louie or Rockerduck, it's not the same for magcia. Magica is not a native speaker, any accent is equally justifiable — a lot of European schools teach Oxford English, not American English, so it makes sense
The Americans were fanatically racist against The Irish (immigrants) from about 1848-1917 or so. The Irish were more "Britons" than The Germanic Angles, Lower Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, who became The English.
I quite enjoyed "The Missing Links of Mooreshire". Maybe I'm just getting used to the show's sense of humor and writing style, but this one was a lot of fun to watch and had some good gags from most of the characters, as well as some nice character interaction between the perfectionist Uncle Scrooge and the more impulsive Dewey. Louie as Glomgold's caddy, Glomgold's stupid golfing, Huey and Launchpad's running commentary and the running gag with the kelpies (a.k.a. "murder ponies") all worked very well to keep this episode moving along. It's a shame the animators didn't actually illustrate Scrooge's story about Black Donald McDuck inventing the game of golf, though. It was interesting to see one of Don Rosa's discarded ideas used in this episode.
I agree, Deb. This episode moved along well, and did a good job at giving each of the seven characters a distinctive role to play. I thought the narrative structure was pretty solid, with the different threads (associated with the various characters or pairs of characters) woven in throughout. We'll see, but my guess is that this episode will also stick in my mind more than others have, partly due to the offbeat setting of the mystical Celtic golf game, nicely visualized. And My Little Kelpies™, of course.
It felt like we were back to Stupid Launchpad, but that's really my only complaint. Of course, that's in context: I hate the differentiated nephews, but it's Another Duckworld, not the Real Duckworld, and I'm willing to go along with the ground rules. Even in this Other Duckworld, though, I feel that Launchpad should get a little more depth, as he did in Original DuckTales.
While I'm not always crazy about the nephews having different personalities, when you give them each something to do that showcases their personality so well, it's hard to complain. (I must admit, though, that Louie has become my favorite "new DuckTales" nephew.) Even "stupid" Glomgold was so much fun here, that I can't complain that he's not "evil Glomgold". The pastel colored kelpies are something that I'm sure is funnier for those who are familiar with My Little Pony and recognize the voice actresses for Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy.
(I must admit, though, that Louie has become my favorite "new DuckTales" nephew.)
That's interesting! Louie's character is by far the most irritating thing to me in New DuckTales. I have to keep repeating the mantra, "It's Another Duckworld...It's Another Duckworld..." to put up with it. I'm intrigued that a longtime Disney comics fan would find this Louie funny. I can't even tell whether I would find Louie's behavior amusing if he weren't one of the nephews, because my brain is too occupied by rejecting him as a nephew. It's somewhat easier for me to deal with the individualized characters given to Huey and Dewey, which are more believably derived from the character of HDL in the comics. For me, Louie and Gyro are the characters who are the real sore thumbs, and it's easier to decide that Gyro is really someone else entirely who was mistakenly given the same name than it is to do that with one of the nephews!
(I must admit, though, that Louie has become my favorite "new DuckTales" nephew.)
That's interesting! Louie's character is by far the most irritating thing to me in New DuckTales. I have to keep repeating the mantra, "It's Another Duckworld...It's Another Duckworld..." to put up with it. I'm intrigued that a longtime Disney comics fan would find this Louie funny. I can't even tell whether I would find Louie's behavior amusing if he weren't one of the nephews, because my brain is too occupied by rejecting him as a nephew. It's somewhat easier for me to deal with the individualized characters given to Huey and Dewey, which are more believably derived from the character of HDL in the comics. For me, Louie and Gyro are the characters who are the real sore thumbs, and it's easier to decide that Gyro is really someone else entirely who was mistakenly given the same name than it is to do that with one of the nephews!
Hm, well I (and presuambly Deb) manage it for both. (And for Webby.)
That's interesting! Louie's character is by far the most irritating thing to me in New DuckTales. I have to keep repeating the mantra, "It's Another Duckworld...It's Another Duckworld..." to put up with it. I'm intrigued that a longtime Disney comics fan would find this Louie funny. I can't even tell whether I would find Louie's behavior amusing if he weren't one of the nephews, because my brain is too occupied by rejecting him as a nephew. It's somewhat easier for me to deal with the individualized characters given to Huey and Dewey, which are more believably derived from the character of HDL in the comics. For me, Louie and Gyro are the characters who are the real sore thumbs, and it's easier to decide that Gyro is really someone else entirely who was mistakenly given the same name than it is to do that with one of the nephews!
Hm, well I (and presuambly Deb) manage it for both. (And for Webby.)
Do I need to make it clear that I don't believe my reaction is in any way more legitimate than Deb's, or yours? I'm just curious about our different reactions as longtime Disney comics fans to this character.
Why do you add Webby? Because she's different than she was in the original DuckTales? Or just because she's a DT and not a comics-Duckworld character? Neither of those things bothers me at all. There's obviously a lot that's different from my Real Duckworld, characters who don't exist in Comics Duckworld, weird bin and all. I say, "It's Another Duckworld" and it doesn't bother me. Louie and Gyro, on the other hand, are central characters from Comics Duckworld who are radically different characters in this world. With Gyro, I tell myself, as Pan I think does, this is just someone else with Gyro's name. But it's harder to do that with one of the nephews, that's all I'm saying.