Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 4, 2018 16:22:18 GMT
Yes, my working assumption is that Legend takes place in the 1943 or so, which would place it before “Double Trouble”.
No. If anything, I'd suppose he might be an ancestor of Humphrey, his counterpart in the Clinton Coot generation.
Anyway! About the episode itself: a bit weird that this is the Underworld/Hades, not just Hell, yet it's a Lucifer-type character in charge rather than Hades. (That being said, I don't know if I'd have forgiven the show if they'd gone with Hades but not used James Woods.) I did like Jim Cummings's Charon, the séance, and the origin of the Aracuan. That Clinton was never one of the original Caballeros at all is one hell of a plot-twist. Clinton's characterization, for the rcord, is very consistent with what you'd expect of the founder of the Junior Woodchucks, so kudos to the show for that.
The whole "gateway back to the living" thing seemed a bit ill-thought-out, though. First, why a Tengu and Mount Fuji of all things? The rest of this Underworld seemed an updated version fo the Greek underworld, and they continually refer to it as "Hades"… yet there's a Tengu to guard the exist and Yokai lurking in the slums. This is weird. Second, why does this door even exist? Third, it's laughably easy to defeat the Tengu. I mean, it was something of a challenge for the Caballeros, but they still managed it on their first day of death using what Von Sheldgoose appears to describe as the simplest of ghost powers.