Post by Hector on Jan 19, 2017 15:09:34 GMT
Don Rosa's sequel of Carl Barkses ''Golden helmet'', it is by far the worst story of my favourite creator. It feels like Rosa woke up one
morning and said to himself : ''I suddenly feel a strong desire to write a sequel of the Golden Helmet, so i will do it at all costs, even if
i have no idea what to do with the damned plot''.
Okay, uncle Don, we get it, you like writing sequels of Barkses stories, you have done it many times in the past, producing decent pieces
of work as a result (ex. ''Return to Xanadu''), expanding the barksian world in manners only your genius is capable of. But! Writing a sequel
of a famous, classic story is also tricky. To start something like that, you have to make sure you have come up with really good ideas to
sufficiently support the original creation. Otherwise, not only will the result be ridiculous, but you also destroy a part of the mage of the
original masterpiece.
The story's few good elements are some gags: Pieces of Gladstone's usual, annoying luck and lawyer Sharky's legal tricks (a person who,
along with Azure Blue, first appeared in ''Golden helmet''). However, those gags are just sub plots, they cannot stand by themselves; the
main plot is awful, focusing on a stupid race between the good side (Donald and nephews) and the bad side (Azure Blue and Sharky),
both trying to get their hands on the oldest claim to North America (the good side trying to save the country, whereas the bad side wants
to take it over). Alas, the greatest part of the story goes like ''This is the oldest claim. No, wait, this is the oldest claim. No, my bad again,
this is the oldest claim''. This is just tiring. Even the final discovery, which proved that Native Americans discovered Europe instead of the
other way around, seemed stupid (maybe it wouldn't seem stupid if it didn't come as a conclusion to such a dull and repetitive proccess).
I don't know how i managed to read the whole story (i considered giving up many pages before the ending).
I guess even Don Rosa, the greatest Disney creator in the world, can have such a thing as a bad day.
Rating: 4/10
morning and said to himself : ''I suddenly feel a strong desire to write a sequel of the Golden Helmet, so i will do it at all costs, even if
i have no idea what to do with the damned plot''.
Okay, uncle Don, we get it, you like writing sequels of Barkses stories, you have done it many times in the past, producing decent pieces
of work as a result (ex. ''Return to Xanadu''), expanding the barksian world in manners only your genius is capable of. But! Writing a sequel
of a famous, classic story is also tricky. To start something like that, you have to make sure you have come up with really good ideas to
sufficiently support the original creation. Otherwise, not only will the result be ridiculous, but you also destroy a part of the mage of the
original masterpiece.
The story's few good elements are some gags: Pieces of Gladstone's usual, annoying luck and lawyer Sharky's legal tricks (a person who,
along with Azure Blue, first appeared in ''Golden helmet''). However, those gags are just sub plots, they cannot stand by themselves; the
main plot is awful, focusing on a stupid race between the good side (Donald and nephews) and the bad side (Azure Blue and Sharky),
both trying to get their hands on the oldest claim to North America (the good side trying to save the country, whereas the bad side wants
to take it over). Alas, the greatest part of the story goes like ''This is the oldest claim. No, wait, this is the oldest claim. No, my bad again,
this is the oldest claim''. This is just tiring. Even the final discovery, which proved that Native Americans discovered Europe instead of the
other way around, seemed stupid (maybe it wouldn't seem stupid if it didn't come as a conclusion to such a dull and repetitive proccess).
I don't know how i managed to read the whole story (i considered giving up many pages before the ending).
I guess even Don Rosa, the greatest Disney creator in the world, can have such a thing as a bad day.
Rating: 4/10