I haven't started watching Season 3 yet since it's not available in my country; when it'll be I would like to watch it in the correct order as I did for Season 2. Can anyone confirm whether the production order from Wikipedia is correct?
Here? The order of Season 1 is correct, apart from a few episodes out of order (Terra-firmians is supposed to be one of the first but it appears as the ninth); Season 2 list has two errors -- Friendship Hates Magic is listed as the 8th episode, but it was actually released later in mid-season after Nothing Can Stop Della Duck. Happy Birthday Doofus Drake is listed after The Duck Knight Returns and Whatever Happened to Donald Duck, but it was actually released after the latter and before Nightmare on Killmotor Hill.
Here? The order of Season 1 is correct, apart from a few episodes out of order (Terra-firmians is supposed to be one of the first but it appears as the ninth); Season 2 list has two errors -- Friendship Hates Magic is listed as the 8th episode, but it was actually released later in mid-season after Nothing Can Stop Della Duck. Happy Birthday Doofus Drake is listed after The Duck Knight Returns and Whatever Happened to Donald Duck, but it was actually released after the latter and before Nightmare on Killmotor Hill.
"Correct order" is a fraught subject — I think Sandopaper wishes to watch the series in in the author-intended, production order, rather than the release order, which often screws things up relative to the original artistic vision.
Here? The order of Season 1 is correct, apart from a few episodes out of order (Terra-firmians is supposed to be one of the first but it appears as the ninth); Season 2 list has two errors -- Friendship Hates Magic is listed as the 8th episode, but it was actually released later in mid-season after Nothing Can Stop Della Duck. Happy Birthday Doofus Drake is listed after The Duck Knight Returns and Whatever Happened to Donald Duck, but it was actually released after the latter and before Nightmare on Killmotor Hill.
"Correct order" is a fraught subject — I think Sandopaper wishes to watch the series in in the author-intended, production order, rather than the release order, which often screws things up relative to the original artistic vision.
Yep, exactly. The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverrest, for instance, is meant to be the fourth episode of Season 1 (hence the 104 production code) but it aired after The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra!.
Last Edit: Sept 2, 2020 18:38:18 GMT by Sandopaper
Doubt that. I'm almost certain the "Phantom" in the title is the Phantom Blot.
Sam here, especialy since they show him at the end of season 2.
I would asume it will somehow involve Magica and the Blot either teaming-up or figthing over some magical object F.O.W.L. is after... but even if that was the scenario it wouldn't suprise me if the episode would end with Magica somehow joining forcess with F.O.W.L, perhaps building up to some big - all vilans vs. all the heroes finaly (seeing how they trying to get as many Disney Afternoon characters as possible this season it feels like a obvious move)
All my friends seams to be hyped about the "Let's get Dangerous" the most and I can't blame them seeing how Darwking episode is considered the best part of season 2 by many. Aside for Gosalyn and Taurus Bulba appearing I can only suspect it may include the return of Negaduck.
It's easly also to gues the "Escape from Imposibin" storyline : Scrooge re-builds his bin to make it impossible to brake in and it somehow backfires and the ducks are now trap inisde - a classic scenario. I never felt that the Bin is that big part of this show like in the old one (not to mention the comic) but it's nice they still try to have some Money-bin centric episodes ("Great dime chase", "Jaw$", "Shadow wars part 2", "87 cents solution")
Last Edit: Aug 14, 2020 22:02:02 GMT by Pan Maciej
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The Phantom and the Sorceress! When a mysterious magic thief arrives in Duckburg, Lena must confront her past and team with her treacherous aunt, Magica.
*Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”) guest stars as Phantom Blot and Catherine Tate (“Doctor Who”) returns as Magica.
They Put a Moonlander on the Earth Webby sets out to prove to a homesick Penumbra that Earth can be a lot of fun by riding Glomgold’s newest gift to Duckburg, the suspicious Flintferris Glomwheel.
*Julie Bowen (ABC’s “Modern Family”) returns as Penumbra.
Last Edit: Aug 19, 2020 17:01:39 GMT by Pan Maciej
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I gotta admit I missed Glomgold this season. Accodring to Angones, his role as Scrooge's rival will be downplayed in favour of Bradford Buzzard (which is why my theory is that the buzzards will try to steal Scrooge's as part of their plan against the Duck family); I'm all for Scrooge finally having a real rival who can threaten his financial monopoly, but Flinty's zaniness is irrepleceable.
I wonder what Penumbra's been doing on Earth after the end of Moonvasion; maybe setting things right between Eathians and moonlanders and avoiding further diplomatic incidents. I hope this episodes explores some of that subject.
About Phantom and the Sorceress, at first the eponymous sorceress wasn't Magica, because I thought this would be the magic thief from the description, and I wondered who she could be: another evil sorceress from the comics? Maybe Magica's biological niece Minima in an older, more villainous version? Because Lena seems to have to face her past so that might have something to do with the De Spell family. Or maybe another sorceress whom Lena wronged while under Magica's control during the fifteen years she spent across the world before she met Webby. On the other hand, the sorceress from the title might be Magica, and the magic thief might be Phantom Blot.
Now I'm curious. If you remember. in 'From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22" Scrooge calls Webby, Vanderduck by accident. However, there's several languages where this joke won't work (Take brasillian portuguese where her name literally IS Vanderduck.) How did they fix it?
Now I'm curious. If you remember. in 'From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22" Scrooge calls Webby, Vanderduck by accident. However, there's several languages where this joke won't work (Take brasillian portuguese where her name literally IS Vanderduck.) How did they fix it?
In the Brazilian version, Scrooge calls her "Patrícia Vanderpatinhas". Which, considering that his first name in Portuguese *is* "Patinhas", was like calling her "Vanderscrooge".
Alright, these are my not-so-resumed thoughts on the first four episodes of Season 3:
Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks: Nice season start, launching Huey’s character development, mirrorring how the previous seasons focused on his brothers. And what better way than through the Junior Woodchuck Organization? And it’s about time! After countless times they were addressed as Huey’s background and often as part of his control freak tendencies, the Woodchucks finally feel important in the show, both in greater (the Season mystery involving a JW veteran’s legacy) and smaller scale, aboarding several characters as woodchucks in small, but meaningful moments (Launchpad as a bumbling leader who collected badges for failure and the talking Guidebook representing Huey’s conscience being my favorites; him appearing as a “ghost” cracked me up).
The A-plot was nice, maybe a tad predictable, but a good take on Huey’s flaws while treating the Jr. Woodchucks with respect and also adding a little more depth to Violet, whose last appearances after her debut were a bit unremarkable. And the B-plot perfectly set one of the main themes in the show: instead of repeating the old traced path, why not make their own, or as Dewey says, “rewrite History”; which sums up what this series does, often taking inspiration from previous sources and appealing to nostalgia, but creating something new, never just imitating what was done before.
Quack Pack: Speaking of appealing to nostalgia while still making something of its own, this episode takes it up to eleven. It’s full of callbacks and easter-eggs from multiple sources, from the original series, the Ducktales movie, the eponymous QP series, 90’s sitcoms, and yet at the same time, it feels new and unique, which is also why I wasn’t surprised that the characters didn’t allude to their previous versions and remained in-character, or when the scene alluding to the 1990 movie turned out to not be a reenactment. On the other hand, while the episode parodies/mocks previous works, it never feels like it’s bashing any of those (for a story that makes fun of the overdone sitcom cliches, it actually works as a sitcom).
Donald’s plot reminded of this story from the IDW Ducktales comics where he wasn’t getting sleep because of the constant noise at the manor and decided to use a silence-inducing artifact, which wound up affecting not only around him, but on the whole world, causing who knows how many catastrophes. In that story, even after Donald admits he was wrong, it was hard not to feel a little mad at him. Here, he’s thankfully in a far more sympathetic light, in that he didn’t cause them to be stuck on his wish on purpose, and when he explains why he refuses to undo it, he mentions previous threats that endangered the family and Della’s disappearance, showing that he thinks of them too rather than just himself, so his wish isn’t entirely selfish. And he finally seems to get in harmony with his family’s adventures, thanks in no small amount to Goofy, whom they nailed here!
Gene was a lot of fun! His characterization is freshly new, with no dreams of being a normal boy or Merlock-induced angst, but I’m glad they kept his cheerful, good-natured attitude. I like his 90’s vibe and how it influenced the built of the sitcom scenario, though it might be partly influenced by Donald growing up in the 90’s himself. I do wonder, if the last time he was released was in 1990, then who released him and how did he end up back in the treasure of Collie Baba? Did someone pick him, made three wishes and then put the lamp back (and left the treasure untouched?)? Was Collie Baba himself alive in 1990? That’s unlikely, but considering the show is no stranger to extended lifespans...
Double-0-Duck in You Only Crash Twice: I’m in two minds with this one. I liked the idea of addressing Launchpad’s insecurities, which was a recurring theme in his best moments in the original series (Armstrong and Top Duck come to my mind). And this is the first time it’s made clear that he’s insecure when it comes to his intellect. It also reminded of an episode from the 1987 show Bubba’s Big Brainstorm, where the kids use Gyro’s invention to increase Bubba’s intellect, but it makes him smug and arrogant. This episode avoids that direction; Launchpad becomes far more competent and self-aware without losing his good nature, though he does become slightly smug and more confident, almost a different character. But I guess much of his character is his naivete, or, as Angones said when asked about why Launchpad is stupid, his answer was: “Launchpad isn’ stupid, he’s pure”.
I know a lot of people were disappointed on Steelbeak; in my case, I only watched a couple episodes of Darkwing Duck with him, so I’m probably more tolerant of the change. Now, I get it that they wanted to make him an evil counterpart to Launchpad, but I don’t really get why he was even recruited by F.O.W.L. in first place, let alone why he’s on a high enough level that the eggheads respond to him as an authority figure.
Plus, I was hoping that this episode would explain more of their plans against Scrooge and Co. I thought Black Heron’s plan to rob him of his intelligence was part of a greater plan, but it turned out to be a loose move on her part. So we have yet to see what they’re up to in the next episodes.
Lost Harp of Mervana: so this is what Frank Angones meant when a fan asked for spoilers of Webby and he answered: will become Louie.
I’ll admit, at first I didn’t get why Webby was so disillusioned with the mermanans not being what she expected, to the point of losing all her hope to Louie extremes and needing Louie to liven her up. However, I like their dynamic here, being a reversed version of that from “Living Mummies of Toth-Ra”, where Webby was the one dragging Louie around and trying to catch him up on the adventure when he was all cynic, focusing on the treasure and ignoring everything else. Here, she gets cynic and it’s up to him to liven her up, even dragging her throughout part of the escape. I also liked the conflict between Louie and Mrs. Beakley. This is probably the first time Mrs. B. is confronted on how she raised Webby and the effects of sheltering for so long. I assumed she was aware of that deep down, but it turns out that Louie of all people has to call her out on that, which also addresses the episode’s theme about the importance of being sincere and telling the truth even when it’s painful.
I quite liked the new version of the Harp and the solution for the conflict was nice: after finding the truth about King Honestus, the Mervanans made a balance between their utopic dreams and peace-and-love ideology and Scrooge’s lesson about hard work, accepting that they need to struggle in order to rebuild their civilization, but won’t abandon their hippie-ish ideals either, and include them in their new society.
The biggest issue is Della: it’s like they didn’t know how to properly add her to the story, so they made up an excuse about “she hates fish” that came out of nowhere. Not that she was entirely wasted; the part where she tries to fire at the mermaids was darkly amusing and I laughed out loud when she saw Dewey in a fish tail and said “I have no family” (I wish I’d seen Dewey’s reaction), but that’s about it. I hope the next episodes make better use of her; last season got me to care for Della, and I wouldn’t want her to get the same treatment as Donald. On the other hand, they seem to have finally found balance in the use of Donald: even here, where he’s by no means the main focus, he’s present and included rather than a recurring extra. Della’s return and the events of Quack Pack probably helped.
Now, at first I thought this would be an average episode that didn’t add that much, but then came that last scene and I was like, wait, I know where you’re going. The harp, the whole discussion on Webby’s upbringing and keeping secrets? Could it be? Then Mrs. Beakley promises there’ll be no more secrets from now on, but the Harp tells us that “she’s fibbing, fibbing fiiibbing!” What if they’re setting up to Webby’s parentage?
I wasn’t the first to suggest that (gadgetphile beat me to that). Her parents are even more of a non-entity than HD&L’s! Because at least Della cameoed before in the comics and their dad got a face in a family tree. Webby’s folks were never mentioned in either Ducktales series and comics, let alone their fate before she came to live with her grandma. I’d almost lost hope that they’d address them at this point, seeing how this may be the last season, but now I’m excited to see how this pays off, especially with F.O.W.L lurking around.
Now I'm curious. If you remember. in 'From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22" Scrooge calls Webby, Vanderduck by accident. However, there's several languages where this joke won't work (Take brasillian portuguese where her name literally IS Vanderduck.) How did they fix it?
Not sure do I understand the problem. In the pilot she introduces herself as "Webby Vanderduck" and I think her last name was usued few more times so it is her last name in the series...
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Interesting stuff includes - Scrooge and Goldie on some adventure together, Phantom Blot with a Thaonos-like glove, very old Rockerduck with a Frankenstien-like Jeeves (which I'm not crazy about but we see), Gladstone being squash by something (I was sure they will do "Gladstone looses his luck" story at some point since it's natural thing to do with the character, especialy when magic is involve... perhaps being transfered to Donald since he is also appears in the swamp clips), one of the moon aliens now working for Glomgold and Lena in a duel with some other magic user (not Magica since she is behind her in the scene)
Not sure do I understand the problem. In the pilot she introduces herself as "Webby Vanderduck" and I think her last name was usued few more times so it is her last name in the series...
You're confused. Her last name is Vanderquack (link). Vanderduck is what Scrooge calls her (and she immediately corrects him.) (Though, I've heard someone suggest that there may be more to this...)