Post by djnyr on Mar 19, 2021 23:13:48 GMT
Speaking of Gosalyn she did felt usless to the story, as exept for few moments of using her crossbow she was pretty pointless and didn't had any story-arc, comedic moment or havig anything character specific. Felt like a waste of the character.
Part of the problem with Gosalyn here was that most of her original geeky/hyperactive/tomboy personality was given to new-Webby before new-Gosalyn even entered the scene. It is funny how Angones, despite his professed Darkwing Duck fandom, didn't do much better with the Darkwing characters than he did with the Ducktales or Talespin characters--the versions of Gosalyn, Steelbeak, Taurus Bulba, and Bushroot on this show were all very different from their originals, and much less interesting; even Liquidator, who was more of a one-joke character (albeit a very good joke--his advertising sloganeering was pretty funny) was bungled.
Speaking of bungling characterizations, I'm still burning over the way Kit Cloudkicker was handled by Angones and company--although it's not surprising; given how they muffed Don Karnage and his crew, I wasn't expecting them to do any better with Kit. They took the laziest way possible of handling the character by simply turning him into a knock-off of Baloo (lazy, sloppy, unable to keep a business going), albeit without any of Baloo's craftiness and easygoing charm (as with most other characters on this show, new-Kit's mile-a-minute babbling was maddening).
Anyone who was actually interested in engaging with the Talespin characters instead of using them for a quick nostalgia fix would have known that Kit was quite different in personality from Baloo on the show--he was a tough, sometimes troubled kid with a strong cocky streak, but was also capable of cool-headed heroics and had plenty of streetwise intelligence; he was also quite serious about wanting to be a pilot. A grown-up Kit should be a sort of airborne Indiana Jones--savvy, somewhat cynical, but courageous and resourceful. Making him a lazy and clueless blowhard who can't be trusted to fly a plane comes off like a calculated slap in the face to fans of the original show, although given the ineptitude of the Angones crew, I doubt it was intentional. They appeared to think that because Kit's name was "Cloudkicker," the airfoil-surfing was his defining trait and the only thing he could do well, instead of just one indicator of his overall personality, just like they essentially built new-Don Karnage's whole song-and-dance/comic-opera persona around one song number from the original series.