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What Would Make You Happy?
Hi, Hexlings!
This pick-a-card reading is about what will make you happy in your life right now with your current energy.
Remember to take what resonates and leave what does not. This reading does not supplement your need to seek professional help.
Take your time when choosing your pile. Ask yourself the question and choose the picture that you can’t stop looking at. Listen to your intuition.
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Pile l:
What Would Make You Happy? Tarot: 6 of Wands (reversed), 10 of Swords, The Hanged Man, King of Wands, 8 of Wands, 7 of Cups (reversed)
Two words: Life Purpose & Rapid Movement. You want life to get to the good part pile l. Some of you could be struggling with your circumstances and feel that you don't have any other options in life because you either lack money, a support system, or you just can't see anything past your limiting belief system not knowing that the world is your oyster. You want life to literally stand at the side of the road like a cartoon character holding up signs of what path, direction, or what should happen next so you can help progress and bring in more of what you want in your life because you are tired of being in the same place. You are tired of feeling defeated like nothing you do is helping your situation. I Need a Hero (Shrek 2 Version) is playing in my head. Overall you just want to begin living your life in your purpose if not purpose you want to feel as if you are meant something on this earth like you aren't just here taking up space. You want to live a passionate and fulfilling life where you don't feel drained, anxious, unstable, or limited in the things you want to do, and even to some you want to be of service to those around you/community.
Extra Messages: Moonology Manifestation Oracle Deck
Oracle: Step into Your Power & Work Through Your Feelings
"Achieving anything is nearly always part inspiration and part hard work. Believe that you can create whatever you want. Be You! Take action and be smart but also bold."
Some of you just need to ask for help. Your guides have been trying to communicate with you but you either are a) passing everything off as a coincidence or not believing that the path being shown to you is for you because you lack confidence or b) You need to be more grounded and meditate, do some yoga, journaling, whatever it is that you do to ask your guides, ancestors, the universe for help. That may even look like prayer for some of you.
Pile ll
What Would Make You Happy? Tarot: Queen of Wands (reversed), Ace of Cups (Upright), 7 of Cups / 4 of Swords / 5 of Wands (All reversed)
One Word: Fulfillment. You may have been drawn to pile l, pile ll. A Boondocks quote came to me "Huey: Grandad, what do you do when you can't do nothing and there's nothing you can do. Grandad: You do what you can. " Like pile l you are tired of life trying to knock you down every chance you get but for a lot of you, this is more of a mental thing than life doing anything. Most of you may feel that you aren't good enough, there is someone better than you, believing in imposter syndrome, or even anxiety. Not knowing that all you need is a change in your mental health. Stop believing in the voices in your head, the nay-sayers that told you once 10 years ago you would never amount to anything or even the results you see from lack of clients or progress. You are your own enemy, only you can put a stop to your madness and begin believing that you can achieve greatness and the fulfillment you want out of your life. Your thoughts reflect your reality. If you feel you aren't good enough...why should others believe you are too? If you believe your art, craft, or services are crap...life is going to prove to you with no sales, clients, etc because you believe it is true.
Extra Messages: Moonology Manifestation Oracle Deck
Oracle: Open to Change, Take A Reality Check, Lighten Up
Be open to having a reality shift pile ll. What is the worst thing that could happen if you believe in yourself? Seriously what bad thing could happen if you decided to be your own cheerleader and believe you are worth more than what yourself and others have to say to you? Bet on it - High School Musical (Song link: http://tinyurl.com/262djrbw ) is playing in my head.
"I'm not gonna stop, that's who I am
I'll give it all I got, that is my plan
Will I find what I lost? You know you can
Bet on it, bet on it, bet on it, bet on it (Bet on me)
I wanna make it right, that is the way
To turn my life around, today is the day
Am I the type of guy who means what I say?
Bet on it, bet on it, bet on it, bet on it
The answers are all inside of me
All I gotta do is believe"
Pile lll:
What Would Make You Happy? Tarot: 9 of Swords (Upright), Knight of Swords, 7 of Cups/ 7 of Pentacles / 6 of Cups (All reversed)
One Word: Self Care. You have a lot of mental and emotional turmoil going on inside of you, pile lll. For most of you, this is limiting beliefs, anxiety, and depression. But overall I am sensing that you just want to feel not only appreciated but to not feel the burdens of everyday life on your shoulders. You may be the type who takes on way too much even the struggles and worries of other people. You need to release those worries and struggles. They are not yours to carry, if people around you don't care enough to do something for themselves why should you?? That is not yours to worry about. I know you are probably thinking well someone has to care...yea..but that person can't be you pile ll. You are literally tearing yourself down for other people just for them to what....get back with their toxic ex, overspend their budget asking you for money, etc etc..cut the cord. You need to worry and focus on yourself. You need you more, now than ever. Pamper yourself pile lll. Do a DIY spa day if you are short on money. Make a face mask or buy those $5 ones at the store, soak your feet in some Epsom salt, and play your favorite childhood movies. Relax. Maybe even get a massage if you have that kind of money. If you can turn off your phone for a weekend and focus on nobody but yourself. Ask yourself what do you want to do?
Extra Messages:
Tarot: Judgement, Ace of Wands / The Chariot (reversed), Strength, 4 of Cups.
(Short Message for a very few) What you want is yours for the taking. All you have to do is ask....but you need to be sure what you want you have the strength for. Whatever this is for you pile lll just know that you are the only person in the driver's seat. It's time for you to decide what you want, where you want it, and when can you start. It's up to you to answer the call.
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Until Next time stay blessed and be safe.
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Favorite Kid Complex
@ducktales-and-ducks asked a question about which, if any, of the triplets is Della’s favorite, and I accidentally wrote an essay thats about to be your guys’ problem.
The long answer being she ripped up Scrooge’s formula for how to be a parent and meets them where they are.
I made a post earlier about the idea that Scrooge had a favorite twin, and said he loved them both, but he loved them differently- relationships are dynamic. He can go about loving them equally with different dynamics.
Della is completely different.
So Scrooge has two kids, each he clearly loves (equally) in different ways, but he engages in the same thing with them. Two different relationships, and adventuring. Scrooge only verbalizes his support upon successes, and then only (as far as we know) takes the kids to do his thing, which is adventuring, which leaves the twins with the assumed formula adventuring+success=parental love.
We even see Della trying to spin the formula her first day back to earn her kids’ love (and, again, Scrooge’s validation).
Della, on the other hand, has some incredible, unique relationships with each of her kids, but doles out the exact same affection freely. They blink, and it’s the best, coolest, most praise-worthy thing anyone has ever done, and she’s utterly undiscerning as to which triplet it is.
She engages with them separately on their strengths and activities (yes, yes, I’m getting to Louie in a second), and that allows them to be successful by existing.
Dewey is the easiest, because he lines up with her loudest mannerisms and surface level interests- Danger!!! Attention!!! Dumbassery!!! And then she has to spend their entire first episode together breaking down the formula he picked up from Scrooge, too. She doesn’t have to work to meet up with Dewey because he’s racing to meet her, but it’s his natural inclination and behavior, which makes them so similar. I think it’s become a bit fanon that hes the favorite because he’s the easiest, (and his conflict of impulsive child disease was resolved before she got home and they never really got back to it), when really what we were seeing was narrative payoff for a season and a half of his character being instrumental in the building anticipation of hers. It’s good storytelling.
Huey lines up with her quieter instincts, the same things that make her a good pilot (detail, precision), but she meets him at his interest with Legends of LegendQuest. He wants to sit around and farm, and she’s obviously bored out of her mind with his play style but does it anyway, miserably helping his farm. When she does encourage him to go out, (yes, she does want to hunt some orc) but from a storytelling standpoint, its a parenting moment masked in his interest. She uses the game as a framing device to edge her kid out of his comfort zone, which is a teaching technique. She’s parenting, meeting him at his level, and supporting him while helping him expand.
Louie. Is. Just. Like. Her. The conflict and narrative tension is that the facet of him that lines up with her happens to be the same that caused her biggest trauma and one that, separately, he personally has been struggling with previous to her return. They’re both too smart for their own good. One of the major downfalls of the show is that they never get their own bonding episode together, which would have been a spectacular setup for Timephoon. Because for that episode to really work and really hit hard, they have to really love each other. We know they do because the narrative tells us so, but the contrast is so much better when we see it onscreen.
Frank said the reason Della came down so hard was because she was majorly triggered- she was thoughtless and too clever for her own good, and she lost her family. She just watched Louie, who is so often thoughtless, try to be too clever for his own good, lose their entire family. Again, parenting moment, but this time it’s not cute bonding. Its hard. Beakley spends the whole episode emphasizing ‘You can’t be their best friend, you’re their mother first.’ She’s spent her time learning to be a parent and edging her kids towards healthier habits: teaching Dewey that love isn’t earned, Huey that there’s life outside what routine, and Louie that there are consequences to his actions. It’s recognition of self through the other, and the kid gets grounded. Fine.
She spends the whole time thinking about him. She gets him a souvenir while they’re gone, wants to leave the big “Suck It, Glomgold,” ceremony to check on him, gives him the little hobo crown at the end (which, cute), and they make up. Both her and Louie’s reactions were heightened, but they’re an extreme family. The bar is really high.
But then the show, because they had the most narrative tension, goes and gives them tons of episodes and moments in everyday life outside of big bonding episodes: on the steps of Ithiquack, the lullaby scene, all of impossibin, and just tons of little everyday moments sprinkled through the show, but they add up, and they choose to reach out to each other again and again. They really work to meet each other.
This turned into a thesis essay, yikes.
TLDR She goes out of her way to find ways to connect with her kids, all of whom she has VASTLY different means of connecting with, but an overwhelming scale of love for equally. I think audiences see those and, based on which kid they relate to more, see that as preference because it makes the most sense to them.
(IM GONNA MAKE A POST LATER ABOUT WEBBY, BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT. A SCENE WAS CUT AND WE WERE WRONGED.)
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HIHI HOHO
OKAY So, Time travel episode ! Something goes wrong while the boys are trying to get rid of the timetub. Transporting them into the future.
Dewey gets transported near an adult Louie’s estate, who’m has actually been able to start up his own pretty successful company (with some funding from his good ol’ uncle ofcourse)
Huey, comes across an adult dewey who has taken over LP’s job as Scrooge’s personal driver, and at night is a local tv host (LP basically lives with Jim now)
Louie teleports near a woodchuck cabin in which, adult Huey is signing up new Junior junior woodchucks.
During all of this, in the main timeline, the magic gang is having another one of their sleepovers ! They are having their average fun, summoning spirits and ghouls.
Until suddenly they get suspicious of none of the boys showing up anywhere around the house.
No generic theme show music blaring from the boy’s bedroom. No Ottoman Empire™ being watched in the television room. No sound of book paper being whirled trough.
They go and ask Beakley, where the boys might be. Her telling them that they are cleaning up some mess they made in the attic. Going up there they come across the Timetub, beeping and booping, as if it has just been activated, with a date simply displaying “Future” with under it written in very small letters “Highly unstable, do not use”.
Violet is quickly to point out that there is a high probability that the boys have used the timetub to go into the future. But that it would be best to not follow in their footsteps.
However before she even gets the chance to get that far in her sentence. Webby is already dragging Lena with her into the tub yelling about bringing the boys back.
Violet decided to simply not join them and goes to search for Gyro at his lab, wanting to know what kind of “unstable” he exactly meant
(I did not expect to start writing like and actual story I was just trying to find a way to have those two go into the future)
Just like with the boys, the tub messes up and puts them near their counter parts adult version
BACK TO THE BOYS REAL QUICK
(Going to use A!Name to differ adult versions from current version)
Dewey simply walks into the estate and upto the office where A!Louie is in the middle of a business call. The moment he notices Dewey walk in, he panics and ends the call. Confused about why a younger version of his brother, has entered the room.
Huey on the other hand simply climbs in to the car while A!Dewey is waiting for Scrooge to come. And simply just immediately begins explaining him the situation. Asking him questions about what year it is and if he knows how to get back and pretty much everything he needs to know to get back.
Louie has a different plan, thinking that it wouldn’t be a smart idea for his adult brother to know he is here, he decides disguise himself as a junior junior woodchuck and put on a whole thought out persona to be as in suspicious as possible. He gets signed up with pretty much no hastle outside of A!Huey being suspicious of him.
BACK TO WEBLINA CONTENT
Webby deploying in the middle of Duckberg. Confused on where and when she exactly is she runs to the first person she can see, a tall woman sitting outside at a small cozy cafe.
She taps on the womans shoulders and asks where she exactly is and what the date might be.
As the woman turns around, It gets revealed she is adult Lena. (Insert your own adult design here). She first answers without too much thought and a giggle. As Webby gets absolute awestruck seeing how gorgeous her best friends becomes in the future.
Before A!Lena gets up and drags Webby away around the corner real quick. Webby is just whispering to her self about how pretty A!Lena looks and that she thought Lena already couldn’t get prettier.
A!Lena beside the fact that it makes her blush a bit she immediately asks what happened and why Webby is a child again all of a sudden. Thinking she probably got hit by another Treasure or Gyro invention.
After some back and forward A!Lena understands that this a past Webby and that this must be the day they went to so many years ago.
Webby starts asking about what things are like in the future, if flying cars have been invented yet and such. Till she suddenly notices that A!Lena is still wearing her friendship bracelet. Upon noticing she immediately gleefully asks “Are we still best friends ?!” A!Lena takes a second to answer and goes “Oh’ definitely Pink”
CANT FORGET ABOUT LENA
Lena pretty much does not move from her position at all, she is still in the mansion, but time has noticeably changed. She decides to walk back downstairs. The halls having new pictures on the walls. The boys in their teenage years, a photo of Donalds and Daisy’s wedding.
As she gets closer to the main hall she heard ever so familiar humming coming from near the bathrooms. As she goes to investigate she runs into A!Webby. Putting doing up her hair and fitting up her signature bow.
Lena quickly hides behind the corner, but not before getting a glimps of A!Webby. As her heart is pounding from both being in a situation where she’d rather not be found out, and seeing this girl she has had the longest crush on, growing up to be so pretty.
But before she can even think about that, the humming stops. As A!Webby detects something is amiss. She somehow gets behind Lena and manages to hold her at blade point.
Till she notices its Lena and immediately drops the sword and blurs out “OMD LENA ITS YOU BUT LIKE YOUNG YOU YOU ARE JUST AS CUTE AS I REMEMBER WOW !!… You know not to sneak up on me like that”
Lena now being dazed and confused was atleast able to pinpoint one thing out and that was the part where A!Webby said she was cute.
Lena asks A!Webby if she really used to think that she was cute. At which A!Webby simply answers “Wait you don’t know yet ?
AND WE GO BAAACK TO THE PRESENT JUST REAL QUICK
Violet goes to ask Gyro about the TimeTub, and he explains some timey wimey shenanigans that pretty much means they can’t get them back and everyone has to get back themselves.
NOW ONTO THE BOYS FOR REAL QUICK
Dewey simply vibes with A!Louie for the majority of the time until A!Louie mentions he maybe should try and find a way back, Dewey agrees and they head towards the McDuck Manor.
Huey convinces A!Dewey to immediately drive him back to the manor (They where waiting at the Money Bin, I forgot to mention) As Scrooge just walks out of the door, the two drive away really quickly and Scrooge gets a bit annoyed
A!Huey keeps giving Louie a hard time as a junior junior woodchuck. Until Louie finally gives up the facade because he simply can’t be asked to keep doing all the physical work. At which A!Huey simply laughs and tells him he already knew that it was his brother, and tells him he remembers how they originally got back and also takes him back to the manor.
BACK TO THE LEBBY-ANS
Lena asks A!Webby about what she doesn’t know yet. At which A!Webby answers that she used to have a crush on Lena and thought that she had said it already by the time Lena got teleported to future.
Which came as a surprise to Lena. Because for a matter of fact. That has not happened yet. She takes a second to breath and goes to sit down on the ground trying to recollect her thought.
A!Webby tries to comfort her, she knows it’s a lot to suddenly take in. Lena asks “Used to ?”
A!Webby doesn’t fully respond, she just gives her a little headpat, a reassuring smile and says “in a good way”
GOING BACK TO WEBBY AND A!LENA NOW HIHIHIHI
A!Lena tells Webby about how she remembers this day very well. Which makes Webby ask if she knows how they got back and if they could find the boys.
A!Lena answers that they just need to get back too the TimeTub and the boys will get there soon too. Webby wonders where Lena is currently and asks A!Lena if she remembers “Oh very clearly, I’m with you currently”
Webby gets all exited again, just like how A!Lena has seen her many many times, it reminds her how great Webby is every single time.
While walking to the mansion, Webby keeps asking questions. “How do I look in the future ? Ooh ! And is it dangerous for me to see my future self ?”
“I don’t really think I can remember if I saw… myself ? I guess ?” A!Lena snickers a bit to herself. “But for your future self? Well I can say, you never looked better before “ A!Lena does start to feel a bit nervous.
WE ARE ALL AT THE MANOR/MANSION NOW (I KEEP SWITCHING BETWEEN THE TWO, OOPS)
All the bots arrive at pretty much the same time. But the adults have to quickly leave again. As Donald calls them up to come and babysit their nephews for a bit. But everyone gets a small look at what their future holds.
They go inside and get greeded by Lena and A!Webby. Whom gleefully says hi to the boys and they ingage in small conversation about the future and such.
Lena and A!Webby have been talking for the entire time up to this point. A!Webby telling her multiple times that she knows not to sneak up on people especially not her (Exept ofcourse it a bad guy), also explains her that she caught her getting ready to go to a cafe with a special someone. But that she shouldn’t worry with who.
Lena kind of understands what A!Webby meant with all that. And now she anxiously awaits her best friends arrival.
Webby and A!Lena approach the front door, but before opening it A!Lena holds Webby back and asks her if she is ready to go inside, because things might never be the same anymore once she does.
Webby understanding the possible ramifications of seeing your own future self and what it might do to an individual, nods her head and says “I was born ready”
They walk inside and Webby get greeted by a hug from Lena, she jokes about the fact Lena doesn’t tend to hug much. She asks if she is okay by holding Lena’s head in her hands.
Lena answers “Never been better Pink”, she looks Webby in the eyes “I know now, and so do I” She gets very blushy and awkward for a second.
Webby looks confused back, it takes her a second to figure out what Lena is talking about, but for comfirmation she looks at A!Webby, who simply gives her a nod back.
She gets so filled with excitement and happiness that she starts to still her wings. Suddenly stops and turns to Lena and goes “Does this mean we are girlfriends ??” With the most dopey yet sincerest smile on her face, the one that Lena simply never could get enough of. And she answers “I’m pretty sure it does Pink” with a loving smirk that is Webby has gotten oh so familiar with.
(During all this the Louie and Dewey are trying to not get either uncomfortable or weirded out by this display of affection, while Huey simply notes how they do make a good pair)
After a few minutes, the boys mention it should be getting time for them to go back to their own time. They all head upstairs. Webby and Lena hand in hand, Lena still blushing whilst Webby is gleefully hopping along.
THE END
I am so sorry for how badly written it is I just had a few ideas that I tried to somewhat connect together, also it is like almost 2am where I am and I began writing this at like 9. I will not be doing an revisioning because I am too tired.
Yeah, kind of just didn’t expect it to turn out to be a whole story I kind of just kept writing as I saw fit. AGAIN not a lot of it is good, and it isn’t meant to be anyway. I’m just putting down my thoughts and late night ducktale ramblings.
Hope it was atleast somewhat enjoyable
#ducktales#weblena#webby vanderquack#lena sabrewing#louie duck#huey duck#dewey duck#19 and the worst writing skills known to man#atleast I had fun and that is what counts#they are lesbian ducks your honor#ducktales 2017#I should never get into writing lmao#I really just rushed the parts with the boys because I just had them there because it is a Ducktales episode#either way#goodnight tristate area
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hurting myself by thinking about otacon actually seeing this picture
what do you think huey told him? personally i'm fond of "she didn't want to raise you, so she left." i think he'd want to make her sound as bad as possible, and a vague "she died" wouldn't really convey that.
i have some thoughts...
imagine growing up without a mom, without even the concept of a mom. when your father remarries in your teens you are so divorced from the idea of A Mother that it's easy for your stepmom to groom you, because she's not related to you and never will be, and you don't understand that kind of relationship anyway.
except that ruins everything. your dad kills himself when he finds out and you run away from home in shame and grief. you are on your own for the first time, for REAL, not just the loneliness of a computer screen while your dad ignores you.
do you wonder about her? freshly eighteen, too smart for you own good but with no practical skills--do you think about how different your life would be, if you knew her? if she cared about you? working for the FBI, hacking into their database--do you look for her? do you even know her name?
years pass--you get really good at what you do. you meet a guy. somehow, against all odds, you start the weirdest little family. (the little girl reminds you of your stepsister, who died in your arms.) you may not have any of your old family left, but you do have this new one.
do you think about her again? do you hold this small child in your arms and wonder what would ever make a mother give up her son?
maybe you stumble upon some of your father's research, somehow. you knew a little about his past (you maybe even knew he was involved with metal gear's inception), but something catches your eye in these ancient documents. the very first metal gear, ZEKE, was created by your father, yes... and someone else.
"strangelove".
it's a weird name, sure, but it's also one you've never heard before. you do some digging. records are sparse and sometimes expunged entirely, but she did exist, and she was an AI researcher. she's been MIA for some time now, or at least that's the official word, but you're good at what you do. you can dig deeper.
maybe you never find out just how intertwined your past is with that of the man you live with. maybe that information is gone, or was never recorded in the first place. but maybe--maybe you find out that she's gone. exhumed from one of her own AI projects, unrecognizable. does the record you find mention the c-section scar noted on her body when she was found? does the record show who did this to her?
the pieces are falling into place in the most grotesque way, painting a picture you almost wish you'd never had to see. and there's nothing you can do. your father is dead, and will never atone for what he did. this woman--your mother?--is dead too, and has been for a long, long time. in the end, you always would have been alone.
but maybe. maybe you find some old scan of a photo. cracked and faded from time and misuse, but it exists. probably someone's afterthought, just documenting everything available about her, about the situation.
about you.
because that IS you. no older than three, with a fluffy head of hair and thick, round glasses. smiling in her arms.
your father never took pictures, and there were no family friends to do so either. the oldest surviving pictures of you are either in old yearbooks you don't own copies of, or when you're in your teens at the very least, and god knows you don't have those either. but this--
this is you. and her. and you both look happy. and you wonder: did she love you? what would have happened if she had survived? would she have kept you away from your father, kept you safe? where would you be? who would you be? would you have avoided all the senseless death of just about everyone who's ever mattered to you?
it's bittersweet, really. because she is dead, and there's no way to change the past. but she was smiling. and you were smiling. and you can't remember, because you were too young to remember, but you think you loved her. and you hope she loved you too.
the death in your life is not over. there will be more, and it will even be worse. the only thing you can do is protect the child you have, now, in the way you like to imagine your mother would have protected you, if she could.
it's closure, in a way, isn't it? it doesn't really make you feel better, but you know, now. if there's any way she can live on, it can be through you.
you obtain a picture of the girl's mother, and you tell her that her mother loved her very much. she, like you, was an infant when her mother was killed in cold blood; unlike you, she was never even in her mother's arms. you do not want her to grow up with the uncertainty you did.
maybe you don't tell anyone. maybe it's too hard. but you think about her, about the photo, about a life you never had. and you try to live anyway.
#long post under the readmore#lmfao i hurt myself with this. i am crying#hal emmerich#otacon#metal gear solid#dr. strangelove#mgs#sorry if i got anything wrong about the story. hope you enjoy it anyway :')#tox.txt#toxwrites#(kinda anyway)#grooming ment and suicide ment re: otacon's backstory
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DuckTales and Gravity Falls are almost the same show.
They both have:
A set of siblings born at the same time (twins/triplets)
Going to stay with their great uncle
Who seems really boring and old at first but is actually pretty cool, if slightly morally ambiguous, but mostly good.
The great uncle is reluctant to care about the kids at first, but by the end of the series is willing to sacrifice his life for them.
The great uncle loves money
The uncle also has a long lost relative, who he has spent a very long time searching for.
A book smart, hat wearing sibling, who carries around a red book with all the information they could possibly need. This sibling worships the book, and is devastated when they don’t have it.
An insane, hyperactive, adventure hungry sibling who is almost a complete idiot, but usually succeeds through sheer willpower and a little dumb luck.
(Alternately, instead of Dipper and Mabel filling in for Huey and Dewey, you could use Stanley and Stanford as Louie and Huey, because Stanley is a schemey little guy, but Stanford doesn’t fit Huey quite as well.)
An insane hyperactive girl with a group of two friends, one is a stoic nerd girl. (Lena and Grenda don’t line up)
A host of minor villains leading up to a final boss that is seemingly unbeatable.
A surface level idiot who grows to be a better fighter throughout the series. He has a presumably Hispanic background and lives in a house with a woman who is a mother figure to him, and they would do anything for each other.
A random moment that I distinctly remember where a character bangs on their head and it makes a metallic sound. They then say something about how they have a metal plate in their head/their bones are metal.
The final boss likes to possess people. They also appear in dreams sometimes.
A villainous rendition of the intro that plays in an episode(s) centered around them.
A multi-part finale, bringing an untimely end to a kid’s show that is really good. At least it didn’t drag on forever, ruining its own reputation.
Bonus! A voice actor from a show that is also great, but is probably going to/did drag in for too long, that was created by Dan Harmon. (Justin Roiland from Rick and Morty and Jim Rash from Community) Both were immediately recognizable because of their very distinct voices that I recognized from the thing they were in.
#ducktales 2017#gravity falls#ducktales#I am 100% sure I missed some#bill cypher is the best villain in anything ever#I think that he is so great#i understand why he is a sexyman#but I love certain villains from DuckTales too#I just think the miss rate is higher#anyway back to the fact that I missed some#go ahead and add more#I honestly want to know.#this post took me forever#and I hadn’t actually finished the Gravity Falls finale when I started it#but now I have#good shows#both of them
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TIL: Every time you stifle a sneeze, the force of the sneeze cannot simply disappear from existence. It must manifest elsewhere, often causing a small creature to explode or a chef's hat to fly off into the air. La toque blanche. The chef's hat. Why is it shaped like a mushroom cloud? Because they both sure can cook. And why is a mushroom cloud shaped like a mushroom? Not many people know this, but out in the forest, right where every mushroom grows, there used to be a tiny Japanese city, so tiny that even David the Gnome could commit accidental genocide just by taking a poop without looking. Ironically, Gnome Poop is highly sought after in Japan, because of its mystical properties and because it tastes good on sushi for people who can't handle wasabi. Here in America, Gnome Poop's mystique is somewhat overshadowed by that of Unicorn Seed!, the hip new soda pop that all the kids are guzzling on the street corners. Its popularity has been hugely fostered by product placement in popular films. For instance, in the film "Muscular Hooker 2," Will Smith's character takes a dramatically-framed swig of Unicorn Seed! and then suddenly grows a CGI erection which extends into infinity, and then Will Smith's mind explodes and the movie ends. For that scene alone, Roger Ebert gives the film 3 and a half stars. Not many people know this, but movie critics have a finit amount of stars they can award in their lifetime. They are often kept in a vault, heavily secured to prevent a senile Scrooge McDuck from wandering in, mistaking the stars for gold coins, and swimming in them. This is for Scrooge's own protection, as the stars have sharp edges and would laycerate his body into a bloody, feathered pulp. If this were to happen, his will states that the entire McDuck fortune will go to his grandnephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie; and that his nephew Donald will get zilch because nobody understands what the Christ he is saying anyway, so who cares. As for Scrooge McDuck's body, it will be jerked and eaten, as per Scottish tradition. Indeed, cannibalism of the dead is a cherished custom in Scotland. When a Scottish boy's coming of age is celebrated (a ceremony known as the Scot Mitzvah) he is forced to consume his own great-grandfather, bones and all, in just 24 hours, or else the local Shaman will hit him on the head with a magical stick that stops him from ever becoming an adult. Now, you might think that eternal childhood wouldn't be such a bad thing - Never-Never-Land and all that jazz - but no! Once your parents are dead, there's nothing to stop you from eating nothing but sweets, as children all want to do, and when your baby teeth have rotted away, there will be no adult teeth to take their place. Toothless, stupid, and unkissed by the spirits of puberty, you will be banished from Scotland to the only place in this world where an awkward manchild such as yourself can ever hope to be accepted: Ireland. You will live as a leprechaun. You will don a false beard and a green bowler and stand on the streets jabbering about a nonexistent pot of gold. When darkness falls, you will sleep in an alley on a bed of night soil, clutching a potato, which will be your surrogate mother. If you are found by leprechaun poachers, your only hope for escape is to mesmerize them with a sprightly leprechaun jig, and then stab their eyes out with your leprechaun stiletto. Then you must run away to find another Irish hamlet, and the cycle will repeat forever until one of three things happens. One: the poachers get too smart for you. Two: you starve to death. Three: the stifled sneeze of a distant someone causes you to explode and die.
#fun facts#TIL#i love learning#today i learned#every time you stifle a sneeze#lemon demon#neil cicierega
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“Your work is very impressive, considering your age.” It wasn’t a lie, Huey Duck was a rare find, perhaps an even better prospect as a student than Gearloose had been. Akita continued to inspect the work. “But it can be far better. There are too many flaws to make this function properly. Start again.”
Huey looked up at Akita at the compliment, the ghost of a smile already on his bill at the kind words. It was nice, getting some kind of acknowledgement for his hard work without having to go out of his way for it. Though, the smile disappears as the dog continues. All he wanted was for him to be able to stop at a compliment, for Huey’s work to be impressive enough that all he received was praise.
So, his eyes turn back to his project, the beginnings of a robotic suit not unlike Gizmoduck’s, though right now it existed mostly in just bits and pieces. The biggest being the exoskeleton of what would be the arm, though it seemed like he would be starting at square one with it.
“ I- Y-yes, of- of course, sir.. ” Huey says with only a bit of hesitance as he slides the arm pieces off to the side. He has to lift himself up onto his toes in order to reach across the table and get the parts that would become his new starting place.
There always had to be balance, no matter the age of the intern taken on. Praise was clearly the easiest way to appease the child, but too much and he would only come to expect it. Leave it as something to strive toward, to push himself for. Only then could he work past his own inhibitions and embrace the purity of true science.
And if it inevitably came to combat between Gizmoduck and his new intern, then this suit he sought to build would be invaluable. The young man inside the suit would hesitate where, perhaps one day, Huey would not.
“Do not consider it a failure.” A minor reassurance. It wouldn't completely kill the boy’s confidence. “You must find the proper balance between mobility and functionality. We are not recreating the armor, we are making a better one. You are capable of it.”
Huey pauses at Akita’s words, his hands ghosting over mechanical parts as the words process and then he’s faltering completely. The idea that he was capable of creating a better suit than Gyro had made was, well, it seemed impossible. Gyro was a genius, easily one of the smartest people Huey had ever met. That he could make something that lived up to him...
“ I- ” He starts, hesitantly looking up at Akita, “ Do- Do you really think I could make something as good as- as something Dr. Gearloose had? ” He asks. It seemed like some kind of fantasy, especially as his eyes blink to the discarded attempt at an arm.
As much as he loved engineering and robotics, he didn’t think he’d ever shine a candle on what Gyro had made
His former intern should have told the child of their shared past. Instead, all Gearloose had done was hand him a new student with far more potential and malleability, if only he could continue to keep their connection from those who would know better.
“Dr. Gearloose has many decades of experience more than you have, young Hubert, but you have already seen and improved upon the work he’s made. Why shouldn’t you consider yourself capable of meeting and eventually overpassing him?”
Huey blinks at Akita’s words, looking back up at the dog, his eyes narrowed in thought. He thought back to his first adventure with Fenton, climbing up onto the suit’s shoulders to rewire it on the fly. He never really thought of that as improving Gyro’s work, he had only been trying to help Fenton and he hadn’t really done all that much to change anything, but...
“ I... guess you’re right... ” He trails off, his bill pursed as he looks away and thinks over the words. He had always been told he was smart, but he had never thought of himself as anything extraordinary. Just studious. Hard working. He looks back at the parts on the table, trying to decide where to start. “ And.. you’re willing to help me get there?”
There. It’s a tenuous thread, but something to build into a foundation of absolute trust in the duckling. The boy’s genius is undercut by an uncertainty that Akita is more than happy to use to his advantage, ready to twist it so that he understands that achievement to the older scientist’s standards will be the only route to praise.
“Of course I am. There would be no point to you working under me if I was not willing to assist you with your growth. But the ideas must come from you. We are expanding your horizons, young Hubert.”
Ideas.
Huey stares down at the parts in front of him with a furrowed brow. He had never thought of himself as very creative, or very good at coming up with his own ideas. Technically, the suit had been his idea, but it was directly influenced by the fact that Gyro had made one for Fenton. Did that really count as his idea? As expanding his horizons. Maybe... He wasn’t copying the suit piece for piece at least, he would be different from Gizmoduck. It would be his work.
So, he nods to Akita. “ I... ” He starts, then takes a deep breath and starts again. “ I have ideas. And they’re my own, not just taken from Gyro... I want.. I want to build a better suit than him. He is good but it has so many flaws and he won’t listen to me when I try to make suggestions even though I’ve helped make it better before. I want him to see that I can help.. ”
He puts a paw on Huey’s shoulder in a show of support for the duckling. There. He wants to build something better than the old intern had and that was more than enough to build on. Akita sat in a chair near the worktable. He pulled out a fresh sheet of paper, placing pencils in front of the boy.
“Then let us begin again. Let us start in the abstract, Hubert, with a list of the flaws you can think of that need to be improved upon. Then write what you think can be done to do as such. Once we have that list, we can begin working on the practical applications.
Huey stares at the piece of paper that was put in front of him and slowly he reaches for a pencil, His hands feel a bit weak, and he’s still a little unsure about everything happening. He wants to improve. He wants to better himself. And Akita could help him, couldn’t he?
He puts the pencil to the paper and slowly begins writing out the first problem he had assisted with. The core processor. And next to it he writes down the solution he came up with. Nothing important, not anymore, but just somewhere to start. After that problems and solutions start coming quicker. Sometimes only problems, with room to come up with solutions afterwards,
“ Okay... ” He’s listed about 11 by the time he starts struggling, and it’s then that he sets down the pencil. “ I.. I think there’s more but this is a good start.. right? ” He moves the sheet of paper to show Akita what he had written.
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Name: Dewford “Dewey” Duck
Age: 23
Height: 5′11
Pronouns: He/Him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Occupation: Youtuber/Future detective
Zodiac: Aries sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising
Faceclaim: Joshua Bassett
Description
It was always hard for Dewey to be the middle child in a set of triplets. His goal was constantly to stick out from his brothers, to not be “the other one” out of the three, and to have a distinct trait about himself. Sometimes, he even wished he was an only child! But his “day of the only child” days growing up always reminded him why being a triplet was so important. Because he wanted to stand out so badly though, he has always been the one to seek adventure and try new things. He tried every sport to ever exist, did theater in high school, and has tried every hobby you could possibly think of. At first, it was hard for him to decide what to go to school for because of all his different interests, but he realized that what he wanted to do had been a part of him his whole life — detective work. He always wanted to know what happened to his mother, since Scrooge and Donald didn’t talk about her much and it was a delicate subject with his brothers. Luckily, when the boys moved in with Scrooge after the houseboat fire, they were introduced to Webby Vanderquack, who also had an interest in Scrooge’s family and the history. He’s never admitted to anyone but Webby for the reason he’s taking this career path, but part of him wonders if everyone truly knows why but just doesn’t say it. Whatever the case, he wants to find their mom, and also wants to help other people find missing loved ones. The path to become a missing person investigator is a long one, but he swears it’ll be worth it in the end!
Headcanons
- Although Huey was always the smart one who pushed the importance of college, Dewey didn’t plan to take it all that seriously until his interest in being a detective came to surface. It is a lot of school and work to get to his goal, and he doesn’t want to let his love for goofing off and adventuring holding him back. He’s in his last year majoring in Criminal Justice, and then has to find a PI he can work with to get experience before being able to obtain his license.
- In the meantime, he’s also created his own Youtube channel, Dewey Dewnight, that doesn’t have much of a following yet but he still has a great time with it. Webby has been a huge help with it, and he’s still trying to get his brothers more involved in their social media presence with him.
- He is such a hot head at times, can easily get worked up over dumb shit and likes things to go his way. Also gets easily offended.
- Will randomly sing things or dance around if he’s in a good mood. Quotes random movies, shows and musicals without warning
- Will literally do anything to get attention tbh. He jumps into things without thinking most of the time
- Although he feels guilty about the fire that he started, he’s grateful that it lead to moving into the mansion. He already looked up to Donald and this gave him a chance to look up to Scrooge, too.
- He’s also grateful to have Webby around! She’s like the sister that non of them ever knew they needed
- He thinks about their mom all the time ; the most random things can make him think of her, constantly wondering where she is and if she’s okay.
- He never one to really be in relationships (probably because of his mommy issues). Not that he doesn’t have interest in dating or get crushes, but he worries about getting hurt in the end. He acts like he’s tough and not scared of anything but deep down he can be very sensitive
- ESFP
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#;I say bah! humbug! (musings)#;the little things in life (likes)#;spinning yards and tall tales (headcanons)#;I lost him once I won't lose him again (Donald)#;flew out of my grasp (Della)#;he's my pilot (Launchpad)#;not my secretary (Beakley)#;three times the trouble (triplets)#;may be an adventurer yet (Dewey)#;dime earner; hard worker (Louie)#;too smart for his own good (Huey)#;capable of great things (Fenton)#;most brilliant mind of our time (Gyro)#;you have one life; use it wisely (Darkwing/Drake)#;proud to call her my granddaughter (Gosalyn)#;luck prone playboy (Gladstone)#;we used to be so close (Matilda)#;there was fire in her eyes (Hortense)#;nothing but trouble (family)#;they're all mad as loons (Bin family)#;she reminds me of someone I once knew (Webby)#;you're every line; you're every word; you're everything (Goldie)#tag dump#;how does it feel to be number two? (Glomgold)#;what's most important in life; friends work and waffles (Loopy)#;my most faithful friend (Duckworth)
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mcsad
she COMFORT!!!
it’s the separation squad im so HAPPY????
/do not reblog/
#DO NOT REBLOG#;iconing adventures#;greedy miser (meself)#;she reminds me of someone I once knew (Webby)#;too smart for his own good (Huey)
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#this is terribly why would i spend two precious hours making it#every time you stifle a sneeze#lemon demon#tw emoji#best dino bonus track btw#lyrics
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A Slipper of Glass
I missed writing the ducks so much 😊 This is just a drabble I made for fun, but if you’re reading this, I hope you enjoy it!
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Louie snorted, distractively juggling an apple from hand to hand as he watched his brothers’ fencing match.
“You know, I always thought Hubert was the hopeless romantic of us, but guess I was wrong. You definitely deserve the title, Dewey- I mean, deciding to marry a random girl because of a glass slipper?” He arched a skeptical eyebrow, taking a bite from the apple. “I can hear Uncle Scrooge making a list of reasons to marry someone, and them having a weird taste in shoes is not in it.”
“That is where you’re wrong, Louie,” Dewey responded his younger brother without an inch of doubt, while still battling his oldest brother in the same way. “It’s not about the slipper. It’s about the girl in the slipper. She was- ha!”
Dewey had to interrupt his explanation to make use of Huey’s opening and strike. He would have made point if it wasn’t for the oldest prince’s smart dodge.
“Nice parry!” Huey complimented.
“Thanks,” Dewey said with a hint of pride, before continuing both the match and the talk with his young brother. “She was… She was…”
“She was what??” Louie was losing his patience.
“Well, she was the one!”
As if getting strength from his own statement, Dewey was able to twist his blade on Huey’s and send his older brother’s sword flying away from his hand. With a proud smile and lifting his hands in defeat, Huey allowed his brother to make point.
As he went to take his blade back, Dewey used this moment to look at Louie, who was yet taking his third bite on the apple.
“She was the one, okay?” he repeated, certain of his words. “I know it.”
Louie remained skeptical, however. “Oh boy, you’re talking just like Huey before he met Shelly.”
“Hey! I happen to love my wife very much, thank you,” Huey defended, taking his time to approach his brothers again and start another match with Dewey. “Yes, I admit Shelly and I didn’t exactly start our relationship on a good note, but in the end what we built together is even better than my dreams while growing up.” He was now smiling; a happy, peaceful smile. “I’m happy. And that’s all I want to you two too.”
Louie’s only reaction was to roll his eyes. He appreciated his oldest brother’s worry and care, but being honest to himself, Louie had no desire to marry, and being the youngest prince of three he didn’t really have to.
Dewey, by other hand, just smiled back at his brother, in gratefulness for Huey’s support. At least, until he spoke again.
“I just fear there’s a rift in your plan, Dewey.”
His smile was dropped instantly, and the middle prince just had a second to proffer a confused “what?” before he had to defend himself from Huey’s attack with the sword, starting a new match.
“You think there’s only one girl in all kingdom who wears a size four and a half?”
Dewey was able to block a strike with his own blade, but not without some struggle, “It’s all I have to go on her.”
“Yeah, we all know at this point.” Backing away for an instant, Huey broke his brother’s defense and started slashing again. Dewey would lie if he said he didn’t have a hard time holding back; Huey sounded more serious all of a sudden. “You don’t know her last name nor first name, neither do you have any idea who she can be or where she comes from. But you saw her, didn’t you?”
“Of course I saw her,” Dewey hardened his stance to fight back, now somewhat offended by his brother’s accusation.
But his blown wasn’t hard to be held by Huey, who now had a perfect position to be face to face with his brother. “So you do have more to go on here.”
In his corner, Louie would simply look from one to the other, a little unsure of what to do except maybe ringing for Beakley if necessary. It wasn’t rare for the older princes’ matches to grow intense, but it had never been tense.
“Her feathers, her hair, her eye color- you know these things,” Huey continued. “And yet your proclamation was that you would marry whoever the shoe fit on.”
“And so what? What’s your point here?” Dewey controlled himself not to sound exasperate.
Although still holding on the defense position, Huey sighed, and suddenly his face wasn’t pure seriousness anymore. Dewey knew that face. Huey was able to mimic perfectly their uncle’s wise yet tired expression, the expression of a leader who wasn’t being positive nor negative, but realistic.
“What if they bring in the wrong girl, Dewey?”
#I missed writing the ducks#ducktales#Huey Dewey and Louie#dewey duck#louie duck#huey duck#Shelly Duckling#ducktales 2017#one-shot#drabble#cinderella au
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Hal didn’t know what to expect when he opened his bedroom door and found the daring superspy in his kitchen smoking a cheap cigarette and drinking coffee. His own father, god rest his soul, had a hatred of spies. Hal had chalked it up to him growing up during the worst of the cold war, but in hindsight, it was so much worse. The two of them talked about nothing and everything that day, Hal being uncharismatically quiet, his side sore, complaining against the laughter and heavy breathing, not that he let it show.
Hal didn’t know what to do when his heart started to pound when the spy looked at him with eyes that reflected the water and sky. It was all-consuming. When Snake looked at Hal it was like Hal was the only person worth focusing on. The effort was almost not worth it, not that Hal would say that to Snake.
Forming a group, more so a team of two was easy. Too much of his family history was building weapons, even Hal was guilty of it. Starting Philanthropy was something of a redemption for him. Hal never thought of himself as anything other than less than good. He was connected to too much evil to completely balance it out.
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Blood soaked through his hoodie, ruining it. The nukes were coming to the hideout and someone had to save Snake and the other soldier. His stealth tech was faulty now. It still kept him hidden but the blood gave him away. The knife that stabbed him was dropped somewhere in the last hallway. The man who stabbed him was hit over the head with a fire extinguisher. Hal was running out of time. His side was switching between agony and numbness. His legs were giving out but he made his way to the control room. On the monitors, Hal could see Snake in the jeep fighting off his former boss. And winning. Good for him. He watches them leave the range of the cameras as cold sets into Hal’s bones, not from the Alaska weather from outside. Hal had to sit in a chair to gather strength to hold down the control buttons to the door. Eventually, there were spots in his eyes and Hal had to let go of the button. As the doors closed, the light from the sunset reflecting on the walls had faded as well. One by one the generators failed in the base, being turned off by soldiers deserting. Eventually, the lights and every one of the cameras shut off at once, leaving Hal in complete darkness. Huey Emmerich’s laughter echoed from the abyss of looming unconsciousness.
In the back of the part of his mind not blocked by blood loss, Hal noted that the Nukes were taking a while to get there. Maybe his perception of time was getting wonky. The cold he was feeling was getting hot, boiling. Hal was losing his chances of survival rapidly.
As his eyes started to close, the door to the control room had opened.
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This was supposed to be an easy mission, get in and get out. Hal had to get inside for hacking to get the plans, but it was easy to get what he needed. Snake had started clearing out their exit plan while Hal worked. Hal was focused solely on his job, not watching the door. In hindsight, it was a rookie move.
“How the fuck are you still alive?” A familiar voice said. Hal looked over to see the man who had caused him to nearly bleed out. The scar on his side flashed in pain. His internal radar told him that Dave- Snake was too far away to be of any immediate help but Hal was smart, he could buy them some time. Hal silently activated his Codec, pressing behind his ear to call his partner. The man who had found him out pulled out his pistol, firing one next to his head.
Hal stayed silent, but he could hear Snake grunt and silently curse. His radar showed that Snake spun on his heels and sprinted loudly. The sudden noise surprised the guard, letting Hal get a punch in on the guard. The pistol was dropped with a rattle. Otacon’s knuckles were bruised and his bones crack rendering him to not easily press his codec, causing him to not answer Snake, who had been calling him over and over again. The ringing was loud, but the noise was cut with a blade slicing just under his ribs. It didn’t hurt. Maybe that was because of the shock and such, but his brain focused on the injury. He immediately curled around himself as the blade was pulled out. He was bleeding faster and more heavily than last time. Snake was right outside the door. Hal fought, struggled really to calm down, to keep his heart rate down.
Snake was there, his radar told him that, but he was quiet. Hal could barely hear him breathing. It lived up to the stealthy connotations of his code name. Hal’s vision got blurred, even with his glasses. The gun, which was nothing more than a blocky mess in Hal’s eyes, was picked up and went off. One shot fired after another in the count of two heartbeats between them. Hal had seen two bodies in front of him, both in dark clothes, one by the door and one closer to him. After two shots the one closer to Hal collapsed. The other form, one that smelled of the familiar scent of cigarettes took a step towards the body coolly firing three more.
“Snake…” Otacon took a deep breath. The form standing over the one lying next to Hal fired one more shot before the gun started to click uselessly.
Then it was like the spell was broken. The one left standing walked over to Hal, kneeling right into the hacker’s field of vision. Snake.
His bright gray-blue eyes were bright with worry. He looked over the bloody wound and slipped off the top half of the sneaking suit. In other circumstances, Hal would have blushed but now… Hal didn’t think he had the blood to spare.
“This will keep the blood from spilling everywhere.” Snake whispered, His voice softer and gentle. “Help with accelerating the healing process, too.” Snake slipped off Hal’s shirt.
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How would you rewrite season 3 so it would be more coherent? I'm not talking about a full on rewrite of the entire episodes, I just mean how to make the plot lines and development flow better or changing them to be satisfying for all the characters.
Okay this is a really good question. I was going to say to make it more centered on FOWL but going back and reading the episode titles, it already kinda is. Like there's not that many episodes that don't tie into the finale in some way. I do have tweaks here and there that would help with plot and character development throughout the season. This ended up being a lot longer than I thought so here's a page break lol
Going in a linear format, Steelbeak should have made himself smart in Double-O-Duck instead of making the ray to make everyone else dumb. He'd be a more competent villain and more in line with his character in the original DWD. Maybe he could have even played a roll in LGD. It also would have avoided both him and Launchpad being mostly comic relief characters. I think there's too many jokes at Launchpad's expense about him being dumb. If he went back to his "normal" level of intelligence at the end, he could have told the family about FOWL without jeprodizing the search for the rest of the season. All they'll know is that FOWL is trying to take down the family and where the secret headquarters is. There's still the search for the leader and why FOWL is doing what they're doing. This makes it so that Huey has more to do and accomplish in what is supposed to be his season.
Next, The Rumble For Ragnorok. I'm just going off of memory here. I don't think that this episode did very much in the way of developing characters. Or at all. It was a forgettable filler episode where Dewey learned a lesson about humility or something and then it didn't come into play ever again. This episode could have been removed entirely to make room for an episode after LGD to give the Mallard-McQuack family more screen time and development. A general plot of this episode could be: Huey is helping Fenton and the other adults search the other realities for Gosalyn's missing grandpa. They end up finding him but he's either dead/a totally different person with different memories that doesn't remember Gosalyn at all. This event causes Gosalyn to give up the search and accept that her family is gone. Dewey has an emotional moment with her aside where he comforts her and relates the situation back to his mom and talks about found family while looking back at Launchpad and Drake. (Not really integrating this into any of my other points but if Della died on the moon in season 2 and the kids knew about this, it would make the interaction more impactful) At the end of the episode, its shown that Gosalyn has her own room, either in the lair or in a house similar to the original DWD, and Drake tucks her in while singing her lullaby.
The Phantom and the Sorceress. Oh God, what a mess. There's way too much wrong with this episode. Soup-Du-Silence had a good idea on how to fix it from Lena's perspective, which you can read about here. As for Gladstone, he could have still lost his powers and come to the mansion for help. But instead of him asking literal children, its Della and Donald (and maybe Fethry is there too) and then its a cousins adventure! Donald revels in Gladstone being unlucky but still wants to help. Gladstone doesn't seem so pathetic and played for comic relief. They track down the Blot together after Lena and her family fight him out of the Saberwing house, or they're about to find him when the Blot's gauntlet breaks and Gladstone magically gets his luck back for seemingly no reason, much to Donald's dismay. It might have to be two different episodes because cutting back and forth between the two plot lines would detract time from each and make the episode harder to follow. Idk but there's so many things they could have done that would have made the episode actually good and coherent
Let's Get Dangerous. It was good but it felt rushed. It needed to be longer. The timeline was hard to follow. Instead of the cheap shot at the end were Heron picks Bradford up in a FOWL helicopter, have the triplets being suspicious of him and figuring it out for themselves. Maybe they're all wary for different reasons and talking about it in a group huddle and Huey connects the dots in a dramatic reveal. They confront Bradford who does an evil villain slow clap congratulating them on figuring it out, but before anything else can happen, he's able to escape.
How Santa Stole Christmas. I don't think we needed this backstory. Instead, give us the opportunity to see bonding between characters. Its Della and Donald's first Christmas back together. Let us see that. Give us an interaction about the sweater. "You still have that sweater?" "Of course, wear it every year." And then they hug or something. That's literally all they had to do. Instead of following a Santa storyline that ends in Scrooge leaving an impoverished child alone in a house with nothing but a lump of coal when he could have given a tiny portion of his wealth to help her, let Scrooge learn the true meaning of Christmas through his family. Or even better yet, let him throw a party, inviting over recurring characters, and have it double as a brain storming session on how to defeat FOWL. Show them coming up with the plan for Webby's birthday party. Give us interactions with characters who haven't been there all season. Penumbra can help. Where has she been? She was building a ship back to the moon before, right? Give a conclusion to that. If she's decided to stay on Earth like it seemed in the end of her episode, all we really need is a short two second clip of her hanging out with the other Moonlanders, having their own form of Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever else.
As for the last few episodes leading up to the finale, I get what they were going for. Give each of the triplets one last centric episode. However, I think that the messages fell short in the Dewey and Louie episodes. I think they should have taken more of a Beaks in the Shell approach where the selected triplet still gets to shine, while also setting up high stakes for the finale. Don't be adding new characters so late in the game, be wrapping up storylines with already established ones. There wasn't really a point in adding Kit or Poe, other than the writers wanting to make reference to as many characters as possible. Same with April May and June.
Now for the finale. My main thing: don't make Webby a clone. It messes too much with all the dynamics in the show and ruins the found family message they've had this entire time. It would have been a lot better if Webby's parents were FOWL agents who had a change of heart after having their child and got killed by Bradford or Heron when trying to leave the organization. That's ample reason for Beakley not wanting Webby to know. I think the finale did a pretty good job of wrapping things up outside of that, honestly. Again, there wasn't really enough time to give all the characters a proper ending, like Gene who just disappeared once he was saved, never to be seen again, but if time was managed better in the episodes leading up to the finale, it would have made it so that more characters could have accomplished what they needed to. And what was with Bradford getting turned into a real buzzard at the end? You really going to just undomesticate him like that? Give him some poetic justice, push him into the void that makes people cease to exist.
That's about all I can think of at the moment. Thanks for the ask! It was fun to go through everything and think about what could have been done better
#ducktales#ducktales season 3#dt season 3#ducktales critical#ducktales criticism#dt criticism#dt critical
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My thoughts on the final. 8 out of 10 for me and here's why.
Positives first.
The villains. I love Bradford as a villain and his plan really was flawless. To me, Bradford is the scariest type of villain there is. Scrooge trusted this man for almost his whole life. Trusted him enough to be in charge of his money, and secrets. Only to get betrayed at the end. This is an actual thing that happens in real life. People we love, people we know for our whole lives, could just suddenly become horrible people and our love and trust in them breaks. And it hurts like crazy. And that's Bradford right there. He was close to Scrooge and betrayed him. Now the fact that Bradford never saw himself as the villian adds more to why these types of people are horrible. They blame others for their misfortune or for their bad traits. Like how Bradford told the family to look what they made him into after he grew into a monster. He's trying to put the blame on others instead of acknowledging that he's doing this to himself. Like at least the other villains like Glomp Gold and Magica know their villains. They're self aware unlike Bradford. Bradford doesn't like the thought of being a villain so he blames those that see him as the villain. Like dude! You imprisoned Gandra for indefinitely, trapped Ludwig Von Drake who just wanted to talk things out with you, imprisoned innocent people like Panchito and Jose. Why those two? Just because they were tricked into performing a concert at The Feast of the Flower? He straight up murdered his agents, and threw Donald in too. Not to mention he played a part in tearing the family apart once. And he keeps justifying it by saying "I'm not a villain". Which makes it worse! You can't just say you're not a villain or that others are trying to make you look like the villain. If you're not the villain then there's no need to say it. So yeah, I enjoy Bradford as a villain because he's the most realistic of the three main villains we had. Someone who has some good points but executes them poorly.
I also enjoyed the other villains like Phantom Bot and Pepper. I ship these two so much. 💖. Pepper being her talkative self and speaking her mind while Blot is being the strong silent type. My favorite line is also from Pepper "Look Blot! He's a full grown man with the strength of a baby!" I LOVE YOU PEPPER!!! And Blot being his aggressive self is enough for me. And thank you Lena for setting Gene free! Rockerduck being his spoiled self was also a treat. Having his servant fight for him and ordering a drink while he fought. 😂 Don Karnage was his lovable singing self, also he is dead now right? No way he survived that plane crash. Congratulations Dewey, you murdered a man while singing just like I always knew you would. Heron was also great. There's no doubt in my mind that she had some kind of attraction to Bradford after that "Oh Bradford, how villainous 😏" before dying. There's just something hilarious about Heron gracefully accepting betrayal and death like that. 😂 Steelbeaks was great. Finally using that smart ray on himself and still being the imbecile he is! Glomp Gold, Magica and the Beagles special appearance was also a treat.
Ok so our heros! I have to talk about Drake, Fenton and Launchpad! I love Drake for his balance of goofiness and heroicness. He's clearly a man who wants what's best for everyone and loves to be in the spotlight as well. Not to mention just how much fun it is to watch him being all goofy. He may have a child-like side and loves being the goofy hero he is, but he has his serious moments. Showing that just because you have a child-like personality doesn't mean you're not mature enough to handle serious situations. Just the way Drake comforted Fenton by telling him he isn't alone on this, to let others help him warms my heart. He knows Fenton so well and grew a personal connection with him. To the point where he refuses to believe Fenton is Gizmoduck. 😂 Poor guy is in denial. I feel bad for him because he's always in GizmoDucks shadow, which is why I screamed so loud when he and GizmoDuck shared the spotlight in the beginning of the fight with Steelbeaks. Great moment! And Fenton! I adore him and I love him so much more after this episode too! He was always the man with a heart of gold and always put others first. And they added even more to his character by making him such a romantic towards Gandra. I'm 100% sure she was on his mind throughout this whole adventure. Just the fact that he says it out loud that he wants to rescue her and his first reaction when they landed at the Lost Library was to rescue the prisoners was adorable. We all know he wanted to go save the prisoner's to find Gandra. Yeah I know he also cares for everyone else just as much but Gandra will always hold a special place in his heart. And then we have the moment with the two in the end credits. Just pure adorableness! Falling together, Fenton becoming GizmoDuck and catching her like he always does!!! Ah I can't help it! These two are cute!!! I also like how Fenton never did get to rescue her but it was Huey and the others that did and then she helped on rescuing the others. Breaks that whole damsel in distress cliche. I'm so sorry Fenton that you didn't get your shining armor moment, maybe next time? Then we have Launchpad. That guy finally had his shining moment. He was so insecure about not being a superhero that he couldn't see he was the one that inspired Fenton and Drake to become heros. That moment was so sweet and the fact that Launchpadpad became Gizmoduck was what made it perfect. And I loved how he crashed the suit too. 😂 and even the Gizmo Suit has an attitude "Eh, close enough."
Then we have the kids. Each one had their moment and I loved it. Violet was under used I'll admit, just wish they used her more. Like her woodchuck knowledge or her book smarts to find their way out of a maze, open a certain door to another room or help Lena out. Lena had her moment as well, making the airplane invisible showing just how powerful she has become. And let's consider that she nearly got killed by Phantom Blot in the first battle but this time she was able to battle him much better. Friendship really is her magic. Boyd is my favorite! I just love how him being just a head didn't even bother him one bit. Instead, Lil Bulb just uses his body to create a bobblehead Boyd. Let's not forget that "Take care of your brother." line. That one line made my heart sing. Louie was very realistic, "That is not at all comforting. I do not want to die." and he was also the same sharp boy we all know and love. I love the scene where he's pep talking Dewey into winning the battle against Don Karnage. And then we have Dewey flying the Sun Chaser by himself, fully embracing his talent. I'll talk about Huey and Webby later. Scrooge, Donald and Della also had their moment to shine as the original three! Loved it so much, just watching these three fight one last battle together was enough to almost make me cry. Beakly also had her moments like getting the chance to tell Webby the truth, even though it was a trick. I love how she wanted to make sure everyone was safe and went to fight F.O.W.L on her own only to learn her lesson near the end. The lesson that she can't keep secrets forever and she has to have trust in her family in order to win. And sure enough this lesson came from her oldest friend Scrooge Mcduck.
The humor was also the best! I loved the fact that Manny is actually some world ending monster and what does he have to say? "People change man! I just want to live a normal life!" 😆 I never expected Manny to talk let alone his voice sounding like that. And then we have the Gargoyles reference "I live again!..... Again!" Loved that, gold right there. Then we have Von Drake who admits that he isn't dead all because he doesn't have time to die! Oh if only life were that easy! Gyro was comedy gold as well with his line "When they do something right, they're heros! When things get too hard, we're children!" 😂 Love you Gyro!
Ok so one thing I have an issue with. You all know what it is so I'll make it as short as possible. Webbys backstory. I didn't like it. I have no issue with her being a clone and that Beakly found her, but Scrooge's daughter? It was unnecessary and here's why. Scrooge was already her father. He took care of her as his own, protected her, kept het happy, and was a wonderful role model to her. She was already his official none blood daughter. Making her Scrooge's blood related daughter does nothing to improve her character. If they wanted her as a clone, they could've done something else. Like maybe she could've been the clone of a well known F.O.W.L agent that died or disappeared. So F.O W.L tried to clone that agent by creating Webby. Nothing would need to change either, Beakly could've still found her, took her in and kept her safe with Scrooge. Webby would still have an identity crisis thinking she's the clone of a F.O.W.L agent and is destined to be a F.O.W.L agent. If they wanted to add June and May in, then use that same reason. Cloning F.O.W.L agents and raising them to be the evil like them. Or what about this? Use Beakley's story about her daughter. How Beakley wasn't there for her as much as she wanted to and maybe one day F.O.W.L talked Beakley's daughter into joining them. Making Beakley regret not being there for her daughter more. When her daughter tries to leave F.O.W.L she disappears all of a sudden. But then Beakly finds a baby clone of her daughter (Webby) and she takes this as a second chance to raise her daughter again. I'm just saying, anything would've been a better back story for Webby other than being Scrooge's clone. And as for Huey, he should've been the one to find the papyrus. Branford had him in his grasp. He had managed to manipulate Huey into helping him, so why not have him grab the papyrus. He is a direct descendent of Scrooge so why complicate things by having Huey talk to Webby? They weren't even sure if the papyrus was going to show itself to Webby!!! HUEY WAS RIGHT THERE BRADFORD!!!! It was so easy!!! Kidnap Huey, manipulate him into helping, then lock him up with Gyro, Drake and Gandra!!! I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Huey and Webby here, I did. Huey using his woodchuck knowledge allowing his brothers to find him and Webby using the skills her granny showed her made me proud. I love seeing these two using the skills they learned while living in the mansion.
Other than that, the final was great and I loved it. I just wish Webbys background was different and more unique than being Scrooge's daughter. Oh! And the end credits were wonderful! I love how the poster was basically a foreshadow of it!
8/10 I loved the finale!
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Ducktales: Terror of the Terra-Firmians! (Lena Retrospective) (Commission by WeirdKev27): Launchpad Looses his Last Brain Cell and I Loose My Patience
Welcome back Weblena Warriors to the second part of my look at everyone’s favorite Emo Teen Shadow Lesbian Duck... and probably the only one but hey, semantics, Shadow Into Light, which was made possible by viewers like you, the ultra humanite and a commission from WeirdKev27. Picking up where we left off, we have our first episode that has a different intended order than airing order.
As most of you probably remember, but some of you who joined later might not be aware of the broadcast order for the first half of season one is, in the academic sense, pretty fucked. It’s not Darkwing Duck’s entirely fucked by a web of badger spiders and a queen snake on top to make it some sort of train situation, but by just sorta airing whatever episodes they wanted to, Disney messed with the character balance so Huey got less focus, not that he got a ton of focus this season but still, as well as leaning into the episodes focusing more on the kids with less involvement from the adults which gave the wrong impression about the series. While it IS very focused on the triplets and webby, the show isn’t entirely about them, but as Frank has mentioned a few times, Disney Channel apparently has this WEIRD thing where they assume kids won’t like stories starring the adult characters.
Yeah I’ve been wanting to talk about this for a while. Mostly how it’s so dumb I could swear Pauly Shore was an exec at Disney Channel. And he might be I don’t know what he’s doing these days and i’d like to keep it that way. For starters, the Scooge comics, while barely published in the US these days, are still popular globally and have appealed to kids and adults for generations and are mostly focused on him, with the kids in a supporting role and Ducktales, you know the thing your directly remaking here, was also mostly about him with the triplets supporting, if a bit less than the comics. Most of the Disney Afternoon was about adult characters, with any kids in side roles in the main cast. And it comes off entirely hypocritical of them to say this when the MCU is easily marvel’s biggest cash cow at the moment, and marvel properties have appealed to both kids and adults, like the duck comics, for decades. And if it’s because the marvel cartoons weren’t doing well , I’ll let you in on a little secret: Those didn’t do well because they looked bland and from what I’ve seen of them felt kind of bland, though I haven’t seen enough to fully judge. Kids LIKE adult characters as much as kid characters, and also like teen characters despite not being teens. Focusing on either is valid and while I LIKED Disney’s youth starring shows I also want another X-Men cartoon before I turn 50, and I bet kids would like that too, with the last one only failing because you bailed on it because you were throwing a hissy fit over fox having the movie rights, and do not get me started on that. Point is this argument is horse shit and should stay in the stables.
So yeah I do think this episode came too soon and it’s placement effected it at the time and as such it dosen’t have the best rep with the fandom aside from the Lena bits and that includes me. The fact it was very early in the series and the characterizations hadn’t yet sunk in really hurt this episode in places but is it really that bad? Join me under the cut to find out
We open at the movies! Which scrooge apparently hasn’t been too since the 1930′s or seen any on video despite Della existing and being really stubborn.
A rant for another episode. But the kids just got out of a Mole Monster movie, along with Lena, Beakly and Launchpad. Their reactions are as follows: Lena, Webby and Dewey really enjoyed it, Huey found it unrealistic... says the boy whose uncle fought a dragon made of gold a month or two back but we’ll get to that, and Louie was bored and felt it didn’t have enough of the ultra violence, kids these days it’s not about the gore it’s about the tension. And Beakly.. is just pissed Lena tricked them into seeing this and said it was educational. And the more I think about it the more this sounds like BEAKLYS fault than Lena’s. BEAKLY is the one who likely bought the tickets, who saw it was likely an r or pg-13 and who as we’ve seen HAS A PHONE, and ulnike scrooge probably isn’t so stingy she wouldn’t spring for a smart phone, so she could’ve just googled it, or whatever bird related pun is in this version.. gandered it.. yeah let’s go with that, gandered it, and SEEEN it wasn’t appropriate or walked htem out of the theater and ate the cost if she was that bothered by it. Sitting through a Horror Movie you didn’t research, didn’t pull the kids out of and dind’t bother to even check the poster for or use basic common sense is YOUR fault. And this could’ve worked fine, had Lena talk the kids into begging for it or had launchpad take them and have Beakly find out after, having driven to pick them up as she didn’t trust launchpad to take them home. Instead it makes the former super spy look REALLY stupid and feels really out of character for a SPY to not to do research. And it wasn’t like they decided on this later, Bentina being a spy was part of the character’s backstory from day one and its made clear as early as episode 2 in both airing orders. This is just lazy writing to justify the episode and I expect better from this crew.
But an argument errupts between Huey and Webby over the Terra-Firmians, a hidden race of rock people living in Duckburg’s discontinued sewer system, allegedlys. So Lena suggest simply going down which gets a disapproving look from Beakly, despite you know this being their bread and butter, and the fact that if she had a problem with Scrooge not being involved.. she could just call him. Exploring fabled rock people is something he’d be into. I mean there’s a low profit margin but it also costs him almost nothing to walk to the theater or have launchpad swing around and pick him up. Just gas which given how much he pays for jet fuel isn’t a big ask. But Beakly soon gets distracted by Launchpad whose convinced the film is real and is attacking the poster a grim sign of things to come as while Beakly annoyed me in this one on rewatch, especially after realizing the above... Launchpad annoyed me both times and for VERY good reason we’ll get into. This provides a distraction and allows the trio to escape. Cue titles.
After the title sequence, our heroes head deeper underground, there’s too much panic in this town... I mean props to Donald for trying something new but he really needs to rethink his cologne choices. Sex Panther is just.. not a good smell on.. anyone.
So our heroes journey through the depths of the subway system, and we find out part of why Huey’s so skeptical, as he finds anything that isn’t in the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook to not exist, though the cracks in this already show as he’s added anything that does. We’ll get back to this later but as you can tell the basic dynamic for 24 minutes is Webby being a wholehearted True Believer and Huey being a Skeptical Sally. And Lena is just sorta “Eh gives me an excuse for shenanigans” about it. We also get a peak into webby’s mind as we see her notes .. which really just come off as Terra-Firmian fanfiction involving a war of succession between two sides, the terra’s and the firmies, something based on previous media, and also some doodles of a fictional candy called webby-dings and herself as a superhero, both things I want to see.
But yeah the first third of the episode is pretty simple, just them journeying, the occasional shift in the firmament, and it’s not bad, and there are a few great bits: Huey nerds out about rocks, and finds them way more interesting than a possible rock monster.
Which leads to the best gag of the episode as when Huey tries to pick up a big sample Webby, annoyed at his hyperfixation on the JWG, asks him to ask his book for help.. which he does by reading it and actually manages to pick the large rock up. This is halted though when Lena screams.. though she really just did it to draw them to an abandoned subway car full of glomgold posters for glomgold products because of course a failed subway project has his name plastered over it. You can’t spell glomgold without failure.. the failure is silent. Glomgold is not.
The fun is interuptted though by a livid Beakly who had realized they were missing in an earlier scene, after telling the Manager that McDuck Industries would pay for the poster.. and then found out Launchpad also destroyed the toilets “They come up thorugh the sewers!”. Launchpad that’s CHUDS, Ninja Turtles and Rats who raised Ninja Turtles like their own sons, mole people dig or use old mineshafts. It’s basic mole science. Also Beakly really shouldn’t sweat it, I just assumed the city has had a runnig bill witht he company for “McDuck Family and Employee Related Accidents, Mayhem and Shenanigans”. I mean he’s had Gyro on his payroll for at least a decade and a half by the series start, Gyro has leveled whole sections of city in an afternoon more than most giant monsters. Of which several have destroyed Duckburg. It got better.
Point is she’s livid about them sneaking off with Lena pointing out their some sort of adventure family and Beakly.. saying she won’t see them again, or at least implying it hard. I’ll put a pin in this, as the train buckles and a bit of seismic, or rock men, activity means their stuck. So they divide into teams: Beakly will go try and unhook the train car from the busted cars so they can ride out, Launchpad will go try and fix it, and we get this lovely exxchange as a result
Launchpad: Cool never crashed a train before
Beakly: Can’t you try driving it without crashing it?
Launchpad: Wha?
His face in that scene is priceless. He takes Dewey along. More on that in a second. Webby, Huey and Louie are told to stay put with Beakly only bringing Lena along because she dosen’t trust her. So since we have three split plots for a second... let’s split up gang, starting with the most aggrivating, middling with what you all came here for and why this is part of the retrsopective, and ending with the plot that directly heads into the final part of the episode.
Launchpad and Dewey: GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Okay starting with the most infamous plot and easily the worst part of this episode, probably the worst plot in any Ducktales 2017 episode. That’s not hyperbole it’s really that bad and really pissed people off, as fans of the original launchpad felt they made him overly stupid. This is where the airing order’s a problem as putting an episode with a subplot where one of your characters is obnoxiously dumb right up front means they assume this is his charcter and not just one poorly written chapter in a very dumb but very loveable characters life, likely because the writers hadn’t figured out how to properly scale his stupidity with comptience.
So as a result we get a good 3-4 mintutes if not agonizingly more of Launchpad assuming something he saw in a fucking movie film was real. That.. that’s his actual plot. Need I remind you, he’s in his late 20′s early 30′s. He’s not much older than me. While other episodes have him as dim this one claims he CAN’T TELL FACT FROM FICTION.
There are lines you have to keep with your characters to keep the audience from hating them. They crossed it about 80 times with this plot and make Launchpad into a gibbering dunderhead who can’t do anything right versus a regular dunderhead whose good at one or two things and loveable enough for us to like him and not care about his numerous safey violations and child endagerment charges. Thankfully this is the ONLY episode that gets this bad and they clearly learned from this, but it dosen’t make it any less of a tough sit.
Dewey spends most of the subplot with a look on his face that just screams that he’s as done with this bullshit as we are, as Launchpad assumes he’s a mole person and brought along a pipe to presumibly bludgeon him, because wanting to cave his best friends skull in over stupidity is a GREAT look> Thankfuly he does not. And when the lights come back on Launchpad.. assumes he’s a monster because of bright light, GAH, and locks him out before they end up outside and the plto resolves itself by Dewey pointing out by Launchpad’s utterly baffling logic that he could be a mole monster, so Launchpad.. assumes he is.
The subplot’s later buttoned up as he claims “I love being a mole monster”, again diffrent subteranian creature launchpad, she says he’s not and my suffering is thankfully at an end. This plot just sucks, it’s bad, overly stupid and dosen’t work with an adult character. Someone like say Ed from Ed, Edd N Eddy, or someone who belivies in weird conspiracy stuff like Dale Gribble or Stan Pines. with either of them this plot would’ve been fucking great. I could buy it from Dale and it just comes off as his normal paranoid weirdness. With Launchpad it comes off like he seriously needs help because the episode frames it as if he can’t tell ficton from reality, and his splotlight episode later would directly contridct this and make this episode even more aggrivating, as he’s a fan of Darkwing Duck, and KNOWS it’s acted out by an actor, so why wouldn’t he get this? It’s just....
It sucks, it sucks and I thankfully get to move on to a better subplot
Beakly and Lena: What You Are in the Dark
Beakly tells Lena she’ll never see Webby again after this.. then chastises her when she won’t help despite you know having just said she’s going to force their friendship apart, which Lena points out. She then gets mad at Lena making a sarcastic comment at her. Okay she’s lived with Louie for at least a week in airing order and a month or two in actual order. She has to be used to this by now. She’s insolent.. because you show her no respect, blame her for something that while sure she talked you into, you should’ve known better, and top it off by saying you want to keep her from the kids because they have bright futures and come from good familes and asks who rasied her and her face.. well.
Yeah wheras Launchpad and Huey, more on that in a second, were hurt by this being some of their earliest big roles, Bentina wasn’t.. until later when we found out just HOW bad Magica is to Lena and how much she dosen’t care about her other than as a tool to use. At this point we didn’t know just how much Lena was playing webby, how much she was only manipulating her, and even with her heroic act here we didn’t know if she only saw Webby as her way to break free. The next episode makes it clear she dosen’t and genuinely does care, 100%, so in hindsight it makes Bentina come off as ghoulsih for horribly asssuming about a girl she dosen’t know, and even if she did know about Magica wouldn’t know the full story, just like us, and then BERATING her after already saying she’s going to rip her away from Webby, which itself is PRETTY bad as she’s the only friend the girl has and sh’es doing so on... talking them into a horror movie, which as I outlined was more Bentina’s fault than Lena’s, and leading the kids into a dangerous place whicha gain, Lena pointed out is something she lets Scrooge do. And trust me i know that she actually knows Scrooge, and we later find out, as we’ll cover next month, that she isn’t ware HOW dangerous things are with Scrooge. It dosen’t change the fact she knows they do dangerous stuff to a point and that Lena may just be acting out. It also dosen’t change the fact she drove three children, yes including launchpad, down here with her instead of sending them home with Launchpad.. granted that option isn’t the safest but it’s safer than taking her with them thena cting like it’s ALL lena’s fault when three of the children, again including launchpad, are down there because of HER. Not Lena, HER. I’m harder on her because she’s older, wiser and was “raised properly” apparently. Though given the way she treats a random teen off the street she again knows nothing about and dind’t bother to ask... it begs the question.
IT’s a good question. I could see the classism coming from being raised in 40′s and 50′s britain, judging by the timeline.. but even then she’s seen the world, and while her nature is supscious, the classit bullshit makes no sense after presumibly working with, and later spymastering for, various agents of various backgrounds. How has she not dropped this in decades. Scrooge very clearly dropped the racisim and homophobia of his time, so it still stands on her for not dropping this. And Lena’s hurt shows under hte mask for the first time, that beneath the snark and secrecy.. is just an abused teenager with nowhere else to go and no way out being bullied by an older woman whose cutting off the only light at the end of the tunnel nto for good reason but out of classist, overprotective mallice.
My issues, which to be fair probably were intentional in the episode but sitll are a bit overblown, aside we do get an absoluttley tremendous moment later as a car falls on top of Beakly.. and Magica, speaking once more urges Lena to leave her, let her die and let their plans progress. And while that iself is.. dumb, what if someone finds her or her corpse later, especially since Scrooge would likely perosnally want to retrive the body to give her a proper burial as she’s his only friend at this point, or the rest of the family questoin the story?, it fits Magica’s lack of foresight we see throughout the season. But Lena... saves her. While she later gives an explination, and a valid one at that, it’s clear from her expressoin, her actoins and how she does it... that this is her. Part of it is defiance, as she glares at Magica before doing it, her own stubborn nature mixed with her hatred of her “aunt”, meaning Magica just made it all too easy for her to do this. But the real reason is clear: It’s the right thing to do. While pissing off her aunt and getting away with it is the cherry on top.. the real reason is that unlike Magica.. Lena is not a killer, not a monster, and not a heartless vacum ofa person. Even if she doesn’t like Beakly, for good reason.. she can’t, she WON’T leave her to die and leave Webby an orphan again. She loves Webby too much to do that to her and while she may deny it.. she’s too good a person to leave someone to die for something so petty. Even if she never sees webby again and the plans ruined. It’s better than the weight of knowing she let someone who wasn’t trying to harm her and whose actions, while terrible, were out of misguided protection of her granddaughter, die like this. She saves her. And as we’ll see it pays off.. but before that.
Huey, Webby and Louie: Into the Unknown
This plot’s a bit shorter, as Webby and Huey continue their argument, with Louie eventually making it clear, and not even hiding it when directly asked by Huey, that he’s playing both sides with a delighted expression on his face as the movie was boring but this, this is interesting. Which it is. But it’s interupted by dings on the roof and while Huey assumes i’ts just a regular rock, it moves while their not lookiung.. and soon red eyed, horrifying beasts look out at them and the kids flee back to the car. This dosen’t pan out as the car starts to shake and is clearly going to collapse.. and while Webby and Louie are prepared to flee, rock monsters or no, Huey, in an utterly heart shattering image.. stays in place, terrified of moving.
This is where this plot goes from mildly aggrivating, as Huey’s Skeptic shenanigans can get on the nerves.. to BRILLIANT. See at the time this was more annoying because it was assumed the skepticsim would be a part of Huey’s character and we’d get more episodes of him being annoying only to be proven wrong, as he semeingly dosen’t learn his lesson at this point, looging the terrafrimians in the guide book. But on rewatch.. this plot is amazing.
For starters the plot subtly introduced the defening characteristic of Huey’s personality, one that’s become more prounounced in Season 3: His need for Order. He needs things to make sense: He solves stuff because he likes there to be order in the world and something he can understand, he can put in a box in his head. Like a lot of neurotypical people, myself included, he struggles horribly when the clearly defined boxes of his life and things he undestand have wrinkles or complexities he can’t get. I for instnace easily got it when I was introduced to the concept of trans people or being non binary.. they just make sense in hindsight: given how our brains are messya nd complicated it makes sense some people would be born in the wrong ones, and tht with all the science and medicine we have to correct that, should be allowed to transition if they so choose. It makes equal sense that some people just don’t have a gender or are gender fluid, being both or neither. Despite struggling with non binary prounouns due to force of habit.. I get the concept with no real difficulty. But when it comes to accepting I don’t have to apologize for everything and that everyone is not angry or that anger is natural and people sometimes get mad and you can’t and shouldnt’ fix it.. it’s something I STRUGGLE with even knowing it’s not right, because my brain is just wired that way.
That’s how Huey’s struggle comes off here.. he reveals he’s willing to stay and die.. because he’s SO scared of the unknown, that the idea of dying from something he at least knows what it is versus something he dosen’t.., so paralizyed by his own brain he can’t figure out the obvious.. it takes Webby reaching out to him figuratively and literally, to show him that sometimes you have to face the unknown. The unknown is fucking terrifying.. but it can be good and it’s better than sitting there, scared and unable to move. You have to try, to grow and take that risk that things may not go well to really LIVE.
So he does.. and they reunite with the rest of the group.. and soon find the terrafirmains.. who as it turns out once we get some light on them... are actually just goofy looking, brightly colored, each one matching one of the kids, kids themselves, and Huey reaches out and touches one, which by ET logic means their friends now, and the terrafirmians help them get out. And this lesson sticks. While sure Huey catalogues it and it seems it didn’t.. he’s never this skeptical again. This douchey skepticsim was only for one episode, his fear of the uknown replcaed with boundless curosity and from here on he’s CURIOUS about new stuff as long as it’s not trying to kill him. He loves taking in new experinces, maybe not to webby levels but he does actually try them and study them instead of just fearing them.
Before we wrap things up, obviously we need to talk about the JWG not having entries on a lot of stuff. This would be corrected next season as it returns to being a big book of everything, but dosen’t completely contridct this as Timephoon! shows there’s stillcgaps.. which i’m fine with. While it knowing EVERYTHING was fine for the original series here, with things being slightly more groudned, it’d just be an obvious plothole if Huey didn’t use it every single time they ran into something and that’d get boring. Instead it’s simply that it dosen’t know everything, and really in the comics at times it didn’t and the triplets found out new things. It knew almost everything mind you, but having some gaps for dramatic tnesion is fine with me and Seasons 2 and 3 decided on that instead of just having it being a scouting manual which wa sfor the best. And even by later in the season hit has guides to getting a small buisness loan, so they already course corrected.
So everything’s wrapped up and while Magica berates Lena for disobeying her.. Beakly interputps, thankfully not seeing magica and admits she was wrong and invites Lena for pancakes, even taking a crack about if their actually pancakes or english muffins with syrup, which sounds like my own living hell, in stride, having clearly grown. And Lena explains to Magica that this was the better approach: now she’s got the in theyw anted, and is above suspcison for now. Still not so much that an obvious act won’t be detected but enough that she dosen’t ahve to work actively around her anymore. Magica scoffs.. and while part of it is probably rage.. part of it is deep down both of them know she did it out of defiance.. and only Lena knows that she did it for the right reasons... she just dosen’t get why. She probably justifies it as playing the long game.. but deep down she knows something’s changing about her.. and she’s not sure if that’s a godo thing or not.
Final Thoughts:
This episode is as you can tell a mixed bag. It’s 2/3 of a good episode, with the Lena plot, my issues aside, being excellent and the Terra-Firmian plot likewise fun, even if Huey can get grating the payoff is worth it, and the jokes are really high quality. It’s just bogged down by that fucking launchpad plot that just crushed my soul in it’s palms every time it came back. I went on at length why i hated that one but boy oh boy was the hate of that subplot warranted and I stand by calling it the worst plot of the series. It is: it’s not funny, it makes no goddamn sense, and it drags down what’s otherwise a pretty solid epsiode.
Next Time on Lena: Jaws the shark, lurking in the dark, in the depths of the bin one day of a lark decides to get rowdy, get real violent takes a vacay out to Duckburg er.. Island.. also Scrooge faces his greatest Nemesis.. a PR Tour to clean up his image after an unfortunate giant Beanstalk Incident. Be there and be hip to be square.
Next Time on This Blog: I Tackle a DCOM for the first time for another commissioned review as we take a look at racisim, specifically Apartheid and breaking indoctrination, with The Color of Friendship. See you next Rainbow.
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