Ducktales s1 ep22, Full, Early, Uncut
Added 2024-08-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTCThe Last Crash of the Sunchaser! She did WHAT!?!
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I love this episode and of course your reaction!
Emma Aird
2024-08-29 15:42:10 +0000 UTC*spots the book on your shelf* OMG You've read Legends & Lattes! :)
Tim Ryan
2024-08-23 07:02:46 +0000 UTCAnd now go back to the first episode and rewatch that conversation between Scrooge and Donald in the driveway.
Amaranth Wise
2024-08-21 20:00:16 +0000 UTCThe Duck Tails reference was in Steven Universe, although everyone really should watch Dragon Prince.
Lin
2024-08-19 00:26:08 +0000 UTCThankfully, nothing sad happens ever again after this one.
PB
2024-08-16 18:44:46 +0000 UTCWhen Scrooge said 'her' instead of 'them' in that one scene, he was thinking of Della, not the plane.
Flufux
2024-08-14 08:17:04 +0000 UTCI think she mixed it up with the episode before that, which was the Gizmoduck episode.
Flufux
2024-08-14 08:15:23 +0000 UTCAn episode you can only watch for the first time once. Immaculate the first time, but with the lowest returns on rewatches.of.perhaps any episode. Makes me so super thankful for any new reactor to this show.
Tyrant-Den
2024-08-14 01:44:50 +0000 UTCPretty sure when she said "is this what happened to his mother?" she was referring to Dewey's mother, not Scrooge's
Kayla Ryan
2024-08-14 00:00:47 +0000 UTCFrom episode 1: "Mrs. B. said that you would watch the boys! Can you do that without losing them?!" Donald went for the throat. I'm sure when you edit, if you haven't already, you'll notice the little references. Like how you initially thought "Her" was referring to the plane. This is such a rough episode. Particularly, the way he snaps at Webby. Not just raising his voice to the child, but that was a personal shot. Then learning that Scrooge almost bankrupted himself trying to find Della. We were all speculating when you'd bring Hamish out. Surprisingly, you did not.
Joey Quixote
2024-08-13 23:43:33 +0000 UTCUltimately, the person primarily responsible for Della's disappearance is Della herself. She was the one who actually boarded and launched the rocket. But Scrooge isn't entirely blameless. Webby gets a pretty much spot-on assessment of the situation: it wasn't all Scrooge's fault, but building an experimental spacecraft for an expectant mother of triplets was not the best idea even if he wasn't planning on handing it over until after they hatched, and doing it in complete secret likely made things worse. The triplets weren't RIGHT to blame Scrooge for it, but I can't exactly blame them for it. They're children who've literally just seconds ago learned that Scrooge played at least some part in them growing up as orphans. It's a lot easier to blame the guy who's right there than the disappeared mom, and it's the same line of thinking that led Donald to sever ties with him when it first happened. This is a big part of why Webby comes to the more accurate conclusion: she doesn't have the sort of direct emotional stake in the situation that the triplets do, so she can think more rationally about it. And that's before considering how Scrooge has behaved in the time they've known him. They know he's a crazy daredevil adventurer, they know he's a penny-pinching miser, and they know he buried all evidence of Della's disappearance and most evidence of her mere existence. Even if Scrooge had immediately told them every detail of the search efforts, they might well not have believed him. Anything he says is just going to sound like he's trying to deflect the blame. Even though Scrooge could have legitimately dodged most of the blame, his reaction only made things worse. The explanation he gave had a few critical differences from what we actually see in the accompanying flashbacks. Of particular note, the flashbacks show him having unreliable communications with Della and being unable to call her back, as well as the storm making it questionable whether that would even have been possible at that point. In the dialogue, however, he says he "tried to talk her through it" and "if anyone could make it, it was her," as well as emphasizing Della's stubbornness. The first bit makes it sound like he was encouraging her flying through the storm, the second sounds like he was dismissing the danger she was actually in (with the added cruel irony that he was probably saying that specifically to make Della sound better to her children), and the third, even if accurate, was never going to go over well. Telling grieving children that their mother got herself killed through her own hubris won't make them like you even if it's true. On top of that, as soon as the kids start blaming him, he loses his temper at them, which is kind of understandable- he still carries plenty of his own guilt over the disaster, and the kids blaming him for it just like Donald did just aggravates old wounds- but only serves to reinforce the kids' opinions of him. The final nail in the coffin there was Webby. She came to the most accurate conclusion and tried to defend him, but Scrooge turned on her because, as noted, he's not in much of a rational mental state at this point. Beakley's the only one who actually knows the whole story and she was trying to defend him as well before, but as soon as Scrooge snaps at Webby, she sides with the kids, deciding that even if Della's disappearance wasn't exactly his fault, his subsequent behavior is too much for her to defend at this point. And with that, the damage is done. Scrooge may not have been primarily responsible for losing his family the first time, but he DOES bear the lion's share of the guilt this time. When you yell at grieving children for being ungrateful to you, you can't be surprised when they ditch you the first chance they get. On a more technical note, this episode is another great example of modern Disney cartoons using sunset lighting for dramatic episodes. I'm not sure if there's a more technical term to describe this, but the general idea is that the episode is set up to have its drama line up with a sunset, which gets both the symbolism of the end of the day lining up with the end of an era in the show before a major change in the status quo and the symbolism of the lighting getting darker and redder as the dramatic tension increases. You can see the same thing in Gravity Falls with Not What He Seems (the staff commentary for that episode explains the technique, which is why I know enough about it to see them doing the same thing here) and The Owl House with the last couple episodes of season 2. With all the staff overlap between the shows, it's unsurprising that they all use this same lighting technique.
Production_Run
2024-08-13 23:02:52 +0000 UTCThat I Am scene was so well acted by David Tennant. And I love that I only found out that Dana Terrace directed with it. Truly a master class.
Liam Gradwell
2024-08-13 21:48:10 +0000 UTCSo, I saw the first half of the show back when it first premiered, but never finished it, so I've been following along with these episodes at the same pace as Mosco is, and GOOD LORD, the ending here hit way harder than any "kid's show" had any right to. That's grim. Wow.
Stephen Mumford
2024-08-13 21:11:49 +0000 UTCI'd start with the first episodes for both if I were her. I haven't seen Talespin, but the two part Darkwing pilot definitely a great set up that explains a lot of what's to come. Same goes for Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers.
Dan_Gaming_Fan
2024-08-13 20:18:25 +0000 UTCThe whole Spear of Selene thing is SUCH great writing. I doubt many people figured it out, but once you find out, looking back, it's masterfully woven and hinted at.
William Timmins
2024-08-13 19:56:14 +0000 UTCThe "Rich Duck" reference was actually in Steven Universe (when Amethyst couldn't move when buried in Steven's guys)
SweetCandle
2024-08-13 18:41:50 +0000 UTCI think you're both right. There was a reasonable discussion to be had on both sides I think, but emotions were running high, tempers flared, and things like "logic" and "reason" don't matter as much in those moments. Personally, I don't necessarily think the kids view Scrooge as being actively the cause, but they're hurting and they want someone to blame and for better or for worse Scrooge was responsible (in the "he was in charge" sense, not the "he did it" sense.) If tempers had remained cooler this could've been smoothed over, but it's the Duck family and they're all tempermental. Scrooge is no exception. He's also hurting and he also blames himself and all that pent-up emotion just comes out wrong. In short (too late) nobody's really wrong or right here, just feeling their feelings and I kinda like that it was written that way.
Reym
2024-08-13 18:40:43 +0000 UTCDon't worry, in the finale Donald turns into War Machine to save the day!
Alan Munro
2024-08-13 18:36:30 +0000 UTCI'm so mad I'll be out of town for next week's premiere. XD Guess I know I'll have something good waiting when I get home!
Reym
2024-08-13 18:27:39 +0000 UTCMaybe not so random, but yes I agree!
cosmotron
2024-08-13 17:59:17 +0000 UTClol I was thinking the same thing!
cosmotron
2024-08-13 17:44:04 +0000 UTCDoesn't one of them have a stinger after the credits?
Porpoise Power
2024-08-13 17:41:47 +0000 UTCIt really says something that Scrooge McDuck, the richest man and cheapest miser in the world, nearly went bankrupt searching for his niece, and had to literally get dragged away by those vultures on the board of directors before he gave up. The only thing that Scrooge loves more than money, is family.
Dan_Gaming_Fan
2024-08-13 17:21:57 +0000 UTCI think Mosco really should watch a couple random episodes of Darkwing Duck and Talespin. Shouldn't present any spoilers... but will help her appreciate some upcoming stuff.
Porpoise Power
2024-08-13 17:20:48 +0000 UTCUgh, that episode was a doozy, but I was beside myself waiting for you to get to it!
Pedro D. Nunez
2024-08-13 17:15:45 +0000 UTCSelene is another name for The Moon, incidentally. We had the Greek Goddess in an episode, though we know her more as her Roman counterpart, Luna.
voyager-ngc5195
2024-08-13 17:06:43 +0000 UTC24:48 Mosco: Is that how Scrooge lost his mother!? Everyone: Mosco, honey, We MET Scrooge's mother three episodes ago.😂 How long has it been since you recorded an episode?
Dan_Gaming_Fan
2024-08-13 16:52:33 +0000 UTCThe season 1 finale aired as one double length episode so I'm hoping you won't split it
Kayla Ryan
2024-08-13 16:51:50 +0000 UTCnot mosco mixing up Steven universe and dragon prince XD,
Luke Teasdale
2024-08-13 16:50:51 +0000 UTCWay back when the pilot episode first aired, a lot of us fans of the 87 series commented that Scrooge's money bin seemed strangely empty. The high dive from the door to the gold was a lot further than in the old series. At the time, we chalked it up to an artistic decision, but these writers knew EXACTLY what they were doing from the very start.
Rachel Espiritu
2024-08-13 16:49:15 +0000 UTChe didn't talk her into it but he definitely encouraged her to continue even though she was in incredible danger, scrooge is an incredibly arrogant character and he thinks he can do anything that and dellas stubborness is a deadly combination.
Luke Teasdale
2024-08-13 16:49:10 +0000 UTCMaybe it's because I'm slightly older now, but I just find myself getting so mad at Dewey this episode. It's like Wheel of Time. Where the adults are trying to keep the kids safe, but they're being reckless and nearly get themselves killed. And then he goes and takes his anger out on Scrooge for building the rocket. He acts as though Scrooge talked Della into taking the Spear of Selene.
Alex Koder
2024-08-13 16:45:18 +0000 UTCLast episode was The Other Bin. Definitely not filler.
Syllephia
2024-08-13 16:40:14 +0000 UTCI'm so excited. Shadow War is next. Getting to see that Glomgold & Mark Beaks have slowly been in a war against Scrooge taking place in the shadows is the best.
Alex Koder
2024-08-13 16:30:45 +0000 UTCThe shot at the end of Scrooge in the armchair is reference to his very first appearance in the comics.
Daniel Davies
2024-08-13 16:29:45 +0000 UTCOne of the best episodes in the series. Period. (EDIT: Love your Angel Dust t-shirt!)
Crimson
2024-08-13 16:11:33 +0000 UTCThat crash was an utter dew-saster. I'll see myself out.
Alex Koder
2024-08-13 16:02:01 +0000 UTC
