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Ducktales 2017
Sadgasm
Deluded doodlerA cold placeRegistered User regular
Deluded doodlerA cold placeRegistered User regular
Okay, so the new Ducktales reboot has premiered, and the consensus seems to be pretty positive. They've only aired the double-length special so far, but I really enjoyed it, the adventure feel is the same as in the original, but with a bit more humor in it. The animation is top notch as well.
Another upgrade over the original; the nephews are no longer three interchangable characters, they've all got their own personalities, but actual likable personalities and not just a bunch of teenage stereotypes like in Quack Pack. Webby and Mrs Beakley have also gotten better characterization. I'm thouroughly enjoying what I've seen so far. I found it interesting how at the start of the episode, Scrooge is retired from adventuring and bored out of his skull with just running his business empire, just like in his original appearance in Christmas On Bear Mountain.
You guys have any thoughts on this show?
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Although both of them are going around now doing horrid Scottish accents and I keep having to remind them that no, I'm the Scrooge McDuck of this household thank ye very much.
I also loved the references to Cape Suzette (Tale Spin), St. Canard (Darkwing Duck), and Spoonerville (Goof Troop). I loved that Max's girlfriend from the Goof Troop movie was in there.
Donald being indecipherable half the time was great. Scrooge was great as was Launchpad.
I'd have personally toned down Dewy's insane recklessness, but eehhh that's the tiniest of things and also the only thing that bugged me.
One of the robots from the old Ducktakes intro was in Scrooges garage
it's already been approved for a second season!
Makes me wonder if they'll bring back any other Disney afternoon shows. Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers would be one I'd really want to see.
I could have sworn I caught a reference to gizmoduck, but I may have imagined it
Junior Woodchucks were mentioned which made me pretty happy
Each of the nephews represents an aspect of Scrooge's personality, but without the other parts to temper it as well. Dewey has his thirst for adventure, but not his experience and wisdom tempering it, which makes him reckless. At the end, he's forced to counterbalance with thoughtfulness, which leads Scrooge to finally accept his potential.
Ha, I would be VERY pleased indeed if they just rebooted all the shows I liked from my youth in time for me to watch them with my kids. The Paw Patrol is all well and good, but the Rescue Rangers were a vastly superior team!
I'm also glad to see that they are actually animated rather than CG. CG is all well and good, and I'm sure that these shows actually use tonnes of CG rather than real sketches, but CG often seems to lack 'differentiation' to me. Paw Patrol looks like Blaze looks like new Bob the Builder etc. Animated shows have their own art style which I enjoy figuring out. Those little touches like using the pattern printing on things as if it was a newspaper looking to save on ink.
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this dude:
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_Waltfeld
73 C.E. not so pretty version
It's kind of hard to tell from the 64x64 av
still funny though!
Gizmoduck is not only confirmed, he's played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
bless me bagpipes!
the theme song of the new show?
Cuz if not, I'm out.
Yeah. The visuals are what impressed me the most. Like that screenshot that Xaquin posted:
With the intercom on Donald's right... I notice with how the colors don't exactly line up with the black lines, to simulate color-separated halftone printing. And there are simulated halftone dots behind the intercom.
Meanwhile this treatment is only applied to the backgrounds. I didn't notice any color-separation or pseudo-halftone effects with any of the characters. That also gives it a classic Disney multiplane camera feeling.
I also noticed that a lot of the backgrounds in darker scenes (Scrooge's attic or the cave, for instance) have limited color palettes, simulating screen printing. I might be wrong, but it seems like they're not just blindly simulating old techniques, they're playing with them to achieve different moods.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's a faithful cover of the original cartoon theme song.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's the old theme updated
Alas no. As a sidenote if you listened to the 2013 Remastered Soundtrack if it wasn't for the actual theme you couldn't be blamed for thinking it was.
This is the feem toon
like giggling and clapping my hands giddy
If you're in the States, the premier is on YouTube.
Disney XD put the full first episode on YouTube
Edit: beat by See
The permanent marker company got in a tizzy I guess?
They will absolutely bring in Gyro. Here:
He has his new lab straight under Scrooge's money bin now. He's almost certainly going to be a regular.
Here's a vid of the openings, side by side (but using the original song).
I will agree, this is very well done. Ducktales is ingrained in my brain, and one of my favorites from when I was a kid.
For whatever reason, the line "That dirty rotten polecat McQuack lost us the Battle of Duckridge!" is fused into my memory. Any time someone talks about ducks or quacking that line pops in my head. I have no idea why.
I think it had to do a lot with "sharp" falling out of use as a pejorative for cheating.
At one time, "cardsharp" was a phrase for a person who cheated at cards using deception or slight of hand (whereas "cardshark" was a skilled player who took advantage of less skilled players).
As I understand it, Scrooge's old boast was saying that he was better at cheating than the cheaters (not so that he could cheat to win, but so he could recognize a cheat before he lost a rigged game) and that he would be tougher than the toughest jobs life could throw at him.
I could be wrong though.
Bubba's the cave duck.
Pretty sure Bubba was the prehistoric cave duck they brought back to the future with them in the old series.