This was my favorite episode of the season so far, it was just so dang fun.
Louie is absolutely the 2nd Millionaire Miser who brings in others to wrestle for him like Captain Crash or Gizmo Duck or Bombi ala Ted DiBiase.
Huey ends being excellent with the play by play.
Can't believe Dewey didn't get to call his finisher the Popular Piledriver, or that he didn't quite embrace his inner heel. Ah well.
Also, amused that the company that brought us Thor: Ragnorok even censors Hela's name for the kid's show.
TBF on that last point that could just be her name in this world?
Sure, it could be.
But Hela getting changed to Hecka for a kid's show?
I'd buy the "It's just her name in this world" a lot easier if they had figured out some way to make it a bird pun.
As it is, I figured it was just a jab at censorship in general. They could have used anyone from the Norse pantheon without a problem. Used any of the gods in the ring with no change to the story.
Fighting was slightly more than half of what the Norse gods were all about (if I'm remembering my mythology classes, the remaining 49% was Loki fucking things that even Zeus would have hesitated at).
But, instead of throwing Thor or Loki of Freija or Fenrir or any of the other Norse mythological figures in the ring, they went for Hela so they could rename her Hecka.
very little of it made any sense within the context of the show or the episode
ok I get having to wrestle the snake man, but why did scrooge have to dress up and play villain? What were the speeches about releasing your inner heel (or whatever) for? was there a stipulation that you had to be a bad guy and I just missed it? Where did Beakly even come from? Do wrestlers actually care what the crowd thinks of them? I've never seen that to be the case one way or another.
wrestling requires a good villian. Heel's job is to give the crowd a target. Dewey cant take being hated and had to learn thats not really whats important its doing the job whatever it takes.
In the end though he managed to save his character/Earth by becoming an underdog and making the previous hero into a heel
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very little of it made any sense within the context of the show or the episode
ok I get having to wrestle the snake man, but why did scrooge have to dress up and play villain? What were the speeches about releasing your inner heel (or whatever) for? was there a stipulation that you had to be a bad guy and I just missed it? Where did Beakly even come from? Do wrestlers actually care what the crowd thinks of them? I've never seen that to be the case one way or another.
Launchpad was great as always
I don't know if you're into watching Pro Wrestling, but if you're not at least a passing fan of WWE or whatever other wrestling shows are still around, then this episode was definitely not for you.
In regards to professional wrestlers, yes, they absolutely care what the crowd thinks of them. Maybe not so much if they're liked or hated like Dewey was concerned about, but a wrestler who doesn't work the crowd, who doesn't draw fans (either to cheer or boo) is not going to get the top matches or a chance at winning titles. They'll be intro matches for the new guys that might have some charisma and can maybe work a crowd, right up until their contract expires, then they're going to be looking for a new job.
wrestling requires a good villian. Heel's job is to give the crowd a target. Dewey cant take being hated and had to learn thats not really whats important its doing the job whatever it takes.
In the end though he managed to save his character/Earth by becoming an underdog and making the previous hero into a heel
very little of it made any sense within the context of the show or the episode
ok I get having to wrestle the snake man, but why did scrooge have to dress up and play villain? What were the speeches about releasing your inner heel (or whatever) for? was there a stipulation that you had to be a bad guy and I just missed it? Where did Beakly even come from? Do wrestlers actually care what the crowd thinks of them? I've never seen that to be the case one way or another.
Launchpad was great as always
I don't know if you're into watching Pro Wrestling, but if you're not at least a passing fan of WWE or whatever other wrestling shows are still around, then this episode was definitely not for you.
In regards to professional wrestlers, yes, they absolutely care what the crowd thinks of them. Maybe not so much if they're liked or hated like Dewey was concerned about, but a wrestler who doesn't work the crowd, who doesn't draw fans (either to cheer or boo) is not going to get the top matches or a chance at winning titles. They'll be intro matches for the new guys that might have some charisma and can maybe work a crowd, right up until their contract expires, then they're going to be looking for a new job.
this is going to be an ugly quote tree eventually lol
I would understand the context if it was professional wrestling .... but that's not what this was. It's a wrestling match once every decade to determine the fate of the world. I can't see scrooge caring about the crowd even a little bit and it seemed really weird in the context of the overall show.
wrestling requires a good villian. Heel's job is to give the crowd a target. Dewey cant take being hated and had to learn thats not really whats important its doing the job whatever it takes.
In the end though he managed to save his character/Earth by becoming an underdog and making the previous hero into a heel
very little of it made any sense within the context of the show or the episode
ok I get having to wrestle the snake man, but why did scrooge have to dress up and play villain? What were the speeches about releasing your inner heel (or whatever) for? was there a stipulation that you had to be a bad guy and I just missed it? Where did Beakly even come from? Do wrestlers actually care what the crowd thinks of them? I've never seen that to be the case one way or another.
Launchpad was great as always
I don't know if you're into watching Pro Wrestling, but if you're not at least a passing fan of WWE or whatever other wrestling shows are still around, then this episode was definitely not for you.
In regards to professional wrestlers, yes, they absolutely care what the crowd thinks of them. Maybe not so much if they're liked or hated like Dewey was concerned about, but a wrestler who doesn't work the crowd, who doesn't draw fans (either to cheer or boo) is not going to get the top matches or a chance at winning titles. They'll be intro matches for the new guys that might have some charisma and can maybe work a crowd, right up until their contract expires, then they're going to be looking for a new job.
this is going to be an ugly quote tree eventually lol
I would understand the context if it was professional wrestling .... but that's not what this was. It's a wrestling match once every decade to determine the fate of the world. I can't see scrooge caring about the crowd even a little bit and it seemed really weird in the context of the overall show.
The Norse are big on tradition and spectacle in general. If Scrooge didn't go along with it, it would be even more difficult to win the match and save the world.
so at the start, when Jormungandr is giving his speech to the crowd he sets up the stakes as being his victory will set the stage for Ragnarok and usher in the destruction of the earth, sending all its inhabitants there to Valhalla with the greatest warriors.
And given all the spectators are, well, warriors who have died and gone to Valhalla, this is a good thing. Valhalla is paradise, so why wouldn’t everyone love being ushered into Valhalla in a glorious blaze of the earth’s molten doom?
But here you’ve got this stick in the mud Scrooge fighting to make sure that doesn’t happen, that everyone on earth stays on earth instead of Awesome Warrior Afterlife. So for the audience he is, by default, the heel. Some century and a half old coot denying the very ideal of an afterlife by his near immortality is trying to keep all of earth from knowing the glory of Awesome Warrior Afterlife. Even if he didn’t embrace the persona of the Millionaire Miser, he’s still be the villain in the crowd’s eyes.
That’s probably why they hate Dewey from the get go. It’s not simply his kind of corny persona, it’s that he’s also Team Earth, trying to stop all the poor people of earth from being ushered and welcomed into Valhalla
That said, given how long Scrooge has been doing this match every decade, he probably did adopt the persona in his younger years, and so he kept the schtick going for more than a century
Millionaire Miser's just a gimmick, a persona adopted by Scrooge to do the thing, cause in wrestling, that's what you do to keep the crowd in to the show and paying to come see the show, or in the case, potentially piss off a bunch of Viking ghosts who might decide not to wait for Ragnorok and go haunt/raid earth.
Plenty of heels play heels on TV without being complete shitbirds IRL (For a given value in most cases) so it makes sense for Scrooge to keep the gimmick even though he's not the bad guy.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
So, any word on when this is coming back? I imagine the pandemic is messing with things so I'm not expecting it anytime soon, but was curious if they had any tentative plans.
So, any word on when this is coming back? I imagine the pandemic is messing with things so I'm not expecting it anytime soon, but was curious if they had any tentative plans.
Nope, they're not appearing at virtual comic-con either. Last we heard was this:
So it looks like on October 19h we're getting what I can only imagine is a revision of Darkly Dawns the Duck, since we've already seen they have character designs for Gosalin and Taurus.
And it seems there's some other less important Ducktales episodes here and there in the coming months as well.
I know they're not allowed to use Mickey Mouse in this show (yet), but reinventing the Phantom Blot's motivation as a general crusade against magic and a specific vendetta against Magica de Spell felt really off. I can't see how this version of the Phantom Blot could ever end up becoming Mickey's archnemesis. Then again, I was skeptical of Darkwing Duck being a TV character too, so who knows what they've got planned.
I am glad to see Magica finally get her powers back though. I was getting tired of her being a joke villain.
Owl house finished last month and still isnt up. They're dragging the releases on purpose when id tbey just had a constant stream of new content people would stay subbed beyond just wanting simpsons and classic movie access
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Sure, it could be.
I'd buy the "It's just her name in this world" a lot easier if they had figured out some way to make it a bird pun.
As it is, I figured it was just a jab at censorship in general. They could have used anyone from the Norse pantheon without a problem. Used any of the gods in the ring with no change to the story.
Fighting was slightly more than half of what the Norse gods were all about (if I'm remembering my mythology classes, the remaining 49% was Loki fucking things that even Zeus would have hesitated at).
But, instead of throwing Thor or Loki of Freija or Fenrir or any of the other Norse mythological figures in the ring, they went for Hela so they could rename her Hecka.
I think that name choice was specifically because of the audience chant
very little of it made any sense within the context of the show or the episode
Launchpad was great as always
In the end though he managed to save his character/Earth by becoming an underdog and making the previous hero into a heel
this is going to be an ugly quote tree eventually lol
Alternately:
young scrooge maybe
I think it works in the context we were given:
And given all the spectators are, well, warriors who have died and gone to Valhalla, this is a good thing. Valhalla is paradise, so why wouldn’t everyone love being ushered into Valhalla in a glorious blaze of the earth’s molten doom?
But here you’ve got this stick in the mud Scrooge fighting to make sure that doesn’t happen, that everyone on earth stays on earth instead of Awesome Warrior Afterlife. So for the audience he is, by default, the heel. Some century and a half old coot denying the very ideal of an afterlife by his near immortality is trying to keep all of earth from knowing the glory of Awesome Warrior Afterlife. Even if he didn’t embrace the persona of the Millionaire Miser, he’s still be the villain in the crowd’s eyes.
That’s probably why they hate Dewey from the get go. It’s not simply his kind of corny persona, it’s that he’s also Team Earth, trying to stop all the poor people of earth from being ushered and welcomed into Valhalla
That said, given how long Scrooge has been doing this match every decade, he probably did adopt the persona in his younger years, and so he kept the schtick going for more than a century
Plenty of heels play heels on TV without being complete shitbirds IRL (For a given value in most cases) so it makes sense for Scrooge to keep the gimmick even though he's not the bad guy.
Nope, they're not appearing at virtual comic-con either. Last we heard was this:
The good news is that animation production is continuing in general, so we'll get it eventually.
So it looks like on October 19h we're getting what I can only imagine is a revision of Darkly Dawns the Duck, since we've already seen they have character designs for Gosalin and Taurus.
And it seems there's some other less important Ducktales episodes here and there in the coming months as well.
There's a worldwide pandemic going on.
Ask any fan of Gravity Falls.
I am glad to see Magica finally get her powers back though. I was getting tired of her being a joke villain.
I'm so behind and its starting to make me sad. :razz:
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Disney is afraid to ditch Disney channel and its really hurting plus imo every show they make should be next day on plus
I don't mind that they have the season on broadcast first, per se. I used to have the Disney channel before I cut my cable package severely.
It's just been a longer wait than usual, it seems, between when the season aired and when it should have hit it's own streaming service.
While I would never suggest pirating
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Launchpad should maybe be in a hospital
definitely transcends stupid into psychosis.
In our universe, sure. In theirs? It wouldn't even be the weirdest thing that happened that week.
I think the underground episode established he is in fact quite insane
IT'S HAPPENING!
.... but that music(?) suuuuuucks
Thats just generic disney channel commercial music I doubt the show proper would use that
fingers crossed!
They've already had the actual ending theme featured in the show.