my overall review of ducktales reboot is that i largely don’t enjoy it. i do understand things being changed in adaptation, and i even would want some changes… but pretty much every character is adapted in a way that they have lost all the reasons i enjoy them for in the comics (except… gladstone actually…. i can’t believe the Worst Goose is lucky on a meta level too)
Now this is obviously subjective. what one considers the inherent qualities in a character depends… but in lot of cases they seem to be ignoring the character dynamics or focusing on weird details over that… some changes i get from the pov of the story they want to tell. like everyone working for scrooge is a weirdo so this ms quackfaster is also a violent weirdo. i get it. but also i like quackfaster in the comics because she’s the normal worker just trying to do her job (&her relationship with scrooge can be funny)
But like… when the crew says stuff like this:
(this is about neighbour jones, a character who was completely unrecognizable in this new role??? like he is only the same character in the way he looks)
comics/barks fans are justified in feeling baited and criticizing this kinda superficial fanservice
i think dt has also other problems with plot, characterization, jokes (which again is subjective) lot of which comes from it having all the baggage of a reboot… I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes and i’m sure working for disney is a pain, so i’m not interested in blaming the crew or anything. all i can do is look at the finished product
there are things i do like in the show too. i think effort went into it and i’m not interested in accusing the crew for being ‘fake fans’ or any of that nonsense.
and also i don’t mind anyone liking the show or preferring the characterization or anything, obviously. i just largely don’t care so i don’t blog about dt17 for the most part
Honestly, I first liked Ducktales 2017 quite a lot, but that episode where we met Scrooge's parent, that plot detail really killed the show for me. Scrooge fixed the family castle with magical rocks that granted basically immortality for him and his family, and this plot is there only as they can have Scrooge living through Klondike goldrush AND make modern day jokes and stories taken to 2010's, 121 years AFTER Klondike holdrush? Yeah, count me out.


























