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as ever, here is tonight’s episode itself for your own viewing pleasure.
in the next episode, phil gets mindcontrolled, the ducks almost get murdered by x-treme sports, mallory continues to get the least amount of lines
take care y’all
episode cap off: the day is saved and the ducks return to their wrecked semi-secret HQ to recover, only to find one last lil energy monster is still around. still having dragaunus’ communicator, they decide to send the thing his way
which means they could find dragaunus and end this themselves but won’t
MDTAS is a story of two forces who both, constantly, have the means to permanently end their problems at their fingertips but choose not to
the other episode dragaunus had a portal back to Puck World and uses it just to bring over another duck to do low grade infiltration
congratulations to everyone involved
“I was wrong... thank you for showing the errors of my ways...”
“Welp, gotta go, bye.”
fucking. okay. this episode just keeps going
basically: most of the team has to deal with the electric goons that dragaunus has sicced on them and keep the city from blowing up, while tanya and grin have to head to dr. hoogermann’s secret island full of laser guns to get him to help with their problem. meanwhile, dragaunus is using a hijack system he attached to a fucking reagan Star Wars space satellite come to working life to continue his plans of destroying earth. the ducks fight the electric goons with water guns until dr. hoogermann shows up with an energy magnet to trap all the goons in one place which turns out to just make one giant goon (in a really well animated brief sequence) and now they have to deal with both giant electricity monster and a reagan star wars satellite.
dr. hoogermann talks about how people took his research and turned it into weapons and you figure that’d be some time for commentary on the fact that there’s a fucking reagan star wars satellite in this episode, but mostly it just comes down to grin saying “help humanity or i’ll break your face”
Duke: “I hope the others are doing better than we are.”
“The whole city is gonna be in a state of... SHOCK!”
please take this moment to appreciate how much better cartoon comedy writing got after spongebob
can you imagine excitedly waking up every saturday morning for an onslaught of puns, we loved that shit, somehow
good work, team
i mentioned earlier that MDTAS plots basically operate at full tilt, start to finish, just getting the plot in immediately so they can do action scene after action scene and i wasn’t kidding - the henchmen come back and dragaunus goes “i’ll send my new energy creature after them” and with no setup before that, lickety-split, bam, there’s his energy creature. this is in minute 4, with 1 minute dedicated to the intro, another half a minute to introduce the missing professor plot, and then a showdown at a rocket launch site eating up another minute or so
MDTAS is a show that’s very much aware that it only has so much time to tell a story, so instead of splitting that up into two parters or working out ways to pace things out to balance the story, it just barrels forward instead
with a better budget for action animation, this might work out better. as it is, there’s limited time to get attached to the characters who are constantly shooting people in the dome with hockey pucks
son of a fucking goddamn chameleon, contribute something other than references
okay i’m all in favor of a flamingo themed hockey team
Duke: “Ahhhh, looks like they left a communicator behind!”
okay now you guys are gonna think of like tapping it or tracing it to find dragaunus, right, and solve all your problems, right
right
right
they go back to play fucking hockey
Duke: “Ahhhh, looks like they left a communicator behind!”
okay now you guys are gonna think of like tapping it or tracing it to find dragaunus, right, and solve all your problems, right
right
right
you guys are gonna straight up murder somebody at some point and it’s gonna be done with hockey puck guns which’ll be both incredibly goofy and depressingly brutal
chameleon as a character seems to mostly serve the purpose of that same infectious problem of a lot of 90s kids animation - reference jokes. reference jokes that aren’t even actually jokes and are really just impressions and aren’t even there for the kids
Mighty Ducks was hardly alone in this, with a fucking rodney dangerfield impression down below. you see it happen constantly back in Tiny Toons, with Babs Bunny doing impressions of up to and including televangelist tammy faye bakker, of all people. animaniacs was lousy with this as well, throwing out groucho marx impersonations whenever they had an empty moment (MDTAS did one themselves). the most frustrating thing is that they weren’t even copying other comedians and comics jokes - they were literally just having characters look like them and sometimes repeat some of their famous lines.
and, for some ungodly reason, it was really successful at the time. animaniacs won awards for that kind of thing.
anyway, lesson is, if your whole joke is “remember rodney dangerfield?”, perhaps find a different joke
or find ways to make your writers and animators less bored, something
okay, so, episode 3 of MDTAS, “Zap Attack”. couple things
1. there’s a clear established plot trend so far, in that MDTAS episodes do not fucking waste time with pacing. hardly anytime spent on setup, and fractions of that given to downtime just for character work, each episode of MDTAS establishes a plot and charges the fuck forward with it immediately. the plot involves a missing scientist? get him in the first 20 seconds after the intro. the rest of the episode is much the same, not so much following a three-act standard but just one long series of action scenes that plow forward, slowing down for nothing. this applies especially to dragaunus’ plots which just tell you which macguffin he needs this week and then just goes. lore buildup, character buildup, no time for that, shit has to go and NOW, there are disney execs to impress in 1996
2. this does have probably the best line i’ve heard in the series so far, that of “authorities say they’ll search for dr. hoogermann... when we get around to it”
probably gonna have an episode recap/semi-liveblog again tonight but before that i’d just like to say that uhhhhh mighty ducks’ weird Generic Stereotypical Asian Mysticism was uhhhh real unnecessary
like who was in charge of that and also why