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"This is the Spear of Selene all over again!"
"I was not responsible for the Spear of Selene!"
What seems like some ordinary crisis banter turns out to be foreshadowing for the central mystery of this season of DuckTales.
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DuckTales Season 1 Episode 1
"Your new job is with my sworn enemy?"
"I can't keep track of all your sworn enemies!"
Fair point, Donald. Fair point.
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DuckTales Season 1 Episode 2
"Brilliant! I want Scrooge alive when I shove the jewel of Atlantis in his smug face.
He thinks he's so rich and so Scottish. Well, I'm wearing a kilt, McDuck. A kilt!"
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DuckTales Season 1 Episode 2
"Why didn't you tell him the truth?"
"You didn't tell your grandma we were going to a dangerous underwater city, did you?"
"I kinda sorta... didn't tell her anything?"
"Webby, that's irresponsible! She'll be worried sick! Call your grandma this instant, and tell her that you are spending the night at a friends house, okay?
Lying, it's the responsible thing to do."
A great lesson for the kids watching this show!
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DuckTales Season 1 Episode 2
started watching DuckTales Season 1 E2
"Take an idea. Make it your own."
The "Glomgold Industries Employee Training Video" perfectly sets the tone for Flintheart Glomgold. In a series full of hammy villains, he is quite possibly the hammiest. His insane, over-the-top portrayal steals every scene he appears in.
While Glomgold in DuckTales (1987) was a dark mirror of Scrooge - what Scrooge might have become without his ethics and his family - Glomgold (2017) is a copycat of Scrooge - someone who tries to outdo him in every way and replace him just because of his personal vendetta. And this over-the-top approach to retaliating for every slight, real or imaginary, is what makes him so fun to watch.
"The headless man-horse!
...that one feels self-explanatory."
This scene shows how the series embraces its own brand of craziness. It is over-the-top, and proud of it. Characters might initially startle at some new development, but then they just roll with it.
Also, who would have known that "Manny the Man-Horse" would become a recurring character at this stage?
"This is because some children made fun of you, isn't it?"
"Nonsense! I'm no has-been. They're the has-beens. I am an am-now!"
It is clear that at this stage Scrooge has been in a state of fun - he has abstained from adventuring for some time, and while he still takes care of his business empire, he is bored and listless. It takes the unexpected arrival of family to get him out of this mood, and rekindle his love of adventuring.
"Wait! Are we... friends now?"
"If we say 'yes', will you let us live?"
"Pfft! Good one, new best friend!"
Wendy: "What are your blood types? What's Donald really like? Who is the evil triplet?"
Huey and Dewie: "Louie!"
Louie: "Meh!"
Another way DuckTales (2017) distinguishes itself from DuckTales (1987) is that it gives each of the triplets very distinctive personality types. As they are the main viewpoint characters, this helps us get different perspectives on the world around them. And sibling squabbles are more interesting when they are rooted in contrasting personalities, too.
Also, Wendy is *scary* this time around.
wants to watch DuckTales Season 1
"Remember: No tricks, no lies, no trouble!"
"Yes, Uncle Donald!"
"I wasn't talking to *you*!"
This scene is extremely important for setting the storytelling context for this show. From the start, it is made clear that Scrooge and Donald have a *history* with each other. And the triplets - as both newcomers to this world of craziness and as the most common viewpoint characters - spend much of the first season and parts of later seasons figuring this history out.
This is also one of the major storytelling differences between the 2017 version of DuckTales and the first incarnation. In 1987m tv shows rarely did extended storylines, and cartoons almost never. But in DuckTales 2017, both the characters and the status quo go through some real changes as more mysteries are unveiled.
started watching DuckTales Season 1 E1
I really like this portrayal of Donald Duck as a loving family father (adopted). I mean, he is still very recognizably Donald Duck, but it is always clear just how much he loves the triplets - even when they are testing his boundaries. He even tries to get a job as an accountant so that he can provide for the boys, which strongly contrasts with his overall slacker mentality - which is still there, but he has his priorities mostly straight. At this stage of the show he is still very overprotective, but he will gradually get over it.
And he certainly has hidden depths - in their very first on-screen interaction, he tricks Scrooge McDuck!
finished watching DuckTales 
This series was taken from us too soon.
wants to watch DuckTales
This series was taken from us too soon.
started playing Horizon Forbidden West
My current favorite when I want to play something relaxing. So lush. So beautiful. I am on my second playthrough, heading towards a certain oligarch's tomb - but I am in no rush.
My playstyle continues to be as someone who tries to snipe at things from a long distance, although I try not to overdo it because I don't want to run out of resources - Volatile Sludge isn't so common that it would allow me to be wasteful with it. I haven't really engaged with the expanded melee system - as far as I am concerned, if someone charges me in melee I want to get *away* from them.
I miss the tripwire mazes I could plant in the first game, but I can see why they toned it down. On the other hand, overriding machines is no longer as useful - for one thing you need to hunt a lot of resources to fix Corrupted Machine Overrides, and for another there are so many Apex machines around that finding normal machines to override becomes tricky.
Still, I am looking forward to how the third games play out - both in terms of story and in terms of mechanics.
finished playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 
...it's probably for the best that I was unable to get this game to work under Windows 11. I've been distracted by this game for far too much time already.
finished watching Four Seasons In Rural Sicily
I watched this as my first-ever Italian-language movie, in order to improve my language skills.
finished playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition
The video game I have spent more time with than any other. It is showing its age these days, but no doubt I will visit it again some day.
In fact, I am contemplating a "Let's Play #Skyrim with a Folklorist" stream on #PeerTube ...