One unmentioned detail I really enjoy is the fact that Fenton isn't able to be Gizmoduck in this episode, but he joins the fight anyway. It really shows the heroic core of this version of the character.
Fun fact: Louie pulled the exact same trick on Magica that webby pulled on him in the sky pirate episode and it was Louie who taught her how to trick people in the episode woo hoo. THIS SHOW IS FANTASTIC
Another Fun Fact: Louie is the only duckling that learned how to actually swim in the money like Scrooge. The others just kinda plop down on it and make coin angels.
@@ObeliskWithLimbs more like a reference to the 1987 cartoon and original comics. Kingdom Hearts is another media that references his love for sea salt ice cream.
I swear this episode made Donald my favorite character. Not just because of his badass moments but also because he was the 1st one to decide to forgive Scrooge despite the fact that he was the one with the biggest reason to hate him. Plus the moment when the triplets started saying all the things they love about him and Donalds reaction almost made me cry. It's just so good seeing him getting so much love.
Chocolate Cake Just a few words all all he needs. After everything he did for those children, hearing one of them say he's devoted to his family must be the greatest feeling.
Think about it. Donald keep staying on the boat in the dock near moneybin. Maybe I'm reading too much about it, maybe Donald deep down always hoping to patch things together with Scrooge one day.
Another fun thing: In the first episode when the triplet just are in the mansion and they sit with Scrooge at the big table. Scrooge doubts what kids do nowadays and asks if kids still play marbles. In the last episode Magica also doubts what kids do nowadays and and says the following to get into the mansion: "The kids invited me over to, ehh... What do kids do nowadays? Play marbles(?)''
I like to imagine that Donald is always saying things heroic, but his speech impediment always makes him say what He's trying to say, but in the most ridiculous and least heroic way possible.
11:26 I think I just realized what Donald was attempting to say. It’s clearly meant to sound like complete gibberish, but I can sort of hear him saying “Uncle Scrooge is in trouble, it’s up to us to help him.”
Tony Anselmo's pretty underrated this episode, probably because he's so overshadowed by Don Cheadle. But he's spent twenty-plus years with this character...he was Donald in the original series, after all, as well as the Kingdom Hearts series. This reboot is, I think, the most hes ever been allowed to speak, and the pilot was the first time I've ever seen him actually win the day with clever wordplay...because words and Donald have never been friends. But to garble his words to that degree in the finale and still get across what he's trying to say? That takes TALENT
Did you also notice that at the very end as they were panning towards the Moon, you can hear part of "The Moon" stage theme from the Ducktales NES game?
There was a classic cartoon where Donald bought some magic lozenges that made him speak with a normal voice. It only worked for a little while so he had to keep taking them, but he woos Daisy with them. He is eventually down to his last one and it bounces away and a cow eats it. He starts quacking at the cow to get it back when the cow says, "my dear fellow, I can't understand a word you're saying." Driving Donald crazy as the cartoon draws to a close.Point being this isn't the first time EVER they've acknowledged his crazy duck voice in a cartoon.
There's another short where Donald just kinda wills himself into speaking properly out of sheer annoyance at his impediment. This is something that Disney's actually played with quite a few times.
18:16 I'm pretty certain Lena was literally Magical shadow given physical form before she got trapped in Scrouge number one dime. It was reveal in that flashback scene when the kids discover Lena room and read aloud her book (or was it a message on her wall?).
Not to mention Magica herself literally says lines like "She was never real!" or "I'm not your aunt." I don't know how much clearer they could have made it.
im not so sure scrooge kept it all a secret out of pride. can you imagine having to tell the boys "hey boys about your mum... she took off on an adventure right before you were born that she knew would be extremely dangerous in an incomplete ship and left you behind".... yeah i can see why he didn't want them to know. i really think it had more to do with sparing the childrens feelings. that Donald never told them, and lets not pretend they wouldn't have asked, says that for all the disagreements between scrooge and Donald they agreed on this.
yiggdrasill I think he was waiting for a good time to do it, and he was scared to, and he kept putting that talk off, and it bit him in the tailfeathers.
The secret was kept out of consideration. The Duck/McDuck family rift, however, was in large part due to pride. Scrooge couldn't accept his own responsiblity for building the Spear of Selene. You can't get lost in space without a ship, after all. and Donald...Donald was Della's twin brother, a bond closer than normal siblings, or at least that's how media portrays it when one twin isn't evil. Donald would probably have lionized her in his head, and demonized Scrooge, because there's no way his sister would run out on her own eggs like that, right? Scrooge must have egged her on! He'd known her since they were hatchlings, she couldn't do that on her own! She WOULDN'T do that!...would she? So the blame falls on Scrooge, he gets defensive, and the family is torn asunder by pride.
Also. This series is fantastic and you deserve way more subs for your interesting, thoughtful and knowledgeable reviews. Top notch sir. Now I’m gonna go rewatch this ep again.
Don't forget the INSANELY small detail of Louie bring the *only* brother that's able to swim in the coins like scrooge. Remember the pep episode? How Louie learned the value of a hard day's work? Remember the golfing episode, and how Louie kept scamming Glomgold? There's constant hints that Louie is Scrooge incarnate, and I love it.
Good to see this go up! The first half of this finale was a chore to get through. Not because I didn't like it, I VERY MUCH did, but because watching family dramas play out is always incredibly difficult for me. Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley's on-the-beak deliveries were painful, but only because they were accurate, and because I have people in my life who would TOTALLY do that to people they thought were being unreasonable. It's a little stupid from the outside, it's painful to get through, but speaking from first-hand experience...it is EFFECTIVE. Especially Bentina's method. Also, learning the full story behind Lena sucked. Again, not because it was bad, but because it hurt. But the second half? Is EVERYTHING about Ducktales that I am here for. The family, the adventure, the humor, the amazingly over-the-top villain. Also, I am kind of in love with the idea that Magica de Spell believed in fair play. Not necessarily physically, because she was a master sorceress and eveyrone else...well, wasn't...but because she didn't want to waste her revenge on the lonely, broken, bitter duck smelling strongly of stale pizza that Scrooge had become. Revenge has to take someone down a peg to mean something, and Scrooge couldn't be taken down any further. She could have just gloated at him about that and been on her merry, all-powerful way, but instead she tried to build him back up before she took him down. My theory is that Scrooge being back at his "full power" as it were, when he was imprisoned is why he came back in full McDuck regalia, complete with jacket, top hat, and cane. It lends a nice bit of irony to the proceedings.
This entire finale was obviously amazing, but my absolute favorite part is when the kids get into the money bin to face Magica, and through all the chaos of dodging her magic attacks, they’re yelling at each other trying to make up a plan. “So what do we do?” “What we do best!” “Make. Trouble.”
11:52 Donald can be understandable despite that unusual sounding voice, but let’s not forget that outside both DuckTales shows even the triplets have unusual voices like that. This episode certainly was a 4th either way where his voice gets improved temporarily.
The reveal of Magica's face on the head of the dime had me shook when I saw it. Every time we have seen the dime up until now, it was always the tail side and I never even noticed.
LilTilOne3231 nope. My son thinks I was kinda silly crying over a cartoon (he’s 9). Ive known these characters my whole life! No shame in my game kid lol.
This season finale made me cry three times. The first time was, as the boys hugged donald and cried after all the things that were ment to make them do exactly that.The Second time was, as Webby thought, that her best friend had betrayed her. And since Lena is my new favourite character, it made my cry, as her shadow/ghost was desposed by my (since Ducktales 2017 only) second favourite character Magica. I kinda didn't stop until we saw Lena in Webby's shadow and I felt relieve wash over me. I cry way too often about those cartoon ducks... worth it :D
I also cried when Lena told Scrooge about how his family was always there and he told her she would have a place in it and when Scrooge looked at them and said: Huey, Louie, the third one... And they hugged. They were back together as a family. I was with a friend who does not watch the series, probably thinks i am crazy,lol!
I can't stop thinking about what would happen if Della returns because she everyone would be happy but imagine what kind of drama could happen if Della thinks that the boys would live with her and Donald is like "you won't take my kids" and the boys would realize that Della knows nothing about them
I'm sure she'd move in with Donald at first so that problem is probably going the be less dramatic and the other one would probably happen a little later on.
This could be the turning point. The boys could be faced with a difficult choice: Stay with Donald, or live with Della for the first time ever. Huey and Dewey would consider the second option. But I think Louie might try to vie for... a third option: Being raised by BOTH Donald and Della.
It would be hard, but Della would have custody as their birth mother. However, I think she would stay with Donald as she doesn't seem to have a significant other. And she would want to spend this time getting to know the children whose lives she's missed.
A couple of missed callbacks, from the Ducktales Video Game this time: 1) The first notes of Magica's leitmotif are from the "Transylvania" stage. 2) The "Moon Theme" plays briefly when we pan out at the moon! It really shows the commitment of the Ducktales team.
@@CuriousUserX90 It's much harder to pick up, since there's a lot of stuff happening while it plays. Plus it's only the first five notes(instead of the moon theme's ten). And its tempo is much slower than the video game to give it a more epic feel. So no wonder a lot of people missed it. Kind of makes you wonder what other music references they slipped in without us noticing, doesn't it? We really need to get our hands on the soundtrack.
This episode was FANTASTIC! What I noticed about this episode that I never noticed before was how Magica never got such a big high stakes episode in the original 'Ducktales'. Oh, she was there, but her schemes were only relegated to just single episodes. She could've gotten a big 5 part story arc in the old show, but she never got one. The Beagle Boys were in the three big 5 parters more so than Magica. The new show builds her character all the way up to the season finale, and was done VERY WELL. I would almost say that this is better than the 'DuckTales' theatrical movie, which had a similar climax. As for Launchpad, Calling him 'dumb' might come off as an 'insult' for most people, but I also agree that he's a little TOO ridiculous to be believe in some cases. (His original version probably wouldn't mistake golf balls for eggs, which I think makes him a bit TOO dumb for my taste.) but Launchpad has a certain charm that makes you look past that. Also, your observation of Donald thinking that he's as competent, and clever while we see him as bumbling, and short tempered was very insightful. When his voice is altered, his actions come off as more believable while still maintaining his core essence. (Plus, it was a great call back to 'Donald's Dream Voice')
I like that it makes her as much of an essential part of the Duck family as the rest of them. She's the muscle most of the time, but she's also the blunt honesty and conscious voice that the other characters need to hear now and then.
This episode was the absolute best! Also I remember an episode of House of Mouse where Donald tried to host the show himself, but the audience got angry because they couldn't understand him, and they liked Mickey best. I hope this team works with others to reboot the other Disney afternoon shows. :D
it's not really the first time we are able to understand donald (in some cartoons he got a changed voice), but i love your video non the less, so keep up the good work! thanks for making videos about my favourite show
Indeed. 'DuckTales' is exactly how you do a good reboot of a beloved series. It had alot going against it, but id did the impossible by being a good show in it's own right. Sadly, 'Powerpuff Girls' didn't pull that off with their 2016 reboot, and I hope to GOD 'She-Ra's Netflix reboot doesn't end up being as bad.
Marc Baker it helps the original she ra cartoon, while actually superior to her brothers show, is still a mid 80s goofy fantasy cartoon. The original Ducktales was a lot harder to beat and they killed it. I have high hopes for the new She Ra, and hope it doesn’t get killed like the also really good heman reboot earlier this century.
The Disney Duckverse franchise was Never dead or paused or on hiatus or anything. It's been alive and well for some 75 years now. But the finale was Great.
So many people only see Donald as a bad-tempered hothead. There's a lot more to him than that. Yes, he can be a hothead, but he can be brave, tough, and smart. This episode proves it. In the classic shorts, it seems he doesn't like the triplets. I always thought he loves them, even though they exasperate him at times. Again, proof of that here. Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a great, multifaceted character! My favorite Disney character, in fact!
The thing is that it wasn't that Donald and the triplets didn't like each other, but rather Donald adopted them when he himself was fairly young. Their relationship was similar to how a single teenager would raise triplets. It's why Donald too was immature and often stooped to their level.
They have addressed Donald’s duck speech in other works like television, shorts and even in the Disney parks before so outside of the comics, they have.
Great review for a great show. I'm surprised you didn't mention the little tune that played when it panned to the moon, being the tune from the DuckTales NES game.
I heard that and I can't wait to hear a full version of that happen if and when they go up to get Della. I also want Scrooge to learn how to pogostick that cane beforehand.
I just realised. When Magica mocks Scrooge by turning his money into ice cream... 15:20 It made me thing of the famous line “a sea monster ate my ice cream!”
I like that Lena being Magica's shadow is a nice reference to the original DuckTales episode "Magica's Shadow War", which the name of the finale is also a reference to. Also, I like that Donald still shows a bit of his bad luck, even with his more competent-sounding voice, what with him falling and having Magica's amulet break on his head, rather than catching it as it flies in the air. Also, before we see Della on the Moon, we get a snippet of the Moon theme from the DuckTales NES game. :P
So incredible. This finale was absolutely amazing, and it has made me SOO excited for the next season! This show is more than I could have ever hoped it to be, and I'm glad that your video displays just the incredible thought and depth that has been placed in the cartoon. I'm looking forward to more!
I'm not much of a commentator on commentary videos, but I just wanted to say that your summary of DuckTales Shadow War and the entire first season as a whole has been wonderful to watch. Not just in terms of information, but in your clever usage of puns and allegories along the way. Keep up the good work and see you in Season 2.
Finally with only 7 days before Season 2 begins we can now get ready for it and go head on with excitement for what they do next which it looks like there's going to be a double story in the first episode DELAH AND LENA
Was a great episode and a great season overall. Great review. You make some great points, like allowing the characters to forgive before the battle. I think that's very important.
21:18 »And, that's how you make a good reboot: Not by living in the shadows of what came before. But by casting your own shadow, and by winning that shadow war.« Great closing words there, summarizing your main points of why the reboot succeeded, while using a metaphora that alludes to the series' finale.
great video, didn't notice the parallels until you pointed them out but the show does lay out that Lena was Magica's shadow given form and sentience to carry out her revenge but with sentience came choice
I love the video and this is one of my favorite episodes. On an other note: My boyfriend got the the Scrooge McDuck and Darkwing Duck plush, when i saw them on the shelves behind you, i squeeled!
You forgot one callback: The green one (I suck at recalling names, so that's how I call him) moans at having to walk up the whole staircase again, just as he did, trying to get the copy of scrooges number one dime back.
@@mitchfletcher2386 always cool to see other people enjoying these vids. Glad to report that I learned their names before the 2nd season even started, which makes reading the older Donald Duck comics now pretty fun xD
Wait, if Lena was born when Magica was defeated before Scrroge retired from adventuring, which was no doubt when Della was lost, does that mean Lena never ages?
Hmm... Yeah that probably is what that means. But who knows maybe she does. We don't exactly know when Lena took her solid 15 year old form. I wouldn't think it was seconds after Magica's defeat cause then all Scrooge would've had to do is turn around and notice her right there. And I doubt shes been spying on Scrooge for that long. Maybe now that she has a solid form she'll grow up normally
One problem that I have with the fandom is people shipping Dewey with Webby. And you’re going to get weird ships with any fandom but my biggest problem with this ship is it interferes with my personal theory. Dewey and Webby have more of a brother sister relationship, Just like how Donald and Della had it before Scrooge’s mistake. Dewey and Webby’s relationship mirrors what family duo came before them in a way thats actually very poetic. Also doesn’t Webby’s and Dellas hair look similar in this reboot. One more thing before I finish this comment I really hope they dive more into Huey and Louie for the next two seasons I mean Dewey’s my favorite, but I really want to see where things go with the other two duck brothers with these next two seasons.
The Chicken Lord LPP well yeah they have a family dynamics and the show will never have Romance between the children because this show is about family. However people will always have a habit of shipping them. They just have to accept that ship will never happen and avoid harassing the show writers. I hope. But just remember not everyone ships characters
If it helps, the showrunners said from the start that there won't be any romance between webby and the triplets. For all intents and purposes she's the fourth sibling.
I really love that Catherine Tate is Magica’s voice. She and David Tennant have been friends and collaborators for decades, and they really play off each other wonderfully. The perfect choice for Scrooge’s most powerful enemy!
From the Season Premiere to the Season One Finale of the 2017 DuckTales ReBoot was Awesome from the revival of Magica De Spell to Huey Dewy Louie and Webby to save Scrooge to Scrooge breaking free from the dime to the fights ageist Magica and her shadow army it was Awesome in so many ways
Just because I'm rewatching now - one more first-episode-reference: On the bridge, Fenton enhances his pistol with Lil Bulb and rides Manny to the bin, which seems like reference to when Pirate ghost grabs not-Excalibur and rides Head-less Man-horse (with Huey's "oh-no, they teamed up")
This was a great way to end the season. I binged it in a week with my little brother, there haven’t been any shows that grabbed me like this in a long time.
5:15 Scrooge didn't let Lena in because she said she was there to play with marbles though, she was allowed because she antagonized Scrooge by lying to him saying things Webby didn't say.
Hear me out: What if we got Paperinik in the second half of season 3 and to hide his identity (since you know his screech of a voice would give it away) he uses the Don Cheadle voice modulator!
The Treasure to Ice Cream is a reference to the old Ducktales Cartoon, during the time period where Glomgold and Scrooge bet their fortunes on whose is bigger, to ship his to the site where they would be compared Scrooge had secretly been shipping tonnes of gold under the cargo listing of "Ice Cream". Shipments targeted by Glomgold with a mechanical... okay, I forget the specifics at this point, I think shark. I do remember a rather humorous ending where, despite having a large portion of gold stolen from Scrooge in his pile, Glomgold still loses and his gold ends up joining Scrooge's.
GREAT REVIEW ONE THING BUT I WISHED YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT A TINY LITTLE BIT JUST BEFORE SCROOGE WAS TRAPPED IN THE COIN WAS WHERE HE MADE LINA AN OFFER THAT IF SHE HELP HIM GET HIS FAMILY BACK THEN SHE WHOULD HAVE A PLACE IN IT IT MADE WHAT HAPPEN TO HER NEXT REALLY SAD LIKE SHE HAD FINALLY GOT THE FAMILY SHE WANTED ONLY TO LOOSE IT
Loved the first season. Can't wait for season two. My one big gripe with the first season was there not being enough ghost Duckworth. I mean, there is so much you could do with that and he felt squandered.
No mention of Fenton? He finally completes his journey from his original five-part-introduction here. But then, maybe the whole thing warrants its own video.
Did anyone else catch the other video game refrence? If you did my bad. Scrooge and Magica last fought each other on Mt Vesuvius...which is the final stage in the video game.
13:46 "Come and get it, yoU NO GOOD GRAAAAAAAAH!". I can't stop laughing because I'm thinking of Falcon in a booth, shaking his head to make Donald's war cry.
I was gonna reply to the guy directly but i messed up so this on its own when I say that at the time writing my previous statement I could not remember whether Don Cheedle played War Machine or Falcon.
12:05 Well, they did, but not in the way you'd expect. There was a short called Donald's Dream Voice where he tried on some voice pills which made him sound clearer and more manly. I think that was, in essence, a subtle nod to that aspect of his character.
I loved this episode. And I loved how Magica had a moral problem with attacking a man who was so depressed that he couldn’t see straight. It’s kind of odd but a lot of Scrooge’s enemies don’t seem to hate him. Glomgold went to a great deal of trouble to try and emulate Scrooge. Magica was having empathy for Scrooge’s pain and didn’t want to attack him in that condition. These are not things you do when you hate someone.
If you haven't planned to already, I think you should look back on the season as a whole and talk about episode placement, story pacing, and your overall thoughts on how it all came together and what it puts down for the future of the series.
One unmentioned detail I really enjoy is the fact that Fenton isn't able to be Gizmoduck in this episode, but he joins the fight anyway. It really shows the heroic core of this version of the character.
Fun fact: Louie pulled the exact same trick on Magica that webby pulled on him in the sky pirate episode and it was Louie who taught her how to trick people in the episode woo hoo. THIS SHOW IS FANTASTIC
Another Fun Fact: Louie is the only duckling that learned how to actually swim in the money like Scrooge. The others just kinda plop down on it and make coin angels.
Yet another fun fact: the pie that Ms. Beakly was holding was sea salt ice cream, maybe a reference to Kingdom Hearts
Sky pirates? Now, where have I seen that before?...*thinks of Ninjago*
@@ObeliskWithLimbs more like a reference to the 1987 cartoon and original comics. Kingdom Hearts is another media that references his love for sea salt ice cream.
I swear this episode made Donald my favorite character. Not just because of his badass moments but also because he was the 1st one to decide to forgive Scrooge despite the fact that he was the one with the biggest reason to hate him. Plus the moment when the triplets started saying all the things they love about him and Donalds reaction almost made me cry. It's just so good seeing him getting so much love.
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In this house we love and respect the badass dad Donald Duck.
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Just a few words all all he needs. After everything he did for those children, hearing one of them say he's devoted to his family must be the greatest feeling.
Think about it. Donald keep staying on the boat in the dock near moneybin. Maybe I'm reading too much about it, maybe Donald deep down always hoping to patch things together with Scrooge one day.
Another fun thing: In the first episode when the triplet just are in the mansion and they sit with Scrooge at the big table. Scrooge doubts what kids do nowadays and asks if kids still play marbles. In the last episode Magica also doubts what kids do nowadays and and says the following to get into the mansion: "The kids invited me over to, ehh... What do kids do nowadays? Play marbles(?)''
I write the quote out completely right, but you get the point :)
There are a bunch more I couldn’t include either - tons of them throughout the episode
"Emergency bounce house!"
I like to imagine that Donald is always saying things heroic, but his speech impediment always makes him say what He's trying to say, but in the most ridiculous and least heroic way possible.
@@marleytarver9759 Not to forget his unbelievable bad luck.
Yeah, imagine another world where Donald permanently sounds like Rhodey/War Machine.
"AAHH, MY RIBS!!"
Favorite joke.
“MY LEG!!! My leg...”
- Fred
*Webby comes flying in*
Most deadly curse in the world ngl
Kale Penquan bro this isn’t spongebob
"A LOT! THIS LADY KNOWS A LOT!!!"
-Launchpad McQuack
This made me laugh so much lmao
I am the storm.
seriously have you always been saying these things
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BoyNamedSue4 DUCKS. DONT. BACK. DOWN.
From now on, I'll always imagine Donald saying that in his normal voice everytime I watch any old Donald cartoons.
THAT IS APPROACHI... oh sorry wrong fandom
11:26 I think I just realized what Donald was attempting to say. It’s clearly meant to sound like complete gibberish, but I can sort of hear him saying “Uncle Scrooge is in trouble, it’s up to us to help him.”
Tony Anselmo's pretty underrated this episode, probably because he's so overshadowed by Don Cheadle. But he's spent twenty-plus years with this character...he was Donald in the original series, after all, as well as the Kingdom Hearts series.
This reboot is, I think, the most hes ever been allowed to speak, and the pilot was the first time I've ever seen him actually win the day with clever wordplay...because words and Donald have never been friends.
But to garble his words to that degree in the finale and still get across what he's trying to say? That takes TALENT
Ben Dubitsky yeah when you listen really hard you can hear him saying that
I think they made that line intentionally hard to understand for the sake of the joke
That is why the first serious line he has is that exact same line. Donald knowing he is being understood now, starts over with his speech.
I guess he really did say that but the writers were trying to make it even harder to understand Donald on purpose.
Did you also notice that at the very end as they were panning towards the Moon, you can hear part of "The Moon" stage theme from the Ducktales NES game?
"Get ready for the storm"- Mrs. B
"I AM the storm"- Donald
Everyone Else- "Oooh"
"No, seriously, have you been saying things like that this whole time?"
- Mrs. B
There was a classic cartoon where Donald bought some magic lozenges that made him speak with a normal voice. It only worked for a little while so he had to keep taking them, but he woos Daisy with them. He is eventually down to his last one and it bounces away and a cow eats it. He starts quacking at the cow to get it back when the cow says, "my dear fellow, I can't understand a word you're saying." Driving Donald crazy as the cartoon draws to a close.Point being this isn't the first time EVER they've acknowledged his crazy duck voice in a cartoon.
There's another short where Donald just kinda wills himself into speaking properly out of sheer annoyance at his impediment. This is something that Disney's actually played with quite a few times.
Finally! Yes!
Also, you forgot a callback, both the first episode and the season finale end with a news report
Also, while the first ends with "Mom?!" the last ends with "Boys?!"
Aftershock He included that one in the very end of the video, though
18:16 I'm pretty certain Lena was literally Magical shadow given physical form before she got trapped in Scrouge number one dime. It was reveal in that flashback scene when the kids discover Lena room and read aloud her book (or was it a message on her wall?).
Ren Cen it was a book
Not to mention Magica herself literally says lines like "She was never real!" or "I'm not your aunt." I don't know how much clearer they could have made it.
im not so sure scrooge kept it all a secret out of pride. can you imagine having to tell the boys "hey boys about your mum... she took off on an adventure right before you were born that she knew would be extremely dangerous in an incomplete ship and left you behind".... yeah i can see why he didn't want them to know. i really think it had more to do with sparing the childrens feelings. that Donald never told them, and lets not pretend they wouldn't have asked, says that for all the disagreements between scrooge and Donald they agreed on this.
yiggdrasill I think he was waiting for a good time to do it, and he was scared to, and he kept putting that talk off, and it bit him in the tailfeathers.
The secret was kept out of consideration. The Duck/McDuck family rift, however, was in large part due to pride. Scrooge couldn't accept his own responsiblity for building the Spear of Selene. You can't get lost in space without a ship, after all.
and Donald...Donald was Della's twin brother, a bond closer than normal siblings, or at least that's how media portrays it when one twin isn't evil.
Donald would probably have lionized her in his head, and demonized Scrooge, because there's no way his sister would run out on her own eggs like that, right? Scrooge must have egged her on! He'd known her since they were hatchlings, she couldn't do that on her own! She WOULDN'T do that!...would she?
So the blame falls on Scrooge, he gets defensive, and the family is torn asunder by pride.
@@ingonyama70 It was the mothers own fault
yiggdrasill that is very understandable
icecream hero Agreed. If Della loves adventure, being a mother is one of the greatest adventures of all. Why couldn’t she see that?
“Way to despell your own spell, De Spell!”
Butter Nuggets you said it so many times, it’s starting to not sound like a word anymore.
Donald: I AM the storm.
Mrs.Beakly: Have you been saying things like that the whole time?
"Way to despell your own spell De Spell"~ Scrooge McDuck
Also. This series is fantastic and you deserve way more subs for your interesting, thoughtful and knowledgeable reviews. Top notch sir.
Now I’m gonna go rewatch this ep again.
Don't forget the INSANELY small detail of Louie bring the *only* brother that's able to swim in the coins like scrooge. Remember the pep episode? How Louie learned the value of a hard day's work? Remember the golfing episode, and how Louie kept scamming Glomgold? There's constant hints that Louie is Scrooge incarnate, and I love it.
Good to see this go up!
The first half of this finale was a chore to get through.
Not because I didn't like it, I VERY MUCH did, but because watching family dramas play out is always incredibly difficult for me. Launchpad and Mrs. Beakley's on-the-beak deliveries were painful, but only because they were accurate, and because I have people in my life who would TOTALLY do that to people they thought were being unreasonable. It's a little stupid from the outside, it's painful to get through, but speaking from first-hand experience...it is EFFECTIVE. Especially Bentina's method.
Also, learning the full story behind Lena sucked. Again, not because it was bad, but because it hurt.
But the second half? Is EVERYTHING about Ducktales that I am here for. The family, the adventure, the humor, the amazingly over-the-top villain.
Also, I am kind of in love with the idea that Magica de Spell believed in fair play. Not necessarily physically, because she was a master sorceress and eveyrone else...well, wasn't...but because she didn't want to waste her revenge on the lonely, broken, bitter duck smelling strongly of stale pizza that Scrooge had become. Revenge has to take someone down a peg to mean something, and Scrooge couldn't be taken down any further. She could have just gloated at him about that and been on her merry, all-powerful way, but instead she tried to build him back up before she took him down.
My theory is that Scrooge being back at his "full power" as it were, when he was imprisoned is why he came back in full McDuck regalia, complete with jacket, top hat, and cane. It lends a nice bit of irony to the proceedings.
Curt Clark if you can relate to it then that’s a good thing right?
This entire finale was obviously amazing, but my absolute favorite part is when the kids get into the money bin to face Magica, and through all the chaos of dodging her magic attacks, they’re yelling at each other trying to make up a plan.
“So what do we do?”
“What we do best!”
“Make. Trouble.”
Surprised Launchpad didn’t break any of Magica’s bones when he crash dived onto her.
11:52 Donald can be understandable despite that unusual sounding voice, but let’s not forget that outside both DuckTales shows even the triplets have unusual voices like that. This episode certainly was a 4th either way where his voice gets improved temporarily.
The reveal of Magica's face on the head of the dime had me shook when I saw it. Every time we have seen the dime up until now, it was always the tail side and I never even noticed.
am I the only one who cried over Donald Duck when he starts having tears???
LilTilOne3231 nope. My son thinks I was kinda silly crying over a cartoon (he’s 9). Ive known these characters my whole life! No shame in my game kid lol.
Nope, we cried together!
This season finale made me cry three times. The first time was, as the boys hugged donald and cried after all the things that were ment to make them do exactly that.The Second time was, as Webby thought, that her best friend had betrayed her. And since Lena is my new favourite character, it made my cry, as her shadow/ghost was desposed by my (since Ducktales 2017 only) second favourite character Magica. I kinda didn't stop until we saw Lena in Webby's shadow and I felt relieve wash over me.
I cry way too often about those cartoon ducks... worth it :D
I also cried when Lena told Scrooge about how his family was always there and he told her she would have a place in it and when Scrooge looked at them and said: Huey, Louie, the third one... And they hugged. They were back together as a family. I was with a friend who does not watch the series, probably thinks i am crazy,lol!
How can I cry at something so heartwarming? That's just impossible for me.
I can't stop thinking about what would happen if Della returns because she everyone would be happy but imagine what kind of drama could happen if Della thinks that the boys would live with her and Donald is like "you won't take my kids" and the boys would realize that Della knows nothing about them
I'm sure she'd move in with Donald at first so that problem is probably going the be less dramatic and the other one would probably happen a little later on.
Is it terrible that I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing how this would play out?
This could be the turning point.
The boys could be faced with a difficult choice:
Stay with Donald, or live with Della for the first time ever.
Huey and Dewey would consider the second option.
But I think Louie might try to vie for... a third option:
Being raised by BOTH Donald and Della.
Denime he wouldn’t say that
It would be hard, but Della would have custody as their birth mother. However, I think she would stay with Donald as she doesn't seem to have a significant other. And she would want to spend this time getting to know the children whose lives she's missed.
A couple of missed callbacks, from the Ducktales Video Game this time:
1) The first notes of Magica's leitmotif are from the "Transylvania" stage.
2) The "Moon Theme" plays briefly when we pan out at the moon!
It really shows the commitment of the Ducktales team.
Petros Laoudikos Did not notice the Transylvania theme myself, thanks for noticing.
@@CuriousUserX90 It's much harder to pick up, since there's a lot of stuff happening while it plays. Plus it's only the first five notes(instead of the moon theme's ten). And its tempo is much slower than the video game to give it a more epic feel. So no wonder a lot of people missed it.
Kind of makes you wonder what other music references they slipped in without us noticing, doesn't it?
We really need to get our hands on the soundtrack.
This episode was FANTASTIC! What I noticed about this episode that I never noticed before was how Magica never got such a big high stakes episode in the original 'Ducktales'. Oh, she was there, but her schemes were only relegated to just single episodes. She could've gotten a big 5 part story arc in the old show, but she never got one. The Beagle Boys were in the three big 5 parters more so than Magica. The new show builds her character all the way up to the season finale, and was done VERY WELL. I would almost say that this is better than the 'DuckTales' theatrical movie, which had a similar climax. As for Launchpad, Calling him 'dumb' might come off as an 'insult' for most people, but I also agree that he's a little TOO ridiculous to be believe in some cases. (His original version probably wouldn't mistake golf balls for eggs, which I think makes him a bit TOO dumb for my taste.) but Launchpad has a certain charm that makes you look past that. Also, your observation of Donald thinking that he's as competent, and clever while we see him as bumbling, and short tempered was very insightful. When his voice is altered, his actions come off as more believable while still maintaining his core essence. (Plus, it was a great call back to 'Donald's Dream Voice')
Marc Baker *Launchpad dives into money- starts choking* "Guys, don't drink this water!"
@@ScionStorm1 And thus does Scrooge cut his stomach open and take back his money.
An excellent point about Magica! I knew at the end of the first Lena episode that this show was going to take Magica seriously, and did it ever!
Donald's voice can be summed up in one line from the episode "Has he been saying this the whole time?"
Mrs. Beakly's speech is just more proof that she is so much better than the original Beakly.
I kinda like her original personality better to be honest. Except the damsel in distress part should had been taken out.
I like that it makes her as much of an essential part of the Duck family as the rest of them. She's the muscle most of the time, but she's also the blunt honesty and conscious voice that the other characters need to hear now and then.
It’s wonderful to see another exuberant fan who is as passionate I am about all the fine details and references. Thank you.
It was so weird/amazing to hear Donald with a new voice.
and yet the new voice is the guy that is the Black Iron Man in the MCU
@@pinkiepoolgamerbrony2789 You mean Iron Patriot/War Machine?
Pinkiepool GamerBrony27 why is that relevant
It felt cursed, but it was also awesome
This episode was the absolute best!
Also I remember an episode of House of Mouse where Donald tried to host the show himself, but the audience got angry because they couldn't understand him, and they liked Mickey best. I hope this team works with others to reboot the other Disney afternoon shows. :D
Magica De Spell usually wears a drab black dress, and black Daisy Duck shoes. She dressed with more flash here. I loved it!
I didn’t know Donald was so difficult to understand for so many people. I’ve never had a problem understanding anything he says.
Jake Pulley Same said for me.
If you play Kingdom Hearts you learn how to understand him pretty quickly
Same
Even playing kingdom hearts I can't understand some of these. Mostly I understand him but for all the times they said what I couldn't
I admit yeah I don't think he's that hard to understand but when he does I honestly don't make such a fuss over it unlike everyone else.
it's not really the first time we are able to understand donald (in some cartoons he got a changed voice), but i love your video non the less, so keep up the good work! thanks for making videos about my favourite show
The finale is imo what revived the Disney duckverse franchise
Indeed. 'DuckTales' is exactly how you do a good reboot of a beloved series. It had alot going against it, but id did the impossible by being a good show in it's own right. Sadly, 'Powerpuff Girls' didn't pull that off with their 2016 reboot, and I hope to GOD 'She-Ra's Netflix reboot doesn't end up being as bad.
Marc Baker it helps the original she ra cartoon, while actually superior to her brothers show, is still a mid 80s goofy fantasy cartoon. The original Ducktales was a lot harder to beat and they killed it. I have high hopes for the new She Ra, and hope it doesn’t get killed like the also really good heman reboot earlier this century.
The Disney Duckverse franchise was Never dead or paused or on hiatus or anything. It's been alive and well for some 75 years now. But the finale was Great.
My mother language is Spanish, so is very difficult to me to understand him
So many people only see Donald as a bad-tempered hothead. There's a lot more to him than that. Yes, he can be a hothead, but he can be brave, tough, and smart. This episode proves it. In the classic shorts, it seems he doesn't like the triplets. I always thought he loves them, even though they exasperate him at times.
Again, proof of that here.
Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a great, multifaceted character! My favorite Disney character, in fact!
The thing is that it wasn't that Donald and the triplets didn't like each other, but rather Donald adopted them when he himself was fairly young. Their relationship was similar to how a single teenager would raise triplets. It's why Donald too was immature and often stooped to their level.
that's why I love Donald Duck and Carl Barks
you missed the joke about magica saying "what do kids like? marbles?" which is verbatem said by scrooge in the first epidsoe
They have addressed Donald’s duck speech in other works like television, shorts and even in the Disney parks before so outside of the comics, they have.
Duck tales 2017 is the perfect reboot.
Great review for a great show. I'm surprised you didn't mention the little tune that played when it panned to the moon, being the tune from the DuckTales NES game.
I heard that and I can't wait to hear a full version of that happen if and when they go up to get Della. I also want Scrooge to learn how to pogostick that cane beforehand.
Cartoon Network: we are the BEST at making reboots
Disney: hold my beer
Have you seen most of the reboots?
I just realised. When Magica mocks Scrooge by turning his money into ice cream... 15:20
It made me thing of the famous line “a sea monster ate my ice cream!”
I like that Lena being Magica's shadow is a nice reference to the original DuckTales episode "Magica's Shadow War", which the name of the finale is also a reference to. Also, I like that Donald still shows a bit of his bad luck, even with his more competent-sounding voice, what with him falling and having Magica's amulet break on his head, rather than catching it as it flies in the air. Also, before we see Della on the Moon, we get a snippet of the Moon theme from the DuckTales NES game. :P
That ending... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHYYYYEEEAAAAAAHHHH
Creepiest moment: When Magica/Lena speaks in Scrooge’s voice.
So incredible. This finale was absolutely amazing, and it has made me SOO excited for the next season! This show is more than I could have ever hoped it to be, and I'm glad that your video displays just the incredible thought and depth that has been placed in the cartoon. I'm looking forward to more!
11:26 All I got from that was “Uncle Scrooge is in trouble and it’s up to us...”. The rest is just gibberish to me.
What!!!!! Where's the scene were lonchpad magnificently falls out of the sky right on to magica, that scene is incredible
I'm not much of a commentator on commentary videos, but I just wanted to say that your summary of DuckTales Shadow War and the entire first season as a whole has been wonderful to watch. Not just in terms of information, but in your clever usage of puns and allegories along the way. Keep up the good work and see you in Season 2.
Finally with only 7 days before Season 2 begins we can now get ready for it and go head on with excitement for what they do next which it looks like there's going to be a double story in the first episode
DELAH AND LENA
Was a great episode and a great season overall. Great review. You make some great points, like allowing the characters to forgive before the battle. I think that's very important.
KnightRaymund I think you mean MOST AMAZING show ever
So what do you think of Magica's new design? I was surprised at first given the green color and the fact that she's taller, but I grew to like it.
21:18 »And, that's how you make a good reboot:
Not by living in the shadows of what came before.
But by casting your own shadow,
and by winning that shadow war.«
Great closing words there, summarizing your main points of why the reboot succeeded, while using a metaphora that alludes to the series' finale.
Thinking about it, _The Shadow War_ might have been a very intentional choice by the creators to make a statement for these very reasons.
great video, didn't notice the parallels until you pointed them out
but the show does lay out that Lena was Magica's shadow given form and sentience to carry out her revenge but with sentience came choice
I love the video and this is one of my favorite episodes. On an other note: My boyfriend got the the Scrooge McDuck and Darkwing Duck plush, when i saw them on the shelves behind you, i squeeled!
You forgot one callback: The green one (I suck at recalling names, so that's how I call him) moans at having to walk up the whole staircase again, just as he did, trying to get the copy of scrooges number one dime back.
Louie.
@@mitchfletcher2386 always cool to see other people enjoying these vids.
Glad to report that I learned their names before the 2nd season even started, which makes reading the older Donald Duck comics now pretty fun xD
I don't wanna be that guy, but It's pretty easy to understand Donald. that line they all said what to was deliberate gibberish at the end,
Wait, if Lena was born when Magica was defeated before Scrroge retired from adventuring, which was no doubt when Della was lost, does that mean Lena never ages?
Hmm... Yeah that probably is what that means. But who knows maybe she does. We don't exactly know when Lena took her solid 15 year old form. I wouldn't think it was seconds after Magica's defeat cause then all Scrooge would've had to do is turn around and notice her right there. And I doubt shes been spying on Scrooge for that long. Maybe now that she has a solid form she'll grow up normally
14:47 lena eas in the shadow realm what was she doing playing children’s card games with Yogi and Kaiba
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Nice.
I’m surprised nobody else made that one.
One problem that I have with the fandom is people shipping Dewey with Webby. And you’re going to get weird ships with any fandom but my biggest problem with this ship is it interferes with my personal theory. Dewey and Webby have more of a brother sister relationship, Just like how Donald and Della had it before Scrooge’s mistake. Dewey and Webby’s relationship mirrors what family duo came before them in a way thats actually very poetic. Also doesn’t Webby’s and Dellas hair look similar in this reboot. One more thing before I finish this comment I really hope they dive more into Huey and Louie for the next two seasons I mean Dewey’s my favorite, but I really want to see where things go with the other two duck brothers with these next two seasons.
I'm a big fan of Webby being part of the family. Not such a big fan of romance being part of it.
I think they said this next season will focus on Louie.
The Chicken Lord LPP well yeah they have a family dynamics and the show will never have Romance between the children because this show is about family. However people will always have a habit of shipping them. They just have to accept that ship will never happen and avoid harassing the show writers. I hope. But just remember not everyone ships characters
If it helps, the showrunners said from the start that there won't be any romance between webby and the triplets. For all intents and purposes she's the fourth sibling.
Louei episode 1
I really love that Catherine Tate is Magica’s voice. She and David Tennant have been friends and collaborators for decades, and they really play off each other wonderfully. The perfect choice for Scrooge’s most powerful enemy!
Absolutely loved this review! Can’t believe I haven’t subscribed to you yet. Subscribed!
Huey: We gotta stop Magica!
Webby: Cheeseburger first.
Points to any Avengers who got this.
Sean did you get the Solving Mysteries and Rewriting History book?
Yes and its awesome. Did you know that Magica being trapped in Scrooge's lucky dime was forshadowed in the book
Love how your reviews always sound very poetic.
From the Season Premiere to the Season One Finale of the 2017 DuckTales ReBoot was Awesome from the revival of Magica De Spell to Huey Dewy Louie and Webby to save Scrooge to Scrooge breaking free from the dime to the fights ageist Magica and her shadow army it was Awesome in so many ways
Della Duck is agent prentiss from Criminal Minds and she reccuring next season also Donald Duck fighting shadows reminds me of kingdom hearts
Still never casts a goddamn healing spell.
I love how they never really use the fact that they have some semi and really famous actors as cast members as an advertising gimmick
Just because I'm rewatching now - one more first-episode-reference:
On the bridge, Fenton enhances his pistol with Lil Bulb and rides Manny to the bin, which seems like reference to when Pirate ghost grabs not-Excalibur and rides Head-less Man-horse (with Huey's "oh-no, they teamed up")
This was a great way to end the season. I binged it in a week with my little brother, there haven’t been any shows that grabbed me like this in a long time.
5:15 Scrooge didn't let Lena in because she said she was there to play with marbles though, she was allowed because she antagonized Scrooge by lying to him saying things Webby didn't say.
Hear me out: What if we got Paperinik in the second half of season 3 and to hide his identity (since you know his screech of a voice would give it away) he uses the Don Cheadle voice modulator!
Damn! I would love to see Paperinik into action! Maybe they will, we get rockerduck and fethryduck! We could get Paperinik as well
The Treasure to Ice Cream is a reference to the old Ducktales Cartoon, during the time period where Glomgold and Scrooge bet their fortunes on whose is bigger, to ship his to the site where they would be compared Scrooge had secretly been shipping tonnes of gold under the cargo listing of "Ice Cream". Shipments targeted by Glomgold with a mechanical... okay, I forget the specifics at this point, I think shark. I do remember a rather humorous ending where, despite having a large portion of gold stolen from Scrooge in his pile, Glomgold still loses and his gold ends up joining Scrooge's.
The ‘curse’ Lewie comes up with is basically the trope ‘Arson Murder & Jaywalking’!
GREAT REVIEW ONE THING BUT I WISHED YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT A TINY LITTLE BIT JUST BEFORE SCROOGE WAS TRAPPED IN THE COIN WAS WHERE HE MADE LINA AN OFFER THAT IF SHE HELP HIM GET HIS FAMILY BACK THEN SHE WHOULD HAVE A PLACE IN IT IT MADE WHAT HAPPEN TO HER NEXT REALLY SAD LIKE SHE HAD FINALLY GOT THE FAMILY SHE WANTED ONLY TO LOOSE IT
Loved the first season. Can't wait for season two. My one big gripe with the first season was there not being enough ghost Duckworth. I mean, there is so much you could do with that and he felt squandered.
No mention of Fenton? He finally completes his journey from his original five-part-introduction here. But then, maybe the whole thing warrants its own video.
There was just so much to cover! The oeigin cut of this video was almost 30 minutes haha
Did anyone else catch the other video game refrence? If you did my bad. Scrooge and Magica last fought each other on Mt Vesuvius...which is the final stage in the video game.
Hey uh, did you notice they the moon theme from Ducktales NES was in this episode? Listen closely when it’s panning up at the moon.
I did, but I couldn't put it in this video because of length restrictions!
Seaniccus
Ah, I see! Glad to know other people caught that.
"I am the storm"
13:46 "Come and get it, yoU NO GOOD GRAAAAAAAAH!". I can't stop laughing because I'm thinking of Falcon in a booth, shaking his head to make Donald's war cry.
*War Machine, but yeah
I was gonna reply to the guy directly but i messed up so this on its own when I say that at the time writing my previous statement I could not remember whether Don Cheedle played War Machine or Falcon.
Fair enough, and it is still funny to picture
‘We don’t know she has been banished to the shadow realm’
If only all reboots could have done this
And now we get to see this story continue. Hope you enjoyed your break.
i am going to re-watch this ep on my DVR.
this so awesome to watch.
You know that Donald Duck has had his voice changed before in Donald Duck Cartoon right? it was in the Cartoon short Donald Duck's Dream Voice
Between this episode and the zetta flare from kingdom hearts 3 donald duck is becoming my favorite Disney character.
Increased misfortune, increased gullibility,
A swift kick in the ribs!
AAHH MY RIBS
12:05 Well, they did, but not in the way you'd expect. There was a short called Donald's Dream Voice where he tried on some voice pills which made him sound clearer and more manly. I think that was, in essence, a subtle nod to that aspect of his character.
My favorite minor detail is how Louie is the only one other than scrooge who can swim in the money bin
Don't forget right before Della makes her appearance they plAyed the Moon Theme from DuckTales NES.
I loved this episode. And I loved how Magica had a moral problem with attacking a man who was so depressed that he couldn’t see straight. It’s kind of odd but a lot of Scrooge’s enemies don’t seem to hate him. Glomgold went to a great deal of trouble to try and emulate Scrooge. Magica was having empathy for Scrooge’s pain and didn’t want to attack him in that condition. These are not things you do when you hate someone.
If you haven't planned to already, I think you should look back on the season as a whole and talk about episode placement, story pacing, and your overall thoughts on how it all came together and what it puts down for the future of the series.
Can’t we take a moment to realize the Donald was the one who broke the amulet and took Magica’s powers
the dynamic between Launchpad and Webby trying to get Huey Dewy and Louie and Donald to get reunited with Scrooge
I never saw the original series but I'm loving the series.
Same