I like Bradford's motivation, but the fact he keeps picking agents who are far more chaotic than Scrooge (Black Heron, for how skilled she is, indulges in being a bad guy, Steelbeak and Taurus Bulba caused large scale catastrophes) shows that he is FAR from right
Seeing this episode made me realise that Bradford and Huey are being presented as parallels. They both are bad at dealing with chaos and the unexpected. Huey wants to create plans to every chaotic situation and Bradford wants to shutdown chaos all together.
Great observation. It get’s even better in the finale when we find out that the First Rule of the JW Guidebook is ”Expect the unexpected.” With both Huey and Bradford being old JW members. Now, in the first episode of the season, Huey has to comes to terms with the fact that he is not the ideal JW he thought he was. And he has yet to grasp the first rule. He *tries* to expect the unexpected, with all his scheduling and planning. But when it fails, he panics. He can’t plan for the unexpected because it’s, well, unexpected. He needs to learn to take things as they come. Roll and adapt. Expect that things he can’t expect will happen. Bradford takes it even further. His failure to grasp the first rule being another reason why he’s the worst JW ever. Not wanting or able to adapt he instead wants to prevent the unexpected from ever happening. With No alarms, no surprises. The dull acountant taken to it’s villainous conclusion.
The origins of F.O.W.L. in the reboot are very interesting, and Bradford's perspective on things is kinda complicated since he thinks that Scrooge is the bad guy and that he wants to protect the world from the dangers caused by the McDuck family and all that.
Really, Bradford isn't a bad guy at all, rather he suffers from the classic assumption that most governments suffer from nowadays, the idea that chaos is a bad thing. Plot twist, chaos isn't bad at all, in reality, it's a lack of adaptability to the coming chaos that ensures disasters happening and even getting worse. Bradford's character is filled with inadaptability through his complete refusal of things around him and about him. He refused to listen to his grandmother, he refused to grow and he refused to accept which side he was really on in this battle. Even if he was committing these actions for a good cause it doesn't change the fact that he was willing to side with blatant villains to get his mission complete.
I just wanna point out, that the magic scroll can only be claimed by scrooges "heir", due to his wish, to get rid of the scroll. and in the sword episode, fowl took his dna... would a clone count as heir?
Regardless of whatever intentions he had; as the saying goes, evil is as evil does and Bradford still committed rather evil acts over the years. Same thing with Amanda Waller in DC comics or SHIELD in Marvel
Seeing Donald, Della and Scrooge bond on their first Adventure was so precious to me 🥰💗💖 Also am I the only person who kinda feels that Bradford is a punk for thinking that his organization has nothing to do with super villainy and he is not a bad guy 😑 I mean sure stopping other villains from causing destruction may sound OK, but like you sayed it's almost like supporting dictatorship among citizens which is bad and hiring other criminals and con-artist, plus wiping out your boss and his family. Also watching this episode makes me understand that Bradford is such a coward when it comes to the Mcducks or fighting his enemies. Like you sayed he spends half the episode freaking over the papyrus only to then use it after Scrooge sees him
Yellowbeak was a reference to the very first Donald Duck comic book where he and Donald team up to find a treasure before Pete and some Mortimer Mouse clones.
I wouldn't say that Bradford is right, although he wants to end all kinds of threats in the world, he practically wants to implant a dictatorship in the world and end the adventures would not end all threats. For example, Magica De Spell has always liked to attack villages before they even met Scrooge
Scrooge could have also been so cheap to not get new phones and uses old fashioned phones that still work because Della and Donald are kids in this episode and in the present their official age is 36 and Scrooge's official age is, at least in 2017, is 150.
Its interesting and a bit sad that Bradford is so sure he is doing the good guy thing and that Scrooge is the bad guy, that he just doesn't even care what awful horrible things he has to do to prove and prevent it. Dude doesn't get the "The Ends don't always justify the means." Deal. They're doing way more harm.
the episode :this adventure takes place in the 60s, also the same episode 5 min later.... JK ,starts throwing references to different time periods, me: for the love of duck make up your mind!!! episode: nope :3
By the way, do you know that the firework incident was actually something from a comic? in the comic Della Sense Louis Huey and Dewey to Donald's house and it was because of the firework incident.
@@Emily-mm7qf Actually, it would be sent. Describing the contents of the comic would make it sends, but in the context of when it happened (in the DT universe or when the comic was made), it would be sent. "By the way, did you know that the "Firework Incident" was actually something that happened in a comic? In the comic, Della sent/sends Huebert, Dewford, and Llewellyn to Donald Duck's house due to the "Firework Incident"."
First Thanos was right and now Bradford is right, I’f we start believing in an Ends justify the means mentality for solving problems, then every tyrant, dictator and madman throughout history can make a reasonable argument for all their actions.
The letter hortense gives to scrooge about della and donald is almost the exact the same letter donald gets from della about the triplets in the og comics. It was a nice touch.
Given that Donald's shirt has a Nirvana like symbol on his shirt, my guess is this stuff took place in the 90s. Early 90s at that, when you still had brick phones, but laptops has their more modern design.
watching this video after seeing the finale, oh boy oh boy Plus I believe the main part of the story takes place in the 90's, Della seems to act like a kid from that time as an adult
Braford actually raised another good question for life...random crime vs organized crime. Heck,in the case of the yakuza they are somewhat overlooked by police as long as things are quiet and peaceful. Then again, the Yakuza also are very knit into the communities and tend to balance good karma with their bad karma.
In a way it’s the question of Security vs freedom Security and stability vs Scrooge’s adventures and that’s it his main goal was to stop Scrooge from adventuring that’s it and only lost it when all else failed
The prologue, where Bradford and Heron formed FOWL, took place in the 1960s, before Beakley and Scrooge first met. The rest of the episode takes place in the 1990s. Donald and Della are kids, FOWL has been active for several years, Beakley is now director of SHUSH, and Black Heron has lost her arm.
According to a comic by Marco Rota called my life in an eggshell the reason Donald met Huey, Dewey and Louie was because the put a bomb under their father chair and their mother had to take care of him so they got sent to their uncle Donald. I like how they sort of integrated that into the story. Edit: it was called from Egg to Duck
I'm pretty sure I can take a guess at when the last flashback with young Della and Donald took place. I'm going to take a crack and say that it was probably somewhere between 1994-1996. The laptop is consistent with that era. Also, grunge fashion (such as the outfit Donald was wearing) screams 90s to me. While grunge did have its' start in the 80s. It was more iconic of the 90s. But the thing that really says it was 90s is that Donald looks like he was wearing an off brand Nirvana tee shirt with his look. The Nirvana smiley logo was debut in 1991. So that further says to me that this flashback took place in at least the 90s. The cell phone is more of a red herring. I remember my dad getting his first cell around 1995-1996 and he got a Motorola MicroTAC 9800X which was a 1989 release which was still functional at least locally in that era. It could just be that Scrooge really likes the old Motorola DynaTAC 8000X because by the time the 90s rolled around, those phones were way cheaper to get. This also speaks to some of his penny pinching ways and he might have found it easier and simpler to use. He strikes me as someone where he'd be just happy with a phone just being a phone and not something really fancy. So yeah. My guess at the year - 1994-1996.
The papyrus will be the item that fixes everything. which might force them into a Infinite Time-loop. due the Broad nature of "still unknown heir's" wish
If he hadn't told Della about the Spear of Selene then I'd be inclined to agree that Scrooge's Adventuring is a threat. Yes, Scrooge always fixes the messes, but that's like rewarding a kid for cleaning up their room. They made the mess, the least they could do is fix it!
@@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123 Fair and I'll say that Bradford was right with adventures being dangerous, but the issue was he wanted to bring forth full-on order which literally is impossible. It's a totalitarian dictatorship.
He had his points from his grandmother's adventures but I'll say that some children are certainly as adventurous and brave as the Duck family is in our world.
This may be too obvious: I have a theory this episode revealed the ending for Ducktales, the mystery is a reality warping parchment, which only Scrooge's heir can gain access to. The reason why they need Scrooge's feather was to create an heir for him, in order to access the parchment. If we go down that route, we could end up with a wacky reality warp episode/alternate reality finale. Marvel has done it a few times and so has DC, it would make sense if Ducktales does something similar. Have a Crisis on Infinite Earths moment with Scrooge trying to reset reality.
On 2:59 that waa a reference to when Della sends the Duck boys to Donald, due to their father being in the hospital because of a firecracker the boys set off. Originally Della said she was Donald's cousin, but that error was fixed later. And 96th comment.
That's unfortunataly a pothole thst even if the creators try to explain it won't make sense. The losing all magic powers was something they rushed to get for no reason. Something meant to resolve everything ended up causing more chaos than good off screen 🙃
4:07 If this is what Della and Donald were like when they met Scrooge, than that doesn’t make any sense. I mean, in Whatever Happened To Della Duck, Della said: “I spent 20 years with the best treasure hunter in the world.” But how can that be so, if you consider her time she and Donald spent with Scrooge, and how long she was stranded on the moon.
So small fact, the whole, "Sending your kids away because of a fireworks incidence" was actually the original reason as to why Huey, Dewey and Louie were sent to be taken care of Uncle Donald, specifically they put a firecracker under their dads chair and caused him to have a nervous breakdown and have to be sent to a mental ward...yeah they were psychos in the old comics
I like Bradford's motivation, but the fact he keeps picking agents who are far more chaotic than Scrooge (Black Heron, for how skilled she is, indulges in being a bad guy, Steelbeak and Taurus Bulba caused large scale catastrophes) shows that he is FAR from right
Seeing this episode made me realise that Bradford and Huey are being presented as parallels. They both are bad at dealing with chaos and the unexpected. Huey wants to create plans to every chaotic situation and Bradford wants to shutdown chaos all together.
Ooh, thats very perceptive. I think you’re exactly right
Great observation.
It get’s even better in the finale when we find out that the First Rule of the JW Guidebook is ”Expect the unexpected.”
With both Huey and Bradford being old JW members.
Now, in the first episode of the season, Huey has to comes to terms with the fact that he is not the ideal JW he thought he was. And he has yet to grasp the first rule. He *tries* to expect the unexpected, with all his scheduling and planning. But when it fails, he panics. He can’t plan for the unexpected because it’s, well, unexpected. He needs to learn to take things as they come. Roll and adapt. Expect that things he can’t expect will happen.
Bradford takes it even further. His failure to grasp the first rule being another reason why he’s the worst JW ever. Not wanting or able to adapt he instead wants to prevent the unexpected from ever happening. With No alarms, no surprises. The dull acountant taken to it’s villainous conclusion.
Can we talk about how precious Black Heron was here? She was the best here, the enuthaism and zest for evil was there and beautiful.
Can't argue with that.
True
The origins of F.O.W.L. in the reboot are very interesting, and Bradford's perspective on things is kinda complicated since he thinks that Scrooge is the bad guy and that he wants to protect the world from the dangers caused by the McDuck family and all that.
I feel like Bradford is gonna cause some huge catastrophic event that scrooge is gonna have to save the world from
Facts!
@@thenextbigthing7558 you are aware that we are not getting any more episodes did you hear the news
Really, Bradford isn't a bad guy at all, rather he suffers from the classic assumption that most governments suffer from nowadays, the idea that chaos is a bad thing. Plot twist, chaos isn't bad at all, in reality, it's a lack of adaptability to the coming chaos that ensures disasters happening and even getting worse.
Bradford's character is filled with inadaptability through his complete refusal of things around him and about him. He refused to listen to his grandmother, he refused to grow and he refused to accept which side he was really on in this battle. Even if he was committing these actions for a good cause it doesn't change the fact that he was willing to side with blatant villains to get his mission complete.
@@LighttoneGryphStar and how could he not call himself a villain if the stuff he did was evil that doesn't make any sense
I just wanna point out, that the magic scroll can only be claimed by scrooges "heir", due to his wish, to get rid of the scroll.
and in the sword episode, fowl took his dna...
would a clone count as heir?
You goddam genius
The letter from Hortense is a reference to the comics when we first see Huey, Dewy, and Louie.
I was about to say that
That's interesting
Hhmmmm🤔
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I noticed that too and adored the easter egg.
I'm still sad that this is the last season of ducktales
Me too😭
Same
Same here 😢
Me too
Same
Regardless of whatever intentions he had; as the saying goes, evil is as evil does and Bradford still committed rather evil acts over the years.
Same thing with Amanda Waller in DC comics or SHIELD in Marvel
Seeing Donald, Della and Scrooge bond on their first Adventure was so precious to me 🥰💗💖
Also am I the only person who kinda feels that Bradford is a punk for thinking that his organization has nothing to do with super villainy and he is not a bad guy 😑
I mean sure stopping other villains from causing destruction may sound OK, but like you sayed it's almost like supporting dictatorship among citizens which is bad and hiring other criminals and con-artist, plus wiping out your boss and his family.
Also watching this episode makes me understand that Bradford is such a coward when it comes to the Mcducks or fighting his enemies. Like you sayed he spends half the episode freaking over the papyrus only to then use it after Scrooge sees him
Yellowbeak was a reference to the very first Donald Duck comic book where he and Donald team up to find a treasure before Pete and some Mortimer Mouse clones.
Being a hypocrite is what seems to be what Bradford has been known for so that says a lot a current episode.
Finally! I was waiting forever for this review!
I wouldn't say that Bradford is right, although he wants to end all kinds of threats in the world, he practically wants to implant a dictatorship in the world and end the adventures would not end all threats. For example, Magica De Spell has always liked to attack villages before they even met Scrooge
It be one hell of a twist if sheer Kahn had funded bradford, he's the antagonist in so many disney animal references.
Scrooge could have also been so cheap to not get new phones and uses old fashioned phones that still work because Della and Donald are kids in this episode and in the present their official age is 36 and Scrooge's official age is, at least in 2017, is 150.
Donald and Della setting off fireworks: Accident
Huey, Dewey and Louie blowing their dad’s butt off with fireworks: Accident
"accident"
5:50 yeah, cause it's clearly THAT the reference. The Impossibin. Not the... i dunno... THE GAME!
Its interesting and a bit sad that Bradford is so sure he is doing the good guy thing and that Scrooge is the bad guy, that he just doesn't even care what awful horrible things he has to do to prove and prevent it. Dude doesn't get the "The Ends don't always justify the means." Deal. They're doing way more harm.
It’s the 90’s because Donald is mimicking the grunge nirvana look and attitude of that era of music
the episode :this adventure takes place in the 60s,
also the same episode 5 min later.... JK ,starts throwing references to different time periods,
me: for the love of duck make up your mind!!!
episode: nope :3
By the way, do you know that the firework incident was actually something from a comic? in the comic Della Sense Louis Huey and Dewey to Donald's house and it was because of the firework incident.
I couldn't understand it without reading multiple times so it's sends not sense
@@Emily-mm7qf Actually, it would be sent. Describing the contents of the comic would make it sends, but in the context of when it happened (in the DT universe or when the comic was made), it would be sent. "By the way, did you know that the "Firework Incident" was actually something that happened in a comic? In the comic, Della sent/sends Huebert, Dewford, and Llewellyn to Donald Duck's house due to the "Firework Incident"."
@@crashlandon7957 ohh ok I'm sorry
@@Emily-mm7qf No! Not to be sorry? I was just sayin'.
@@crashlandon7957 oh ok
Using the cane as a pogo stick is a reference to the video game.
First Thanos was right and now Bradford is right, I’f we start believing in an Ends justify the means mentality for solving problems, then every tyrant, dictator and madman throughout history can make a reasonable argument for all their actions.
The letter hortense gives to scrooge about della and donald is almost the exact the same letter donald gets from della about the triplets in the og comics. It was a nice touch.
Great job with this video. I can’t wait to see more of Ducktales.🦆😎🤩
That gave me an idea about how Scrooge's cane operated in Ducktales NES and Ducktales Remastered.
Bruh! You are awesome !!!!! This need to det a million views ❤❤
Given that Donald's shirt has a Nirvana like symbol on his shirt, my guess is this stuff took place in the 90s. Early 90s at that, when you still had brick phones, but laptops has their more modern design.
Season 3 is the last season for ducktsles
Unfortunately
Black Heron as any other average female underestimated her own weight. xD
You did an excellent job on analyzing this episode.
7:17 Bradford Buzzard's memories of Scrooge McDuck's Christmas Party!!!!!!!
watching this video after seeing the finale, oh boy oh boy
Plus I believe the main part of the story takes place in the 90's, Della seems to act like a kid from that time as an adult
Braford actually raised another good question for life...random crime vs organized crime.
Heck,in the case of the yakuza they are somewhat overlooked by police as long as things are quiet and peaceful. Then again, the Yakuza also are very knit into the communities and tend to balance good karma with their bad karma.
I got an ad for cn ironic
Lowkey you explain Goku and Vegeta with the Bradford’s analysis
5:47 actually it the reference to the ducktales game jumping mechanic.
Don't forget about Beakley's secret from Webby
In a way it’s the question of
Security vs freedom
Security and stability vs Scrooge’s adventures and that’s it his main goal was to stop Scrooge from adventuring that’s it and only lost it when all else failed
So a couple of questions: When did all this take place take place? And why hasn't mention his disappointment at Ducktales ending?
The prologue, where Bradford and Heron formed FOWL, took place in the 1960s, before Beakley and Scrooge first met.
The rest of the episode takes place in the 1990s. Donald and Della are kids, FOWL has been active for several years, Beakley is now director of SHUSH, and Black Heron has lost her arm.
According to a comic by Marco Rota called my life in an eggshell the reason Donald met Huey, Dewey and Louie was because the put a bomb under their father chair and their mother had to take care of him so they got sent to their uncle Donald. I like how they sort of integrated that into the story.
Edit: it was called from Egg to Duck
you forgot that yellowbeak was actually from one of the first donald duck comic adventures
Those brick cell phones Scrooge has are pure 80's.
I'm pretty sure I can take a guess at when the last flashback with young Della and Donald took place. I'm going to take a crack and say that it was probably somewhere between 1994-1996. The laptop is consistent with that era. Also, grunge fashion (such as the outfit Donald was wearing) screams 90s to me. While grunge did have its' start in the 80s. It was more iconic of the 90s. But the thing that really says it was 90s is that Donald looks like he was wearing an off brand Nirvana tee shirt with his look. The Nirvana smiley logo was debut in 1991. So that further says to me that this flashback took place in at least the 90s. The cell phone is more of a red herring. I remember my dad getting his first cell around 1995-1996 and he got a Motorola MicroTAC 9800X which was a 1989 release which was still functional at least locally in that era. It could just be that Scrooge really likes the old Motorola DynaTAC 8000X because by the time the 90s rolled around, those phones were way cheaper to get. This also speaks to some of his penny pinching ways and he might have found it easier and simpler to use. He strikes me as someone where he'd be just happy with a phone just being a phone and not something really fancy. So yeah. My guess at the year - 1994-1996.
The papyrus will be the item that fixes everything.
which might force them into a Infinite Time-loop. due the Broad nature of "still unknown heir's" wish
The first reference was the firecracker, not the Bermuda Trapezoid.
Is Bradford going to be a Complete Monster like General Lunaris?
I like how this man click baited us by making us think he was a communist.
If he hadn't told Della about the Spear of Selene then I'd be inclined to agree that Scrooge's Adventuring is a threat. Yes, Scrooge always fixes the messes, but that's like rewarding a kid for cleaning up their room. They made the mess, the least they could do is fix it!
It would vary as not all of Scrooge's adventuring endangers the world and there's instances he tried to keep the children safe.
@@JamaicaZ160R1793010A you're right, not all of it endangers the world. But some of it DOES. And in this instance, those few cases are vital
@@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123 Fair and I'll say that Bradford was right with adventures being dangerous, but the issue was he wanted to bring forth full-on order which literally is impossible. It's a totalitarian dictatorship.
He had his points from his grandmother's adventures but I'll say that some children are certainly as adventurous and brave as the Duck family is in our world.
This may be too obvious:
I have a theory this episode revealed the ending for Ducktales, the mystery is a reality warping parchment, which only Scrooge's heir can gain access to. The reason why they need Scrooge's feather was to create an heir for him, in order to access the parchment.
If we go down that route, we could end up with a wacky reality warp episode/alternate reality finale. Marvel has done it a few times and so has DC, it would make sense if Ducktales does something similar. Have a Crisis on Infinite Earths moment with Scrooge trying to reset reality.
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie lol
My guess is this adventure takes place, in 1987. There are a lot of parallels between this ep and the original recipe Ducktales.
I think that Bradford created FOWL with Black Heron in 1967 and the rest of the episode took place in 1987
When they started black heron didn’t have the robot arm ur right
@@SillyAlastor Exactly
The only thing I don’t like about this episode is that Bradford and Red Herron just switched back to their regular outfits halfway through the episode
On 2:59 that waa a reference to when Della sends the Duck boys to Donald, due to their father being in the hospital because of a firecracker the boys set off. Originally Della said she was Donald's cousin, but that error was fixed later. And 96th comment.
8:54 Isn’t that the globe created by aliens using a magic camera that causes it to function as a planetary scale voodoo doll?
svtfoe question here what happend to all the prisnores that were crystallized by Rhombulus death are they free or what
That's unfortunataly a pothole thst even if the creators try to explain it won't make sense. The losing all magic powers was something they rushed to get for no reason. Something meant to resolve everything ended up causing more chaos than good off screen 🙃
@@jeshuarestituyo284 Did you see the potiten to have a star vs the forces of evil movie or season 5 of 200.000 they have 153.040 signed
@@jeshuarestituyo284 And its still going strong
How did you miss the fact the pogo stick cane is a blatent refference to the DuckTales SNES game
she gets them from her pen pal Doofenshmertz
the cane is also a reference to the old Ducktales game
4:07 If this is what Della and Donald were like when they met Scrooge, than that doesn’t make any sense. I mean, in Whatever Happened To Della Duck, Della said: “I spent 20 years with the best treasure hunter in the world.” But how can that be so, if you consider her time she and Donald spent with Scrooge, and how long she was stranded on the moon.
So small fact, the whole, "Sending your kids away because of a fireworks incidence" was actually the original reason as to why Huey, Dewey and Louie were sent to be taken care of Uncle Donald, specifically they put a firecracker under their dads chair and caused him to have a nervous breakdown and have to be sent to a mental ward...yeah they were psychos in the old comics
0:47 Black Heron is crazy!!!
you forgot the gravity falls reference, scrooge: what am I made of money?
Can you talk about the Cartoon Network show Craig of the Creek, it's a really great and very underrated show in the Cartoon Community.
Yeah, that show really deserves more recognition
I've watched all the episodes and it was rrally great hope everyone will too
You have time to catch up!
im also pretty early
1:13 ok, WHAT?
Well this is very Late
there a saying in overlord
evil always finds a way
"staged in the 90s" and he shows a clip from an 80s movie.
Great research there, dude.
brafford is wrong, i mean if there is no chaos then there is no order
I am second I wish I was first not really
WHAT EPISODE IS THIS?!?!?
Hey can you give me a shout out in your next video
Wait he was right hmm 🤔 u now u do have a point in a way
Hi
Something make me thing that the final villain will not be Bradford
He is the final villain i
@@masonmineer2613 Maybe someone can get the control of FOWL
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