‘Ducktales:’ a reboot done right
After giving us three seasons of pure joy and enjoyment, Disney’s 2017 remake of “Ducktales” left us yearning for more episodes of the loveable cast. The premise of the show is similar to that of the 1998 version: When Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo) is no longer able to adequately take care of his triplet nephews, he reconnects with his great uncle Scrooge McDuck (David Tennant), the richest duck in Duckburg and the world’s greatest adventurer. Along with Mrs. Beakley (Toks Olagundoye) and her granddaughter Webby Vanderquack (Kate Micucci), they go on numerous adventures while defeating various villains. With episodes a little over 20 minutes long, it is the perfect show to watch every day before going to bed. Not only is it the perfect length, but you can’t help but wipe away any bad feelings from the day when you watch these episodes.
The Epic DuckTales Finale Was, in Fact, a Duck Blur
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DuckTales series is over, but it went out with a giant, epic finale that was wildly overstuffed, mostly satisfying, and contained one massive surprise that somehow wasn’t the reveal that Manny the Headless Man Horse With a Bust of Scrooge McDuck for His Head was actually Manny the Headless Man Horse With a Bust of Scrooge McDuck for His Head…
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DuckTales showrunners Frank Angones and Matt Youngberg may have approached this season like it was their last, but as it was revealed in tonight s series finale, the 2017 Disney XD reboot had a few more cards up its sleeve and not even the smartest of the smarties might have seen it coming. SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the
DuckTales series finale.
As the episode eventually revealed, not only was Bradford Buzzard after the Papyrus of Binding so he could prevent any and all future adventures of the Clan McDuck, but Scrooge himself might have a
little more family than he d previously thought: Webby is his biological daughter. And what s more, she has
“We had an inkling going in that this would also be our final season,” says Angones of when they first found out they wouldn’t be coming back to do more episodes. “So we decided now is the time to start paying off the threads that we’ve been laying in since the pilot.”
Unlike the 1987 version of the show, this newer series has embraced overarching storylines and mysteries, each culminating in a grand finale bigger than the previous one. The first season saw the emergence of Magica De Spell, an evil sorceress intent on unlocking her physical body from inside Scrooge’s “Number One Dime,” while also plunging the city of Duckberg into darkness. The second season saw the Earth get invaded by Moonlanders, the aliens having been lied to and told that Della Duck Scrooge’s niece and Donald Duck s sister, as well as the mother of Scrooge s great-nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie had attacked their leader before fleeing home after years spent trapped on the Moon livin