DuckTales S2 Episode 23-25 REACTION

Man, I really want them to come back for season 3. Its my favorite season by a lot. Everything here is great and I love your reactions too, so I'm really hoping they get around to it. 

I REALLY hope you guys finish DuckTales!! I’ve been thoroughly enjoying rewatching it with you guys !

I feel bad being overly critical of Ducktales because I genuinely did like it when it came out and I assume a lot of studio meddling happened when writing it because of Donald’s involvement as a character. Watermelon Mickey was literally a result of them not being allowed to have Mickey due to copyright (don’t ask me to explain the weird tangled mess of that) but there are so many family moments that don’t land for me just because of ways they were handled. Mainly the Donald stuff because the jokes about him often feel too harsh when he hasn’t done anything to deserve it like in other shows where they establish him as someone who brings situations on himself.

Like Oh Donald had a traumatic experience losing a sibling and being pushed into parenthood. Lets send him to the moon for it to have no effect on the plot because him being on the moon didn’t change anything. They could have easily had Donald actually go on the cruise and sunk the boat and it would have played out the exact same way.

The show definitely was doing well, until it got moved to Disney XD, where most shows go to die. It's a running trend with Disney, shoving shows--no matter how popular--get placed when Disney doesn't care for it anymore. It's a real shame, as around the time it got placed there, I cancelled cable in my room and didn't bother much with the Disney streaming service, as it's suuuuper laggy for me despite Netflix and Crunchyroll performing perfectly in comparison.

I am sad this series is going on hiatus... I haven't seen season 3 because of the previously mentioned issue with Disney+, so was really hoping I'd get to experience it properly with you guys, but... Oh well. =/ Maybe one day they'll release a DVD/Bluray boxset. It has been what I was waiting for, for years.

I've been trying to figure out why this show isn't talked about as much - because you're right. When they were originally airing DuckTales was often talked about in the same breath with Owl House and Amphibia, but Owl House and Amphibia have continued to be talked about (and reacted to and analyzed). I suspect Owl House is going to be one of those shows like Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, and Avatar: The Last Airbender that keeps finding new audiences and attracting fans to reaction videos. I think Amphibia is slowly fading in that regard, whereas Duck Tales seems to have fallen off a cliff. Which is both weird to me but also not surprising.

On the one hand, the Duck Tales reboot *was* trying to bring in both nostalgia-driven audiences and Gravity Falls fans by taking old familiar characters and adding Gravity Falls-style mysteries. I think the difference is compared to OH and Amphibia they pulled their punches on emotional beats. Duck Tales is entertaining enough in the moment, but doesn't often leave you on the edge of your seat for what comes next.

There's a LOT that I love about the craft that went into Duck Tales. It's a love letter not just to the original series, but to the entire Disney Afternoon block of shows *and* the Disney Duck universe of comics created by Carl Barks that inspired Duck Tales in the first place. There are tons of Easter eggs and throwaway gags that will only be caught by a very small set of fans...

...which may be the problem. It's true that there's a lot of deep lore in the show, but at the end of the day I think most people are looking for an emotional connection to the shows they obsess over. And Duck Tales tends to play it safe on the emotional front. It's not that it doesn't have those emotional beats and character arcs. It's that the shows that become classics do those beats better.

I can probably list dozens of shows that I watched religiously and greatly enjoyed over the years, but I'd say there's a bare handful I regularly rewatch or seek out reactions to. Duck Tales is not in that latter category. I enjoy it enough that if a channel I follow reacts to it I'll watch those videos, but I don't go looking for new reactions to it like I do for The Owl House or Avatar. I appreciate the care that went into it, and it's still a show I think was very well done, but I doubt I'll ever sit down and do a binge rewatch. Maybe that will change. It doesn't have that "tough to revisit" quality a lot of shows from the 70s and 80s have. It might make a comeback. There was a point after they ended where both ATLA and SU were rarely talked about until newer audiences discovered them. Maybe that will happen for Duck Tales.

I hope you return to it soon. The third season connects alot of things, and the finale is by far the best part of the entire series. This show is criminally underrated as a whole, but was kind of a major part of showing Disney that a story based cartoon could really work.

Looking forward to when y'all return for the rest of Ducktales. There is one episode in particular I've been waiting on. Honestly could not tell you which one without looking it up, but there was one I'd been hyped for. Be staying tuned.

I believe they moved the show from the Disney Channel to Disney XD, which destroyed the show's viewership on the third season. I don't really understand why the fandom sorta died with the show despite how well-received it was, it's very strange.

It's a shame this doesn't perform better for you guys, Ducktales is great. I look forward to its return.

No idea how this isn't performing well, it is a great series. To me this is worlds better than Sponge Bob and Gumball. I still think Gumball is some elaborate April Fools joke that just went too far.

Very sad this series has such a low performance but admittedly we are getting to the episodes that I didn't really like, I'm not big on season 3 minus a few episodes and characters and I didn't like this finale. Mostly because I wasn't a fan of how they handled the Donald and Della reunion, it was a big let down during watching it as it aired. I really like this show, and a I love a lot of the characters! I can see why it's going this way though.

You guys are also the first people I've seen that didn't like Glomgold after his big episode, but putting it in perspective it makes sense. That episode is like in my top three and I had loved the drama of him turning back. It really doesn't feel the same when he's still being really silly after all that... would've loved some call backs at least.