Fone Bone
Matt Zimmer
DuckTales "They Put A Moonlander On The Earth!"
A little bit much, but I can't really complain too harshly. Yeah, this show is not for me. But I didn't find it outright offensive to the premise of the Ducks either.
Penumbra not digging Earth males suggests she actually digs Della. I don't object to a Della being a lesbian, but I do object to the character being in a 'ship at all. We'll see what happens.
I did not get the Timmy Jenkins stuff at all. What am I missing?
I feel the stakes were incredibly low as the main conflict boiled down to confusion over an ice cream headache and theme park ride violations. But I think the stakes on the show are usually too high, so I was totally okay with that.
I like that Penumbra see the kids as Little Dellas. It's funny, but if you take it as "All Earthlings look alike" it's also super racist.
I like that there wasn't a ton of racial tension in the Moonites' integration on Earth. There was some, but it wasn't a driving force of the Moonites' new situation, or a major theme or subtext. I don't necessarily object to the Duck comics exploring how wrong racism is, but I believe that is best done using allegories for other creatures the Ducks encounter on their journeys like the Pahweega or the Terry Fermies. I feel the show exploring that in the characters' backyards, using an ACTUAL alien is a bit more explicit about that type of message than I believe it should be.
But to honest, it's only Rosa who has passable messages there, so I couldn't really fault the show either way. A lot of Barks' stuff was racist. It wasn't systemic like Floyd Gottfredson's stuff was, and I don't believe Barks was a racist later in his life. But there are a few stories that aren't defensible in any way. And the more I think about it, even if that's not an issue I feel comfortable with this show exploring, perhaps that's a reason it someday should be. I felt that specific subtext and melodrama would be outside of the tone set by the comics. But it's not like the comics dealt positively with racial matters to begin with. Maybe I'm wrong there.
My reaction to that was favorable. ****.
A little bit much, but I can't really complain too harshly. Yeah, this show is not for me. But I didn't find it outright offensive to the premise of the Ducks either.
Penumbra not digging Earth males suggests she actually digs Della. I don't object to a Della being a lesbian, but I do object to the character being in a 'ship at all. We'll see what happens.
I did not get the Timmy Jenkins stuff at all. What am I missing?
I feel the stakes were incredibly low as the main conflict boiled down to confusion over an ice cream headache and theme park ride violations. But I think the stakes on the show are usually too high, so I was totally okay with that.
I like that Penumbra see the kids as Little Dellas. It's funny, but if you take it as "All Earthlings look alike" it's also super racist.
I like that there wasn't a ton of racial tension in the Moonites' integration on Earth. There was some, but it wasn't a driving force of the Moonites' new situation, or a major theme or subtext. I don't necessarily object to the Duck comics exploring how wrong racism is, but I believe that is best done using allegories for other creatures the Ducks encounter on their journeys like the Pahweega or the Terry Fermies. I feel the show exploring that in the characters' backyards, using an ACTUAL alien is a bit more explicit about that type of message than I believe it should be.
But to honest, it's only Rosa who has passable messages there, so I couldn't really fault the show either way. A lot of Barks' stuff was racist. It wasn't systemic like Floyd Gottfredson's stuff was, and I don't believe Barks was a racist later in his life. But there are a few stories that aren't defensible in any way. And the more I think about it, even if that's not an issue I feel comfortable with this show exploring, perhaps that's a reason it someday should be. I felt that specific subtext and melodrama would be outside of the tone set by the comics. But it's not like the comics dealt positively with racial matters to begin with. Maybe I'm wrong there.
My reaction to that was favorable. ****.