{"id":663,"date":"1998-05-24T06:47:00","date_gmt":"1998-05-24T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/1998\/05\/663\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:01:57","slug":"663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/1998\/05\/663\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Derring-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>\nAs incorrect as DuckTales was, I&#8217;ve always thought the voice fellow they used made a good Scrooge &#8212; even though Rosa insists Scrooge shouldn&#8217;t really have any accent anymore. The voice just fits him better than most characters. Donald&#8217;s voice, for example; it&#8217;s fine for the screen-Donald, who, as they say, throws nuts at Chip &#8216;N Dale &#8212; but the comic book Duck, who has a personality, speaks like a normal human being? I have no clue what his voice would sound like.<\/p>\n<p>\nI also do like the refined nephew voices in DuckTales. They sound &#8220;ducky&#8221; enough, but are more than normal-sounding, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\nActually, DT wasn&#8217;t too bad a show. It had a number of well-written episodes, and, hell, it tried. It&#8217;s virtually the only acknowledgement by Disney that Barks&#8217; characters ever existed. Just the fact they altered so many things and got so much wrong really annoys me.<\/p>\n<p>\nI also admit I do like Launchpad. He was basically added to take the place of the Donald role, but he&#8217;s an enjoyable character anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat don&#8217;t rub me so well are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Webby and &#8220;Mrs. Beakly&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Duckworth&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>that young fellow named &#8220;Doofus&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the voice for Magica DeSpell &#8212; she&#8217;s supposed to be a vixen. Why does she sound like an old hag?<\/li>\n<li>Their characterization of Glomgold as a Scotsman who lives in Duckburg rather than a Boer who lives in South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Their dumbed-down and &#8220;modified&#8221; Beagle Boys, with their individual names and personalities (beyond the prunes and numbers)<\/li>\n<li>The absence of Donald, he being the axis of the whole situation to begin with<\/li>\n<li>The strange, gawky way they drew Gyro<\/li>\n<li>The fact that Gyro&#8217;s little helper only appeared exactly twice in all the years of the show, in cameos, and that when he did appear they called him &#8220;little bulb.&#8221; Again, huh?<\/li>\n<li>The fact that Gladstone, as major a character as he is, only appeared twice. (Perhaps in absence of his rival, Donald?) He had a brief cameo, which was cute &#8212; but when he appeared properly, they got his character all wrong.<\/li>\n<li>The minimal acknowledgement of the Junior Woodchucks, and very un-woodchucklike behaviour on the part of the nephews<\/li>\n<li>The unfortunate characterization, voice, and appearance they gave to Glittering Goldie.<\/li>\n<li>the odd negative color-switch they gave to $crooge&#8217;s jersey. <\/li>\n<li>The fact they permanently screwed things up by confusing Dewey and Louie, then insisting it had always been that way. (Rather than Huey=<font color=\"#880000\">red<\/font>; Dewey=<font color=\"#000088\">blue<\/font> and Louie=<font color=\"#008800\">green<\/font>, as it had usually tended to be (once colors had finally been settled upon), they made it Huey=<font color=\"#880000\">red<\/font>; Dewey=<font color=\"#008800\">green<\/font> and Louie=<font color=\"#000088\">blue<\/font>.)<\/li>\n<li>The absence of the dry wit to Barks&#8217;s writing, either misinterpreting it and taking jokes seriously or just being sickly silly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd yet: they did basically get Scrooge&#8217;s character right, which is amazing. Had they just stuck to Barks, the show could still be on now &#8212; the elements they removed could provide a virtually endless number of plot ideas, in a number of different genres &#8212; the &#8220;ten pager,&#8221; with Donald and the kids getting into trouble around town or chasing each other around or contesting against Gladstone or other day-to-day activities; the classic Scrooge adventure, which is basically all they used as inspiration; the Scrooge &#8220;ten pager,&#8221; which they did actually use on occasion, which deal with more daily, small troubles; the Donald adventure story; the Junior Woodchuck competition stories; the Gyro episode&#8230; I could go on. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe biggest error is probably their removal of Donald and Gladstone. Compared to their absence, the other changes are nothing. I guess they just didn&#8217;t think Donald would be intelligable enough for such a large role &#8212; or perhaps they didn&#8217;t want the wider public to be confused by the fact he has a personality. I think they just figured everyone else other than the nephews would be &#8220;new&#8221; characters to most of the viewing population, allowing them to mold the show however they liked.<\/p>\n<p>\nResult, almost everyone I&#8217;ve met seems to think that Scrooge was created for DuckTales in 1986. A few correct them: no, he was the character created for Mickey&#8217;s Christmas Carol in 1980, remember? Then that just confuses the whole matter. Why would Disney use Ebenezer Scrooge as a major character and call him Donald&#8217;s uncle?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As incorrect as DuckTales was, I&#8217;ve always thought the voice fellow they used made a good Scrooge &#8212; even though Rosa insists Scrooge shouldn&#8217;t really have any accent anymore. 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Donald&#8217;s voice, for example; it&#8217;s fine for the screen-Donald, who, as they say, throws nuts at Chip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_front_end_style_editor":"no","ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[266,185,28],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-adaptation","tag-ducks","tag-film-tv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}