#ducktales discourse
I know everyone loved the moment Scrooge went all protective dad mode on Webby, but I can’t stop thinking about the fact he deadass ditched Webby in a swamp to go find youth juice with Goldie.
He third wheeled Webby, who had back pain and a swollen eye. Would he have done the same had he known the truth?
Let’s dissect that.
Scrooge is selfish, no doubt about that. But it rubbed me the wrong way that he only cared about Webby’s safety to the extent of wanting to baby her and put her in a life jacket when he knew she was his daughter. Why didn’t the other kids, including May and June, get that treatment?
It’s really upsetting. It just shows that a biologic daughter (his favorite biologic daughter) is more important than even his biologic nephews.
The lifevest moment is cute and sweet if you just look at it, but if just stop to give it a thought and look at the characters as a whole… Is it right? Should this situation really be happening? With them, right now?
I see your points and they’re valid…tbh, I’m not sure if Scrooge would have cheerfully left his kid behind in the Foreverglades, then had an, “Oh, shit” moment and gone back once sense caught up to him. I had a different interpretation of the life vest moment, though…I do need to watch the finale again when initial reactions are past and I can analyze it…but I saw it as him thinking “wait how do I dad” and he defaulted to things he’d seen Donald do. Granted, the boys were still left out, but that’s just my $.02 worth on that bit.
That’s sorta my point. We could say, “If Goldie knew, would she ask Scrooge?” I am going to say a toss up that probably, yeah, she still would - pointing out he’s 151 with an 11 year old. I think Scrooge still would’ve left with more reluctance and come back when his guilt was too much.
But he would’ve turned back. He didn’t turn back when Webby was just his adopted niece.
I did a whole rewatch of the series before the finale, and that just seemed so standoffish to me since they’re supposed to be his kids, fun uncle or not. In the finale, he seemed so additionally sweet and loving to Webby, using the same endearment his OG counterpart used when they weren’t related by blood.
Your interpretation is fine too! I’d say it’s pretty funny!
I agree there - Goldie is Goldie, and she would have likely been operating on a “not my kid, not my problem” mentality…and Scrooge probably would have been talked into it. As much as I enjoyed Foreverglades, I did have a problem with him leaving Webby behind…I understand it narratively, but I was also cheerfully thinking about how Beakley would rightfully kick his ass when she found out.
I know everyone loved the moment Scrooge went all protective dad mode on Webby, but I can’t stop thinking about the fact he deadass ditched Webby in a swamp to go find youth juice with Goldie.
He third wheeled Webby, who had back pain and a swollen eye. Would he have done the same had he known the truth?
Let’s dissect that.
Scrooge is selfish, no doubt about that. But it rubbed me the wrong way that he only cared about Webby’s safety to the extent of wanting to baby her and put her in a life jacket when he knew she was his daughter. Why didn’t the other kids, including May and June, get that treatment?
It’s really upsetting. It just shows that a biologic daughter (his favorite biologic daughter) is more important than even his biologic nephews.
The lifevest moment is cute and sweet if you just look at it, but if just stop to give it a thought and look at the characters as a whole… Is it right? Should this situation really be happening? With them, right now?
I see your points and they’re valid…tbh, I’m not sure if Scrooge would have cheerfully left his kid behind in the Foreverglades, then had an, “Oh, shit” moment and gone back once sense caught up to him. I had a different interpretation of the life vest moment, though…I do need to watch the finale again when initial reactions are past and I can analyze it…but I saw it as him thinking “wait how do I dad” and he defaulted to things he’d seen Donald do. Granted, the boys were still left out, but that’s just my $.02 worth on that bit.
I just hope in things like the podcast, Epcot, or any other future Ducktales related projects they may want to do they won’t bring up that twist they did with Webby. I could go on about how it undermined the message it set in earlier episodes about not having to be related to be considered family, how it takes away from several characters, and other ways they could have gone about it that made more sense and have it not be the most cliché cop out they’ve done, but others have gone more in detail about that. Besides, I’m choosing to ignore that and possibly most of season 3 anyway.
Speaking of, we still have that podcast coming up featuring more of Huey. Even so, poor Huey. I mean he still had a lot of good moments but he got shafted so hard during his supposed season. I know they told us what his arc was intended to be, but I think if they have to tell us what it is then they didn’t properly plan it or set it up unlike the first 2 seasons. I honestly can’t remember if there were any episodes that only focused on him and not where he had share the role with anyone or have him be in a (major) supporting role except for for the Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks episode.
Huey and Webby really deserved better, but at least that’s what fanon is for.
