DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland—that quickly disappeared

[TMC]

http://www.avclub.com/articles/duckt...that-qu,92324/

Disney bet big on the syndication market and reaped the profits, but the world of cable was lurking.

[Furienna]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://www.avclub.com/articles/duckt...that-qu,92324/

Disney bet big on the syndication market and reaped the profits, but the world of cable was lurking.

Ah, "Duck Tales".

While most people in the US seem to focus on the earlier episodes, I've always preferred the later ones. I grew up only with the last 35 episodes (I actually had no idea that 65 more episodes existed), so that's one reason for what it has become so. But I also have a second reason: Fenton Crackshell. He's not introduced until eighty episodes already had been made, but he's by far my favorite character in that show. I also feel that the last season was more mature and more enjoyable for adults.

I really hate though how they let Gandra Dee, Fenton's love interest/girlfriend, be such a wasted opportunity. Instead of being an interesting sympathetic heroine, she was either a boring pretty-face with no personality, or a cold-hearted bitch, who demanded Fenton to apologize to her, when she was the one, who actually had wronged him! I have no idea what they were thinking there. How was "pretty girls are always right, even when they're wrong" a good message in a TV show, that still was made mostly for a young audience?

[Mario500]

I don't believe the producers of the program intended to send a bad message to their audience, Furienna.

[Furienna]

Yeah, I guess it wasn't their intention to send a bad message. But then, what did they think they were doing? I suppose they were trying a "look at the geek getting the pretty girl of his dreams" wishful fantasy kind of thing. But I would so much rather have seen Fenton with a girl, who maybe wasn't oh so pretty, but instead had a better personality. Even when Gandra isn't bitchy or stupid, she's mostly bland and boring. I know she only appeared in six episodes (thank God!), and that "Duck Tales" is an old show by now. But it just sucks that the same writers, who otherwise made such a good show with such good characters, failed so badly with Gandra Dee.

[Mario500]

^By the way, you could have used better words to describe Gandra Dee other than words some people have used to describe mean female persons.

[Furienna]

But that's just it. We're supposed to like Gandra and think she's this awsome character. But what is she really? In at least two episodes, she treats Fenton like crap.