Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Darkwing Duck Season 1: Just Us Justice Ducks Part 1


Just Us Justice Ducks Part 1

Criticisms and highlights of our daring crusader who dares a little too dangerously.


In the beginning, Drake uses his "d-ex appeal" (Duck+Sex) and shear wit on Morgana, a duck we've never met before, who also emulates Morticia Addams from the Addams Family.

[Note to self: Who is Morgana and why is she dating Darkwing of all ducks?]

While fixing Drake's hair with a spell, she turns Drake into a yak. This adds some flashy-child like humor to the mix for the youngster demographic but adults are not so easily amused by this ridiculous act of hocus pocus.

[Never trust an amateur at casting spells on messy hair. The comb is a more effective wand.]

Suddenly the power goes out for the entire city. Who could behind this scheme thinks the audience? We know! Megavolt must be because he's the mastermind behind manipulating electricity in every single episode with electricity as a focal point.

Darkwing starts to over analyze the situation with his "infra-pink ultra scan specs." The forever annoying Gosalyn, his adopted daughter and my least favorite character, asks him "How about the power company, Cosmo?" Next the viewers see that it is definitely Megavolt's doing. Could there be a trap because this is all too obvious?

As Darkwing enters the lighted room to face Megavolt with his quirky lines such as, "I am the career man all single ladies want to date," Quackerjack shows up to aid in the mischief by using his toy teeth to clamp our hero and lead him into an electric chair [the irony]. Morgana tries to get Darkwing out of the chair's grip but once again screws up her spell; this time he turns into Jell-O. Both villains claim an alliance, laugh in unison, and so our adventure into the MEGA-PLOT begins!

Next at the police station, we see Bushroot (a villain we've seen multiple times manipulate plant life similar to Poison Ivy) and the Liquidator, a new villain that appears for the first time in this episode, up to no good [Their intention is not all that clear]. The Liquidator is a dog-like being made out of pure water and has the ability to knock people down by becoming a wave. [I really like this villain because he acts more badass compared to the others with an exception of NegaDuck who is beyond the league of everyone's villainy.]

[This next scene doesn't contribute much at all except hilarious in every way, a Freakazoidian moment]

In this scene we meet Stegmutt, what Darkwing calls a "duck-turned" stegosaurus friend introduced for the first time in the entire series, selling hot dogs to people. Darkwing crashes his bike into him on his way to catch the villains. [Here comes the ridiculous part]. Stegmutt begs Darkwing to buy a hot dog but Darkwing says, "No, I haven't the time." Next Stegmutt follows Darkwing continuously asking him to purchase a hot dog. Darkwing finally decides that he needs to buy a hot dog so he can be on his way.

[The Freakazoidian part commences]. Stegmutt says, "First I pull out the hot dog. Then I put it in a bun." Darkwing at this point is getting upset and says, "Well!" Stegmutt then says, "That'll be seventy-five cents." Darkwing hands him a dollar and runs away because doesn't have time to deal with his slow friend. [This helps enforce Disney's policy of efficiency].

After consulting his professor friend, J. Gander Hooter [which sounds like J. Edgar Hoover, First Director of the FBI) at S.H.U.S.H. (a sneaky parody of marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D.), NegaDuck appears and looks exactly like Darkwing except is SUPER evil not to mention wearing a black mask. He takes S.H.U.S.H. newest gun, which has the ability to produce large amounts of pies, and causes the room to fill up with doe.

Darkwing gets excited after cleaning off the doe. He realizes that with S.H.U.S.H. and the police station out of commission he claims "this is my biggest battle yet." But then the national guard arrives with Gizmo Duck, a Robo Cop like duck from the series Duck Tales.

As the national guard comes to help the city NegaDuck commands Megavolt to use the device that was seen in the beginning during the power surge to create a electronic laser barrier that cuts the bridge in half sending the army into the water. Finally St. Canard gets taken over by the Fearsome Five (NegaDuck, Bushroot, Quackerjack, Megavolt, and the Liquidator).

To Darkwing's command is Gizmo Duck, Morgana, Stegmutt, and then Neptunia shows up. Neptunia is like a female version of aquaman. [Then again aquaman wasn't much of a man]. These five make the "Just Us Ducks" according to Gosalyn even though not all of them are ducks but majority. [Remember Stegmutt was a duck at one point]. Just when every thing was getting good Darkwing pulls one of his "I can take them all alone" and dismisses the entire group.

After using some quick detective skills via microscope, Darkwing heads to the base of the villains and gets pulverized. As he is dropped through a vent he is then shot outside the tall building continuously falling until the audience then sees the words:

To be continued.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Foxy Lady


Robin Hood a Classic or Sexual Fantasy?

Many colleagues of my own heart (Humans) would say that Maid Marian is a "fox." Of course she is a fox to the every day simpleton who only looks with the head connected to his shoulder!

Yeah she has fur all over her body, yes she has a bushy tail, and yes she has a black-balled nose, but the physical and emotional connection she has with Robin Hood makes her even more of a foxy lady.

According to etymology.com the word foxy was used as an American-English slang word for "attractive" in 1895; it wasn't until the 1940s the word was equated with "sexually attracted woman."

Who wouldn't want to cuddle next to Maid Marian in this film? She like many of Disney's other main female characters is 100-percent more attractive than that clucking rooster friend of hers.

This is not a notion of bestiality. No, sir! In fact, because the Disney animators portray the animals in an anthropomorphic way, we are actually viewing them as humans rather than beasts of the field. After all she isn't walking on all four like the average fox.

The love we see between the two is beautiful, sexually passionate (like in the fighting scene when they talk about where they want to go to make babies), and enduring (during the neat sequence of the layered trees at night, one of the most visually stunning scenes in older Disney history.)

Friday, February 12, 2010

Who is Darkwing Duck?

Patient:
Darkwing Duck's real identity is Drake Mallard of St. Canard, a city similar to Duckburg but with more of a Gotham City flavor.

Bio:
Mallard takes on the appearance of not only a fighter but an intellectual, and introspective citizen of St. Canard. He says things like, " The bad part of town... where the sun never shines, where brutality is a way of life, and where, uh, people just rea... they're really not very nice at all. Really."

According to fans and scholarly observers of this Disney hero, Mallard's crime-fighting image is based off of D.C. Comics' Crimson Avenger and Batman. Mallard has a grappling gun, an aircraft called the Thunderquack, and a motorcycle known as the Ratcatcher. He loves solving mysteries using his detective skills such as magnifying glasses and deductive reasoning; thus enforcing the ideals of D.C.'s audience.

Symptoms:
- patient suffers from over confidence, selfishness, and arrogance.
- patient has an uncanny ability throughout the series to know exactly who is behind what crime.
- patient tries to be professional even though he himself is unprofessional.

Final Diagnosis:
The hero is more incompetent than he should be. It is apparent that throughout the series he is only able to complete his missions with the help of others.