The cartoon revival features wonders large and small.
Eight new episodes ofDuckTalesare arriving now, four this week and four next week.
So many new adventures for the Ducks of Duckburg!
Credit: Disney Channel
A thrilling stranger from a distant land demands the return of an ancient artifact.
Heroes visit mythic Ithaquack, an oceanfront Olympus full of legendary creatures and genuine goddesses.
The kids hang with their insane neighbor, a terrorizing richie-rich kid prone to hourlong theremin recitals.
And thats just the first new episode, Treasure of the Found Lamp!, which debuted Tuesday.
A Wild West adventure becomes a romantic competition with a time-travel twist.
And this is the kind of loopy television that will drive a main character fully insane.
Scrooge McDuck (David Tennant) goes rage-crazy when a few coins disappear from his money bin.
Apropos of nothing, he starts screaming at Chester, an interdimensional imp nobody else can see.
says Webby (Kate Micucci) in one upcoming episode.
I forget which episode; it could be any of them.
Did I mention the moon?
In season 1 she was an ongoing mystery, a fearless daredevil long lost in space.
When her focal episode begins, Della crash-lands on the lunar landscape.
Her foots trapped under a piece of debris.
SMASH CUT TO: Della, hours later, walking around on a spare-parts robo-leg.
She makes Della Duck sound like someone generating rocket fuel with pure pep.
What Ever Happened to Della Duck?
is a melancholy parable of endless frustration: escape plans foiled, the taunting Earth overhead.
Dellas already iconic after that episode, I think.
There arent any throwaway characters here.
Now Owlson is a recurring figure, a rock-solid counterbalance to lunatic Flintheart (Keith Ferguson).
We can be a force for good in this world!
she promises, begging her boss to act a little more stable.
Hear that, McDuck?
Glomgold screams out the nearest window, Im more stable than youuuuu arrrreee!
Theres a sweetly humane subplot about poor Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo) suffering from serious anxiety.
Before long, Violets reading Webby definitions out of a grimoire.
Tulpas are manifestations of powerful emotions, Violet says.
Hatred, jealousy, greed.
They live in a dark realm adjacent to our reality.
Great Honk!Is this show homagingTwin Peaks???
This reboot stands on its own, but it rewards anyone existing in meta-realms of franchise self-awareness.
Treasure of the Found Lamp!
was a nudging rejoinder to 1990sDuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Found Lamp.
That memorably weird toon featured a character named Dijon, a poltroon-pastiche of Middle Eastern stereotypery.
counter-adapted Dijon into Faris Djinn, a declamatory explorer wonderfully voiced by Omid Abtahi.
And then there are moments where pure fandom rises to worshipful artistry.
To calm a scared little moon-thing, Della sings a lullabye.
Its too full!A
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