This Ducktales review contains spoilers.
It’s hard for any TV show to surprise me but when they opened that gift and discovered Scrooge was actually delivering coal all this time? I gasped. What A Betrayal. Scrooge, how dare you! But… it made sense.
DuckTales has done a lot of work in growing Scrooge from the person we first met in the premiere who only cared about money. He’s slowly grown to love his extended family and isn’t quite as much of a curmudgeon as he used to be. Still though, just because Scrooge has changed some parts of himself doesn’t mean he’s flawless. There are a lot of ingrained world views that can’t be changed in just a few years.
Scrooge loves to remind us of his impoverished background. That he worked himself up from nothing. It makes for a great “pull yourself up...
It’s hard for any TV show to surprise me but when they opened that gift and discovered Scrooge was actually delivering coal all this time? I gasped. What A Betrayal. Scrooge, how dare you! But… it made sense.
DuckTales has done a lot of work in growing Scrooge from the person we first met in the premiere who only cared about money. He’s slowly grown to love his extended family and isn’t quite as much of a curmudgeon as he used to be. Still though, just because Scrooge has changed some parts of himself doesn’t mean he’s flawless. There are a lot of ingrained world views that can’t be changed in just a few years.
Scrooge loves to remind us of his impoverished background. That he worked himself up from nothing. It makes for a great “pull yourself up...
- 12/1/2020
- by Shamus Kelley
- Den of Geek
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