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There are a few things I wish they had done differently, this isn’t a comprehensive list by any means (after all it is 4 items long) but they are just some ideas that have been turning around in my head upon my last rewatch of the show (Spoilers!) 

The number one thing I didn’t like was the finale. Don’t get me wrong it was good for the most part but I guess I wish that we had gotten like an extra season to build up to FOWL. I know that the original plan was for each kid (Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby) to get their own season arcs. You can tell that this finale basically took Huey and Webby’s arcs and mashed them together. Obviously I can’t blame the show too much for this because it’s not like they asked to get cut down to 3 seasons, but one thing I can blame the show for is May and June. I know some people quite like these two and I don’t want to yuck their yum but in my opinion they are a little annoying, very underdeveloped, and feel unnecessary. But my biggest ick with the finale was the fact that Webby is revealed to be Scrooge’s… Daughter? (clone? idk, it was kinda unclear.) The show up to this point had made a big deal about how family can be found and not just blood and Webby was the biggest proof of this, so making her actually blood related felt like it kind of cheapened the message. 

The show feels way too harsh on Donald. His overprotectiveness is often criticized but in my opinion in most situations it is 100% justified. His sister was lost to space because of the adventures. His bad luck is also super played up and feels like he can never get a real win. Also I hate that the show implies he basically has to give up all custody of the boys he raised to his irresponsible and unprepared sister the moment she returns. Like don't get me wrong I LOVE Della and I feel like people who call her selfish or bad completely misunderstand her, I actually liked the idea that she stole the spear of saline in an attempt to have one last adventure before becoming a mother (and having to bear the responsibility that comes with it) but she is still very clearly reckless and stealing the spear she wasn't ready to be a mother yet, and she's no more ready after returning from the moon. I wish we had had an episode where the boys acknowledge that Donald was more of a parent to them than Della and is more capable of fulfilling that role than she is.

I also really wish that they had made Launchpad a little less dumb. I feel like he was smarter in his original incarnation (from 1987) and I just wish they had kept some of his quippy remarks and had more moments when his strengths could shine. We kind of got this in the episode “The Golden Armory” when it showed how he knows how to reassemble his plane and knows all the components, but I wish they had shown his knowledge of planes and stuff more. Yeah he crashes a lot but he is also able to fly in situations a lot of good pilots would immediately crash in. I mean he fixes the sunchaser over and over again, and is always able to crash safely (as in no one dies). I kinda headcanon that he acts dumber sometimes around the kids so he seems more like the fun guy. 

 I wish they would have made Magica and Lena’s relationship an actually loving one but still have Lena betray Magica because she would obviously still be evil. I don’t know how they would write the dynamic around this. Like have Magica be this well meaning parent who despite loving her niece is too consumed by the idea of avenging her brother and the past bad things that have happened to her family that she can’t focus on building a better future with the family still there. I feel like this would be a good thing to insert in season 1 to kind of mirror what Dewey goes through when he is searching for Della (in the process pushing away the rest of his family.)