Family, Adventure, and Gold
If you thought Iād stay silent this day, you were wrong, but you also were almost right.
Why? Well, Iāve been trying to write since early morning a special message for the anniversary of the last episode of Ducktales (2017), called āThe Last Adventureā, but every time I started to write, something felt weird. I didnāt know what was happening, itās like I couldnāt find the words to properly write what this show means to me, I couldnāt find a way to express all the emotions and passions these ducks woke up in me, and honestly, I still canāt understand why my passion for them hadnāt changed at all, even a year after the last episode.
I didnāt know how to start, so I decided to watch that episode again today. Iāve watched all the episodes 5 times already, but every time I watch every episode again, I always find something new, something that makes me love that adventurous family even more, and after those amazing credits of almost every character falling out from the plane into the blue sky, I understood that my message for this Last Adventurversary are three simple, but at the same time, strong words:
Family, Adventure, and Gold.
Iām someone who believes in the power and meaning of the words we say. Thatās why Iād like to explain why each one of these words means a lot to me.
In real life Iām shy, usually a lonely person or the silent one of the group, not because of any personal reason, but mostly because I discovered Iām confortable being more open with people who also loves what I love. Iāve joined the DT17 fandom on September of 2019, and through all this time, Iāve met a lot of people, some of them are writers, some are artist, and some of them are like me, enthusiasts of everything related of the show. Some live in different countries, other even live in different continents, but what we have in common is the love we have for this show, and this common love made a lot of us the family we didn't know we needed. This show is about family, not just blood-related family, but found family.
āDucktalesā without aventures are just āDucksā, and without ducks, are just āTalesā. The essence and engine who moved this ducks to be so fun, relatable and iconic are their adventures. Thanks to Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webbyās shenanigans, the constantly unintended accidents of Donald, or the umbreakable desire to solve a mystery and rewrite history from Scrooge, I realized that adventures are not only intended for historical figures or āthe chosen onesā, because, everyone is the protagonist of their own story, you can find or make your own adventures in your life, you donāt have to stay in your common routine, you can do something new everyday, discover new places, research what insterests you, make new friends and allies in the way, and the most important thing, keep learning more and more about this world of untold history and undiscovered places.
This one is important. Iām not talking about the gold that Scrooge keeps inside his Money Bin, but the the fact that this show was, āgoldā in many aspects. In my case, Iāve seen other current and previous TV shows, like Gravity Falls, Amphibia, The Owl House, Phineas & Ferb, Star, Hilda, Big City Greens, etc etc, and those are good, precious gems with many things that makes each of them special, but Ducktales is different, it has this background history that comes from the legendary Donald Duck, the uncountable comics from him with Scrooge and the triplets, and the iconical childhood show Ducktales (1987) which was the main inspiration to this reboot. All these modern shows may be awesome and popular now, but the history, importance and legacy of more than 87 years (since The Wise Little Hen, 1934) isnāt something that any show of this century could make so easily, specially when Disney prefers to stop any solid project if it doesnāt mean money to the company.
I donāt want to get controversial here, and Iām sorry if I do, but it has to be said: Disney gave Matt and Frank the chance to tell their story in three seasons, which is great, but if Disney had not been interested only in money and rather in the quality of its current programs, right now DT17 should have more than 4 seasons, spin offs, a huge diversity of toys, park attractions, and even movies, but they prefer to prioritize sells ($) and popularity over quality and potential, and Ducktales has A LOT of these last two.
This amazing Ducktales crew created a real complete duck universe, with multiple amazing characters who had the essence of the past perfectly adapted to the modernity of the present, with opportunities to include all the shows from the Disney Afternoon, with epic stories that could face other āmultiversalā shows such as the MCU, with a proper construction and interesting growth planned for each character, and with excellent animation that depicted perfectly the lessons in each episode and all the emotional moments. As I said, Ducktales is pure gold, and itās sad that the company who was supposed to support it more only sees gold in money rather than in the shows itself.
Ducktales means so much to me, and every time I see some new fanart, fanfic, fan project or anything related to them, Iām always happy to reblog it here in this fan blog, and Iām happy to do it daily even a year after the TV series ended. Iām always happy to see a new creator of content or a new follower, and I deeply appreciate all your likes, comments and reblogs with my heart, because those always remember me that Iām not alone with this love of the ducks. During these last months Iāve also seen many artists, writers, friends and enthusiasts move to other shows or interests (and with some of them it has hurt me a lot to see them leave), but Iām happy they have something new that makes them happy. Itās awesome to see that many of them started their journey or were inspired to do what they like thanks to this show, and it also makes me happy every time a new Ducktales fan or content creator appears, giving the fandom more amazing enthusiasm and content to let this fandom stay alive.
This is my message for this anniversary of āThe Last Adventureā, it may be the last adventure of the canon, but the fandom always shows me that adventures are endless, because family is the greatest adventure of all.
