Ducktales: The End Of Adventure

Priya Sridhar
Permanent Nerd Network
10 min readApr 2, 2021

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I wasn’t ready for the end of Ducktales. Neither were a lot of people according to what I saw on social media. While I do feel that sometimes a show has run its course and that ending it complies with the creator’s wishes, this is not the case. The adventures aren’t over for the characters in-show, but we won’t be watching them for a while.

Of course, Disney has done this before. They forcibly canceled Wander Over Yonder and didn’t let fans know until the middle of season 2 had passed. Coincidentally, Frank Aragones also worked on that show and was witness to that nonsense. Despite fans launching a campaign to save the show and give us season three, that didn’t happen. At the least, we gave it our best shot. Ducktales didn’t even give fans time to launch a protest begging for season 4, with a handful of episodes to go before the adventures ended forever.

Season three felt rushed. It was supposed to be Huey’s focus season, and you can tell with the early episodes that he’s meant to face some character development about this knowledge, and the fact that he thinks he knows everything. Huey is forced to face that he is flawed and imperfect, and he doesn’t know everything. It’s a bitter pill to swallow.

Then the series finale tosses that arc out of the running, as do the later F.O.W.L. episodes. The storytelling isn’t bad, and the individual…

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Priya Sridhar
Permanent Nerd Network

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.