Surely there are other viewers who are more familiar withDuckTales' fellow Disney Afternoon shows likeDarkwing DuckorRescue Rangers.
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Whats been your approach to incorporating him into DuckTales?
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MATT YOUNGBERG:“Patient” is definitely the word, if you know Frank at all.
Launchpad was kind of the key driver in the Darkwing storyline.
I felt like we found this really good balance there.
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FRANK ANGONES:Part of the legacy ofDuckTalesis the Disney Afternoon.
Season 3 is so much about legacy.
The overall theme for our characters is, who are we going to be going forward?
That was important to us.
Its all part of both this larger villainous plot, but also this larger meta-narrative.
Like, Darkwing Duck is Launchpads legacy.
That was where he was always going to build.
Like we said in the previous Darkwing episode, Launchpad knows a lot about this one thing.
His love of Darkwing has become his operating ethos.
How did you decide which characters to build out organically and which to just drop in like that?
And obviously we had established Darkwing as a show within a show.
The answer is yes.
was interesting to us.
Our show is an amalgamation of all the stories that came before it.
It’s just that this time, it’s a little bit more literal than usual.
The last time we were talking at the beginning of season 3 was about the “Quack Pack!”
episode, where they go into the showQuack Packas a magical dimension created by a genie.
But this season definitely feels like you guys have turned the meta-ness up even further.
So it was like, how do we marry those two things?
Water Dog is a little harder to buy.
Like Launchpad says at the beginning of the episode, youre living my dream.
In our previous conversation, you guys were talking about how season 3 is really Hueys season.
How does this episode play into Hueys strengths and his journey this season?
Hes not looking to discover somebodys a villain, hes just trying to solve a problem.
Solving that problem leads to him discovering theres more going on behind the scenes.
It starts with a questioning nature that leads to stumbling onto something even bigger.
A lot of times when he figures something out, it makes him feel better.
ANGONES: Hueys so focused on order, putting things in boxes and checking off Junior Woodchuck badges.
Part of this show is that there is no order to adventure.
Bradford asks, “shouldnt there be?
Dont you guys see that this is not a thing that children should be doing?”
Its funny as a counterpart to “Quack Pack!”
because “Quack Pack!”
was about Huey looking around asking, are we in a TV show?
And this episode is Huey looking around like, are we in a season arc?
They have been oblivious to the fact that its all connected.
This is the turning point of that.
Like no, this is bad!
Did you see what just happened?
The city is in chaos, we need to stop this.
YOUNGBERG: In a way he is a perfect foil for Huey.
If Huey went too far in his desire for logic and order, he could become Bradford.
