Episode has poor timing, and again perfectly displays DT's continuity problem of having far too much (unimportant) dialogue and storylines crammed into just 22 minutes, and the final product seems rushed and incohesive as a result. This leaves no chance to build up any tension (note that the opening scene almost immediately starts with a fighting scene, which has no trace of any musical score for some reason, just complete silence occasionally interrupted with these fighting grunts that make it sound like a 1980s video game). Ludwig Von Drake, a great character who has appeared in many Dusney shows, and had been handled with respect to the originals up to this point, is drawn completely off-model and is completely out of character, with the show portraying him as some unlikeable braggart, rather than the pompous but good-hearted and absentminded professor he was in the originals. The show limits him to some flashback in the 1960s, but I suppose the fact that they spoiled their own chances of using the character again is only good, as they simply don't seem to be able to figure out how to use the character properly, instead of making him some walking reference to the old cartoons, and giving zeri thought to characterization or character design. Also, apparently the jokes with nobody being able to finish a sentence before being interrupted is funny? Or is it a time issue? Definitely the weakest episode thus far.
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