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Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series - The Most Dangerous Duckhunt
Reviewed: 07/12/2014
Isn't That When The Dog Finally Got Shot Dead?!
The funniest thing about this caption is: If this was done right; the show would take place in an anthromorphic world like TaleSpin was and the payoff would be that the wall of the hunter's wall would be littered with human heads of various pop culture figures in the 1980's. The heel would be a dog; he would be shot (laser of course) and then mounted on the wall as ironic payoff. Of course this will not happen in this show because this show was designed to sell hockey to kids; and it did a crappy job of it so far. So the plot is: Dragonous steals rare elements while a android hunter tries to kill the babyfaces in a "Duck Hunt". Sadly; no dog is involved and that is no buys! Let's rant on shall we...?!
I don't know who wrote, animated nor story edited this episode.
We begin this one with the STOCK FOOTAGE OF DOOM AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark. Seriously; they reused the First Faceoff Part One shot because Klegghorn's police car comes in for no reason.) as we hear Roy Firestone on commentary cutting a promo about the Rhode Island Rattlers as time is ticking down to end period number two as we get a classic Mighty Ducks moment (and when I mean "classic", I mean "crap that makes no sense".): Roy tells us that the Mighty Ducks and the Rattlers are tied because the Rattlers are going down the ice; and if they score, they take the lead. Keep that in mind for later. So the Rattlers skate down the ice and actually body check the babyfaces as one of them shoots and Wildwing bats it out of the air and it bounces right against the head of the blond haired hockey player's red helmet and he sells it like he was hit with an unprotected chair shot to the head. He gets knocked out silly as Mallory sprays ice shavings into the poor guy's face for fun; because the blond haired hockey player checked her from behind without getting a penalty. Roy is sounding more and more like a bias announcer with each passing rant as the crowd pops for it and the ducks go to center ice and do the group slap skin spot. Now this sounds logical for the most part. Here's the problem with this: The Rattlers leave the ice for the second period as Wildwing takes off his glove to reveal his triangle wrist communicator which is beeping and flashing light blue. He opens it to reveal a GPS map as Tanya claims that Drake One has picked up teleportation energy downtown. Then we cut to Tanya on her wrist commuincator noticing this even though it was WILDWING's communicator that was open in the first place. Yeah. So Duke deduces that Dragonous is behind this as they skate off ice allowing Wildwing's jersery to be the scene changer as they run into the dressing room towards the sliding door leading to their headquarters. Phil runs in and pleas for them to come back because the third period starts in 10 minutes! Nosedive and company are in the elevator as they tell Phil not to worry because they are vandalizing...ERRR...saving the world.
Phil faints dead away of course; which I wish I could do the same, but I have a job to do as the door closes. Scene change to a sky shot of the buildings over Anaheim and then we pan down to see Wraith, Siege, Chameleon and one hunter droid. Siege and said droid are doing the most convoluted moving of a cannister of orange energy I have ever seen. Wraith then kills the incentive of watching this episode by yelling at Siege that this will NEVER work. That's not even two and a half minutes in. In comes the Migrator as it spins around and opens the back to show the babyfaces all running and jumping like they were in the hurdles event in the Olympics. So then we get THREE additional hunter droids coming out of nowhere for no logical reason as Siege claims that he needs only thirty seconds to set this up; which Wildwings blows off since they are sushi in 20 seconds. This would have made much more sense (and racist) if the robots were Japanese; which they are not. So the ducks use the puck guns and kill the robots with ease as more robots teleport in and out; and the robots finally fight back to back up the babyfaces. Then we get a pointless far side shot of the firefight which makes no sense at all. We also get repeated shots of the same robots getting killed (remember when TaleSpin was repeating shots and it made sense because the stances didn't change?) as Wildwing asks Tanya what this thing is and she doesn't know. So Siege sets the timer to the orange cannister thingy; and we get another classic moment: Siege originally said that the thing requires a thirty second timer. So Siege proceeds to set the timer to 20 seconds. Now; he might have done it to spite Wildwing's promo earlier, but if it requires a thirty second timer, then setting it to 20 seconds isn't going to work unless you lied about the thirty second timer. Which there was no indication that he did. So we have fire in front of the hunter drones; for no reason as Siege teleports out; with Chameleon doing another impression I don't get, which makes him annoying before teleporting out with Wraith. The rest of the hunter droids are destroyed with ease; which I reply: Of course!
So the babyfaces run in and there is only six seconds left in the timer; and then they bail towards a building which would offer zero protection whatsoever, despite the Migrator being in the area. They brace for impact; and the cannister does absolutely nothing. Then Tanya looks and claims that it's some sort of heat generator and the thing shoots up into the sky and melts the abandoned building to a gray ooze. Seriously. So Tanya uses the oversized eye dropper of doom (part of the Omni tool that was buried in Ice Duck Cometh no doubt) to collect a sample as she claims that she'll test the sample later because we head back to the Arrowhead Pond with a sky shot of the rink. There is 15 seconds left to the start of the third period as Phil is on the bench calling the ducks a bunch of traitors and scummy. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Phil?! So then the ducks arrive from the dressing room and onto the ice as Phil instantly changes his tune. HA! I should note that despite the fact that the duck appeared from the dressing room; the sky shot of the rink indicated that it showed them already on the ice, thus making Phil look extra hilarious. So yes; there was no tension and no heat for it at all. So we head to Drake One as we see a model of your average model atom that you see in every chemistry lab on the monitor against a gray background. I'm certain Tanya is showing them the building block of chemistry even though she is acting like she tested the sample of melted building. Tanya proclaims that the substance is Samarium which is one of the rarest elements on Earth. Now this is fine...and then Tanya claims that it can only be found in Lichenstamp which is a fictional country in Europe. because the people of Liechtenstein would not watch the show; even though I doubt that they even have a hockey team to field, let alone be a power house to be offended. So Nosedive wants to go because it's a tropical island and he's going to be so disappointed. So they try to go outside; but Phil stops them with a scroll of paper. He shows a picture of a Europe in the background with various Italian dishes stuffed in a work boot. It's called Food In A Boot. I'm serious.
The moment that happens; Nosedive and Grin try to weseal their way out of going to the tropical island since they want free pizza and claim that they want to make sure Dragonous doesn't attack them directly. It's a photo op see as Wildwing has the Gruffi pose on in which he is not amused by this. If the writers actually cared about irony; the photo op would take place in Lichenstamp, just to make Nosedive and Grin look like a bunch of dorks. But alas; they don't care, so they won't. Wildwing decides to let them stay and then orders Mallory to look after them and she is groaning and angry in that order. Nosedive and Grin look like they wished they haven't opened their mouths as Grin scratches his head for no reason. So we go boat riding with the Duck Foil with Wildwing, Tanya and Duke as we see a shadow of the island of Lichenstamp which has a haunted castle among it's mists. So they make smart-ass comments about the lack of tourism around this area and then head onto the steps towards the front door as it is a cross between a haunted house and castle on a tropical island. This sounds so much like someone who is throwing ideas against a wall and thought it stuck clean; and then left; causing the stuff to slide down the wall. The doors open because it's a haunted castle in the middle of the tropics. The babyfaces go in and then the doors shut themselves and then have about a dozen locks on them. So then we cut to the stairway after Duke is saying that he doesn't want to be this welcomed; as a red coat, black pants android like human (bald I might add) walks down the steps with a robot bird perched on it's right shoulder. He talks in a slightly less-offensive than Grumps Eastern European accent welcoming the ducks to his castle and introducing himself as Doctor Von Lichenstamp which is so a creative name. NOT!
Baron Von Lichtentamp is voiced by David Hyde-Pierce and according to IMDB: David Hyde Pierce was born on 3 April 1959 in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce (both deceased) and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child, he was very interested in music (particularly piano) and regularly played the organ at his local church (Bethesda Episcopal Church). David discovered a love of drama in high school and, upon his graduation in 1977, he received the Yaddo Medal which is to honor academic achievement and personal character. However, his love of music was still strong so he decided to study classical piano at Yale University. Unfortunately, he soon grew bored with music history lessons and found that he wasn't dedicated enough to practice the required amount of hours to become a successful concert pianist. Instead, he returned to his love of drama and graduated in 1981 with a double major in English and Theatre Arts. He then moved to New York where he worked several menial jobs (including selling ties at Bloomingdales and working as a security guard) while acting in the theater during the late 80s and early 90s. He appeared in small roles in films such as Bright Lights, Big City (1988) before his life and career changed forever when he landed the role of "Dr. Niles Crane" in the television series Frasier (1993). Throughout the show's eleven year run (1993-2004), David was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor each year (he won four times: 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2004). David resides in Los Angeles with his romantic partner, 'Brian Hargrove', and their two Wheaton Terriers, Maude and Mabel. He remains very close to his three siblings. He began is career as a Tanker Partner in The Terminator in 1984. Mighty Ducks The Series is his DTVA debut and he also worked on Hercules The Series as Daedalus. Sesame Street (Commander Chiphead) and HitRECord: RECollection, Volume 1, Sonnet 29 as the narrator are his most recent credits. He has 52 acting credits, 93 Self credits (Travis Smiley most recent), and one writing credit (Great Performances) to his resume.
Baron has a lot of animal trophies on the wall along with several banners. Sadly; Baron is NO Macbeth by any stretch of imagination. He is just another generic heel who wants to kill the ducks and has a mechnical right hand and a droid like right eye. He wants to shake hands with Wildwing which Baron claims that he lost his hand in a wolf hunt; which sounds like a lie, but it's more believable than this plot in general. A crocodile made him lose his leg and a gorilla goughed out his right eye; but they are all mounted on the wall as they lost their heads. Lovely! So we exchange "pleasure" thoughts; and Wildwing wants Baron to show them his Samariumnite operation. Baron "agrees" to it; but he wants to go to his personal quarters to change into something apporos. Memo to Wildwing: When a heel sezs that...destroy the damn front door with the puck gun and GET OUT! Duke wants to give the poor Baron the benefit of the doubt which Tanya isn't about to. For good reason; because the ducks are under a ceiling of spouts spewing white sleeping gas. You can guess what happens next and their attempts at fighting it are so unlaughable that we fade to black and return to a mine shaft with the robots mining for minerals like miners; only they are robots and it's safer. We pan over to the cave entrance as there is a look off where Siege is overseeing the operation. Baron walks in and informs Siege that the ducks are captured and in exchange for him hunting the ducks; the Samariumnite is Siege's to take. Siege asks about Wildwing's mask (I never understood the point of getting the mask because only Wildwing and Carnard could use it anyway); and Baron tells him to get it when Wildwing's head is mounted and then walks out; and Siege is not amused. So then we fade to black about thirty seconds later; but this one actually has a point because we see Wildwing waking up from his point of view as he's in a cage in the jungle outside the castle. We see all three babyfaces in the cage as Wildwing's armor is removed along with their puck guns; but their tools are still with them.
This confuses them as the cage opens up and we see Baron on top of a large rock with his crossbow like gun explain that he wanted to make this sporty, so he let them keep the tools; but not the weapons. I'll give this show this: At least they had a reasonable explaination for Baron's decision to not strip them of everything. I'll give him that as a heel since he wants this fight to be fair. Problem is: That turns him babyface because the Mighty Ducks always overwhelm the opposition and thus they come off as heels since the "heels" usually cannot compete without the puck guns nor the armor Wildwing wears. I should note that Baron's crossbow on far shot looks like a electric guitar. Tanya proclaims that it looks like they'll be on the endangered spieces list while Baron screws up the hunters promo. It's "the hunted" you moron! Huntee is not a legit word; it is Urban Dictionary slang for hunted. I should note that the cage with the black iron bars look like paper on far shots as well. This ends the segment nearly eight minutes in as we get another dull and boring episode thus far. This show is just getting more and more tedious as the season wears on.
After the commercial break....I am just going to summarize what happens here: Baron fires the heat seeking arrows of doom. All three babyfaces shatter in different directions using their roller skate boots. Wildwing goes to a waterfall and does the branch twirl spot causing the arrow to hit the water and get snuffed out. Duke runs and then fakes the arrow out; managing to kill it with his banana yellow sword. Tanya trips on tree root and loses a boot. the skate is still rocketing; so she throws the boot at the arrow and it allows the boot to get pinned against the tree. Tanya grabs boot from tree and cuts a promo about fashion statements. She puts boot back on as Baron aims for her with the guitar cross bow; but the sightscope gets broken by a stray puck which looks almost like the CGI scene changer; only without the texture mapping of the Mighty Ducks logo. We see that it was Duke and Wildwing doing this as Duke taunts Baron. Baron calls them sporting and I just described almost two minutes of action in under five lines of writing. Tanya joins in as Duke and Wildwing are using a branch to slingshot pucks. Baron is impressed; but he has a counter move....which is lots of red lasers. Babyfaces bail as Baron is loving this as he releases his robotic bird to have some fun. Sky shot radar shot ensues as the babyfaces hide behind the log. Apparently; the robot bird is a tracking device, which is a neat move on Baron's part. So Duke gets up and we get another classic moment: Duke invokes the BS&P version of the LASSO OF BANE TO ALL ACTION CARTOONS EVERYWHERE on the bird's legs. Duke hauls it down; and then the bird stops selling and pulls Duke up. Wildwing and Tanya run in and hold onto the bird. Tanya then sits on Duke's back for no reason at all as Wildwing swings the hook and the bird go crashing into the rock like a bird crashing into a glass window which destroys it. Yeah. The babyfaces all bail stage right as we get a pan shot of a monkey in the foreground; and then in comes Baron on his jeep. He goes over to the destroyed bird and cuddles it like a guy who lost his puppy. Awwww!
And then he stops selling and rips off his suit to reveal a Guy LaDouce outfit which is NOT as awesome as fighting in the suit. This is so NO BUYS~! So he brings out a black control box with lots of button proclaiming that he has many beasts and cuts promos on how this is a mighty struggle. Sadly; it was not a shoot promo on the struggle to stay awake watching this. Then we fade to black for the fourth time in the last four minutes. OH GOD; NOT THIS SHOW TOO~! Why am I outraged? I don't care about this show anyway. We return with a shot of a gorge and then pan up as the babyfaces make it to the edge of said gorge. Wildwing proclaims that they need to get back to the castle; and then out of the bushes comes three growling henyas which look like the lowest rent Lion King rejects ever assembled. I knew the safari gear Baron was wearing would kill his workrate; I just needed the evidence to prove it. So the robot hyenas growl as Duke just stands there doing nothing while Wildwing and Tanya run to the conveniently placed vines. They use the vines to swing across without as much as a chomp from the robots. Wildwing and Tanya panic as Duke runs off to run interference on the robot wolves of doom. Wildwing realizes that they screwed up so they play split up. Wildwing runs away from the hard camera while Tanya runs into the hard cameras. They are trying to find another way to cross see. So we see Tanya running and she trips on another tree root (for the second time in the last three minutes) and this only serves to make Tanya look like a joke. Why? Because even if she managed to not trip on the tree root; she still would have went through the Team Rocket Trap Of Death. She falls through and lands in an underground lake. So she dries up like a dog and then a robot crocodile draws near. FINALLY! An robot version of an animal the Baron lost his leg too! This makes sense in the context of the storyline. Tanya tries to go for her Omni Tool; but it is not on her right wrist. She acts like Velma for about five seconds and then notices the thing on a root branch above the ceiling. Tanya backs up to the vines on the wall and proclaims that it's time to improvise more or less.
So she springs off the vines and runs on the back of the robot crocodile. She jumps and grabs the Omni Tool; putting it back on her right wrist. So she runs to the rocks as the crocodile chases her; then she simply turns around and fires a blue laser at the crocodile from the Omni Tool, and the crocodile takes the stunt animal bump into the wall and gets destroyed, bursting into flames in the process. Memo to Tanya: You puns suck! I'm just saying. So she climbs up the wall as we return to Wildwing on top of a palm tree being shaking by a robot gorilla; as it just occured to me that the robots who are chasing Duke are in fact wolves. I mention this because they are the exact three animals who the Baron mentioned when he mentioned about his limbs being cut off. So; this actually makes sense. Sadly; they kind of killed the payoff since Tanya should have shot the crocodile in the legs instead of the belly. Anyhow; Wildwing jumps off the palm tree just as we see the robot gorilla uproot the tree and throw it down the gorge with a thud. Wildwing is then shown above the robot gorilla with a boulder as he tosses it at the gorilla and we get another classic moment from this crappy show: the boulder was supposed to nail the gorilla in the belly with it and fly down into the gorge and then crush the gorilla when it makes contact with the ground; effectively losing his head as it goes into the hard camera. The problem is: the animation for the nailing is completely non-existant: Gorilla sees boulder, there is a sound; but then the thing appears to teleport out for no reason. Worse; the palm tree is gone when this happens. I could complain about the fact that the payoff was killed because it didn't get killed in the right eye...However; we see Duke on the other side of the gorge hanging onto a tree branch while the wolves try to bite his ass much to the horror of Tanya (who just runs in) and Wildwing (who is a magician now). Since the wolves have no hands; the payoff is killed and we in the wrestling business call this "booking yourself into a corner". So Wildwing gets on the rope bridge which they showed before we saw Duke hanging onto the tree branch and he taunts the wolves; making bird puns! UGH!
So the wolves run onto the bridge like idiots as Wildwing sidesteps to the rope railing and Tanya uses the Omni Tool's buzzsaw to cut the opposite rope railing (which requires the arm of the saw to be at least ten feet). The bridge flips down causing the wolves (who have no hands; let alone thumbs) to free fall and each other hits the ground causing them to explode. When the first second exploded together; I was thinking that the third one would manage to not explode; then get up and then just crumble to pieces. Nope; he fell in a different location and exploded. Very anti-climatic this was. So Duke and Wildwing cross the bridge using the ropes; as Tanya proclaims that you do not mess with the Mighty Ducks. So we head back into the mine with a shot of a CHEST OF DEMON filled with golden like Samariumnite which simply looks like Belarium crystals; only in rock form. Siege is stacking boxes of this as he goes to his wrist communicator and we get a holographic image showing Dragonous as Siege informs him that everything is going according to plan. Dragonous is liking this as he wants the energy to conquer the world; or something like that. I have given up trying to see what his motive is because he is so NO BUYS~! So we head back to a shot of the destroyed robot wolves in the gorge as we pan up to see Baron is pissed off at this; and now IT IS ON BABEE because he rips off his safari gear to reveal military gear without any honor whatsoever; which is many buys! He basically sezs that the Mighty Ducks will pay and we scene change to inside the jungle with Wildwing, Tanya and Duke as Wildwing wonders what the Baron will throw at them next. Then a large tank with missiles and a laser cannon drives in as Wildwing blows him off for foresaking the sport of it all. At least this turns Baron heel; so why is Wildwing complaining about this?! Baron proclaims that this is war now as we get a closeup of his robotic eye; and that ends the segment nearly 16 and a half minutes in.
After the commercial break; we get a sky shot of the tank driving in as Baron lowers the cannon causing the babyfaces to scatter as Tanya points out that you cannot mount someone if they are blown to bits. Considering the robot gorilla, I don't buy this as Baron wants to just squash babyfaces. What is this obsession with wanting to make duck pattie as a catchphrase? No one cares about it; it's just lazy writing. So we cut to the Raptorous (I think) as we see a conveniently placed open missile in the background on the western pan shot while Siege is loading it up with Samariumnite stones; while Chameleon does nothing and Dragonous yells at Siege to hurry up. By the way; where is Wraith in all this? We have not seen him since he teleported out with Chameleon and Siege about three minutes into the show. Dragonous wants to create chaos and mayhem while Chameleon claims that Dragonous is the life of the party. Riiiigggggghhhhtttt. More like the dumbass at the party. So we return as the ducks are being chased by a laser firing tank. So then we have smoke from the laser impair Baron's radar after the babyface bail into the jungle; which causes Wildwing and company to see their opening. So they try to bail; but Tanya unintentionally step into a gooy black tar pit. Lovely! Duke tells her to calm down because it's just jungle tar; and harmless stuff, thus burying the danger factor of this spot. Tanya complains about getting the stain out of her clothes despite the fact that it's only her left boot that is covered, and most of it disappears when Wildwing and Duke pull her out. Some stain! Wildwing has a Krackpotkin plan in the works as he digs a bit of the substance with his finger; calling it the thing to defeat Baron. Yawn. So after almost 18 minutes of tedious crap....we get this: We head to a warehouse as there is a billboard background of a large pizza. We see Nosedive, Mallory and Grin dressed up in a pepperoni, mushroom and anchovie custome (in that order) mounted to the wall inside the artwork of the pizza while this is being filmed by Phil Palmfeather and his pink shirt, almond vest wearing cameraman. This was AWESOME! Mallory can kiss my ass for all I care.
Nosedive proclaims that the pizza sucks despite eating another piece with his mouth full while saying it. This fits under the "Krabby Patty" rule of criticism. I hear that it's a big thing with adult male Pokemon players. So Mallory is blowing this off while Grin cannot find inner peace. Mallory goes to her wrist communicator and wants an emergency; and she gets it in the form of three blue dots on radar in the same place. So they rip out of their costume; which should result in a massive fine from Phil Palmfeather, and then they run out much to the surprise of Phil as the ducks are saving the world again. Phil then whines that they won't pose in front of the calzoni; and I was laughing my ass off because I was hoping this would happen because crying about it NOT happening is so NO BUYS on this website! So we head in the jungle as the tank drives in and in the foreground we see Duke with his banana yellow sword watching and waiting. We cut to inside the tank with Baron as he has red dot radar; and he taunts the ducks because he can see them and he has firepower. This prompts Duke to jump into the air and get on top of the tank; he slices the radar sattelite dead as a door nail while proclaiming that Baron is no match for feather power. Which is actually becoming true now as Baron can still see him on the front window. So Duke dodges lasers while getting off. Cut to a cliff as Tanya has a makeshift bucket of sticky black jungle tar as we get more and more terrible pun promo cutting from Tanya while she dumps the JUNGLE TAR OF BLINDNESS onto the tank window to blind Baron (well; eliminate the transparency of the glass window front, which is fitting because Baron is no longer transparent about being sporting anymore.) as he simply opens the top hatch and somehow continues firing even though the tank is manually controlled. This makes no sense! So he continues to fire lasers as Wildwing has a makeshift hockey stick and slapshots the puck straight into the entrance of the hatch, missing the Baron by two feet. It lands inside the tank; and the puck spews what I thought was laughing gas, but if it was the selling was awful on David's part.
Then we get another stupid classic moment: Baron just simply closes the hatch and goes inside where the conceration of smoke is MUCH HIGHER! Worse; the tank goes over a cliff and takes about a dozen decent bumps before finally crashing into the ground below. We then see Baron open the hatch; and proclaims that he is lucky he had his seatbelt on; and then faints dead away. Why didn't he just bail out of the tank and let it drop into the gorge without him in it?! Who is booking this crap?! I know I have said this several times in this series; but seriously, who wrote this? I could say David Wise; but there is no evidence that it is handiwork. David Wise might have been the worse writer in the world at the time this show was done; but I have seen Wise write well; it's just that it was on Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers! So we cut to an "apartment building" as Dragonous sounds like an emotionless robot when the Raptorous is decloaked; and then the Saurianite missile is launched into the air; and do I really care if this missile actually works or not? So we recloak the Raptorous (which is a smart move) as we head to the cockpit with Dragonous declaring victory on the Earth as we see Wraith has joined us; so at least they are not going to write him out via teleport in this episode. Then the Baron appears out of nowhere inside his castle coughing; proclaiming that the ducks are on the loose. Now at least this is being booked right because the finish has to end with all six ducks against Baron and the Baron gets his ass kicked. This is straight forward decent booking. The problem is; this episode just keeps getting screwed up so royalfully. Wraith has the "I told you so" look which at this point would have been apporos because the episode is almost over and thus we have seen the plan come to fruition. Nope; he blows off the plan within the first three minutes of the episode; telegraphing everyone to basically turn the channel to a Warner Brothers show or anything else for that matter. Dragonous doesn't care because the missile is headed to the North Pole and he is going to melt the ice caps and flood the earth.
So basically Dragonous is just going to cause man made climate change in a span of two minutes. Whatever; it doesn't matter because Wildwing, Tanya and Duke go into the castle which was the point where I realized that this was booked fine instead of being screwed up and inside the tank. Problem is; the ducks walk in and Baron begs for mercy because he likes ducks and then we cut away to in the sky with the Aerowing as Nosedive is piloting the thing; and now they are talking to Wildwing on the monitor as he informs them that they are all right; and want to be picked up. So the Aerowing flies away from the hard camera and we get the CGI puck scene changer as we head to the front of the Baron's castle as the babyfaces are already inside the Aerowing and the thing takes off. Nosedive wonders who owns the creepy castle; and Wildwing calls this the source of the trouble, and as the Aerowing launches into the sky; Wildwing is literally mumbling, so I couldn't understand what the hell he was saying. BAD! So we cut to inside the castle with a pan shot of the wall as we see Baron's head has been mounted onto the wall as he curses the ducks proclaiming that he will use the aircraft carrier next time. The finish of Baron was booked properly so no complaints on that front; and I would have ended the episode right there and now. However; we get a sunset shot outside with lots of clouds as the Aerowing flies into the sky and then we get the Aerowing becoming a CGI vehicle with cell shading. Seriously! So they are over the North Pole at they fly in front of the missile and lock and load. Nosedive is cutting Christmas promos as he shoots and the lasers destroy the missile with ease; as Nosedive cheers for victory proclaiming that he just saved Christmas. That made me laugh because Tanya and Mallory comment about telling him that Santa is not real (which is hilarious considering that they are anthroed ducks); but decide not to and the Aerowing flies into the sunset to end the episode at 21:05. What an anti-climatic ending that was?! It wasn't awful; but it was just there to pad the running time. Anyhow; this was another utter mess with one very good scene and a fitting end to Baron Von Lichenstamp at least. Call it * (20%).
THE REVIEW LINE
Another Mighty Ducks episode; another crappy episode. This one had a lot of screw ups and logic break that I couldn't get into the "Duck Hunt" with Baron Von Lichenstamp. For the most part; he was a fine heel, but the writers either had no idea how to deal with him, or (which I think is the case) they didn't care about character at all. Everything else was the usual tedious mess that reeks more and more as the series goes on. The scene with Phil and the pizza shoot was awesome at least and I did think Baron getting mounted on the wall was a fitting finish. I was thinking about this and wondering if this show were done properly with a clear premise and actual writers and story editors who didn't appear every time to intentionally sabotage every episode they come in contact with; this might have worked and Baron (like Doctor Droid) would have become a good #2 or #3 side heel. However; this is not to be and it ends with the most anti-climatic ending I have seen in the series: There is no drama and no heat for this final scene. They fly to the North Pole, Nosedive shoots lasers, missile destroyed, Christmas saved, Mallory and Tanya think Santa is not real, the end. At least they didn't write Wraith out by teleport this time. I did some Dave The Barbarian now to wake myself up from this and that show is no great shakes either. Well; I asked for it when I decided on doing this gig, so I might as well face the consequences of said decisions. So....
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.