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"The Last Adventure"

posted 4 years ago by MAGolding (1228)
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"The Last Adventure" was certainly epic.

It certainly had a lot of plot revelations. I wonder which of them were planned at which dates.

In chapter one "An Unexpected Party" of The Hobbit Gandalf says:

...I am looking for someone to share an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very diffculat to find anyone.

And Bilbo replies:

I should think so--in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

And I think that reading about the adventure that Bilbo got pressured into going on in The Hobbit reduced my desire to have any real life adventures.

The crazy credits section of the IMDB article on Blackbeard The Pirate (1952) says:

Opening credits prologue:
"The meeker the man, the more pirate he,
Snug in his armchair, far from the sea,
And reason commends his position:
He has all of the fun and none of the woes,
Masters the ladies and scuttles his foes,
And cheats both the noose and perdition!"

"THE ARMCHAIR PIRATE" -Anon.-

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044426/crazycredits/?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_cc

And I can't help agreeing with that attitude, that is its much more fun to read about or view the real or fictional adventures of other people, than to actually have exciting, scary, and dangerous adventures. Vicarious adventures are enough for me.

So I have to consider Scrooge, Della, Donald (before Della was lost), Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Webby to be insane adrenaline junkies who rush in where angels fear to tread with suicidal disregard for their safety.

And in my opinion the alternate universes where they all survived to the end of "The Last Adventure" should be outnumbered by millions to one by the alternate universes where one or more of them were killed in failed adventures. Probalby alternate univeses where Scrooge was killed before he made his big gold find in the Yukon over 120 years ago are many times as common as universes where he lived to die of old age in 1967, as Don Rosa believed, let alone the much rarer universes where Scrooge magically prolonged his life until the start of Duck Tales 2017.

So I guess that the alternate universes where Bradford Buzzard cancelled his plots when Scrooge & Co. were killed in some dangerous adventure, or even were killed before Bradford ever decided they were a menace and started to plot against Scrooge, should be millions of times as common as alternate universes where Scrooge & Co. survived until the end of "The Last Adventure".

And I note that when Scrooge, Webby, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are last seen they are holding hands in free fall without any parachutes visible. So Lena has just a few minutes to notice their peril and stop them from falling to their deaths, possibly having to let someone else fall and die to save them. Can Lena think fast enough to save everyone?

So I think that, depending on the contents of the clauses in the contract that the audience didn't see, Scrooge's family might have been much better off if he accepted the contract and told his family to do the same.

[–] Kodakjones (238) 4 years ago

Well then let's just hope that this was the last episode.

[–] MAGolding (1228) 4 years ago

To elaborate on whether everyone survived:

As I remember, Gyro Gearloose and Lil Bulb are caught by B.O.Y.D., Gyro's flying robot. Launchpad and Gosalyn Waddlemeyer grab onto Darkwing Duck's cape and use it as a parachute. Manny the Headless Man-horse who is really a flying gargoyle catches Mrs. Beakley and Donald Duck, I think. Fenton Crackshell-Cabera uses his Gizmoduck suit to save himself and his girlfriend Gandra Dee. Violet Sabrewing - and possibly someone else I didn't quite see - was levitated by her adopted sister Lena, who had recently developed vast magical powers including flying.

But as far as I know May, June, Della Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Webby Vanderquack, and Scrooge McDuck, and maybe also Ludwig von Drake, were all falling. And I doubt that Manny, B.O.Y.D., and Gizmoduck could catch them all in time. With only seconds or minutes left, could Lena spot everyone falling and levitate them?

If the creators had show everyone being saved, instead of leavng it up to optimistic audience members to assume they were saved and pessimists to assume they died, I wouldn't be wondering about a dark sequel where Lena is full of guilt for failing to save everyone and falls to pieces, or even where she kills Launchpad, starting her downward journey toward becoming as evil as her creator.

[–] MAGolding (1228) 3 years ago

On sept. 2 2021, I saw The last Adventure again. Lena levitated May and June as well as Violet and her self. And I stilldidn'tseewhathappeend to della Duck. Maybe she was still at the controls of the plane and wasn't sucked out of the rear of the plane.