YMMV / DuckTales (2017) S1 E21 "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!"

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Scrooge making his parents immortal by rebuilding McDuck castle with mystical druid stones really an accident as he claims, or did he purposely do it because he was scared of losing his parents to old age?
  • The triplets mention they're going on this trip behind Donald's back because he would never approve. Is it because Donald hates the castle as much as Scrooge does, or is it because he's worried about being reminded of Della?
  • Even with Scrooge's relationship with his father repaired and the mutual desire to see each other more, the episode still ends with the statement that they'll see each other in 5 years. This leaves the question of why Fergus and Downy didn't simply leave the castle with them to live elsewhere. Is the implication that they literally can't leave the castle grounds, i.e. they will die immediately if they get too far from the source of their immortality?
  • Did Huey and Louie really forgive Dewey as fast as the episode made it seem? Or was it just the adrenaline rush from saving Dewey's life and wanting to find out about their mom that made them decide to ignore it?
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Several fans believe that Scrooge's parents being cursed to immortality robs the gravitas and emotion of them being dead relatives. Especially since, in the comics, Fergus died the night that Scrooge and his sisters left to move to Duckburg, and Downy had been dead for years. Furthermore, a major Moment of Awesome in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge destroying an entire steamboat when his enemies taunt him about his mother's death, couldn't have happened the same way if Downy's still alive.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • So Dewey has just revealed this devastating secret to his brothers, who get righteously angry with him... until the end of the episode. Some fans were expecting Huey and Louie's anger to last much longer than that.
  • Speaking of Hortense, this episode could have provided an explanation for the century-long age gap between Scrooge and his nephew Donald. While the immortality curse of Castle McDuck might provide an explanation (either Hortense was very old when she got Donald, or Fergus and Downy were very old when they got Hortense), an explicit confirmation would have been nice.

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