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Legend of the Three Caballeros: Labyrinth and Repeat Review (Commissioned by WeirdKev27)

Saludos Amigos! We’re back on the Ride of the Three Cablleros as I intend to knock this wonderful series out at a steady cliip, and since I THOUGHT the premire was a two parter, it still ends on a cliffhanger but it’s too early to tell if this is just normal for this series like say Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, where it’s really more one continuous story, or just the end of the pilot. For now with all the exposition out of the way from part 1, we can jump right into the thick of things where we picked off. PREVIOUSLY ON LEGEND OF THE THREE CABLLEROS: Donald had an enormously shitty birthday, loosing his job, his house and his nightmarish harpy.. er his girlfriend, all in one day. Things went up a bit though when he inhereted a Cabana belonging to his ancestor Clinton Coot and met two new pals: Ladies Man Jose Caricoca and loveable weirdo like myself Pancito Romero A Lot of Other Names Gonzales. The three soon had a yard sale with the various treasures inside the cabana and got an offer for a million dollars for the cabana and all inside from local waiter’s nightmare Baron Von Sheldgoose, whose deal includes a jewel incrusted golden atlas. Upon finding it our boys were attacked by a human goddess who popped out of the book and that’s where we pick up.

Good. Let’s begin. So Xandra, said goddess, is holding our heroes at arrow point with their attempts to defuse the situation falling flat and their attempt to understandably flee by claming to be the cabs failing pretty much immidatley. We do get some good gags including Jose accidently telling Xandra she smells like feta cheese in greek. But lucky for our boys before Xandra can do a murder on them Donald accidently shuts the book.. and finds out she disappears when he does that. Cue our loveable idiots opening and closing the book for a while, easily one of the best bits of the episode. I will say while the pilot was pretty good comedy wise this episode solidfies how funy the series is. The series is at times a barrage of wonderful jokes and set pieces and it is awesome to behold. Also a breif thing before we get back to the plot... Xandra is indeed human, or at least looks like one. Normally i’m against this as honestly Ducks just mesh better with Dogfaces, other birds and other anthromorphic animals. It just works better and is more consitent to have a world that’s simply anthro animals and non-anthro animals. But.. it works for me here since so the human characters.. are all gods. While i’d of PREFFERED them to still be non humans, like Ducktales does, it works since she’s not really a human but a god and thus it comes off more as her being something inherently diffrent and otherworldly, but something that’s not so distracting it pulls focus away from the rest of the cast, just otherworldly to our heroes.

So while our boy screw with the goddess who you know, tried to murder them for flimsy reasons without stopping to ask why three strangers look exactly like her friends, we get to know the triplets better. I also get a better bead on what voices Jessica is using. May is using Jessica’s Lynn voice, just a touch higher since May isn’t a preteen, while April, the one in yellow, uses the voice she’d later use for candace. Junes is a BIT like Lucy, but with obviously way more energy and emotion. But it’s clear the three are smart confident and willing to run a scheme, and easily get a thousand bucks out of sheldgoose for the spooky purple ring he saw last episode in a really chortleriffic bit where May serves as an auctioneer while her sisters up the price by bidding thus tricking Sheldgoose into paying. They also get past him having a claim on it as he dosen’t have a receipt or anything else other than a verbal contract with Donald, one that wasn’t even complete since the boys hadn’t brought out the atlas, so they were within their rights to fleece him for the ring.. even if him getting it at all is going to backfire, they had no way of knowing that so it’s whatever. Back in the house the boys have apparently done the book thing on Xandra about a hundred times, and Xandra FINALLY grabs the book. At least our boys are bonding. But while threatening them again , she finds out they don’t know what happened.. and recongiing clinton int he painting realizess time has passed, these boys are her boys decendants, and perhaps some explination is in order since she’s lost in a strange world.

So after unveling a bookmark that allows her to project out of the book without being trapped, Xandra gives us our backstory: long ago, in a distant land I Aku master of darkness unleashed an unspeakable evil... wait sorry wrong narration. Long ago Xandra was guardian of the Atlas, which is explained to be the key to various magical hot spots around the world where various myths come from. Things were fine.. until the evil Lord Felldrake decided to screw it all up, binding Xandra to the book and using it to cause chaos and try and take over the world. All was lost till the Cabs stopped him, freed Xandra best they could, and then journed the world with them till she tragically was shut inside the book and seemingly lost. For whatever reason Clinton never opened the book, we’ll presumibly find out later, and well.. here she is. Xandra is voiced by, unsuprisingly given this project’s all-star cast, voice acting vetran and modern legend of the buisness Grey DeLisle, also credited as Grey Griffith for a time. And like tress she has a rather massive and awesome resume, which naturally i’ll be going into since usually I go into shows mid way and don’t get to do this: Grey’s notable rolls include Daphne Blake ever since What’s New, Scooby Doo?, Lor from Weekenders, still not on plus and I will not let that fact go till I get a valid reason why not, Crazy Cat Lady and Lizzie Divine, Mandy, Doctor Ghastly, Kimiko Tohomiko, Sam Manson, Frankie Foster, Azula, Riley Daring, Freida Suarez, Black Canary (Brave and the Bold), Fire, Dr. Holiday, Aya, Master Nadia, Magpie, Moon Butterfly, Jackie Lynn Thomas, Lola Loud, Lana Loud, Lily Loud, and Martin Prince following Russi Taylors tragic passing, just to give you an idea of how long, varied and wonderful her career and range is. And to give a certain person paying for this review an idea of some of the shows i’m familiar with. Moving on. Despite learning of their family legacy of heroics, our heroes are planning to still sell the book given Donald and Jose are poor, and Panchito’s giving in to peer pressure. Seriously Camil is already the MVP of the series, easily the best part of it and it’s a shame he wasn’t brought back for Ducktales, especially since by season 2 frank was aware of legend and Jamie had been on the show before. But Xandra offers them a life of adventure and heroisim.. and when that fails points out theirs treasure and the boys agree to hear her out. So after showing some off Xandra takes them to a Labyrinth to retreive three mystic amulets, and goads Donald into going in by challenging his Ego after he tries to refuse to go. Panchito is naturally fully on board with a dangerous adventure and Jose is talked into it after Xandra pulls an explination why she can’t go out of her firmly toned ass that theirs a mystic barrier which he buys. So while Xandra conjurs a chair and a coconut drink to relax and wait to see if they die or not, our boys head in. They find a massive, beautiful labyrnith and a large house containing a minotaur. Sadly i’ts not Ferdinand aka the Minotaur who worked as Wonder Woman’s chef, cooking up damn good vegetarian goodies for her at the Thymsicarian Embasy. All of this is real things that happened and all are things that should be in the next fucking movie. Seriously as much of a mess as Wonder Woman 1984 is, i’d buy a ticket in a heartbeat caution to teh wind if it was announced he was being adapted for it. He’s also very smart, kind and loyal if you were wondering. Get yourself a man like feridnand if your into men.

Anyways Jose once again tries to speak a languge, and thus we get about a minute of Eric Bauza saying the word moo... sometimes... most times really.. I REALLY, REALLY love my job. But with the bull pissed off and going super sayian god super sayian, there’s only one thing left for our heroes to do...

So they do and we get a great gag where Donald, when deciding wether to split up as to lower the possiblity of him getting hit, has TWO shoulder devils, because inside every man is a battle between good and evil that evil usually wins while dancing and singing a jaunty toon over good’s grave.

But it naturally backfires and the two devils tell him he’s on his own. So we get a fun chase sequence with the three before Donald finally decides fuck it we can fight back. Noticing Panchito’s talent with a rope, he has him rope and ride the Minotaur which he does, then uses Jose’s hankerchief to lure the minotaur and beat him. It’s a gorgeous, fun action sequence that shows off the series is as cool as it is fricking hilaroius. So our heroes find the amulets, a blue one for donald, a red for panchito and green for jose, and put em on, proudly telling Xandra. It’s then revealed the Minotaur.. is an old friend of hers and this was just a test to see if they could work together and you know.. not die. They can, and she’s proud and plesantly suprised by how good they are. So our heroes return home, Xandra storring the atlas on her back, and all three suitably impressed. Their further impressed when they find a hidden lair with more treasure, and three sets of armor, their ancestors old armor which as it did in the teaser at the start of the series, looks REALLY fucking cool and comes from various civlizations. Just.. lovely to look at. Our heroes pose.. and the nieces find them, wonder what’s going on, and mention Sheldgoose at the door, apparnelty not phased to meet a god or that their surrogate uncle has a hlemet. Sheldgoose has come to offer the money.. and it’s REALLY tempiting. Donald has lost EVERYTHING remember, this money could help win Daisy back, get him a fancy house still in new quackmore.. even a third of a million is still enough to set someone as humble and easy to please as donald for life. But.. it’s here where this episode succeds where the premire fell. By this point we’ve SEEN Donald’s weaknsses: he’s greedy, short sighted and selfish. So it makes it THAT MUCH more impactful when he does the right thing, tearing up the check and refusing to sell out his legacy. Sure this could make his life better.. but it’s not worth his soul, his new friends or the world’s safety. He may not be able to get Daisy back or a new house.. but he’d NEVER be able to repalce his new friends, his legacy, or his wonderful new home. Sheldgoose naturally throws a fit and vows vengance and what have you... and just as naturally gets dragged away by his ring. Like the boys he’s brought to a mystic secret chamber by a family heirloom.. but unlike the boys we get a wonderful sequence of him being slammed into things while Wayne Knight makes delightful noises.

But Sheldgoose finds thanks to the ring he was drawn to a styigan well leading to a talking staff... Felldrake surivived, if trapped in the staff.. and he’s Baron’s ancestor, himself a sheldgoose who urges his decsendant to take the staff, accept his destiny and thus Sheldgoose revels in his new power as he and feldrake summon Feldrake’s loyal minon.

So we end on Donald happy. His day was crappy to start.. but while he lost his house, his shrew and his job.. he’s found a new purpose saving the world, an ew life of adventure.. and forever friends in his two new amigos and goddess mentor. He’s finally happy. OR he is for a a second before Feldrake’s minon emerges from it’s sarcophagus and runs off with donald. TO BE CONTINUED. Not doing the jojo gag this time.

Before we go on one last cast member; Kevin Micheal Richardson is Felldrake, and he is unsuprisingly awesome and like Grey has a long and storied career.. you know the drill by now: He’s voiced the Narrator for Clerks the Animated Series, Robert Hawkins (Static’s Dad), Dark Laser, Numbah 5′s dad who was a VERY poorly aged refrence to Bill Cosby, Mammoth, Trigon, Armagedddroid (Something I never realized holy shit good on him), Captain Gantu, The Joker, Pandabubba, Principal Lewis, Schnitzel, Tombstone, Omega Supreme, Cleavland Junior (They drove a dump truck full of money up to his house he’s not made of stone), Mal Duncan, Doctor Fate, Man Ape, Kilowogg, Sheriff Blubs, William Viceroy , Mr. Gus, Rhombulous, Shredder (TMNT 2012), Rosie Rosevelt, Coach Mitchell (Seriously watch Milo Murphy’s Law, we need a season 3), and Dot’s Zit. As you can tell the guy is VERY good at villians so he was a natural choice.

Final Thoughts: This was a huge improvment. With the miserable parts of the pilot long gone this episode is a fun, breezy adventure that sets up our heroes, the series tone, and our bad guy some more while giving us tons of great gags. I highly look forward to whatever comes next and cannot wait for the next episode. Until then, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

#the legend of the three caballeros #the three caballeros #grey delisle #kevin micheal richardson #donald duck #panchito romero miguel junipero francisco quintero gonzalez #Jose Carioca #panchito pistoles #april duck #may duck #june duck #baron von sheldgoose #lord feldrake #xandra

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Reunions {A Dev Patel Oneshot}

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You haven’t been this excited for anything in ages. Since leaving the world behind, you haven’t seen much of your friends from Skins. You kept in touch with Hannah a little, and April still always came with you shopping but most of the others had their own lives apart from the Skins franchise. There was one person in particular that you were looking forward to seeing. Dev Patel - who just so happened to be the one who was hardest to get a hold of. You only knew that he was coming because Nicholas had told you.

You got to the party a bit early, and quickly found Nicholas’s collection of photographs from the first two seasons of Skins. All of the group had happy smiles on their faces. You’d easily say it was one of the best times of your life. Especially since in most of the pictures, a young Dev had his arm around you. This was before he became one of the biggest stars in the world, before he dated the gorgeous Freida Pinto, before all of the women started to realize how handsome and talented he was. Back when it was just the two of you, figuring out your roles and how to stay yourselves as fame started to infiltrate your lives.

You had left the spotlight. It was too much. It wasn’t for you so you decided to go back to school, and then go down a career path that didn’t have people coming up to you asking for autographs all of the time.

You heard the doorbell ring and Nicholas going to answer it. It seemed a good enough time to tear you away from the memories in order to go and make new ones with some great people. You were a little disappointed to see that it wasn’t Dev who was at the door, but rather it was Joe, which was still delightful.

“Waiting for Dev?” Joe asked, coming up to you right away and gave you a friendly hug. You eagerly returned it, and tried to deny him.

“No - I’m waiting for everyone. I’m excited, I don’t see you guys very often.”You smiled.

“Yeah, sure.” Joe laughed. “I saw that little look of disappointment. I don’t see it very often so I know it when I do. He’ll be here soon. Maybe you can pick up things where they had left off.”

“Maybe.” You said. You didn’t want to give yourself too much false hope. Dev was a superstar now. One of the more successful out of everyone in the Skins gang. And you were just working away at a day job, worrying about ordinary things like condo fees and which take-a-way to grab on the way home. Dev probably only worried about what color tie he was going to wear to the Oscars.

Joe patted you on the back and then headed off to socialize with Nicholas. Other people started to arrive. Kaya, April, Hannah and Larissa quickly brought back memories of when they had been your best girlfriends. More people started to arrive, including Dev. He seemed to smile brightest when he saw you, and many would note that the same was true about you.

You didn’t get in too close to him, as much as you wanted to. This was a group hang out after all. But that did not stop Kaya and Hannah from shoving you two together in the middle of the couch, and locking you in by squeezing beside you two.

There were many jokes being made, many memories being brought up from the depths of your brain. Kaya and Hannah seemed to be bringing up a lot of you and Dev, such as the time you had gotten the embarrassed giggles during a scene where you were just in a rather revealing bathing costume and Dev would come over and cover you with a large towel every time the cameras would stop rolling. You laughed along with the memories, they were funny, and you caught Dev’s eyes as you were smiling. He kept smiling as well.

But then some of the more uncomfortable stories came in, like Nicholas complaining about how many takes they would have to do because Dev would surprise you with kisses and ruin the shot. It wasn’t until Hannah said that she missed those days a lot, and she was really hoping for you two to stay together, that you finally couldn’t handle it anymore.

“I’m going to go out on the patio and get some air. Little too much wine.” You said, fanning yourself off with your fake excuses and headed towards the doors that lead to being outside. You weren’t alone however, and who had followed you would only keep the rumors fueled.

“I don’t think they mean to bug us like that.” Dev said, leaning over the railing to look out at the city below. You noticed that he had grown his hair out, the wind was slightly blowing it around his face. He had grown from a boy to a man in the span that you two had missed one another.

“You didn’t seem that bothered. Are you in a ... secure relationship?” You asked. It didn’t seem wrong to fish a little. You could use the excuse of wanting to catch up if you had wanted to.

“No, I’ve been single for a couple of months now. What about you. You seem to hang around that one guy a lot.” You couldn’t help but notice that maybe he was fishing too.

“Daniel? He’s just a friend. How did you know that we hang out sometimes?”

“I try not to have a social media presence usually but I couldn’t help myself. I made a fake account on instagram to follow you and the rest of the guys. I miss you, it’s nice to see what you’ve been up to.”

“I see.” You said, cheeks tinted as red as the wine you had pretended to drink too much of. “That’s actually really sweet. But you don’t have to make fake profiles to know what’s going on in my life. There’s such things as these.” You pulled out your cell phone and showed it to him. “Really handy, welcome to the twenty-first century.”

“Thanks for the introduction, I may just have to get one of these things, oh wait!” Dev joked around and then brought out his own cell phone. You swiped it from him quickly and started to put your number into it.

“Maybe you could call me sometime and we can have lunch. My place or yours, I know you’re not a fan of the paparazzi.” they had always bothered Dev, you had noticed. They weren’t such a bother on you but you didn’t want to make him uncomfortable.

“Yeah, I’d like that.” Dev smiled, slipping his cell phone away.

The balcony door opened once more, but no one stepped out. Rather, Joe’s head popped out with his big obnoxious grin. “Come on, we’re starting season one over again. Who wants to see us all make baffoons out of ourselves as teenagers?”

“Yeah, I’m up for that.” You said, looking back over at Dev to see if he would come along. He smiled and nodded too, and followed you back into Nicholas’s home.

The couches were already overflowing with your friends, but some pillows have been pushed up against the sides of them for a bit of comfort. They were trying too hard once again. It felt like you were back in your teenage years when everyone suspected you and Dev of dating and pushed to get the truth.

Dev got down on the floor first, leaning back against some of the pillows. He even grabbed one of your favorite color and squashed it in beside you, and put his arm over it. You smiled softly. If this was the way things were going to go, you certainly weren’t arguing.

You got down on the floor as well, stretching your legs out across the carpeted ground and settled into the pillow. You were well aware of Dev’s closeness, and the softness of his shirt. It felt more comfortable against your skin than the pillow so you decided to take a chance and use it instead of the pillow.

You rested your head against his chest, like old times. But unlike those years ago, there was a bit more muscle there. You could feel it. It didn’t just feel like your skull was against bone. Before the fourth episode played, your eyes were closed. You were breathing in the scent of his cologne, ignoring everything else around you, blocking out sound and vision.

By the end of season one, you were fast asleep, dreaming already of the lunch that you two would have, and rekindling the relationship you regretted ever losing.

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