When I think back to my youth, I fondly remember shows like He-Man and Thundercats.  As a father, I wish my son could enjoy these shows like I once did.  Once my son began watching shows like Paw Patrol, I really wanted my son to begin watching shows like He-Man and Thundercats.

With He-Man on Netflix, it is certainly possible for him to do so.  And yet, I don’t sit down and watch He-Man with him because that was my show growing up.  Paw Patrol is his.  When he goes and he plays with his friends, they all want to do play and talk about Paw Patrol.  The other kids don’t know He-Man, and I don’t want to make my son the outsider of the group.  So, with that, I eschew He-Man in favor of Paw Patrol.  It’s not pleasant.

Recently, I discovered there may be some middle ground for my son and I.  Growing up, I also watched DuckTales.  It was a great cartoon, and perhaps an even better video game.  To this day, I remember every line to the DuckTales theme song.  Who doesn’t?  It was catchy.

The diving into the money pit and the whole ordeal.  It was great.  It is a show I would love to share with my son.  That goes double with him loving Mickey’s Christmas Carol as much as I did.  At this point, my son knows all of those Disney characters, and I think he would love DuckTales.  Again, the problem is his friends don’t watch.

But maybe they will start this summer as apparently Disney is relaunching DuckTales.  Naturally, it isn’t going to have any of the original voices, but that’s not a big issue.  What’s important is they are going to relaunch DuckTales.  There’s a trailer for it and everything now:

So yeah, about that.

Maybe I’m just being a bit too nostalgic, and maybe I’m being too much of an old man. But man, that doesn’t look great. It certainly doesn’t look anywhere near as good as the original. And yet, I think I’d rather watch this than Paw Patrol again, and again, and again. So, in that sense, beggar’s can’t be choosers.

Still, I wish this looked better.  Here’s hoping it’s a giant success and not the equivalent of the remake of The Longest Yard.