>>101283861I’d say that a bigger problem with Nephews isn’t that they made them three characters, but that they didn’t give Huey or Dewey any real Skills.
Louie works fine, he’s the charasmatic Face, getting what he wants through speech, and he’s demonstrated that he’s able to do so consistently, like in Daytrip of Doom where he gets what he wants for free, the mountain climbing episode where he revealed that fraud, the Greek Gods one where he turned that Loli monster to their side, and Even Toth-Ra where his blather kept that guard from killing him and Webby on the spot and bought them at least a little more time, despite how the shiw tried to make that last one look like a bad thing.
Huey is supposed to be the Brains, being quick to learn and overcoming obstacles with ingenuity and proper applicaion of the resources available. Except, oh wait, they nerfed the shit out of the Junior Woodchuck guide so now it just contains a bunch if useless, unhelpful, trivia and Huey hasn’t actually shown a bit of cleverness on his own since the pilot. He’s just a completely unexceptional nerd now.
Dewey is supposed to be the Muscle, solving problems in a more direct fashion with Brute force, compensating for his lack of brains and charisma with toughness and Athleticism. Except, Oh Wait, Dewey has the finesse and grace of a bull in a china shop, but without the strength to back it up, and is less so brave than he isn stupid. He doesn’t even get a rage mode like Donald. He’s just a screwup and dead weight.
If all 3 were capable, then they would he a force to he reckoned with just like their original incarnations, but as they are, Louie is the only one carrying his own weight. The cast wuldn’t seem so bloated if Huey and Dewey weren’t clear wastes of space.
