Ducktales was one of my favorite Disney TV cartoons when I was a kid, as was it for many of my friends then and most you'd ask in my age group now. Last year, Disney, in it's infinite wisdom, decided to bring it back. Like all children of the 80's and 90's I was scared that another one of my beloved memories would be tarnished as so many have (cough...Ghostbusters...cough...Transformers...). But as the cast was brought in (David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck, hell to the yes!), and the artwork for the show slowly came out, I was really looking forward to this new Ducktales. Then I read that Lin-Manuel Miranda, of "Hamilton" fame, was going to join. OK! This is really getting good now! Oh! He is going to play Gizmoduck! Awesome! Wait, his real name is...what? Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera?? So, just because we have a Hispanic man voicing the character, we have to make the character Hispanic now? No. We really don't. This is an animated world where anthropomorphic ducks walk, talk, sing, and tales of derring-do! Race really shouldn't be a big thing here, no? I'm sure I'm being too sensitive on it...or I'm a jerk...or insensitive...which is my right...but...guh.
