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How “The Last Crash of the Sunchaser” Parallels the Story of Della’s Crash
this is my second dissertation.
I would like a PHD in Ducktales lore now.
first up we need to set up the players in this game (rather, who the characters “equivalent”/role in either end of the story are)
Donald=Beakley, sometimes all three of the triplets.
Scrooge. Scrooge is himself in both parallels.
Della=Dewey.
so the story of Della’s crash goes as follows:
Scrooge, as a present, decides to go ahead and build an experimental rocket ship for the mother-to-be-Della
he does this behind Donald’s, the voice of reason, back
Della takes the ship early and crashes herself on the moon, which effectively makes her seem dead.
while the story in “The Last Crash of the Sunchaser” goes like this:
Scrooge repeatedly ignores all reason and puts the kids in more and more danger
this defies Beakley’s heavy suggestion for more safety precautions
Dewey almost gets himself killed because he fervently goes after the last piece of the puzzle, and because Scrooge was not more careful on their flight
do u see what I mean now? the two different stories very much mirror each other
Scrooge is still going against what should be his better judgement. He builds a rocket; he crashes the Sunchaser.
and ultimately, this mistake and trauma in his past leads his family leaving him again, like Donald left
in this way, the rest of his family is parallel with Donald’s reaction to loosing Della:
Donald blames Scrooge for loosing his sister. the boys blame Scrooge for loosing their mom.