Hi… so sorry I died 🙂
Anyway I’m sick, can’t talk, and caved after seeing bits and pieces of Danny Phantom content for the last decade and started watching it.
I haven’t finished it yet but I read a handful of fics, and when I tell you I haven’t read something this depressing like, ever??? I’m lowkey traumatized, I ate the dove and regret every action that led me to it I may cry
(Srsly though he’s so adorable and it genuinely makes me sad bro)
THE ULTIMATE ENEMY WOULD HAVE WORKED BETTER THEMATICALLY IF DANNY DIDN’T CHANGE THE ECTO-FILTRATOR AND IT EXPLODED; INSTEAD OF CHEATING ON HIS TEST SOMEHOW CAUSING EVERYONE HE LOVES TO DIE IN A RANDOM NASTY BURGER SAUCE ACCIDENT!!!
I truly think the whole message of “don’t cheat on your test” cheapens the story overall and instead it should have focused on personal responsibility.
The PERFECT SOLUTION was right there to have all the pieces in place for a scenario where everyone he loves die as a result of his actions. They ALREADY established that the house has an ecto-filtrator that Danny has to change or else the entire house could explode.
If you still wanted to have a sub-plot of Danny cheating you could have had Lancer do a home-call but I still think the whole story would be cheapened because the message feels like: “don’t cheat on your test or else your entire family could die in a freak accident” instead of: “your choices have rippling effects that don’t only affect you but also those around you” which should have been the message in an episode about an alternate evil timeline self.
Of course, they wouldn’t want to reuse the same plot-line of Danny forgetting to change the ecto-filtrator but it still would have worked much better than the cheating plot-line and could have still worked because he already supposedly learned his lesson; but realistically as a kid you tend to make the same mistakes.
It would have felt more personable and would have made a lot more sense why Danny would feel responsible for the accident. Yes, cheating on his test was the reason his family was even at the Nasty Burger in the first place but in the end it was a freak accident. Maybe the point is that Danny feels responsible for something that was ultimately out of his control but that’s not really how the episode treats it (at least from my memory. I haven’t seen TUE in a while).
Ultimately this fix is still a band-aid on what I see as the thing that drags TUE down but it would be better than a literal vat of burger sauce overheating and killing everyone??? Burger sauce explosion is far too comedic to really feel the impact of their deaths.
Some of my stuff from the Phantom Core drawgether sessions. These first two were done during the Holiday and Halloween themed sessions, respectively. The rest under the cut are just random sketches and doodles, dating from mid September to late December.
































