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something just crossed my mind about the "all dragons followed toothless back to the hidden world" thing.
iirc, per the film script, the dragons went with toothless because they cannot resist an alpha's command. it's also obvious that the film intended for every dragon on earth to have returned to the hidden world, per hiccup's speech at the end.
but, seeing as hiccup and co. did not defeat every legion of dragon hunters and trappers on earth, then there are undoubtedly dragons still within captivity at the time that toothless orders all dragons to follow him, no? what about them? did they just break free because the alpha told them to? did he fly across the world and free them?
and people say hiccup didn't give up on dragons by sending them away.
You know... as much as I hate the Light Fury, there's one thing after all these years that makes me genuinely feel bad for her.
The Hidden World sets her up as this poor abused, traumatized soul. She has been tortured and intimidated so much by humans that she can't connect with them. Just getting a glimpse of one makes her turn tail and flee for her life.
And yet, the movie robs her of her own revenge. She doesn't get to fight Grimmel, or the hunters. Leading up to and during the film's final battle, she's tranquilized, bound, has her life directly threatened, and then gets taken control of again and used against Toothless.
And she doesn't get revenge for any of it. She doesn't even get to fight in the armada battle. The one scene where she at least growls at her captors was animated specifically for the trailer, and isn't even in the final version.
You can argue that she got some form of control by choosing to save Hiccup and not Grimmel (thus killing him), but even so, there's no focus on her victory. It doesn't feel like a victory connected to her abuse, but instead, another setup that the movie forgot to pay off.
DreamWorks wanted a tormented, broken dragon, but forgot to let her fight for herself.
Even I can admit she deserved that much.
You know, Dean, if you really wanted us to believe that dragons are wild animals who will always attack first and think later...
Then you could have shown that here.
Me watching hiccup, astrid and toothless discover the dragon's nest in HTTYD1: wow this is just as bad as the hidden wor-
Tumblr really just ate my 3,000+ word essay about the deleted version of the Furies in Love scene
REWRITING "CAPTURED FURIES"
The most frustrating and confusing scene of the movie, rewritten and in screenplay form.
Brought by yours truly. Enjoy~
When thinking about scenes in the movie I could potentially rewrite, this one was the first to come to mind. It was so anti-climactic and felt so stale, I knew I had to give it a shot first.
I really thought that Toothless simply inching towards Grimmel in the film seemed so out of character and, honestly, just like a really bad move. Light Fury flying TOWARDS the danger she smelt was stupid as all get out, so of course I had to change that.
I think I took a big risk in having Toothless be the only one captured. I'm not sure how much I like the concept, though I'm proud of how I executed it. I feel like I improved Toothless's attack and brought back some of his true character in having him FLY at Grimmel, not just stalk towards him.
There are things here I'm not too happy with myself, but at least I can confidently say I believe that I breathed some life and tension back into this scene.
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To this day it still bugs me how the people responsible for some of the best character development in an animated franchise skipped over that for a female dragon in favor of making her bland and kind of a bitch