Httyd Thoughts - Blog Posts
Idk, you can call me picky, but to be honest, I don't really like this joke. I immediately remember those not funny jokes about «wife is bad, marriage sucks», and I don't like these vibes.
Wait, will there be a httyd2 life-action remake? Is this some kind of belated April Fool's Day prank or something?
I'm not even talking about the cases where Toothless is a human (which is still very strange to me, because despite everything Toothless remains an animal in the original franchise), namely those where Toothless is a dragon and Hiccup is a human... Ew! I just don't understand such people (and don't want to understand them).
Edit: *unironically ships. I meant to say unironically. I only noticed it because of King-mera. Thanks to her.
Sometimes I wonder what Astrid's name would be if her parents followed the tradition of Berk — giving children disgusting names to scare off trolls (or goblins, I don't remember)? Axegirl? Sharpthorn?... Skullcrasher?...... uh...... Asstrid?
I'm sorry, I can't make up names.
Sketch of design of Hiccup's winter clothes.
As a resident of the cold region of my country, it just freezes me out that none of the characters wear warm clothes when it's cold. Although, according to Hiccup and shown in the tv series and the short film, they live in a very cold climate. But no one even thinks to put on a winter hat!
They have a freaking winter there, but they all wear their usual clothes. But they must catch all possible frostbite and colds!!! And Hiccup, the twins and Astrid should be shivering from the cold because of their thin physique (I'm telling you this as a thin one).
And it seems like in some official comic book their warm clothes were shown, here's Hiccup as an example, but damn, even this doesn't look like very suitable clothes for winter. So I decided to give the riders (well, their fifteen-year-old versions) winter clothes, since their parents can't. The designs are filled purely with my vision and headcannons.
In short, I think Hiccup would have dressed the warmest of the gang. Well, Stoick would have forced him to dress very warmly, believing that his weak and skinny son could easily freeze to death or the wind could easily knock him down.
Oh, there's so much about the life-action movie we've been having lately. First, the leaked frame with Toothless and Hiccup, then the first trailer (which I'll talk about much later), and now this photo from the filming, where we can see the local Astrid and Snotlout, which I'm going to talk about.
Astrid, for starters. I actually really like her design from her hairstyle to her armor. Yes, it doesn't look much like the design from the original movie, but damn, the new design is still very good. I don't even have the words to say how much I like it.
And also the armor design looks like something in between Hiccup's armor and Astrid's clothes from the second movie. I'm not the only one who sees the resemblance, right?
Among the disadvantages of Astrid's life-action image, I can note the absence of small skulls and spikes on clothes. Like, these are important details of her image, which well showed her sharp and belligerent nature. And the fact that they are not there makes me kinda sad. And this is purely a matter of taste, but I would like her to have a blue shirt, not a red one (I never liked her red shirt).
And now about Snotlout. I don't even know what to say about him. His clothing design is kinda meh. There is no hatred for the actor, but, as for me, he is too thin and small for the role of a big dumb bully. Like, I don't believe that this cute guy can bully other people, especially because of their physical strength and small build.
Like, in the original, Snotlout was such a standard of appearance and behavior of the Vikings of the Berk. Big and strong, and because of it, it doesn't matter that he's dumb. And his design emphasized this well.
And here... Meh.
In fact, he looks more like 16 years old Gustav than Snotlout.