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Post by blackrose108 on Sept 5, 2012 21:29:27 GMT -5
Ooooo, essay you say?
DO ETTTT!
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Post by sairen on Sept 5, 2012 21:33:11 GMT -5
*Opens up word.* Would that go under fanworks? Or perhaps movie since it is still primarily analyzing an aspect of the movie.
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Post by poofiemus on Sept 5, 2012 21:38:51 GMT -5
Sairen, that's exactly how I saw it; you took the words pretty much right out of my mouth! I'd actually been thinking of the dragons seeing the vikings as their young/members of their nest ever since Toothless opted to barf up half his fish for Hiccup in the movie, since that's how many animals in real life feed their young. Basically, I think when you "tame" a dragon, you get him to think of you as part of his nest. Since it seems like a big part of dragon psychology, I expect it to come up in more drama in either later episodes or the sequel.
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Post by sairen on Sept 5, 2012 21:44:04 GMT -5
They do have a pretty strong pack like mentality. It's also pretty interesting they have so many breeds together. It does imply a dragon is likely to accept something more 'foreign' into it's pack so long as it can endear/prove itself to the dragon.
It would be cool to see them explore that aspect more and it does seem likely with the other stuff they've done to acknowledge dragons see things differently.
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Post by poofiemus on Sept 5, 2012 22:28:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd like to see that explored too. Especially considering the batch of dragons we've seen so far have *all* come from the den of the Red/Green Death, which was capable of coercing all dragon types to lair together regardless of species. I'm interested to see if this inter-species harmony is some kind of adaptation to that situation or not, and/or if there are other dragons out there like the Red/Green Death versus it being some kind of anomaly. (I'm actually kind of hoping for it to be an anomaly, because there's all kinds of creepy plot directions they could take that, as well as world-building. How do other cultures interact with dragons if they're only occasionally attacked by isolated dragon families, instead of en masse a-la Berk, for instance? But if that's the route they go, I expect it'd be explored in the sequel(s) rather than the TV series. Still, the latter will have a LOT of chances to build up to the former!)
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Post by sairen on Sept 5, 2012 22:37:16 GMT -5
We do have the Outcasts and the new baby mama coming in, so we still might see it.
If the Nest WAS an anomaly, that could explain why only those certain dragon species were roosting together for babies in GotNF. (If we try to make that fit into series canon, anyway.)
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Post by oneill5491 on Sept 5, 2012 23:41:02 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone has already pointed this out, but isn't this a wee bit too large to be a Terrible Terror egg? I can't imagine one of those cute little buggers craping out a rock that friggin' huge!
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Post by sairen on Sept 5, 2012 23:42:49 GMT -5
I think that might have been the joke. 'How did a tiny thing have something that big...?'
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Post by oneill5491 on Sept 5, 2012 23:49:25 GMT -5
No, I don't think so. Fishlegs pretty much stated it in a matter-of-factly tone. There was no comedic punch-line pause of the camera, music, or characters' facial expressions. I think it may have been an oversight by the writers.
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Post by Ridersofderp on Sept 6, 2012 4:52:15 GMT -5
That is the joke. Somehow, the smallest dragons lays enormous eggs.
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Post by futureman116 on Sept 6, 2012 6:53:57 GMT -5
Big things come in small packages. And besides, if the egg exploded where's the baby terror?
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Post by conay on Sept 6, 2012 11:23:12 GMT -5
Wowzers...that was a pretty good episode. I really enjoyed it I was, however, a bit perturbed at the way they suddenly 'realised' dragon's had a survival/protection instinct. I was a bit like: Either way, I thought the episode was rather good. Although very...inaccurate with regards to some animal behaviour.
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Post by oneill5491 on Sept 6, 2012 12:21:33 GMT -5
Eh, I'm still skeptical about the egg being a joke. I'm sure in "Comedic Directing 101," they covered the importance of doing one of the aforementioned technical production tricks where you pause the camera on the object, pause the music or play a funny-chord of some sort, have the characters exhibit a perplexed expression or outright have one of them say incredulously "That's a Terrible Terror egg?.
Eh, I'm over analyzing something that's really insignificant, but I just thought it was a legit oversight by either failing to stop to realize that it's too big for a TT egg or an oversight on forgetting to hang a lantern on it.
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Post by Hookfang on Sept 6, 2012 14:41:27 GMT -5
The egg was mostly for a "the eggs explode" joke, I think. You'll notice that there was no baby dragon running around after it hatched. Which is a pity, because I would have loved to see that. It probably would have thought the chickens were it's mommies.
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Post by Trainer Rosabeth on Sept 6, 2012 16:08:58 GMT -5
um i can't beileve no one point this out but i'm gonna say it:
One point Astrid talk about a guy named Madnut the Murderous and when i heard the name the first thing in my mind was: THEY TOOK IT FROM THE BOOK SERIES. For those who hadn't red it yet here's the book info.
SPOILERS AHEARD
Madnut the Murderous: In the books he the chief of the Murderous tribe and was introduce in the 6th book (Hero's guide to Deadly Dragons) were he was looking for a dragon that the Bog Burglar chief Bertha, he almost kill her intill Hiccup convince him that it was the Hairy Scary Librarian (which it wasn't). In the 7th book he cheated himslf to winning the swiming race and ask for Bertha and Stoick to be eaten by the Sky dragons but was stop when Fislegs,camcazi,and Hiccup won the race. Finally appear in the 9th book leading his tribe to the sword school.
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