User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-27517926-20160112110051/@comment-24018437-20160114181242

Well Dual and I aren't the greatest of pals, I do agree with him on this point. While I love the TV series (I'm currently watching the new episodes and I think they did it a really great job as everything from character development, to storyline to even the animation has been upgraded. Compare to very first episode of Riders to the latest episode of Race To The Egde. You can see the difference.) I don't think you need to love everything about HTTYD in order to be a fan of it. There are plenty of franchises that I do like in general, but I don't like every aspect of it. That's like saying you NEED to love every book in a series in order to be a true fan.

For example, I love the Warrior novels. But I think that, starting from the third series (At least, I think it was the third. Could be the fourth) things started to get a little...Strange. I mean, as someone who likes animal-oriented novels, I liked how Erin Hunter managed to create a whole story resolving around groups of wildcats and made a great culture for them. I always enjoy novels like that, such as Watership Down and Silverwing that humanize animals in a way they seem intelligent, but still animalistic. But in the third arc...Yeah, I mean, spirit badgers? Cats with super powers? Cats come down from the Dark Forest (Cat version of Hell for those who don't know the series.) to attack the living and StarClan (The ancestors of the cats who are pretty much portrayed as gods.) are no longer the subtle, mysterious beings they were when the series first began.

Same for Halo. Anyone who knows me knows that I love Halo. Its one of my favorite video games, and I also read the books and saw the anime and other series based on it. Yet that doesn't stop me criticing it. While I love Halo, I can say it lacks serious storytelling. You get some information in the games, but not that much. Most of the lore is explained through out the novels. And I'm not talking about small, trivial things. I'm talking about big, important events. In the first game, you learn that humanity has been at war with an alien empire known as the Covenant for the last thirty years. But the reason behind the war or how it started is never explained in the games.

So, yeah. My point is, you can like a franchise and critize it at the same time.