Thread:Thorndrum/@comment-27624304-20190927114029/@comment-24413325-20190929184538

"I'm finding the concept of "Easter Egg" hard to wrap my head around. Either its there or its not, irregardless if it is placed there for fun. At least IMO." I'm on a similar mindset actually. It's part of the finished product, so if the product is considered canon, the Egg should be too. No?

"For Mildew, why is it absurd that he join Drago's Army? (...) Whether the show creators put him there for fun or not, it's still him. (Or did the creators just put a person there that looked like Mildew (...)?)" It's not absurd for me, but for some other people. But they ask some good questions, like, why didn't he tell Drago about Berk? When did he join the army? He became good by the end of DoB, why did he become evil again? As for it being the real Mildew, yes, that was confirmed. https://twitter.com/brookchalmersvo/status/965743702659383296 The OP was deleted though.

"Canonicity, IMO, is a related but separate issue for the fans to decide themselves. I think RR is some level of canon. You may be thinking it is not canon at all, and that's totally fine. Both of us are right, and niether are wrong." RR is a good addition if you just want to have fun and see dragons, but it doesn't build or add to the main HTTYD world in any way. It's even a little contradictory. The dragons (especially the ones from the Archipelago) went into hiding in THW, yet they are still around and roam freely by the time Rescue Riders happens? (It is very clear RR is set after THW, just by seeing Magnus's lumberjack and Berk being an 'old' story.)

I could percieve RR as canon maybe as an actual alternate/parallel universe to the main franchise. So, like, HTTYD happened in both universes, the two having been inextricably linked with each other. At the point where Toothless leads the dragons into the Hidden World, the link between the two slowly starts to weaken:


 * In the future of the main franchise, dragons still live hidden, only rarely going to the surface. In this world, people have come to peace with the idea that dragons may he become extinct.


 * You know how people only start to approciate things after they've lost them? That is exactly  what happened in the alternate world. Once that the Alpha had finally decided to let the dragons back into the surface world, people finally stopped hunting them, having learnt what great things they have previously lost, and they didn't want to risk it again. (cheezy and cliche to the fourth level)