User blog comment:Googlydoe/Can I have an explaination as to why Dragons: Riders of Berk is "so GOOD"?!/@comment-24621435-20140730003251/@comment-1438304-20140730011801

Actully the series is a farily close adaption of the movie, as far a what can be done for tv. They had to change something to get it on the air, mostly some toning down, but for what it is, it's a good adaptation, and has in fact be praised for being as close to the movie as it is by critics. What was changed was more out of nessecity, fo example the situations for which the epsiodes are based. They almost have to be toned down, for as intense as the movies can be, that doesn't work for a weekly telivision show, they have to have more "normal" bases, what would be going on in less hetic times to fill in what happens between events.

The movies are fantastic, but they don't live out the events of the movies every week, the majority has to be more subduded plot lines and and focus on characters who did not get focus in the films, The Twins, Snotlout, Fishless and so on, who were really only seen in passing in the film, evne Astrid was not given as much attention as one might expect in the films. Stoick,Hiccup and Toothless were center stage in the film, and even then Hiccup and Toothless far more so than Stoick. The TV series was used, pretty well, to flesh out other characters and show how thiings went from the first film to the second, at least early stages of devlopment for the transitions to having Dragon in the village.