User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24018437-20151113155518/@comment-24018437-20151117102606

If those people know right from the start you're an expert animal trainer that can calm the lion down, then sure. They don't intervere. But if they don't...Yeah, most would still call help or intervere. Your word isn't always good enough. I actually remember a story about a Priest that told people he could befriend Lions, and therefore let himself get locked up in a cage with one, claiming that no one should intervere...The 'Lion Tamer' got eaten alive.

In practice, most people will not buy a sick animal. If they already have the animal and it become's sick later, then they will spend money on it. But people who buy a pet generally prefer an animal that is healthy, over one that isn't.

Considering Dragons are the only enemy they ever fight in the film...Yeah, it makes sense if the strategies they use are only for Dragons. It would be kind of weird if they started using strategies made for Outcasts or Berserkers against them, wouldn't it?

All Hell Break's Loose isn't a reference to the Viking's strategy. Its a reference to the fact that in a couple of moments, a gigantic Swarm of Dragons will be all over the place.

Thanks for clearing that up.

He didn't go to war with them before there was no need. Oswald was a good man who hadn't led his Tribe into battle for 50 years and always honored the peace treaties. Stoick only found out at the last moment Dagur took over. And even then, Dagur's armada has 50.000 ships with thousands of soldiers, all armed to teeth. And the ships are equipped with weapons designed to kill Dragons...The war with the Berserkers, even if they are morally wrong, would have taken a lot lives. This may seem cowardly, but it happens in the real world all the time. We know some goverments are terrible or even cruel, but we don't step in directly because we don't have the resources for it, or because we aren't willing to sacrifice the lives of our own people for another country.

As for Drago, he didn't start sending out armies to him. He wanted to stay on Berk in order to defend it from Drago in case he ever got there.

I think that the Viking who would cause it instead would indeed be blamed. And that would be fair. Its his fault, and he carries the blame. The fact its implied it happened with Hiccup multiple times makes things so much worse.

For a Viking father, I guess Spitelout was probably the typical parent. The Jorgenson line had a lot to live up too, and he exspected Snotlout to carry over the tradition. Same for the Hofferson and Haddock clans, really. It shows there are worse parents out there. Its no excuse, but it was unfortenly how it worked on that era.

And unbeareble characters aren't badly written per se. I have plenty of characters I hate from all franchises, but mostly because of something they did or said. Ashly and Kaiden called me in a traitor in my face, despite everything I did for them. Lysandre's and Cyrus' goal was extremely selfish. I don't like how selfish and hypocritical Kaori could be. I disliked them because of what they did or do. Not because they were 'badly written'.

To me, a badly written character is a character that is either unnecerey or has potentiol, but there is nothing done with it. Take Jacob from Mass Effect. An officer of the shadow orginasation Cerberus that is pro-Humanity, Jacob had a history within the Alliance military and also fought on Eden Prime against the Geth. Heck, he even stopped Batarian terrorists from killing the Citadel Council and revealed that the Batarian ambassador who was there for a peace treaty was actually the leader behind the attack. There are so many possibilities! Instead...Meh, he was very avarage and not all that interesting in my opinion. If it wasn't for the fact he had usefull Powers, I probably never would have taken him out on any mission.

Kaiden and Ashly actually had similiar problems. But unlike Jacob, they were well-written characters and had very good backstories. But nothing was ever done with those stories. Not to mention they're romantic subplots weren't as toutching as the one's with Tali or Garrus. Its something I never liked about the first Mass Effect game. Kaiden, Ashly and Liara are good characters, but their romance isn't. It doesn't feel genuine. They love Commander Shepard, the main protagonist of the games, for things he/she did and what the Commander stands for. Not to mention the romance with Ashly is TO subtle. I was nice to her, and suddendly a cutscene where we were rolling around in the sheets appeared...Yeah, that was higly confusing, considering I had no intention of starting a relationship with her. Or at least, that's how I feel about it.

If you aren't familiar with the Mass Effect games, feel free to completely ignore the last four paragraphs, Including this one.