User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24018437-20151113155518/@comment-24018437-20151121215151

I'm surprised you aren't aware Stalin had nuclear weapons had as well. It was one of the biggest reasons the Sovjet-Union became a large world power. He placed the damn things all over the eastern side of Het IJzeren Gordijn (I'm calling it by the Dutch name, Cuz I have no idea what its called in English.). The west did the same, making the possibility of a new war even more plausible. Plenty of people are still amazed it never happened.

They did that in after the first World War, and look what happened. Although I will admit it was a differant situation, it was understandble they wanted to prevent a third one from happening. Again, we weren't there. They didn't know what would happen. We know what they could have done better, and what they should have done or shouldn't have done. At the time, they didn't.

I have a habit of annoying people for all sorts of reasons. So I'm honestly not worried about getting flames. If they do and try and flame me, I'll probably just ignore them. :P I honestly don't give a crap about what they think of me. XD

I love fiction as well. Who doesn't? But I don't think comparing the fate of a real soldier's sacrifice to that of a fictional one makes a lot of sense in the grand scheme of sense. If you are talking purely about in-universe stuff, that's a differant story.

The trigger-happy attitude was because war was kind of new...Or at least, new one's. War hadn't happen in a while, and in the previous one's, tanks, bombs and modern guns had never been used. No one really understood the reality of it, and viewed it as an adventure to achieve honor and glory and all that stuff.

It was far from justice. Did those people ever ask for a war? Did they fire at you? Did they have the power to stop the war? No, they did not. The politicians and generals had that power, not them. And in the end, the bombing wasn't neccarary. The Japanese could have been defeated without it, because they were already on the brink of losing. It was literally over-kill. So I ask you: have you ever seen a video of the results of the bombing? Because you are describing it as just a means of getting revenge. Its almost as if you don't realize people actully died. Not just the oh so evil soldiers, but also innoscent men, women, children and infants....Infact, probably little to no soldiers died.

Who says the enemy is coming for you? Imagine if two countries are fighting one another at the other side of the world for something that has nothing to do with you. Neither has an Interest in your country. Yet you would still order your troops to attack...Then its not defending their families anymore.

Those Middle-Easterns didn't start the war: Terrorists did. The civillains or Goverment had nothing to do with it. Imagine if a random group of Americans, with no ties to the American Goverment, attack a Middle-Eastern city. And then the countries of the Middle-East randomly start slaughtering American people who had nothing to do with it. You get a perfect example of a reversed situation. Also, I'd like to point that the soldiers in the Middle-East killed MORE innoscent people then the terrorists did at 9/11...Yeah, let that sink in. The, in your opinion, good guys killed more innoscent people for really no reason at all then the actual terrorists. Some soldiers even admitted they killed innoscent, random civillains for no other reason then pure xenophobia. And you call it justice...I assume you are going by the 'An Eye for an Eye' mentality? While I'm not against it, would it not make more sense to attack the people who were actually responsible, instead of the one's who had nothing to do with it? If an Asian person killed my girlfriend, I'd want revenge on that person. Not kill a random Asian person that had nothing do with it.

Again, no one sees himself as evil. Bin Laden didn't see himself as a dishonorble hypocrite. Hitler didn't see himself as a mass Murderer. Both thought they were Heroes who simply sacrificed things for the greater good. We know they were wrong. But try convincing them of that. :/

Diplomacy can fail. A leader can refuse to listen. They can't come to an agreement. In the end, that is pretty much one of the biggest mysteries of war. And its also one of the biggest reasons I hate politicians.

Literally everyone who ever comitted a war crime told himself that. That they did it for the greater good. You make it sound like revenge. So comitting a war crime because someone else does it as well makes you better? No. It means you're equally bad or good. If your idea of justice is comitting war crime after war crime in the name of 'good', then our ideas of justice are quite differant.

Other Tribes have actually made cameo's or were mentioned. Same for Dragon Hunters and Pirates. But the Berserkers and Outcats focused on Berk for a rather obvious reason: they wanted trained Dragons as well. None of the other Tribes had those. Why would they attack those if they had nothing to offer?

Being a hypocrite is indeed a flaw or Hiccup.

Who should she befriend? The Twins, Snotlout and even Hiccup only liked her because of her fighting skills and appearance. They Weren't friends, they were just fans more then anything. Who were usually incompetent or annoying or selfish. Or all three. I don't blame her for not wanting to be friends with them.

Actually, she wasn't his girlfriend. The kiss was just a reward, and its made clear in the first few episodes they aren't together. According to the writers, they became officially a couple of-screen during the series...Which I think is pretty lame, to be honest -_- I hope we get a flashback episode or something like that shows that they become a couple.

I wouldn't really call a simple punch to the shoulder that is more akin to a slap on the back violence. The only time Astrid ever genuiley hurt without another intention behind was when she caught him with Toothless, where she dropped her axe on him and such.