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So details on the new httyd were released alongside the poster...

This doesn't bode well.
 
http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/23/matt-groening-disenchantment/
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/disenchantment-matt-groening-netflix-release-date-1201967651/

Maybe it's just me, but I find it interesting that the protagonist of Groening's newest show is female. (Yeah, I know The Simpsons and Futurama had female characters alongside their male co-stars -- Marge and Lisa Simpson and Turanga Leela respectively.)

I really hope out of his own volition and not Netflix's trend of 'YASSS ALL WOMUN MAIN CHARACTERS" lately. Her buck teeth and incel chin really bother me. Generally two traits you go out of your way to avoid for your main protag, but he'd be called a pig if he made her too hot.
 
SO, there is a new Rocky and Bullwinkle show. And I think it is pretty funny.

I heard. Do they capture what was great about the old Ward shows? (What I've heard shows they didn't bring back any of the supporting segments with it, which is a shame, because we need new Fractured Fairy Tales or Dudley Do-Right.)
 
American Dad was decent at first with its great political humour, e.g. The family were often seen at 'Red State Groceries, the shopping destination of a shrinking majority of shoppers every year!'
I thought it really hit its shine a fews seasons in when Rodger started doing disguises. However, I felt it went downhill after season ten... But the episodes where Snots dad dies and Jeff lands on the alien ship were both very touching (season ten eps).
 
I heard. Do they capture what was great about the old Ward shows? (What I've heard shows they didn't bring back any of the supporting segments with it, which is a shame, because we need new Fractured Fairy Tales or Dudley Do-Right.)
True, and they already made a Peabody series already. Shame about not having little side attractions like that.

Keep an eye on the SJW crowd for this. I already saw these gems attached to the Dreamworks announcement on Tumblr.

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Especially love how they apply human standards to a dragon.
And this is why character design is DEAD in this country.

I was expecting squeals of HETERONORMATIVITY but man, this is just as deliciously salty.
I would think encouraging the continuation of a species would seem ideally logicial, but maybe these people are looking for a more elaborate explanation for why they can't be nuetral in appearance.
 
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We’ve seen ONE Night Fury ever and these fuckers are acting like they’re all the exact same always.
Which of course defeats the purpose of why animated movies and cartoons have always relied on separating the sexes in a way to make it easier to tell them apart thematically.

Kinda how they great the minorities they supposedly speak for.
Thank you.
 
I mean they are right in a way about the design being as weird as it is. Excuse the zoologyish sperging for a sec: in canon Nightfuries are shown to be a very rare species of dragon and it'd be very slim to zero chance that there'd just happen to be an albino (if that's what they're getting at here) individual, especially in a species that has been shown to be a nocturnal hunter. Hell, its in the name. I have no problem with this dragon's build being more delicate, sexual dimorphism and all that.

What does bother me (other than the albinism) is that the plot is plain as day on the poster.
 
What does bother me (other than the albinism) is that the plot is plain as day on the poster.
True, I suppose a lot of people are fed up with the "Boy meets Girl, they fall in love" routine we've seen over and over like that (Disney's "Bongo" is one example). I hate to admit I'm a sucker for those stories as well, but I understand how it turns off those expecting more out of female characters besides settling down with a mate.
 
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True, I suppose a lot of people are fed up with the "Boy meets Girl, they fall in love" routine we've seen over and over like that (Disney's "Bongo" is one example). I hate to admit I'm a sucker for those stories as well, but I understand how it turns off those expecting more out of female characters besides settling down with a mate.
That and for sure it's gonna be a "make a choice between your best friend or girlfriend" where the choice inevitably sides to the girlfriend. It's such a tired cliche.
 
That and for sure it's gonna be a "make a choice between your best friend or girlfriend" where the choice inevitably sides to the girlfriend. It's such a tired cliche.
True, and I suppose that might also mean closure to this series of films if it came to that as well.
 
Lame. I want my best bros to grow old together.
There's that thought, yet I always side with those movies where you have to let nature take it's course, especially when it comes to animals. They are tearjerkers for those who wished to see it live on, but time is often never on our side in the end, mortality is always around the corner (this coming from a guy who sat through Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows in school).

The best I could see this film ending on is perhaps for Hiccup to discover another young Night Fury that he may continue his job of training it just like he did with Toothless. Again, that is real sappy, but I wouldn't put it past someone to come up with it.
 
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True. I there was a short a while back after the first about Hiccup building an automatic tail system for Toothless so he could take solo flights. At the end of it Toothless tears it up, preferring to stay with him. So who knows maybe they've been building up to this.
 
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