ajmrowland wrote:Christopher_TCUIH wrote:They need to stop after Kung Fu Panda 3. There's already a tv show. Idk how much more they can milk this series.
*And i heard Train Your Dragon is coming out with a tv series too.
Already on the air. I sampled a bit and while the plot of that episode was paint-by-numbers(a new breed of small dragon is discovered, hiccup takes it in and mistakes all of toothless' warnings for jealousy), but the animation, while a little stiff, was technically more impressive than most CGI kids shows. Not the same quality overall as star wars though.
On another topic, I didnt expect the Croods until at least 2014, considering there hasnt even been a teaser yet.
Actually, you missed three earlier episodes that were shown as previews before the actual premier.
The premise behind the whole series is that Hiccup and the viking village learn to adapt to the new dragon filled life, and each lesson is applied at the end of the story. So it is a bit of a fantastical slice of life series that takes place just after the end of the first movie.
In the first episode, the dragons and vikings have quite yet to adapt to each other, so the dragons sometimes end up eating the crops and ruining some stuff for the vikings. One new character, a miser of an old man, protests, saying that the dragons should leave forever. So Hiccup and friends try to see how they can mend the relationship even further, so they figure out that they can use dragons to their advantage in their daily life, and in the end, they established a dragon training academy.
In the second episode, Gobber is left without any job since his old job was to provide weaponry for the vikings in order to fight dragons. He tries a variety of jobs until he learns that he can use his old weapons to aid in the training and care of the dragons.
Finally, in the third episode, a big snow storm in coming, and Hiccup learns that the dragons have a natural instinct of protection, so Hiccup and Astrid's dragons are able to save them from the snowstorm. In the side story, the animals are way too frightened by the presence of dragons, so the vikings must figure out how to get the two species to get along before the snow storm.
The episode you mentioned is the fourth one and it is actually the first episode to introduce a new species of dragons. The series may end up following the plot premise you mentioned, but I think there will be more variety in the stories they tell.
I was personally impressed with the series. I liked that they were able to get a great chunk of the voice cast back (sans Gerard Buttler and Scott Ferguson for obvious reasons). I also love that the series complements the movie well enough, with the stories being told in the same tone as the movie. It's humorous without being too over the top (something I think plagues Legends of Awesomeness, even though I love that series to death), and it keeps its focus on the dragons.
I think Riders of Berk is a solid TV adaptation, better than expected, and it ALMOST makes me forgive Cartoon Network for making the Annoying Orange into a TV show...ALMOST
I kind of feel bad for having so much desire to see sequels, but KFP2 was very good, imo, and Dragons has a lot of potential depending on where they go with it. I've heard that they've thought about taking the KFP series up to 6 in the end, and I can't say I'd mind considering how much I (strangely) enjoyed the first two.
I tend to forget about these in-production movies unless I'm very interested.
