Dragons: The Nine Realms AKA the most painful thing I’ve ever had to put myself through, and I watched the new Pinocchio movie.
This… thing’s existence is completely unnecessary and stupid. It should’ve been trashed. I cannot stress how garbage this show is. Where do I even start.
Uh character design because it’s the easiest thing to talk about.
All these characters look like frickin JOKES. The main character, whatever his face is, looks like a character, a proper character, one that belongs in the HTTYD universe. The others can be chalked up to concept art. They’re literally concept art. Each character looks like they belong in completely different shows. They look so lifeless and dumb, I can't even. They literally didn't even care. The only good character was Alex, and she still looks like she doesn't belong in this show.
The dragons do not look like dragons that have evolved over thousands of years. They look like they became sentient trash over thousands of years.
They don't even look like dragons anymore. One is just a large beetle with a crystal horn. How does that even make real sense??? The main character's dragon looks like a dragon from that one show for 5 year olds "Dragons: Rescue Riders" and that isn't a good thing. The 'Featherhide' is honestly the only one that looks even half good. They name it 'Feathers'... wow... so creative. At least the other riders named their dragons with even a smidge of thought put into it. This lady, the one who's supposed to be super smart, could've called her dragon something interesting, like 'Echo' or something, but no no no, I'll call this thing that has feathers on it... 'Feathers'. I'm so disappointed. Did the writing team care that little about this show? Also when I said I liked the dragon design, I don't mean it's a HTTYD dragon design, I mean it looks pretty. It doesn't fit into this universe, it looks like it belongs in 'DRAGONS: Rescue Riders' once again, not a compliment. Wu and Wei just... let me just show you.
It's not... I don't even know what to say to this one... also they re-use Toothless's laugh for them which doesn't make any sense. Let's move on.
Dialogue
It's so awkward. It sounds so fake. It's so bad, I can't even with this. This show melted my brain and I will never mentally recover from this. It's not that the voice actors are bad, it's that the pacing and writing is just so bad, it makes the voice actors SEEM bad. There's just random pauses between dialogue, and the music is blasted to 100000000. Literally, I have to put a headphone warning because of how loud the music is. Also half the time, the music doesn't fit what's happening. The characters' reactions to LITERAL DRAGONS is just... it's so normal as if this happens every other Sunday or something. Alex was probably the only rational re-action and also the only funny joke in the whole thing. PS some of the voice actors actually ARE bad.
"He saved her life"
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"what r u diong? This is a restricted area."
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"oh- I-"
The Animation
You know that iconic scene in the first HTTYD of Toothless saving Hiccup?
This show creates a parallel of it. And it's not a good one.
In fact, they create a lot of parallels between this and the first movie, newsflash: none of them are good.
The animation itself was... nauseating. They so clearly just didn't give a fuck. They genuinely didn't care. They just want money.
I don't even want to talk about this anymore. I just want to end this here and forget this exists.
And for the sake of my mental health, I will not be watching season 2... EVER.
Bro, in only 7 episodes, they managed to basically come to the end of the show. Like, the dragons are about to be found out, but they can't be because they'll be poached and hunted down to extinction if they were found, but they're also like really bad at hiding their dragons, and also they have to defeat this fault ripper thing and idek what's happening anymore, but this is like... end of series kinda shit, this is usually where a series would end, like the first season would go on for one more episode and then bam end of series but no, these people are just so bad at writing, I never want to re-watch this, I don't even wanna think about it, like I said it never should've existed, I hate it, it's garbage, it looks like something I'd draw with my left hand. It started at the bottom, and it's been downhill ever since.
Just kill me now and be done with it.
Thank you, that is not all but I don't want to talk about this show any longer than I have to so I'm not going to.