My problem with Rise of the titans.
My problem with Rise of the titans.
Okay, to this day, I guess that everyone had seen the movie. So, letâs talk about it.
first that everything: The title.
TROLLHUNTERS: RISE OF THE TITANS.
First word: TROLLHUNTERS.
I mean, I love the show, I have nothing against it, it's great, a nuclear form to start the franchise, and introduces us to a universe. The story, the plot, etc. Whatâs the problem?
We have seen Jimâs hero journey before. âThe amulet did not make me a hero, I already wasâ, a great quote, but we already had listened to it during the show.
So, the movie did not give us nothing new, itâs literally the same plot of the show. âWhat does be a Trollhunter mean?â
WHAT THE FUCK A TROLLHUNTER IS GOING TO DO WITH THE ARCANE ORDER.
Bellroc: âTrollhunterâŠâ
Jim: âNope. Now I hunt Wizardsâ.
First of all⊠the arcane order members are not âwizardsâ, they are demigods, which is completely different. Itâs like comparing a Gnome to a Goblin. Not to mention that the only wizard present during that fight was Douxie, so-
Literally, Jim has not a reason to fight them.
âOh, but earth itâs my home and-â
Bulshit. The proper Merlin says it: âI create the Trollhunter to defeat Gunmar and destroy Gum-gumsâ. I mean, I have myopia but even with my bad vision I did not find a single Gum-Gum in the movie, so tell me if I am wrong, but the Trollhunter does not deserve to head this battle, instead, he had everything to be treated as the warhorse, or secret armor, not as the leather.
It would have been great to see a different dynamic.
In wizards we had the opportunity to see Douxie lead the team, talk to everyone and encourage them when there was no hope. Jim was not present during all the best of Douxieâs leather moments, because he was a Troll, but it would have been amazing to see him leaving the leadership to others, even when he is not used to it.
So, the arcane order is great antagonist. Their point of view, the grey moral, their designs and presence since wizard. Just amazing.
If they are so great: Whatâs my problem then?
A) To begin, their first apparency was on wizards, a MINI-SHOW with 10 episodes, where the arcane order are presented as the ones that are behind the main villains.
It's great to the how the power scales with each step our heroes take. It's more difficult to take the antagonist down because itâs not more WHITE AND BLACK characters, but a lot of grey zones. This forces the heroes to change their morality and question their ideologies.
But the short time we have to meet the order compared to other villains on TOA, makes them not feel powerful enough. It feels more like: They are bad, they are evil, they have a pretty good points to destroy the earth, but instead of giving them a chance to know them better, we are going to give them titans to kill and destroy the planet.
So, the problem is the titans and the mass destruction they occasioned, not the order as them. Or at least thatâs what the title makes us think.
B) On TROLLHUNTERS, we have ANGOR ROT and GUNMAR as the main villains. We know that they fight Jim, and see their development through the series. Angor Rot wants to recuperate his should, he is following orders and after that, he is taking revenge over Jim. Gunmar wants to domain the world, but instead, he is confined to the Dark Lands, where we see him during Jimâs trip to that place.
On 3BELLOW we have MORANDO and area 49. The epic grows of Aja and Krel, their maturity, their decisions, the Varvatos' âtreasonâ, and the change of role from Area 49, to become an allay at the end. A Great conclusion, that lets us open the opportunity to see the support of area 49 in future projects of TOA.
Douxie does not fight an âantagonistâ on the show. The whole adventure is âGo back to the present and help Merlin stop the orderâ.
We meet Arthur, and Morgana, peons of the order, that are going to become villains that MERLIN HAS TO FIGHT. Jim and Claire had their arc. But we do not see the MAIN ANTAGONIST to the PROTAGONIST OF THIS SHOW.
We meet the Arcane order, and we see Douxie fighting them.
He is a master wizard, he is the one that has the power to control the genesis seal, the Arcane Orderâs goal. So, we can agree that they are the antagonist of Douxie?
On the show we see how they control Arthur and make him KILL MERLIN -The only parental figure and family Douxie had-.
They also are responsible to control Morgana (a friend and companion during his life on Camelot).
Not to mention that he became the guardian of Nari of the Eternal Forest, giving the order more reasons to hate him and destroy him.
In conclusion. THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS TO BELIEVE THAT THE ORDER IS THE DIRECT ANTAGONIST OF HISIRDOUX CASPERAN.
So, the movie makes no sense having Jim leading the battle against the Order instead of Douxie!
So, if the writers wanted to make the order EVERYONE antagonists, it would be better to have a second season of wizards, focused on Hisirdoux and the defeat of a particular antagonist.
Continuing with the movie, a better title would be âTALES OF ARCADIA: RISE OF THE TITANSâ, instead of âTROLLHUNTERS: RISE OF THE TITANSâ. In that way, there would be more impact on the presence of other characters around the movie, instead of only focusing on Jim during the CLOSURE OF THE WHOLE FRANCHISE, FOR MERLINâS SHAKE.
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