#bluestarsaber

[kingofthewilderwest]

I'm curious what do you make of the live action how to train your dragon movie and their casting choices?

Howdy! It's a fun question and I suppose I haven't "weighed in" on the topic yet.

I don't make the live action anything. XD As far as I'm concerned, there's no enlightened purpose for its existence. We'd be better without DreamWorks mirroring Disney's de-souled remakes.

I haven't been following it. I'm not avoiding anything, nor am I "pretending it doesn't exist," nor ignoring from spite. I feel none of those things. Rather, with all nonchalant calmness, I feel zero interest, so it results that I do zero following. And I like that I'm doing that. No reason to follow something I'm not going to see.

I never looked up the cast and the reason I've seen Hiccup's and Astrid's actors is because folks shared pics on social media. I'm increasingly falling into the category of, "How do you do, fellow kids?" with decreasing idea of what's in 'young people's' mainstream culture. I don't know the actors. No shocks there. Heheh.

That said, I'm not enthused with the casting. I can't imagine a world where I'd be "pleased" with any actor, but neither of these choices sparked my trigger into thinking, "Oh, that's totes Hiccup and Astrid." More like, "Really? That's your cast? Eh."

Dean DeBlois's involvement guarantees neither Inspiration nor Results. "Bringing the original guy back" can be the wrong choice; Peter Jackson created masterpieces with LOTR but should not have been the one enlisted for The Hobbit movies. Disney's Star Wars Rebootithon shouldn't have leaned on nabbing Mark, Harrison, and Carrie, especially not to the obsessive point we're digitally altering ages and deepfaking Peter Cushing instead of doing a proper recast with makeup. Mark has zero respect for what they made Luke in the sequels. The Avatar live action series discarded the OG creators after hailing their involvement. Long story short, DeBlois being at the helm does not give me more benefit of the doubt for the final result. If it ends up being uninspired it's uninspired, I don't care what names you chuck there.

I will not be seeing it. I will not be watching trailers. I will not be discussing it, either pros or cons, when it does come out. I don't care if the reviews somehow end up positive and raving. It's not in my interest sphere and I'd rather focus on stuff I do find engaging. I hardly watch movies anyway... why would I go to the theatre for my maybe-once-a-year quota for that? Now make me the Bill Monroe [father of bluegrass] biopic that was proposed, like, ten years ago, and I'll be in theatres every day it's out, regardless of quality!

[chattegeorgiana]

1. Whoops my bad made it sound like make Spiral zetsu as the final villain, when I meant final opponent for ether the side characters like the K11 (which he kinda was for the most part, though off screen sadly) or for Sakura in terms of solo fights outside of team 7. But yeah it was a missed opportunity. I kinda feel like the final battles should of been: Kakashi vs Black Zetsu (with Obito), Sakura (possibly with Yamto) vs Spiral Zetsu and Naruto and Sasuke vs Madara (aided by Team 7 later).

2. Heck I feel if there were more unique zetsus like Spiral Zetsu it would make alot more sense on why Obito declared open war on the 5 nations since he had some powerful ones to go against the stronger ninja and lead the lesser ones without Kabuto's additional with the Edo Tensei he would receive later.

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That would've been a lot more cooler to see than what we got, definitely.

Especially in terms of Sakura and Yamato and Spiral Zetsu who seemed to be produced out of Hashirama cells.

In the context of Sakura/Yamato/Mokuton IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIIIIES.

But then we got what we go so myeah... it is what it is.

[narusakufactory]

You know any good NaruSaku Wedding fanfics to read?

There’s the classic “Let’s get Married!” one.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7132681/1/Let-s-Get-Married

There is one I have yet to starat personally called “An Absolutely, Totally, Non-Romantic Wedding Date“

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23484832/chapters/56308951

[lyannas]

@bluestarsaber yes

[noodlerama]

Now that we have gotten our Mist and Brock reunion episodes do you hope the other gen character will show up?

absolutely

[kirabook]

OK I'm just loving the fact the Kingdom Hearts 3 lets you have all party members active in the world.

Indeeddddd. I always hated switching party members out, so I always stuck with Sora, Donald, and Goofy. I'm so happy I can have everyone at the same time now

[chattegeorgiana]

You know I never really understood Kishimoto on the whole Sakura's popularity being a reason to not write her, as for most part she was still in the top ten with the exceptions of polls 2,6 & 7, but the total votes makes her the 5th/6th most popular character overall. Plus in the 3rd data book it was shown that her fight with sasori came in 3rd place behind sasuke's battles against deidara and itachi. So it shows to me at least that enough people would want to see her or at least in action.

I already addressed this thing in an older post here, Blue.

So imma leave it to you to read that one so I don’t repeat myself again. :D

[kingofthewilderwest]

Been a while. Out of curiosity out Hiccups two children who do you think is more likely to lead New Berk after him?

I think we could consider who’s more likely from several angles. What customs in Berk are relevant for who becomes chief next? What customs does Hiccup care about or would be willing to discard? Which kid based upon their personality would make a better leader?

Personality-wise, given that Zephyr and Nuffink are both so YOUNG I don’t think we have a good grasp of what they’d be like as respective leaders of New Berk. We might see glimpses of their personality now, but there’s so much bound to change from young childhood. Deciding between the two of them on temperament I ergo don’t think is possible right now, if that is indeed a factor Hiccup (and Astrid and the tribe) cares about. And I do think that once the kids become older, temperament (and desire to lead) will be something Hiccup wants to see in his kids.

As far as tradition and Berk, I talk about that here. Book canon and franchise canon both indirectly suggest that chiefdoms are inherited through the male line, in which case Nuffink hits the requirements. 

However, I like to propose Zephyr as chief (the link also talks about this). I think there’s a good case to be made for her becoming chief after Hiccup, and it’s my personal headcanon. She’s the eldest, I think that would factor into Hiccup’s judgment, and I don’t think Hiccup would care about her gender. As I say in that post I linked:

[Hiccup] knows how strong women are as leaders. He’s met Mala. He’s seen Astrid in action. He’s interacted with Atali and Minden. He knows about Bertha and Camicazi. And Hiccup is a revolutionary of his own. This is the kid who brought dragons - Berk’s worst enemy - into the heart of their civilization, and created peace. Hiccup is a part of his society and culture and time, of course, but he’s also someone who pushes the world forward in new ways. If Hiccup finds Zephyr the best candidate for chiefdom, do you really think he or Berk would protest to the concept? Do you think Astrid wouldn’t support the same thing? Berk’s been through wilder shifts. I imagine they can support a woman ruler.

I think that Zephyr could turn out temperament-wise to be a good leader, and I’m rooting for her to do a good job leading Berk!

Either could be good though. Time has yet to tell. We as fans can only toss our guesses and headcanons, and they’re all fun to hear about.