A few random thoughts on Zootopia.
I appreciate the writers not leaning too TOO heavily into the whole, "The snake has to talk with am overexaggerted 'Ssssssssss" trope." Otherwise every time Gary said Judy Hopps' name would've been irritating. 😅
2. Thinking about Zootopia 3....the pattern from the first two has been about predators being judged unfairly.
In the first movie, while we (the audience) experiend the case mainly through Nick's eyes, it was the societal preds of Zootopia as a whole who were victims, as they were the only ones going savage, going missing, and blamed for causing tension in the city. And ultimately, the preds were framed by prey animals (Bellwhether and her 'flock' of cronies.....get it? Flock? Lol...ahem, anyway...) and Judy and Nick pretty much cleared their names.
In the second movie we can tell that the relationship between preds and preys has eased a bit, but it's still there. Preds are still blamed. This time, a snake. And this time, framed by another pred: Lynxes. And on a societal stage for GENERATIONS.
So third movie, what are we expecting? I imagine birds, and pred birds specifically, being framed/societally outcased...but by whom? Mainly prey? Mainly preds? Or a conspiracy of both (since Nick let over 100 criminals out of prison, pred and prey, trying to save Judy 😅. So will Bellwhether partner with some pred animal? OR will we be introduced to a completely new aninal controlling the entire narrative--even pulling Bellwhether's strings (maybe without her realizing))?
ALSO you can have "pred and prey" birds. So I wonder if the story line will be a "framed/false narrative" of birds attacking or wronging other birds? Or birds attacking the existing mammals of Zootopia? (Like, IRL Eagles and Vultures will eat fellow birds, AND non-bird creatures. So would they be blamed for attacking fellow/smaller birds; the current Zootopia mammals we know; Or both?)
I can see something where birds hear about/start moving to Zootopia. An incident happens in a public square where like and Eagle is blamed for scaring/intimidating a smaller, prey animal (when he was just being overly-friendly and saying hi). And maybe we kind see the beginning of how that kind of prejudice festers rather than seeing the affects of long-term/pre-established prejudice--generational (Zootopia 2) and modern (Zootopia 1).
I DUNNO JUST RANDON THOUGHTS I WANTED TO PUT OUT IN THE TUMBLR VOID.
But ultimately, unless the writers change the pattern) we've gotta have the birds (I think of the pred variety) societally blamed or prejudiced for something they didn't do by some prey character(s), and Judy, Nick, and Gary have to clear them.
Thoughts?
(PS I kinda want there to be a sheep character that's NOT evil/part of Bellwhether's crew....or maybe they ARE but they doublecross her, just to mix things up!)