#terrible ending

[snapmite1998]

This will be my last critique for why Hidden World is absolute garbage. It's been long overdue, and I apologize for not posting this sooner, but life has been hectic for me lately.

Part 3. Character bastardization

I'm starting off with Hiccup, because this man makes SO many mistakes in this movie that are completely uncharacteristic. First, he decides to completely overpopulate Berk with all the rescued dragons that were under the thrall of Drago's Bewilderbeast, as well as the dragons that were captured from Drago's warlords, as they were in the process of rebuilding their dragon army. We've clearly seen throughout the animated series that there are plenty of other islands and lands habitable for the dragons to migrate, reproduce, and grow. So why didn't Hiccup and the Dragon Riders relocate these dragons to those lands? Instead of doing that, they painted the BIGGEST target on their backs by allowing Berk to be overpopulated by all the dragons they saved and rescued, and this was all approved by Hiccup.

Secondly, he gives the order to abandon Berk when Grimmel sneaks in and introduces himself as the "Night Fury Killer." Sure, I guess that would spook the man who has bonded with and trained what he assumes is the last Night Fury in the world, but Grimmel is definitely overselling his reputation, because I refuse to believe one animal poacher can eradicate an entire species in ones lifetime, its completely unrealistic, I don't care if this franchise is fictional or not, its utter baloney. That said, Hiccup didn't need to order an exodus from Berk. I said this in my first critique too. All he had to do was lure Grimmel away from Berk and fight the old man and his Deathgrippers somewhere where they have the advantage: Outcast Island, Berserker Island, Dragon's Edge, the list is extensive. Instead of standing his ground, Hiccup orders that he and his people are leaving Berk because he got spooked by Grimmel and his overinflated reputation.

Finally, when he makes Toothless the same prosthetic tail that allows him to fly on his own that he made in Gift of the Night Fury, Hiccup and others act as though he's nothing without Toothless. Bro, this is the same guy who built most of Berk's weapons, contraptions, and who built Toothless a prosthetic tail from scratch. Not only that, but the animated shows clearly depict that Hiccup is not to be underestimated, even without Toothless to help him; he's more than capable of handling himself even when he gets roughed up. So seeing Hiccup acting like he's nothing without Toothless makes you roll your eyes.

The side characters, but especially the Twins, were on the back burner in the movies, and it makes you appreciate the shows even more because they had their opportunity to shine and flesh out their character, since the movies focused primarily on Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid, and Stoick. The one thing that absolutely made me go "wait, what?!" is when Tuffnut didn't even realize that Ruffnut got left behind at Grimmel's base. In Race to the Edge, the episode "Twintuition" shows that these two are on the same wavelength, so to see their relationship being butchered in "Hidden World" hurts.

And when Grimmel lets Ruffnut go because she annoys him and the warlords so much, she doesn't even consider the fact that they let her go on purpose. Sure, the Twins are stupid, but not utterly stupid. Ruffnut had some amazing moments in the shows, and seeing her so careless was a face-palm moment for me personally. She should've led Grimmel to a different location first and then double back to New Berk, throwing him off the scent, and she's more than capable of doing it too, but sadly, that didn't happen.

Valka should've had more of a role in this movie, man. This woman knows dragons more than Hiccup, and should've helped him with relocating the dragons that were overpopulating Berk to islands or lands known only to her. On top of that, she physically looks younger than she did in movie 2. They should've fleshed out more of her character and made her somewhat age a bit more as she recovers from losing Stoick because of Drago. She's been assumedly dismantling Dragon Hunter and Trapper organizations in the twenty years she's been absent from Hiccup's life, so maybe they could've added a few remnants of those organizations collaborate with Grimmel and the warlords as they seek revenge against Valka for destroying their buisnesses.

And towards the end of the movie, when the Vikings say goodbye to their dragons, Valka and Cloudjumper have the shortest exchange out of all the Dragon Riders. Valka and Cloudjumper have been a bonded pair for twenty years! How was their final goodbye not extended to maybe a minute or more?!

Anyway, I'm sure I missed a few other things, but this is what was on the top of my mind when doing this final critique. The Hidden World made me feel many things: sad, disappointed, and confused. I'm almost tempted to say there were different writers who got hired when this movie was being created, but in the end, it doesn't matter. Whether you enjoyed it or not, you're entitled to your opinion, and I won't judge you for it! This is merely my opinion.

[catsaresocutefr]

“He’s just my tammy” Son😭✌️💔

Seriously tho wtf was that…

[maximoffsgirl]

I completely forgot how good lucifer really is, they did my show so dirty after season 3

[juliapcl]

So, about Arcane

I hate the ending. There is too much pain in the show for me enjoy it.

Vander didn't had to go through all that. He didn't. They just added to his tragedy layers and more layers until there was nothing left of him. I hate that. An asshole of a Piltie is the reason he couldn't find peace in death and ended up trying to kill his daughters... And what happens to sayed Piltie? He gets what He wants at the end. Honestly? FUCK SINGED. He sould've died in a horrible way.

Ambessa's death was just... Mid? In the end I didn't believe she was doing things for her family, just for herself. And that ending was not what they build this big and manipulative general to have.

Caitlyn and Vi was good in season 1. I liked them... and in season 2... just no. I didn't feel their chemystry anymore. Actuaclly, I don't like Caitlyn at all anymore. Jayce and Victor had more chemistry then those two, and Viktor was a fucking robot for the biggest part of season 2.

And Finally... Ekko. Do I have to say how that ending was shitty? He lost everything. Again. Only this time he knows what would it be like. He knows what it could be. And, so do we. Because Jinx was a Sister to Isha. She loved Isha. She tryied to do the right thing for Vander. She even forgave and made amends with her Sister. We saw a Jinx that could love, could laugh, had no visions and was just chaotic. Not evil. And yet, they didn't get a happy ending. After all the misery they had to live through.

Season 2 had it's moments. But I hate the ending and the only thing I felt in the end was sadness.

[bewilclerment]

At the end of the day this show is for normies

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

I'm glad that Bleach is back, but not with that SHITTY ARC, why are people hyping it? This is the worst arc ever, it was better if it was never animated 😭😭.

[whatisgrass]

You're telling me this didn't happen?

Keith: I've only been friends with Lance for a day and a half.

Keith: But if anything were to happen to him, I would kill everyone in this room, and then myself.

[thekingofwinterblog]

Missing the point- Comparing Attack on titan’s final ending to The Mist ending

it was all for nothing. literarily everything the entire attack on titan built up was all for nothing. what every single sane fan predicted after the original 139 chapter came to pass. paradis was destroyed, its people genocided. Eren’s stupid, stupid suprise twist plan didnt work.

there will undoubtedly be many, many who posts their own take on this ending in the future, but i just wanna go over how if this was the original mist ending the mangaka had in mind, then it missed the mark so far it isnt even funny, because it would seem Isayama didnt really understand why the ending of the mist movie was so powerfull.

So, a quick recap(spoilers from here on) of the mists ending.

the Main character David Drayton and his family and two aquentainces are stranded in the middle of a supernatural fog. now, they know that this fog is full of inhuman monsters thats killed quite a few people over the course of the movie. the story has gone to great lengths to make sure the audience knows exactly how screwed the characters are. they hear things in the distance. they understand that the end is coming. they are all going to die here. however, there is a catch. while they are all going to die, they need not actually die by the hands of these monsters, who will probably kill them in slow, gruesome ways.

For as it happens, they have a gun. they have the option of going out quickly, and painlessly. one problem. the gun has only 4 bullets. in the end, the adults make a decision as the child son is sleeping. the one left alive, who did the deed is david drayton.

after killing his family, David usurprisingly has a massive breakdown, screaming, crying, futilely trying to kill himself with the empty gun. in the end, he gets out of the car and screams into the mists “COME ON!!!” wanting to get this over with, and die as quickly as humanly possible, to ridd him of his guilt, after just having snuffed out everything he loved in the world.

The sounds come closer and.... out of the mists rolls a tank. an american tank from the us army. 

David just stares at it in numb confusion as it rolls by. the tank is followed by other military personal and vehicles. the mists begin to lift, revealing that the entire army is moving in to help with the situation, killing the supernatural invaders. this is completely logical, yet flies in the face of everything the audience expects, both from the perspective of a fictional work as a structure, and subverting the all too common idea in stories like this that the army is completely helpless.

for david though, being saved by the army gives no comfort, and as he finally begins to really understand whats going on, he has another breakdown, as he understands that he just killed his family for nothing, absolutely nothing.

the movie ends on this tragic scene, while two very confused and concerned army dudes walks up to him trying to figure out what is wrong. end credits.

this was the ending that isayama said he wanted to emulate for attack on titan.

Now, on the surface, this kinda looks like that ending. but only on the surface.

because it misses the actual point that the mists ending had utterly, and fails to understand what made it such a powerfull tragedy.

it wasnt just that david failed to save his family, it wasnt JUST that he himself killed them, it wasnt just that had he waited 5 more minutes, he and his entire family would have been rescued.

No, what made it powerfull, was that we saw his entire journey, from start, to ending, and at the end, he was still there. the character that the entire movie had spent its time building up was completely, and totally destroyed as a human being through his own flawed, but human decisions, and at the end, it turned out that he, not the inhuman monsters, were the one who was the ultimate harbringer of his family’s ultimate destruction.

and in the end, we got to actually see the complete destruction of him as a man, a father, a husband.

the problem here is simple.

we get none of that.

Isayama wants his cake, and he wants to eat it too.

He wants an ending where the entirety of paradis is destroyed, but he doesnt want to actually end this story on a tragedy, even though by all metrics, it was one.

He didnt want to have eren die as a monster, so he throws in a chapter to humanize him, completely tearing down everything we thought we knew about why he did what he did to achieve it, and not have him die as a man who decided to brun down the world for very selfish, incredibly wrong, but also completely human reasons.

He didnt want to have to portray armin as a complete joke, and have the attempt to make peace just completely fail, and the eldians and marleyans begin killing each other the moment eren was dead.

but most important of all, he didnt want to end the story by having the characters who saved the world, dying from bombs from the sky, or machine gun fire from an invading army, having come to commit complete genocide on the eldians.

so in the end, he tried to sidestep it all, by having the end come a few generations afterwards, when all the characters we had followed was long dead. and by doing so, he robbed the story of any sense of drama, theme, and any of the emotinal gut punch from the consequences of the character’s actions.

Eren doesnt die as a complete monster who was willing to do anything to ensure his people would live. the alliance gets to save the world, but dont have to face the consequenses of the fact that they had no plan, that instead happens to their grandchildren.

In the end, attack on titan was a tragedy, where eren didnt achieve a single, bloody thing, making his entire journey pointless, as a child is about to enter his grave, and become the new ymir. the titan’s power will be born again.

that should have weight. it should feel like a sad, sad ending. but instead, I, and so many others, just doesnt care. because the story doesnt care. because it wanted to end on a cheery, upbeat, bittersweet ending, when what this story needed was complete and total tragedy to work. It is all spectacle, no substance, and not particularily good spectacle at that.