#nitpicking

The Handmaid's Tale: when June and Moira are trying to escape the Red Center, they mention trying to get into downtown Boston. but the subway station they enter has a sign that says "ARLINGTON" being removed. there IS an Arlington, Massachusetts outside the city- but it doesn't have a subway station. the real Arlington Station is in the middle of the Back Bay...in downtown Boston

The Handmaid's Tale again: Moira and Emily are comparing notes on the gay scene in Boston, and Moira says Emily seems "like a Somerville kind of girl" and mentions her going to Club Cafe in the same breath. Club Cafe, a well-known Boston gay bar, is also in the Back Bay, and Somerville is a suburb north of the city

Also The Handmaid's Tale: there are way too many hyper-modern buildings for that to believably look like the Boston area. I get that they filmed this in Toronto, but they could at least...TRY to make it look like the city it's set in? probably more than half of the buildings here are pre-1920s. June and Luke apparently live in Somerville- they take the Red Line, so I'm guessing around Davis? but their apartment is once again super-modern. most apartments in that area are duplexes built around 1910-1920

Legally Blonde: Brooke apparently has a pool and a pool house while living on Beacon Hill. Beacon Hill is mostly row houses with very little outdoor space- while apparently some do have small and/or indoor pools, it's extremely unlikely for any to also have a pool house. there just isn't any room for it

Also Legally Blonde: that doesn't look like Cambridge. at all. come on, now

Legally Blonde again: 45 Dunster Street (not "Dunston" as they said in the movie), Cambridge, doesn't have a lawn or a long front drive. it's right on the street, with just a bit of sidewalk in front. it's also not a residential house- in 2001, it was the home of the Fly Club, an all-male Harvard social club

it isn't a case where you have to jump over hurdles and do olympic races and all that jazz to make the character competent and smart, all they had to do was tweak a few scenes and shit.

for example; the poisonous rose episode. like are you telling me it was THAT hard to make Evangeline go to the back to protect Amalia and write an alternate way for Amalia to get bit since you wanted her to get bit for the filler plot??? like it took me like 5 minutes to come up with an idea for how she could get bit without making Evangeline look completely and utterly incompetent at her job despite her being a trained soldier.

just make one of the things crawl up her leg in the background while the others don't notice cuz they're busy staying still so the roses won't get them. easy peasy lemon squeezy dawg

in addition to that, have them both realize at the same time what they're standing in since Evangelyne has grown up amongst Amalia's people and should know to some extent what they are.

it also makes no sense to me that she didn't know that the doll was connected to Amalia, considering that she is her assigned BODYGUARD, and should know somewhat about her and how her doll and powers work in case of emergency.

oh and for the cherry on top, since I'm already nitpicking and complaining about this episode, why on EARTH would you let the doll get its grimy hands on YOUR bow, that you apparently treasure very much going off of episode 19.

and even if you DON'T treasure it that much, you're still her BODYGUARD. you should have your weapon on hand in case any threats pop up?????

TLDR; TOT is a bitch ass motherfucker and can't write women (or men he doesn't like)

(actually as I was writing this, I also remembered how all of the demigods, excluding Goultard or wtever since tot loves him, have less screen time than Kriss Krass, who has shown up for at MINIMUM one scene without fail in almost every piece of wakfu (and waven, if tgw is waven era and not wakfu era) era media. He literally has his own comic.)

(I love Kriss Krass, mind you, but there is no way that literal demigods, who should be very important to the story, have less screen time than a (albeit beloved) side character.)

but here's some things I thought id talk about.

1, the casting choices. I honestly didn't like a lot of the casting choices.

Snotlout was FINE AS HELL, nothing new there, but the actor doesn't actually look ANYTHING like Snotlout? I mean, they've got the same hair, but Snotlout in the animated was much more square-shaped, per se. the live action was much sharper in features, and honestly the only similarities I could actually find was the hair.

Ruffnut and Tuffnut were first of all, BLONDE(rip httyd1 tuffnut glowstick hair), and second of all, they're IDENTICAL TWINS. now, I'm not saying that I don't like that Ruffnut is plus sized—i do NOT give a fuck about that—its just that the twins seemingly had no similarities besides their hair color?? what was up with that?? I feel like they could've picked people that actually looked a lot more similar (again, I do NOT care that ruffnut was plus sized. I'm not fatphobic)

Hiccup looked NOTHING like Hiccup, and honestly didn't even sound like him either. Hiccup was rounder-faced, rabbit teeth, freckles, the likes. their casting choice looked absolutely NOTHING like him and that makes me really upset. AND COULDN'T THEY HAVE GIVEN HIM GREEN CONTACTS?? ITS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT HIS EYES ARE GREEN. THEY MATCH TOOTHLESS'S

Fishlegs was great, but again, WHY WASNT HE BLONDE!! GIVE MY BABY HIS LUSCIOUS BLONDE LOCKS BACK!!

Astrid was alright, too, but I miss her beautiful blonde hair 💔 and honestly, I wish they'd made her wear her normal blue more often instead of red. also, the actress was making the same face the entire movie? she seemed really bored. also, unlike some people, I don't give a fuck that she was a poc. which, I suppose means her hair wouldn't have been blonde, but I still miss it sighh! the actress is very pretty, though.

Gobbers casting choice was spot on, in my opinion. but he sounded British sometimes. which was kinda weird

OKAY onto thing no.2

the dragons designs.

Toothless looked really clunky, like his head was too big for his body, and he didn't seem quite so graceful like in the og. also, what was up with his wings?? why'd they change his wings?? the og design still wouldve worked BEAUTIFULLY in the live action, so I don't think they should've changed it. AND THE PATTERNS. WHERE WERE TOOTHLESS'S PATTERNS.

Hookfang. honestly, I think the design was pretty solid. his legs dangle kinda weird though. and I wish his head/snout was a little broader, like in the og.

Meatlug. honestly meatlug was SO adorable, in my opinion. but why did they make her blue? I mean, I guess she wasn't like completely blue, but she had a very blue-ish tint. her original color pallette was very cute, even though it made her look like a spiky doo-doo.

Barf and Belch. they were great, all in all, but seemed kinda stiff? idk maybe my phone was just lagging or smth. umm I wasn't paying as much attention to them so I don't have many qualms.

Stormfly was honestly great, but something that I couldn't quite place seemed slightly off. it was probably the fact that the eyes are much bigger in the original on the dragons and I'm not used to seeing them with normally sized eyes.

Red Death was amazing too. tbh I got a little sad when it's wings burned up and it was plummeting to the ground because then it was just helpless and uhm idk. very great though.

ONTO NUMBER 3!!

just like general pickiness I guess.

I don't like that they completely skipped over the scene with the little guys(I forgot the name of the dragons give me a break okay)where Toothless shoots one in the mouth. how did Hiccup know what to do with the Red Death?? it makes no sense.

in the scene where Stoick is using Toothless to get to the nest, WHY weren't Toothless's pupils slits?? it made the scene slightly less stressful and also just looked kind of bad.

in the scene where Hiccup is getting near-killed by Hookfang in the arena, when Toothless came to save him, they didn't do the night fury whistle? I'm fairly certain they did in the original movie, but correct me if I'm wrong.

in the beginning of the movie when Hiccup is like, introducing everything, he doesn't say "they have a nasty habit of setting themselves on fire" when he introduced the Monstrous Nightmare. which isn't that bad but it was one of my favorite lines so..

in the scene where Astrid sees Toothless for the first time and starts running away, Hiccup says "we're dead." instead of "da da da! we're dead." which really pisses me off.

Well I think we’re at that stage now.

Exhausting bullshit.

I’ve seen far too much of it in my time.

With many different fandoms.

Don’t wanna be that person but why did Mary kiss Dante and why did he let her🫩 She’s the most annoying person in the series so far🪦🪦 They toned down the cursing for her from wut I’ve watched but she still emphasizes every curse word she says😭 It’s hella annoying. It might just be bc I don’t really like enemies to lovers in shows bc REAL enemies wouldn’t fall in love with each other.