One of the key differences between Nine Realms and the main trilogy (and even the other spinoff shows) is that it feels more like an ensemble show. Eventually, all the kids on the station learn about the dragons, each of them finding a different dragon to bond with. Tom accidentally stumbles into the fissure, where he meets a curious black-and-white dragon - clearly the distant offspring of Toothless and the Lightfury from the last movie - and discovers the world of dragons, tucked away from human eyes for the past thousand years or so. At the research center dedicated to the fissure, Tom meets some of the other kids: dreamy Jun (Ashley Liao), who believes in magic and the occult animal-lover D’Angelo (Marcus Scribner), an Army brat who just wants to find friends and a home and shy Alex (Aimee Garcia), a tech wiz who hacks into the station’s computers for fun. From there, the show kicks off with Tom (Jeremy Shada), our plucky and restless protagonist, who journeys to a crack in the earth’s crust with his scientist mother. The How to Train Your Dragon movies ended with the dragons descending into the Hidden World, a chasm deep within the earth, as Hiccup and Toothless realize that dragons and humans can never peacefully share the world. And ultimately, Dragons: The Nine Realms is exactly what it promises to be: some pure-hearted fun that indulges childlike whimsy.
The first season of the new show feels more like an introduction than anything else, but the concept bubbles with potential.
The fantasy of flying on dragons and bonding with them for life is more tangible than ever.įrom John Tellegen, who worked as a writer on previous How to Train Your Dragon shows, Dragons: The Nine Realms brings the fantasy of dragons to a contemporary setting. A new animated show, however, commits to that concept, jumping forward in time 1,300 years and following a group of modern teenagers. Unfortunately, locked away in the Viking Era, that wish is but a distant dream to dragon-loving kids.Įxcept, the How to Train Your Dragon movies actually do take place in our world instead of a Viking Era fantasy realm, an idea that the films and subsequent shows have always flirted with.
At the core of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy is the fantasy of meeting a dragon who loves you and becoming best friends with it.
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