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How to Train Your Dragon | Full Length Commentary

🕑 Added 2023-01-21 06:38:04 +0000 UTC

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Willow McPhie

Just got physical copies of the whole franchise! Excited to parasocially watch with you! XD

samuel Jakob

Love the movie, and really liked your reaction, just fyi. Toothless mannerism was modeled after a cat.

James M

The whole series is so good

LightsCameraJake

The 2nd movie is even better!

Joe Hoy

46:50 - Heya Vicky - not sure if you read these, but just in case... I remember you saying in other videos that you're somewhat of a (fellow) aviation geek, so you'll probably appreciate that the filmmakers really did their homework on that aspect. Hiccup is essentially a young engineer trying to figure out aerodynamics and flight controls from first principles with the added complication that he has to synchronise what he's doing on the prosthetic tail with Toothless's instinctive flying (and Toothless, for his part, has to compensate to match what Hiccup is doing). Hiccup finds out the hard way that they can't make tight turns with the extra speed they picked up on the "go time" dive (Toothless notably only gets annoyed when Hiccup makes the same mistake a second time) - and when they stall out it's because Hiccup yells "stop!" and lets go of the loops on Toothless's collar to grab his "cheat sheet" (and thus kills the "power" while in a steep climb - a real-life recipe for a dangerous stall and spin). As an animal who has flown on instinct all his life (and has thus never experienced a stall/spin), Toothless does not know how to recover and so it takes Hiccup's hauling on the collar to get Toothless to use his wings as airbrakes and arrest the descent. It's a movie, so there's obviously a certain amount of artistic license involved, but it's surprisingly accurate in that sense.

Joe Hoy

16:00 - In the books, dragons communicate via a kind of telepathy. Toothless "heard" Hiccup state that he was the one who shot him down, but then when Hiccup freed him, Toothless held back and didn't "go for the kill". I always picture Toothless's roar as yelling "You Asshole!" at Hiccup before sparing him and trying to escape.