Okay so if I'm not mistaken, RTTE was meant to end after four seasons, and got greenlit for a final two seasons later, right? And they obviously had to come up with a final story arc to close it off.
Meaning Johann wasn't meant to be evil for the first four seasons, they just looked at it and realized that basically every single episode since his FIRST EPISODE IN RIDERS OF BERK (dragon flower where he sells Mildew the blue oleander (which is poisonous to dragons)), Johann could potentially have been up to something nefarious and realized that they'd ACCIDENTALLY set up for the biggest, longest building plot twist in the entire franchise like,,,, on. ACCIDENT.
You know what we really needed after RTTE ended? A mini series from Johann’s perspective because wtf was he doing half the time. Like in rob when he was just floating on some driftwood until Hiccup found him. Was he just chillen there “passed out” for hours just waiting? Like, this is really important information I need to know.
One of the best plot twists ever but he so goofy for that.
Finished my rewatch of rtte and ngl that scene in the finale where Johann holds Hiccup down and beats the shit out of him is low-key really funny when you think about it. Like damn. that was personal. That was a culmination of like almost 5 years worth of of silent, simmering rage and hatred towards that kid
I think that the Johann reveal worked REALLY well considering the fact that they weren't planning on it for like 6 seasons, but I wish that once they HAD decided on it, they had, like, eased us into it. Like instead of revealing him immediatly they started to do things more deliberately to incriminate him until we're starting to doubt him, and then officially reveal him as a villain to us when they reveal him to Hiccup
The gang’s names are under-appreciated, not just because they are amazing, but for the comedy potential.
They’re out here being named, Snotlout? Fishlegs? Ruffnut? Tuffnut? Hiccup?
While everyone else has normal names like Viggo, Ryker, Dagur, Heather, Johann, Drago, Mala and so on!
Can. You. Imagine. Being a villain, fighting these teenagers, being defeated, and utterly impressed, and then you ask for their names, thinking it’ll be something amazing like TORMOD THE GREAT, and then it’s… Fishlegs????? Fishlegs Justin Ingerman??
And the leader is HICCup? UHH???!! And his deadly beast is Toothless? Like, “NO??? No no no, I see teeth”