{"id":1421,"date":"2012-09-10T19:06:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2013-04-17T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T23:59:47","slug":"dragons-riders-of-berk-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/dragons-riders-of-berk-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons: Riders of Berk (premiere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;An egg&#8217;s an egg, right ladies?&#8230; Until it explodes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings and dragons are getting along fine, but even though dragons just eat fish the farm animals are spooked by the scary-looking fire-breathing dragons. The yaks aren&#8217;t giving any milk and the chickens aren&#8217;t laying any eggs. Stoick asks Hiccup to do something about this, and quickly because there&#8217;s a huge winter storm coming.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/dragons-gift-of-the-night-fury-etc\/\">mentioned the other day<\/a>, <strong>Dragons: Riders of Berk<\/strong> is a new TV show based on <strong>How to Train Your Dragon<\/strong>. The episode I&#8217;m reviewing is &#8220;Animal House.&#8221; It&#8217;s the official premiere, although there were two episodes that aired as a sneak preview in August.<\/p>\n<p>This episode is funny and charming, with a clever solution to the problem. I am likely to watch further episodes, because I like this world of Vikings and dragons a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The animation isn&#8217;t as detailed as in the movie, but that&#8217;s probably inevitable. Of course, some of John Powell&#8217;s amazing music from the movie is used as the theme.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the voice actors from the movie are reprising their roles, including Jay Baruchel as Hiccup and America Ferrera as Astrid. Tim Conway (the TV show <strong>The Carol Burnett Show<\/strong>), Mark Hamill (<strong>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/strong>), Thomas F. Wilson (<strong>Back to the Future<\/strong>), and Stephen Root (<strong>Office Space<\/strong>) voice new characters in upcoming episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The show was created by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (co-directors of <strong>Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/strong> and <strong>How to Train Your Dragon<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Two seasons of 20 episodes each have already been ordered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;An egg&#8217;s an egg, right ladies?&#8230; Until it explodes.&#8221; The Vikings and dragons are getting along fine, but even though dragons just eat fish the farm animals are spooked by the scary-looking fire-breathing dragons. The yaks aren&#8217;t giving any milk and the chickens aren&#8217;t laying any eggs. Stoick asks Hiccup to do something about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68,9,5,11],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}