The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Character Discussion => Topic started by: Lain_EX on August 10, 2007, 06:48:47 PM
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Don't you guys thing she's wat too cute? Yes, I'm talking about Tricia, Tria's daughter and Cera's baby sister. Aww, I think she's way too cute, making her my most favorite character in LBT (I'm sorry, Littlefoot, but you've been replaced). Anyway, what do you think about her?
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I think you've lost your touch with reality, Mama Luigi. :lol You must really like little Tricia to have gone this far, especially considering that as far as new characters introduced in LBT 12 go, Guido has proven more popular amongst this community. I'm not saying I don't like her (I do!), but... words are starting to fail me. :DD
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Why would anyone like Tricia so much? Her entire personality can be summed up in just two words "cute hatchling". That's it. Ironically, her father has more experience with young children than her mother does. I suppose it would be considered dirty for a human to have children with two females (even after one of them dies/disappears/is retconned out) in a typical animated movie. I suppose Topsy goes on record as one of the few, if only, animated characters to have children with two different females.
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Compared to the other threehorn hatchlings, Dinah and Dana I consider Tricia a setback. While those two were cute as well, they also had some other features. I admit that one could not write page long characterizations of Dinah and Dana, but I'm positive one could write a lot more about them than about Tricia. They certainly have been discussed much more frequently in the GOF even though I think their total screentime is probably less than that of Tricia by now. Tricia just doesn't do anything of great interest within that screentime that is granted to her.
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She's a cute hatchling nothing more. She doesn't have ot hasn;e developed a personality, which tells me she's a very young hatchling..
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Hello:
That's correct, she is just a hatchling a very adventurous one but also the kind that you cannot get mad at her (even Cera quickly became more loveable with Tricia), just like Cera in her very first scene... but Cera was different :P: .
Today I meet Tricia and Guido at last, I still prefer Guido, but Tricia reminds me of two things:
1) There is an actress in Battlestar Galactica (the new serie) with that name: Tricia Helfer :wub:
2) Reminds me of a baby that appeared in the second season of Redwall :D .
Maybe we'll get to see more of them soon.
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Tricia will likely continue her type of appearances here and there. Guido, as a 1 movie character will likely get only 1 episode per season. Other then that he hangs out in the limbo valley with Doc, Bron, Shorty, and all the other movie characters.
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I think Tricia makes appearances in the serie, but since she is Tria's daughter then she is going to appear more than other movie characters like Guido or Bron.
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It's likely only since they can think of more for a "cute baby" to do then another dinosaur like all those they keep popping out for a movie then off they go to the limbo valley.
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I've heard of the Limbo Valley a couple of time already, it makes me think about the digital sea from "Code: Lyoko" :lol .
But yes, it appears that the movie characters will appear more in the serie and/or any new movie in the future. About Tricia, I think they'll keep her to avoid questions like what happened with Dinah and Danah and the other Cera's sibling from the first movie.... even though they may be hatchlings from other threehorns that wanted to see Cera's hatching.
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The 2 threehorns can be explained a few ways, though some other things are harder like Cera's sibblings, her mother, Ducky's father. Though there are brief scenes where there is a grown up swimmer next to her like the scene in LBT 5 when the gang first returns to their family being carried by the swimming longneck, then I think that adult swimmer vanishes. I can't check without watching the whole movie or using the other pc since this one's dvd-rom drive won't read anymore.
There are other explanations for things also folks can come up with.
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Well, there are tons of mysteries already, but maybe that adul swimmer didn't appear more bacuase they forgot to draw it maybe, that may not necessarily means that he went kaput!
I just hope we'll get the answer in later movies or serie's chapters. But there are really some changes from the original movie to the sequels :yes .
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Tricia is soooo cute :lol:. Cera finally has a little sister. This is awesome, considering I've always believed her mother and sisters featured in the original are long gone :cry. This again sheds light on Cera's caring side, which is a positive :yes. I hope we get to see Tricia's personality develop.
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I really cannot take too much joy in the sudden unexplained popping up of both Tria and Tricia. Tria was created mainly to create a conflict (the typical divorced parent finds another partner and the kid from the earlier relationship doesn't like it) and Tricia was mainly created to look cute. So far I don't see either of them as a real character rather than a mere story device.
I must admit though that I still haven't seen most of the TV episodes and may therefore lack the insight which most of you have. Nevertheless, I really dislike the way how these two characters were cast in the ring without any explanation whatsoever about the where- and howabouts of Cera's Mum, her siblings, and Dinah and Dana. These characters just don't deserve to be dismissed like that.
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I also wish they would not just toss characters into a movie then toss them out. Pretty annoying, though I do like the two characters of Tria and Tricia as well. They were, likely, originally plot devices, like other characters have been, but handled better then some other plot device characters.
Likely she'll be less speciest and such then Cera since she may have the influence of more then just her father around. Would be interesting if she grew the backbone to be one of the few not afraid to tell someone, even her father, when they are wrong.
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It doesn't appear that Cera's parents divorced... Cera's mother likely never made it to the Great Valley alive. Now, a REAL drama would be if she DID survive and find Cera's father... only to discover that he had married Tria and had a child with her. What a crazy story that would be... how would they resolve THAT?
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That sounds like a plot. :)
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A plot which will never exist outside of fanfiction.
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Could be an interesting plot indeed.
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A plot which will never exist outside of fanfiction.
I'm not sure about this. LBT sequels oftenly were based on the problems in charaters' families. And such a plot can really take the series back to it's serious and a little dark roots.
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sounds like a plot
and a very good one!
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It could make one, with a few positive messages in it. I doubt they'd ever go there though.
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I dunno y'all :unsure:. Too much drama for an LBT movie and especially the Threehorn family, considering all they've been through. I'm certain if Mr. Threehorn and his first wife split up, the wife would've stayed nearby for Cera's sake. There's no way the two would have their children divided up in two different "households." Based on Cera's initial reaction to Tria, one could assume she most likely has memories of her mother and still loves her. Cera has never once mentioned her missing relatives since the original movie. I think they're six feet under pushing daisies :cry. Perhaps it's too painful for Cera and even her father, despite their strong mentalities, to talk about.
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Or they assume she and Cera's siblings died in the earth shake the separated them. They may have, or Cera's mother may have gotten separated, maybe with or without some or all of Cera's siblings. It's not said so it's one of those things that anyone can be correct.
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I guess they meant to adopt a problem for LBT 11 which many kids know these days (I think I know more people or at least as many people from "patchwork families" (myself included) than the traditional mother, father, child pattern) but without making it "too complicate" for the kids. I don't like their beating the bush about the problems. At least there should have been SOME explanation as to what happened to Cera's mother. But same as in case of Bron's appearance in LBT 10 they just made up a couple of facts and presented them to the audience without much explanation or coherence with earlier movies. This kind of policy is what seriously dampens my enthusiasm for the later LBT installments.
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What is interesting is Tricia grows up a bit and is able to ask her mother about "why Cera doesn't call you her mom?" The fact that Cera and Tricia are only HALF-sisters is a potential plot-thread. It's something that would not likely happen with animated humans; you can get away with more with animals as characters...
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They seemed unsure what happened to Cera's mother and siblings. There are some shots that could be them in the early sequels, and there is a movie or 2 where Cera is seen with small threehorns that look like small versions of herself. The folks working on the later movies may have ignored this, like they did that there were spiketails or at least 1 in the valley in the early sequels, but they make it sound like there were never any till Tippy's herd showed up.
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there is a movie or 2 where Cera is seen with small threehorns that look like small versions of herself.
Funny ya mention that. Yeah, these little threehorns are seen during the end credits of LBT II. I always thought perhaps she was having a flashback of her sisters(there were three of them). If they were still living, they would be roughly her size :blink:. It does not matter if Cera and Tricia are "half-sisters." The point is, they're still sisters due to biology and will always love each other as such :wub: :^.^:.
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I doubt dinos use a term like half sister, they may, but it's easier to assume they do not.
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^ I agree. I suppose in many cases the Dinosaurs would not think in such complex / legal terms as humans do. I typed a very long message on the way families are seen in LBT. The message was getting too far off topic so I posted it separately.
Here (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=3314) it is.
There are Ceralikelooking threehorn kids in the original movie as well as in LBT 2 and 3. Whenever they have anything to do or to say (Dinah, Dana, and Tricia) they suddenly take on a different color and sprout horns on their foreheads :lol
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It could, but I"d guess they'd likely continue with the recent trend. They could do that with Cera's mother, but they'd have a plot thing like why didn't she go to the great valley to look for her mate and Cera, and if she left Threehorn why did she leave Cera with him and take the other children. Similar to why didn't Bron look for Littlefoot in the Great Valley?
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a very long post,
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What I think is kind of weird is the way topsy forgets Cera. He was so happy about the fact that tricia could run.. But wasn't running the first thing that Cera did? Cera was less cute, I admit. And I know Tria/Topsy both almost ignore Cera the whole movie. But he must have ideas of Cera as hatchling right? Why did he forget that, and did as if running was special.. Man they screwed up that part..
Seeing a baby grow is great of course, but mustn't a father/mother think about the children they had before?
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Cera was less cute, I admit.
I think that was mostly due to the primitive animation of the 80's. :p Cera as a baby using moder animation would be just too cute. :^.^:
And I know Tria/Topsy both almost ignore Cera the whole movie. But he must have ideas of Cera as hatchling right? Why did he forget that, and did as if running was special.. Man they screwed up that part..
I disagree. Remember this is a movie that EVERYONE should be able to comprehend, including 2 and 3 year olds. They have to over-emphasize almost everything for the sake of the youngsters.
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Yes okay.. I know..
But still .. :p
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I guess they felt they had to do that or else the kids would not understand. And with Threehorn maybe he is like that, you have to remember he's not he's not exactly a nice guy, nor a very wise one, but that is another topic.
That is one of the problems often with juvenile fiction stuff aimed at kids or younger kids is the writers and those higher up feel they have to overemphasize things or else the audience won't understand it, though that do that with some all ages things also. People are not as dumb as some people think they are, though some are, or worse, in certain areas. & also the way they have to have the adults often idiots, jerks, or incompetent so the kids are the ones who have to do all the important things.
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you're right kor! i totaly live with that!
but we are getting of topic i think,
i see tricia as a sidekick character for cera, somebody sees that to?
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Something else I just thought of, though I've not seen the movie yet so don't know what they do. They could have completely missed giving a positive message of if there is something you do not like you can either go to your parents about it or if you don't feel comfortable about it go to a trusted adult, in this case Littlefoot's grandfather, one of the 'leaders' of the great valley and tell him about it. Though it may make more sense with considering how Cera's personality is to have her tell her friends, have littlefoot go tell his grandfather then have Littlefoot tell Cera what his grandfather said. Or have Cera alone looking upset walking around and obviously upset and have Grandpa longneck happen upon her, so she didn't go to him, but just happened to meet him, which would still fit with her likely not going to him since in this case she could happen to meet him and answer his question of why she looks upset about something.
A sidekick character, maybe, but 2 of her roles is as the cute baby, little sister.
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The right threehorn for Cera to keep her Cool I'd say.
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She may well be able to do that indeed. :)
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Heh, I like this character! I especially liked it when Tricia learned how to swim in a fast amount of time, where Cera epic failed in swimming. xD
She definitely is a cute character and would be pretty cool to see her grow up in the series, her having a different personality. I imagine her to be a good mix of Tria's sweet feminine nature and Cera's strong will.
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Yes, I think she'll have some of the traits Cera has and their father will teach her, but some of her own sweetness as well since her mother is there from the start, Cera's friends and the others of the Great Valley.
I did find the end of the episode funny where she swims better then Cera.
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*gets behind a boulder as I'm expecting to be attacked for saying my opinion*
Personally, I'm probably one of the few people who don't like Tricia at all. I dunno, I just find her annoying. Maybe because I can relate to Cera being ignored while the little sister gets all the attention *glares in siblings direction :anger *. Even when they made up, I still don't find the new baby very appealing to me.
And I agree with Mumbling regarding this line:
She is so advanced
Hearing that for the first time, and already irritated with Tria's and Topsy's negligence towards Cera for practically the whole movie, my first thought was: 'Advanced?! It took her forever to walk, run, or stand without shaking! Meanwhile, Cera and just about every other hatchling was running and moving actively (and with coordinance) the second they hatch! <_< '
Cuteness-wise, eh....I find Dinah and Dana and Baby Cera (and Baby Chomper and Baby Fast Biters and all the other babies) a lot cuter.
But I'm probably being a bit biased cause of my negative first-impression with her and Tria. I liked it a lot better when it was just Cera and her dad. Plus, them only reminding me of the favoritism happening in my family didn't help in the introduction....
But that's all just me, don't hurt me! *hides all the more*
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Why would you even think that anyone would attack you about that? If you read that other posts in this thread (beginning with the first one) you would be aware that even though there are different opinions on her she is hardly about to win an LBT charcter popularity contest.
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*peeks out* I dunno, I'm just used to it, I suppose. I'm practically raised to believe that my opinions would be attacked if it differed from others and I got the general vibe that most everybody here found Tricia adorable.
But I think I have nothing to be worried about. Thanks Malte279! :)
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*peeks out* I dunno, I'm just used to it, I suppose. I'm practically raised to believe that my opinions would be attacked if it differed from others and I got the general vibe that most everybody here found Tricia adorable.
But I think I have nothing to be worried about. Thanks Malte279! :)
Don't worry, it's okay to give your opinion about something. I give mine all the time and nobody attacks me. And I agree with you.
Eh...Tricia's cute but, I don't know, I'm not that fond of her.
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Heck yes a Tricia thread :celebrate
Anyway, I haven't revealed my full story with the little threehorn yet. Initially when I first saw XII, I thought she was cute, but didn't really pay that much attention to her. Then I didn't watch LBT for years - and when I got back into it years later, I had gotten into 6teen. Since the Tricia there is basically a jerk to everyone ever, I found the contrast between 6teen Tricia and LBT Tricia hilarious, and that made her a LOT more memorable to me.
For a little while after that I kind of pretended she was my favorite character to myself for the lolz, but as I started paying more attention to her in XII and the TV series I began to realize she really was my favorite - in addition to her cute values, she's got an endearing personality, being playful, sweet-natured and also more well-behaved, getting on with Cera much easier than the more rambunctious Dinah and Dana in VI. Tricia looks up to Cera a lot, and it's pretty heartwarming to see Cera grow to open herself up to the little threehorn. Tricia also has an insatiable curiosity, taking interest in her world even better than Littlefoot did when he first hatched, and she proves to be a surprisingly fast learner - picking up on the concept of swimming very easily in "The Days of Rising Waters" for example. It's great to see her enjoying her young life so much, and it's pretty uplifting for me as someone who has been dealing with a LOT of messy emotions recently.
In general, I just like Tricia so much because she's just...pleasant. Not only is she cute, but she's overall a likable and endearing character who I enjoy seeing on screen. If we ever get a fifteenth movie, I'd like to see more of the little threehorn. :CeraHAPPY