Talk:Zootopia/@comment-27926499-20160330111647/@comment-27997791-20160330162048

Well, you're right, her plan was having problems that she may not have forseen, maybe if Judy hadn't found the savage predators, it wouldn't haven to the publice worked. But I don't see how that makes her intentions or methods less threatening, she's not incompetent, if aything it's a miracle beyond the suspension of disbelief that all the savage animals where captured before anyone really knew about the, despite Lionheart not even knowing why it was happening, she ahd every reason to believe it would work. And she may simply have been counting on the fact that eventually some of the savage animals would've gotten to the public, or that whoever was keeping it all quiet would be unable to do so any more.

As for leaving clues for Judy so the savage animals would be publically known, it's again fully possible if not likely that she didn't know Lionheart was the one capturing the animals she ordered darted, so she may have been almost as much in the dark as Judy was.

As for darting people in more public places to make sur eit had the desire deffect, that'd also vastly increase the chances of someone noticing the gunman, even if it was never traced back to her, the knowledge that the predatory behaviour was caused by external factors would prevent them from seeing predators as inheritly dangerous. And she may simply not have ahd the resources to do anything on alarger scale anyway, aside for the increased risks. Besides, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the animals to run rampant in public, even if poisoned in their homes where no one saw, it's just that Lionheart's people allways got them before that. If you want to complain about logistical plot holes, go with that.

I do however agree that the movie would've worked better if Bellwether and her relation to Judy was developed better. I've mentioned before that there is a plot hole in Judy teaming up with Nick to find who was poisoning people instead of contacting the authorities. This plot hole could be fixed if Judy first had reason to believe there was a second consiparcy and that alerting the authorities would lessen their chances of uncovering it. In that case she could be justified with not tipping of the authorities and instead giving the information ot someone she trusted to reveal the information in case anythign happened to them. If Bellwether had been established as someone Judy trusted, Judy could've told her that she thought Night Howler was the casue of the outbreak, and that Bellwether had to alert the public if Judy didn't uncover the culprit, only to learn that Bellwether WAS the culprit, and would certanly not give Judy the backup she had hoped for.

This could then have been acompanied with a better look at Bellwethers motivations. The only problem I see with this idea is that it'd make the movie even longer than it already is, so it'd be less marketable. It's already about 2 hours long.

As for why she stayed at the job she had, it's obviously easier to take over after the former mayor if you yourself are already in a position close to him.

I guess I can see why you're annoyed at the social commentary and satire, but I personally don't mind it, and I find the apps and selfies to be mostly cute, I don't see how they will affect the movie negatively as it ages and those things become less relevant, they're not presented as anything to take too seriously.