Zootopia Fridge Logic: Spoilers, Man

   We put our hopes and dreams into your hands, Walt, and you didn't let us down. We looked forward to it, and it's here, and though usually when that happens we are suddenly rendered purposeless, not so here: we still have something to look forward to, in, seeing it again I guess. Which I do do. (No Art 125 class Wednesday night, so I can totally catch the, man just whichever, viewing in there before CBW at 7:00, even if my Monday and Tuesday nights are crammed of mondo homework.)

   It sucks how good this movie is. How fresh is it as a tomato, 99, 100%? Going in to see Force Awakens, I didn't let myself get swept away until about 2/3rds of the way through it. Going into see Zootopia... I don't even remember having concerns, whether the film would be of quality, it assuaged any potential fears so quickly. I would've loved to go in and admire all the animation, and the rendering, and the background detail, but even throughout however-many-viewings I got swept up by the plot too easily, all of those elements focusing to serve the story.

   It, just, suuucks, how good this movie is. "Oh, it must be so horrible for you, bro," and, quick before it gets old!, is it horrible for me? Well... No, no it is not.

   It... that's actually pretty funny, if you've seen it, yet.

OH JUST GO SEE THE MOVIE ALREADY (SPOILERS START HERE.)
   Alright, so. I promised you some spoilers. And some, potentially film-enjoyment-destroying fridge logic. Don't worry, I work it all out by the end; let's dive into it.

   As I was, none-too-vaguely explaining yesterday, the wolves were with the mayor, covering up the savage predators in an attempt to avoid the precise problem that pops up later on when the lid is blown off the cover-up. Wolves wouldn't be a part of a conspiracy stacked against predators; it was the rams who were going around night-howler-ing people, working under... the other, mayor.

   "Howls" are still a thing, which is totally morally acceptable, though sociologically stereotypical. How much of "being true to yourself" is too much, an excellent theme, though not really explored all that much here... though it is in a sense throughlined directly into the main theme as part of Nick's tragic, preprogrammed backstory-- if people are only going to see what they want, why act any different, easily leads to, if you're acting the way people expect you to, they've got a reason to expect that behavior of you. Being a predator certainly ties into that, but I'm not sure if, predatory behavior qualifies as, "being true to yourself," if you've never eaten a fellow sophont before?

   So, the wolves make sense. The scene at Cliffside Asylum is, copacetic logically. The circumstances surrounding the scene, though, the stuff they don't show... the writers, of the eight people credited as having a hand here, at least one of them had to have noticed this, so it's not like these questions don't have answers. Have your plot offscreen, if something's illogical, it's not like folks'll notice, right?

   These are the hinky bits:

• Why don't Judy and Nick get backup in heading into Cliffside Asylum in the first place? Would Bogo really let them do that? Or do they just not tell anyone yet?
• They had videographic evidence of what happened to Manchas; was getting the Assistant Mayor to show it to them somehow inadmissible?
•  Let's say yes... but you don't need a search warrant if you have permission to search something. 
• I could do a whole bit about search warrants and their applications in the film and in real life, but, I don't know the legal system of the city of Zootopia or whatever-the-heck greater governing body; it's probably all 100% sanitary.
• How do Nick and Judy get up to the asylum in the first place? Whatever it was, if they parked they'd need to do so somewhere where their vehicle wouldn't be found. As it is, in the film, they just sort of offscreen teleport, one scene they're looking at the video of the place and the next they're there. What was their ride up there? They leave the place with Bogo I'm pretty sure (Judy reading Lionheart his rights on-scene meaning, she's going to start questioning him on the ride back?) so...
•  Did they walk all the way? 
• Take some obscure gondola that doesn't show up on the traffic cameras? 
• Did they take the meter maid cart? Probably, but that's just, a really inefficient mode of transportation.
• Did they get a ride up in Finnick's van? 
• (Sidenote: Finnick is never namedropped in the movie; maybe his name is a pun off of Nick's.)
• Why are the mayor and Dr Badger (the, doctor who's a badger,) why were they still there when the police arrive, after Judy calls in all the missing mammals?
• The ZPD didn't really arrive to the asylum that quickly, did they?
• The mayor and Dr Badger the badger doctor skedaddled right after discovering they weren't alone; did they maybe, hunker down somewhere? Was their skedaddle to a hunker?

   Or, going through all the possibilities I realize, alright, this would tie up everything, and is very probably it: they do tell Bogo they're heading up to Cliffside Asylum, with or without sharing their reasons why, without some more high-profile ZPD member(s) going up in their stead because they're working their own cases, and Nick and Judy are the only ones who know of any "night howlers" or any conspiracy at all, so nobody knows how big the case is, but the department still know where they're headed. So the whole thing's copacetic.

   It explains how the ZPD arrive on scene so quickly, because they know exactly where to go, and apparently the precinct office is a pretty short drive to the Rainforest District (as we saw with the arrival time after the scene with Mr Manchas.) The ride that Nick and Judy took up, I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have to pay more attention to the departure scene, but, yeah dude it just might have been the joke-mobile. Or maybe they got a real cop car; that'd be cool-- I don't think we see the joke-mobile past... shoot, I think we see it last outside of the Tundratown Limo-Service place.

   Let's see... they're there, and then the deal with Mr Big, and then... they just sort of, walk up to Manchas's door, more offscreen teleportation, I guess. They take the gondola away from there, so... yeah, dude, the joke-mobile's still totally back outside the limo place.

   So, alright. From now on!: "Fridge Logic" means logic that somehow deals with forgetting that you parked all the way back in Tundratown.