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| Cartoon Freak 11 Sep 2014, 22:52 | The nervousness makes perfect sense. Valka's just been describing what a horrible person Drago is for mutilating various dragons (well, technically, I suppose it would be Eret if anyone stopped to think about it - I'm sure Drago would much rather have undamaged merchandise - but that's another matter entirely), and Hiccup's having to admit that he did much the same thing. Awkward, to say the least. But... It does look out of place, for one simple reason: they never go anywhere with it. This is an opportunity for conflict between Hiccup and Valka that doesn't even require the latter to be an antagonist as such, and they cut it short. This isn't the only example, either - Valka's insistence that neither Stoick nor Drago could change should create some form of conflict with Hiccup, who has the opposite viewpoint (and, in the case of Stoick, Hiccup knows for a fact that Valka is wrong), but the only thing that comes of it is that Hiccup decides to leave to find Drago, and even that's rendered pointless by the fact that Stoick and Gobber show up at that moment. And that's not even getting into the fact that she kidnapped Hiccup, a fact that is never mentioned ever again in the movie. That's pretty much the problem with Valka: she's not perfect, but she might as well be, given that her flaws make absolutely no difference to her interactions with anyone else. If I had to take a guess as to why this is the case, I would say that when DeBlois had to stop Valka from being the villain (or at least when he came to believe that was a necessity), he seriously overcompensated by removing any conflict between Valka and any non-evil character, thus removing any interesting character interactions with her. |
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