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Demonwolf002 25 Nov 2014, 20:53
thenightandthefury
25 Nov 2014, 16:54
If you read the script released, Valka does initially reject Stoick. It's very subtle, but her eyes closing is the indicator of her rejecting him, before coming around to nostalgia.
That's one of the things I absolutely love about this franchise is that subtlety. This however is the one time I feel that maybe they were a bit to subtle with the emotion they were trying to get across. Or that maybe subtlety wasn't the best call here. One problem that can come from that subtlety is the conveyance of the correct emotions for the scene. But overall you have a character who chose to stay away for many years because she believed no one could change not even her own husband. So that's where the problem comes in, should someone who believed something so much that she chose to stay away from her own family really succumb to nostalgia that quickly?

Honestly as an aside I really do love that scene. On it's own it's a great scene and is really lovely for what it does, but because of what it does I feel that it detracts from Valkas character. So I feel that if it were different and more in line with what they were trying to get across subtly then it would have done so much more for her character, and I feel it would have made one of her last lines more prevalent in pointing out the idea that Hiccup isn't truly like his mom and doesn't completely take after her.

For reference the line I'm referring to is:
"You have the heart of a chief and the soul of a dragon. Only you can bring our worlds together"