Let's talk about VALKA
Posted: 25 Nov 2014, 03:58
In Valkas defense as a character there is one thing I think the movie tried to get across but didn't do well enough. (also so this thread doesn't end up as to against her ) One of the themes behind the second movie is the idea that not everyone can change. Hiccup disagrees with this idea because of: one his experiences from the first movie and two his belief in that idea. Valka however doesn't think that. Were given that idea when she makes the remark that she didn't believe anyone on Berk would ever change. And there's where you're given the idea that Hiccup might not entirely take after Valka. That they are different and one of the ways they're different is their belief that people can change. An idea that was at least in some respects vital to the first movie. (Granted the theme of the second movie is showing not everyone can change but ignore that for a bit.)
Unfortunately the movie doesn't bring forth that idea well enough past that one comment she makes about Berk and Stoick. In fact they hurt that idea with the dance scene between Stoick and Valka. It's a nice scene in and of itself, but it does hurt her character. In the sense that she just accepts him to readily (not counting the fact that humans usually don't make up that quickly) it goes against her earlier comment/belief that people can't change. If they would have at the very least within that scene instead of the dance have made Valka resistant/abrasive to Stoick. I think it would have done better at bringing forth the idea that Hiccup doesn't take back after Valka that much either. And left the theme from the first movie intact a little bit more also.
You know this still ended up going against her a bit didn't it?
Unfortunately the movie doesn't bring forth that idea well enough past that one comment she makes about Berk and Stoick. In fact they hurt that idea with the dance scene between Stoick and Valka. It's a nice scene in and of itself, but it does hurt her character. In the sense that she just accepts him to readily (not counting the fact that humans usually don't make up that quickly) it goes against her earlier comment/belief that people can't change. If they would have at the very least within that scene instead of the dance have made Valka resistant/abrasive to Stoick. I think it would have done better at bringing forth the idea that Hiccup doesn't take back after Valka that much either. And left the theme from the first movie intact a little bit more also.
You know this still ended up going against her a bit didn't it?