RTTE Season 2 Ep. 1- 'Team Astrid'
Posted: 08 Jan 2016, 10:16
So the first episode of the second season was pretty awesome, and if you haven't seen it yet what follows contains a mild spoiler. If this doesn't bother you, read on. If it does, then perhaps don't read it quite yet!
Towards the beginning of the episode, Astrid learns that her family home has been destroyed in the wake of an attack on Berk orchestrated by Dagur. Her parents, to her relief are safe, but she remains upset (and rightly so) that her parents could have been hurt and that the home she grew up in is unfortunately no more.
'Home she grew up in' suggests that this is a building in Berk which has managed to, up until this point, managed to (some degree at least) withstand the countless dragon attacks which occurred on a frequent basis in the past. To me, it sounds like it's never been completely rebuilt and thus remains the 'original' structure.
Now, consider what Hiccup says at the beginning of the 1st film regarding Berk: "It's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new". How can this be true if it appears Astrid's home is not 'new' at all? Is it a continuation error? Maybe, maybe not.
I like to think it's a testament to the efforts of the Hoffersons to not only protect their village, but their property and each other as well. Astrid probably didn't stray far from Berk prior to settling at Dragon's Edge, so for all of this to have happened during her first extended absence, it is understandable why she would have felt partly responsible and why she needed to do something about it.
It gives us a deeper insight I guess, into not only her motivations but her character as a whole.
On second thought, maybe I'm just overthinking things!
Towards the beginning of the episode, Astrid learns that her family home has been destroyed in the wake of an attack on Berk orchestrated by Dagur. Her parents, to her relief are safe, but she remains upset (and rightly so) that her parents could have been hurt and that the home she grew up in is unfortunately no more.
'Home she grew up in' suggests that this is a building in Berk which has managed to, up until this point, managed to (some degree at least) withstand the countless dragon attacks which occurred on a frequent basis in the past. To me, it sounds like it's never been completely rebuilt and thus remains the 'original' structure.
Now, consider what Hiccup says at the beginning of the 1st film regarding Berk: "It's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new". How can this be true if it appears Astrid's home is not 'new' at all? Is it a continuation error? Maybe, maybe not.
I like to think it's a testament to the efforts of the Hoffersons to not only protect their village, but their property and each other as well. Astrid probably didn't stray far from Berk prior to settling at Dragon's Edge, so for all of this to have happened during her first extended absence, it is understandable why she would have felt partly responsible and why she needed to do something about it.
It gives us a deeper insight I guess, into not only her motivations but her character as a whole.
On second thought, maybe I'm just overthinking things!