User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24990845-20151113124935/@comment-24865409-20151117045542

@ Megadracosaurus

'' "The thing is, he didn't have the right not to take it seriously. No one did. Imagine you were stuck in an arena with a tiger or lion, and your goal is to survive and possible beat the predator. Yet your partner, instead of focusing on the animal, keeps asking questions and doesn't even try to help you." ''

He did have a right to not take it seriously because he does not want to be there.

'' "If Hiccup at that moment didn't care about saving his own life..." ''

'' "What I don't understand is not even trying to survive." ''

Hiccup didn't have much of a life to go back to at that moment.

He would feel pretty down with his current life at that moment thanks to his abusive father and abusive tribe.

So I can see why he wouldn't care much about getting killed.

'' "It's like military missions or training: You HAVE to take it seriously, even if you don't want to be there." ''

I wouldn't take it seriously. Because I don't want to be there.

'' "Gothi isn't magical at all." ''

I'm pretty sure being able to foresee the future is magical, or if not magic then she is quite attuned to the gods.

Being attuned to the gods or being magical are not any of Hiccup's qualities.

'' "Even as a teenager she was weak as well, possibly even weaker then Hiccup." ''

Proof please?

'' "If Hiccup hadn't so focused on trying to be a Dragon Slayer..." ''

At the beginning, the tribe saw him as useless because he wasn't like them.

Hiccup wanted them to stop thinking of him as useless.

Maybe if the tribe didn't just value brawn then they could have told Hiccup just what he could do with his brains.

In the movie they never said what he could build to help them. They just said he should stop trying to be like them and stay out of the way. Which is basically saying that he's not one of them and if he can't be one of them then he's useless.