User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24990845-20151113124935/@comment-24018437-20151117095049

It would be realistic if we saw that Hiccup had some burns or scars from his work. But we only see two scenes where he does it, so...Yeah. It could have happened off-screen. And its obvious he has being doing it for a long time, and is quite good. He probably knows, like Gobber, how not to get hurt. And even then, I think blacksmithing isn't as life threatening as fighting Dragons.

As for Faifth, that was one of the biggest reasons Stoick let him enter the training. Stoick always convinced himself that he could save Hiccup, or someone else did. Gobber convinced him that he had to teach Hiccup to fight for himself. If Gobber hadn't saved Hiccup from Meatlug, he would have died. And that was the point: the training served to make him stronger,so he could defend himself. That way, he wouldn't have to rely on anyone else.

She never predicts the future. When did that happen? She predicted the weather. And Shamans don't have magical Powers per se. They can also serve as priests or as advicers or healers. In some cultures, teachers and story tellers are also considered as shamans, or their role is to perform ceremonies (Such as becoming Chieftain or deciding who gets to kill the Dragon.) Magic is never seen in the franchise, not once. Even most of what the Dragons do is explained through science, and explanations that feature gods or magic are usually dismissed. The only time anyone took it seriously was when thunder and Lightning suddendly appeared a lot more, and Mildew convinced everyone that Thor was angry. Aside from that moment, gods and their magic aren't really used.

The talk about undies isn't meant to be dumb. It serves as a running gag that Gobber uses to ease the tensions. As for Gothi's writing...Well, he is the only one who can read it at all, even if he does mess up everyone once in a while. Hiccup is smarter then Gobber, yet he has no idea how to translate it. Does that mean Hiccup is dumb? Well, no. He simply can't do that, and is intelligent in other ways.

On that, I agree. Avoiding Hiccup because he was trouble is a reason you can kinda understand. Avoiding him because he was weak isn't. Yet his small size was a secondary reason. It made things worse for him, but it wasn't the cause.

You have a point there. But again, we don't see everything that happens in the film. It could have happened in the past, it clearly happened after the first film. And if he did it in the past, maybe he messed that up, causing people to lose faifth in his inventions. We simply don't know why. Movies can't show us much as books do, and they use scenes that are considered to be the most important.