User blog comment:Dual Energon/What I think makes HTTYD 2 the supremely better movie./@comment-24990845-20151113124935/@comment-24018437-20151116132527

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. If anything, he puts you in danger with not caring one bit you're stuck in a closed area with a dangerous predator. Now imagine the lion is instead a large, firebreathing, spike-shooting, flying lizard. In such a situation, not taking things seriously is incredibly, incredibly dumb and not logical. Even suicidal. Hiccup's life was in genuine danger, and so were those of his fellow recruits. If Hiccup at that moment didn't care about saving his own life,(Let's be honest: most people don't want to be in dangerous situations. I wouldn't want to be locked up with a Dragon. But if I was, I'd take it seriously. Why? I'M STUCK WITH A DRAGON!) then simply not wanting to be there isn't a good excuse. Far from it. I can understand not wanting to join the training after what happened with Toothless. What I don't understand is not even trying to survive.

Its like military missions or training: You HAVE to take it seriously, even if you don't want to be there. If you don't...Well, what do you think would have happened to Hiccup when he was pinned down by Meatlug and Gobber hadn't reached him in time? Not taking things like this are foolish and dangerous, and get yourself and other's killed at worst.

Gothi isn't magical at all. She's just very, very intelligent and knows how certain natural things work. Even as a teenager she was weak as well, possibly even weaker then Hiccup. But instead of trying to do something she couldn't do, she served the Tribe with what she could do. If Hiccup hadn't so focused on trying to be a Dragon Slayer, something he wasn't, his intellect and blacksmith skills might have helped the Tribe a lot more, even before he would have met Toothless.