Family Therapy: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Hiccup: You know exactly who you are. You always have. But...

I'm still looking.

Jono: Both of these parents attribute the worth of their child to...

Are you a chip off the old block or not?

Valka: We'll unlock every mystery together.

Jono: These parents are failing to give unconditional love.

Valka: All this time, you took after me.

I know what you're gonna say, Stoick.

How could I have done this?

I was wrong. I see that now.

Jono: That doesn't mean the work is done.

Valka: He always said you'd become the strongest of them all.

And he was right.

Alan: How does he become Hiccup, not Valka's son.

Jono: Hello, and welcome to Cinema Therapy.

I'm Jonathan Decker, licensed therapist who loves movies. This is...

Alan: Alan Seawright and... Night Fury!

Jono: That's right. Today we're gonna be talking about How to Train Your Dragon,

Jono: specifically the second film. Alan: Okay.

Jono: Where Valka, Hiccup's mother, returns after being presumed dead.

There's a lot of chatter on the internet

about whether or not she was justified in leaving

or whether she's actually just a bad parent.

So I'm gonna sound off and do some family therapy for this broken family.

Alan: Okay, interesting.

Alan: I mean, she is, but...

Valka: Could it be?

After all these years?

How is this possible?

Hiccup: Yeah. Should I... Should I know you?

Valka: No. You were only a babe.

But a mother never forgets.

Valka: Shh, shh.

Jono: He has assumed that his dad is a widower and that he doesn't have a mother.

Jono: That she died in a dragon attack. Alan: Right.

Jono: Here she is. Where were you? Why did you miss raising me?

Why weren't you there all these years?

Alan: There was a me for this whole time.

Jono: Right. What's going on?