After five months, I finally watched How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World again.
First time, it made me nostalgic, melancholic, and even a bit sad. I was constantly thinking about it for about two weeks. I rewatched my old videos, which I created on my HTTYD YouTube chanel five years ago, I even made a new video-essay thingy, but most importantly I rewatched the first two movies, Riders of Berk, Defenders of Berk, and watched Race to the Edge for the first time, as kind of a theraphy, to help me process this bittersweet ending.
End, oh boy, the therapy has worked. I got hooked back into this world really quickly, and around the time, I finished RTTE, I started reading and writing fanfictions. I even play the Rise of Berk mobile game, for Thor's sake. Not so long ago, I had to realize, that this previous five months was the longest continuous time in my life, when I was thinking about HTTYD on a daily basis. Weird, isn't it? But don't get me wrong, it's great too, and I love it! I hope it won't stop for a long of time, because HTTYD is truly one of the best stories, I've ever known.
So, as I've said, after five months, tonight I finally watched The Hidden World again, and for my surprise too, I handled it pretty damn well. It was still nostalgic, melancholic, and sad of course, but way less than the first time. I believe, it's because at first time, watching the movie felt like losing this world (when in reality that was the thing, that gave that back to me) but now, that it's kinda part of my life on a daily basis, I can't really feel like anymore, as if I've lost something. Besides, in the last five months I've learned to accept the idea of this ending too.
So that's just it. The Hidden World is an amazing movie, and an even better closure to a trilogy, and it still had a huge effect on me (just not as huge as the first time). But the first one is still the best. Remember the time, when that was the only one? So weird...