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The Bird
Parade
The series has placed Hilda in an all new lifestyle, and now
it’s all about her adjusting to it. This
episode brings a relatable start to her seeing appeal in this different
place. There are pretty huge lengths
to how challenging this is for Hilda.
At
the insistence of her mother, Hilda goes through the difficult yet beneficial
act of going out into the real world to get used to Trolberg and make new
friends. Hilda’s approach to this is
pretty closed-minded
through trying to find things wrong with the town. However, it feels believable to anyone so
used to things being a certain way.
Plus, Hilda balances out her negative traits with positive ones through trying
to befriend a group of kids despite not being on the same page as them. Later on, she turns out to not follow their
morality when they throw rocks at birds.
When one of them, an abnormally large raven, is hit, she rescues it and
bring it home.
Then the episode gets more creative. This raven is actually a supernatural one who
can talk though he can’t remember anything about himself. He’s a sympathetic yet highly entertaining
character through his forgetfulness and his overdramatic outbursts about it. Hilda tries keeping the raven secret to make
her mother think she’s moving past the supernatural and adjusting to the city which ends up causing Johana
to put the raven out. This fuels an age old convention of parents being unaware
of what their children are up to.
Giving
the episode, and by extension the series, a fresh edge, Johana becomes an
active player in what happens. At a
parade for a bird called the Great Raven who blesses Trolberg by flying over
every year, Johana informs Hilda of all the mythos of the ritual. Among them is a dark year that resulted when
the raven didn’t show up. Hilda acts fast to find the raven she took in after
learning he was put out. The thing is
when Johana hears Hilda explain everything, instead of brushing off the claims,
she actually trusts her daughter and they work together in the search. Along the way, they make for an endearing
mother-daughter bond. Johana eases
Hilda’s disdain of the city in by showing that virtually everything about it
has something distinctive. Another nice
scene happens as they bond while looking for the raven against a beautiful view
of Trolberg. Among what’s discussed is
Johana saying that as much as she wants Hilda to make new human friends, she
also values her talent of befriending creatures. For how different they think, it says a lot
about this relationship’s strength when there’s room for understanding on both
parts. It’s the nicest set of scenes to
lead into the episode’s highlight.
Hilda, applying what she picked up from her
mother, tells the raven she found that he’s the Great Raven. This gets him to grow in size and give Hilda
an exciting flight over Trolberg. His
memory restored, the Great Raven also brings interesting reveals that he’s
actually a mystical thunder bird, given a different title for seemingly honoring
a god Trolberg worships. The sequence of
greatness ends with the parade lighting up and commencing for the waiting
crowds. As for the episode, it ends with
more endearment to the show’s family values as Hilda finds more joy in simply
watching the parade on a wall with her mother than in the sky. This may be an exaggeration, but I’m
hard-pressed to find more meaningful family love than that.
Through strong bonds, creative moments, and
sweeping sequences, this episode is a great demonstrations of this show’s true
greatness.
A+
The Ranking
- The Bird Parade
- The Midnight Giant
- The Hidden People
The next Hilda review features Hilda make friends with two members of the Sparrow Scouts.
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