Watching the end of Hilda was super bitter sweet 😭I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who hasn’t watched it yet, but I loved this design and had to get it out.
Knowing your opinion on season 3, do you think The Fairy Isle deserves that Annie?
I've gone back and forth on whether I should answer this. The thing is, fundamentally, to me that feels like a weird and honestly bad mindset to have. I do think the Fairy Isle is a bad episode; it's the culmination of everything Season 3 did wrong, ruining Hilda and Johanna with a bad series of retcons in the name of doing a twist, giving focus to Anders (whose very existence undermines the show), and falling back into the trap of making characters less sympathetic than they're supposed to be.
But those are writing decisions, and more than that, they're big-picture writing decisions. As a story about a kid who wanders into a fairy world and meets someone who turns out to be family, it's a great one; it's a story I would love if it the protagonists weren't Hilda and Johanna; and regardless of how I feel about the writing there's an immense amount of effort and heart on display in the animation and music and voice acting. They were trying so hard, the premise was just flawed, and while as a fan that leads me to dislike an episode, objectively the work on display is really good.
I'm not going to say everyone who worked on this episode, who put in all that hard work and really cared about this show, doesn't deserve to be acknowledged just because the writing team messed up. They do deserve that recognition, and even though I don't consider Season 3 to really be Hilda, I'm still happy that this series is getting acknowledged and that all that work is rightfully paying off :))
My final OTP. Hilda and David are meant for each other. Hilda has always inspired David and brought out the best in him, and this scene exemplifies that.