YMMV / Hilda S 3 E 7

• Broken Aesop:
  • The Aesop of sharing can be considered this due to the Nisse suddenly having a complete 180 in behavior upon seeing the lending library that Hilda and friends had set up in nowhere space.
  • The Aesop of not letting your own needs get in the way of your friends could be seen as completely muddled by Frida and David's unsupportive reactions to Hilda's plight.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: While Hilda, David, and Frida succeed in creating a library where Nisse can share things and not steal from each other, that doesn't mean that they stopped the Nisse from stealing from humans. Since the library has limited supplies, the Nisse will likely resort to stealing from other homeowners. The only possible way to subvert this is if the library really did have everything they need.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: A common criticism about this episode is how it shares too many similarities with "Chapter 9: The Ghost". Hilda and David are called to help Frida with a problem^note With helping find her book and helping her help the Nisse, only to end with the friends having a fallout. Is it also worth mentioning that both episodes involved Frida's book being taken by her Nisse? The main difference is that Frida and Hilda reconcile at the end. It doesn't help that "Chapter 9: The Ghost" is one of the most divisive episodes which only drags this episode down even further.
• Never Live It Down: Despite being fairly tolerable for most of the episode, fans will never forget David neglecting to console Hilda after it’s revealed the radio messages weren’t from her father, instead preferring to go home for a “pizza night.”
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Frida could fall into this. Between prioritizing holding a town hall meeting (which the episode makes it clear right off the bat that she always wished to do so) over helping Hilda find her father, acting coldly to Hilda for a brief moment for ruining the meeting, throwing a pity party for herself while Hilda is crying over potentially being abandoned again (albeit unknowingly), and giving a half-hearted apology while Hilda gives a more meaningful one for having abandonment issues in the first place, fans have often cited her in this episode being at her absolute worst. There’s also the fact that the meeting in question was already going nowhere due to the Nisse’s natural animosity towards each other (something Tontu points out), meaning that Hilda’s actions had little impact besides delaying the inevitable anyway.
• The Woobie: Hilda. Having abandonment issues from losing her father again? Check. Gaining little to no support from her friends the entire episode? Check. Having her efforts seemingly be in vain when it’s revealed the radio broadcasts weren’t from her father? Check.