{"id":40095,"date":"2013-12-16T15:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/another-perspective-on-the-desolation-of-smaug.html"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:36:37","slug":"another-perspective-on-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/another-perspective-on-the-desolation-of-smaug.html","title":{"rendered":"Another perspective on "The Desolation of Smaug""},"content":{"rendered":"
Actually I agree with most of what Doyce says here, with a few quibbles over the ending. In fact, I think he's\u00a0actually saying much the same thing as I did in my review, only from a more positive perspective, with more literary insight and, y'know, doing\u00a0better word-makingness.<\/p>\n

I'll note that, though disappointed, I didn't hate the movie. Far from it. I just didn't love it, which I was hoping to. So this is me:<\/p>\n

'Is it perfect? Certainly not, but it is<\/i> good, both as a series of movies in its own right and as a (by my lights) faithful retelling of the story as a part of Middle Earth, with the perspective granted by time, and the ability to make it mesh with what is, in literary terms, the greater of the two pieces of work. I think that is the reason you see so many people talking about how they disapproved of the stuff that was changed or added, but concluding with \u201cI still really liked it, though I don\u2019t know<\/i> why, and I guess I\u2019ll just have to wait until next Christmas to see if the whole thing pays off.\u201d'<\/i><\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn't matter what I titled this post, because not hating the movie<\/b> is going to draw the maximum amount of vitriol without any other factors considered.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\n \n <\/div>\n

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug is Better than the Book It\u2019s Based On |<\/a>
\n In the very first printing of The Hobbit, there are a few tiny errors. Inconsistencies in map labels. Misspellings of a few words. And a little thing Tolkien charmingly referred to as \u201cthe issue with Chapter Five.\u201d What he’s referring to is that, in the first published version of the story, …\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually I agree with most of what Doyce says here, with a few quibbles over the ending. In fact, I think he's\u00a0actually saying much the same thing as I did in my review, only from a more positive perspective, with more literary insight and, y'know, doing\u00a0better word-makingness. I'll note that, though disappointed, I didn't hate … Continue reading “Another perspective on "The Desolation of Smaug"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,382,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40077,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/being-smarmy-vs-being-snarky.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":0},"title":"Being Smarmy vs Being Snarky","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Dec-13 11:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure there is a whole intellectual school of review and what reviewing means and the meta-meanings of review that will sniff at what I'm about to say as woefully naive.But it seems the debate between being Nice and being Mean in reviews are both founded on a false premise:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/now-getting-lord-rings-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":1},"title":"Why are we now getting a “Lord of the Rings” TV series?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Nov-17 3:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because Christopher Tolkien, at 93, has retired from his role as the (very, very strict) gatekeeper of J R R Tolkien's literary estate. I'm torn on this, because Christopher has been notoriously restrictive of any use of his father's stories, to the point of their being choked off to just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/luthiel-and-beren.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23526,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/looking-down-down-down.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":2},"title":"Looking down, down, down","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-11 10:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If this (http:\/\/youtu.be\/kCbTe9jBwB4) is God's perspective, it's terribly isolated and dissociative. Regardless, it's fascinating to see. #ddtb","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128199,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/his-pattern-indicates-two-dimensional-thinking.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":3},"title":""His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Oct-15 11:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Realistically depicting space stuff on TV is difficult. We are all, like Khan, trapped in a surface-dweller's 2-D perspective.(h\/t +DeAnna Knippling; original by Dave Kellett at http:\/\/www.sheldoncomics.com\/archive\/150423.html) \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/150423_14298190545B15D.pngimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/something_about_mary_popp.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":4},"title":"Something about Mary (Poppins)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Dec-06 10:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"If Mary Poppins had been a horror film, the trailer for it would have looked a lot like \"Scary Mary\" -- which is recut\/remixed from actual Mary Poppins footage....","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/scary-mary.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/so_very_not_saf.html","url_meta":{"origin":40095,"position":5},"title":"So very Not Safe For Work","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Dec-05 1:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"BoingBoing runs a story of an interesting collection of old photos ... Photoset of vintage porn photos taped to the outside of boxes that once held rolls of 8mm film....","rel":"","context":"In "Movies"","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40098,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions\/40098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}