{"id":40102,"date":"2013-12-17T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/on-the-ending-of-the-desolation-of-smaug.html"},"modified":"2013-12-18T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:58:09","slug":"on-the-ending-of-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/on-the-ending-of-the-desolation-of-smaug.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Ending of "The Desolation of Smaug""},"content":{"rendered":"
Doyce gives a marvelous explanation of why the second installment of The Hobbit<\/i> really needed to conclude with the big brouhaha\u00a0that it did. \u00a0I agree wholeheartedly with the rationale, though not so much with the result (which, as he notes, "owes a bit more to the Temple of Doom than Tolkien").<\/p>\n

Spoilery spoilers.<\/p>\n

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

Because +<\/span>Dave Hill<\/a><\/span>\u00a0asked – a look at the ending of the Desolation of Smaug. Spoilers and dwarf fanboy love abound.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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One More Hobbit\/Desolation Post: Closure |<\/a>
\n After my post yesterday, Dave asked me what I thought about the ending of the movie. He was a bit vague with the wording of the question, possibly to keep from spoiling people reading the conversation on G+, but as I’ve read his thoughts on the subject, I had a pretty good idea what he was …\n <\/p>\n

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Doyce gives a marvelous explanation of why the second installment of The Hobbit really needed to conclude with the big brouhaha\u00a0that it did. \u00a0I agree wholeheartedly with the rationale, though not so much with the result (which, as he notes, "owes a bit more to the Temple of Doom than Tolkien"). Spoilery spoilers. Reshared post … Continue reading “On the Ending of "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":"","_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-40102","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":40095,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/another-perspective-on-the-desolation-of-smaug.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":0},"title":"Another perspective on "The Desolation of Smaug"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Dec-13 3:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":40117,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/18\/another-reasonable-review-of-the-desolation-of-smaug.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":1},"title":"Another reasonable review of "The Desolation of Smaug"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Dec-13 5:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not saying much that I or +Doyce Testerman\u00a0(especially) didn't already say, but I'm not objecting ...Though ... I'm trying to remember why so many people have an angry on about the first film, An Unexpected Journey. This isn't the first review that's felt H2 > H1, and, honestly, I don't\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":40084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/movie-review-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2013.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":2},"title":"Movie Review: "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (2013)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Dec-13 10:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"What went wrong with this movie?[SPOILERS, SWEETIE]...[Even Hobbits fail\u00a0their Stealth role when walking on piles of gold. Who knew?]...Well, let' start out with what went right. \u00a0Jackson and his team have built a world with a consistent, expected texture and presence that not only works, but which gives him a\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":32443,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/and-so-the-hobbit-purchase-repurchase-repeat-festival-begins.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":3},"title":"And so the Hobbit purchase-repurchase-repeat festival begins","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Feb-13 5:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hurm. I really don't want to end up buying multiple versions of the Hobbit movies ... but I also don't want to wait until 2015 to get the (first) Trilogy Extended Version Pack. \u00a0Ugh.Reshared post from +The Hobbit MoviesLive FIRST LOOK at The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on March\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":40096,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/when-geekdoms-collide.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":4},"title":"WHEN GEEKDOMS COLLIDE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Dec-13 10:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the psychotrophic post-Star Trek years, Leonard Nimoy performed \"The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins\" (http:\/\/youtu.be\/AGF5ROpjRAU). \u00a0It was ... trippy.Here are some of the stars of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug offering their own poetry readings of that particular epic.(h\/t +Guy Kawasaki)\ufeff View this post on Google+","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":30057,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/renaming-the-hobbit-movies.html","url_meta":{"origin":40102,"position":5},"title":"Renaming the Hobbit movies","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Sep-12 10:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"#2 is now renamed \/ subtitled The Desolation of Smaug, which seems an appropriate middle title. \u00a0The title There and Back Again moves to the third movie, which is also quite appropriate.I think it had been heard (or at least hinted) that the third movie would be released in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fthe-hobbit-movie-poster-202x300.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102","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=40102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40111,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40102\/revisions\/40111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}