Hobbit Tuesday
Jan. 13th, 2015 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grav_ityIt's Hobbit Tuesday! The day when I go and see The Hobbit. Sadly, the HFR was gone, so I had to see the regular 3D, but the HFR makes the most difference in crowd scenes/when the camera's moving, and this time I was there for the closeups, so that's okay. It'll probably be the last time I see it in the theatre, though, so...moment of silence.
ANYWAY, there have started to be a lot of really good gif sets on tumblr (by which I mean the quality of the gifs is great), or at the very least I am now following a person who reblogs a lot of Hobbit stuff. SO FEELINGS, basically. Which makes the movie interesting, because I'm accustomed to the visuals so I can focus on the background characters and the music.
Which.
I think my two favourite themes are the King Under the Mountain theme (which has always been the dwarf theme, and is a whopping six notes), and the Laketown theme. What really struck me this time, though, is that at the end, Percy plays the King Under the Mountain theme at the memorial, not his own theme song. It's one of those tiny details that makes me happy/sad, and I hope in the EE, if we get shots of the actual funeraland it's not the one I wrote, that that music still brackets it.
(Aside: Percy is a seriously talented dude: fisherman, archer, swordsman, sharp of eye, can play the large horn thingy well enough that it makes more that one sound at the same time...)
Azog, in this movie anyway, is kind of beautiful. Not beautiful, striking? I don't know. He's not gross. They are usually gross. He's beautiful the way that cow at the end of Season Two of TRUE BLOOD is. I'm not sure how else to describe it.
I'm going to have to keep watching the Jerk From Laketown scenes because they are also all of Bard's character growth scenes, and I HATE THAT THIS WAS THE STORYTELLING THEY CHOSE. UGH.
(I was thinking: he had to take that dress from a dead person, probably. And he didn't just take the dress! He also took the underthings! I HATE HIM SO MUCH.)
I would like to know where all the fanfic about the bro-ship that never was between Thorin and Legolas is hanging out. I like that in the movie that never ever talk about it. It's just character development (for Legolas), and we move on. BUT HOLY CRAP, CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM TELLING GIMLI ABOUT IT? Or Bilbo, for that matter, because someone had to tell him what was happening while he was unconscious.
WAIT: THAT'S WHY THE BATTLE IS DIFFERENT. BECAUSE BILBO WAS UNCONSCIOUS. AND THEN HE HAD A HEAD INJURY! THAT IS WHY IT'S GOT ALL THOSE WEIRD SPOTS! HE'S RECONSTRUCTING IT FROM HIS OWN MESSED UP MEMORIES, AND ALSO OTHER PEOPLE'S MESSED UP MEMORIES.
I still want a fic, though.
(Also, the scene where you can see Bilbo turn from Took to Baggins are OUTSTANDING, but I think my favourite from him might be the SHOCK after Fili dies. Until he picks up stones to fight, he's totally out of it, much like Pippin at "they called us out to fight", and it's REALLY. GOOD.)
Where was I?
I am never going to be over Fili. Ever. It just HURTS. SO. MUCH.
I know I freak out a lot about Richard Armitage's face, but the way he had Thorin slide in and out of the deep end was a.m.a.z.i.n.g., and I will never be over it. The bit where he tells Dwalin to get out, for example? TOTALLY SANE, but he knows he's turning, and then he does and UGH. He did such a good job.
(Also, can we talk about how Dwalin basically shadows him afterwards, presumably to make sure he doesn't do anything to hurt himself or something? And then they MUST kiss and make up before the scene with Kili, because Dwalin's already onside. And then on Ravenhill, Thorin is going to protect Bilbo while Dwalin gets Fili and Kili, but then after Fili dies (AAAAAAAAAAH!), Thorin MUST tell him to go back and protect Bilbo instead, and that was probably the last conversation they had why was I given emotions?)
Bard's little smile when Bilbo admits to stealing the keys from Thranduil's guards warms my heart, as does the way Thranduil ABSOLUTELY AVOIDS touching the Arkenstone (which, fwiw, Bilbo and Bard are like, carrying around in their pockets along with acorns and the Ring of Power and GOD KNOWS what else, because they do not care. They just want a garden/house for their kids and I LOVE THEM SO MUCH).
I will admit to having no clue if Tauriel went back to Mirkwood or not. Like, obviously I stand by my own fic, which I still feel is reasonable, but I think an argument could be made that she DID go back, and EVERYONE WAS JUST REALLY SAD ALL THE TIME, until it came time to go kick the doors in at Dol Guldur again.
The hobbits at the end are all so freaking perfect.
IT IS OVER, though. Like, we still have the EE (and the Sarah Rees Brennan recap) to look forward to, but...
I wouldn't change my own experience for anything.
ANYWAY, there have started to be a lot of really good gif sets on tumblr (by which I mean the quality of the gifs is great), or at the very least I am now following a person who reblogs a lot of Hobbit stuff. SO FEELINGS, basically. Which makes the movie interesting, because I'm accustomed to the visuals so I can focus on the background characters and the music.
Which.
I think my two favourite themes are the King Under the Mountain theme (which has always been the dwarf theme, and is a whopping six notes), and the Laketown theme. What really struck me this time, though, is that at the end, Percy plays the King Under the Mountain theme at the memorial, not his own theme song. It's one of those tiny details that makes me happy/sad, and I hope in the EE, if we get shots of the actual funeral
(Aside: Percy is a seriously talented dude: fisherman, archer, swordsman, sharp of eye, can play the large horn thingy well enough that it makes more that one sound at the same time...)
Azog, in this movie anyway, is kind of beautiful. Not beautiful, striking? I don't know. He's not gross. They are usually gross. He's beautiful the way that cow at the end of Season Two of TRUE BLOOD is. I'm not sure how else to describe it.
I'm going to have to keep watching the Jerk From Laketown scenes because they are also all of Bard's character growth scenes, and I HATE THAT THIS WAS THE STORYTELLING THEY CHOSE. UGH.
(I was thinking: he had to take that dress from a dead person, probably. And he didn't just take the dress! He also took the underthings! I HATE HIM SO MUCH.)
I would like to know where all the fanfic about the bro-ship that never was between Thorin and Legolas is hanging out. I like that in the movie that never ever talk about it. It's just character development (for Legolas), and we move on. BUT HOLY CRAP, CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM TELLING GIMLI ABOUT IT? Or Bilbo, for that matter, because someone had to tell him what was happening while he was unconscious.
WAIT: THAT'S WHY THE BATTLE IS DIFFERENT. BECAUSE BILBO WAS UNCONSCIOUS. AND THEN HE HAD A HEAD INJURY! THAT IS WHY IT'S GOT ALL THOSE WEIRD SPOTS! HE'S RECONSTRUCTING IT FROM HIS OWN MESSED UP MEMORIES, AND ALSO OTHER PEOPLE'S MESSED UP MEMORIES.
I still want a fic, though.
(Also, the scene where you can see Bilbo turn from Took to Baggins are OUTSTANDING, but I think my favourite from him might be the SHOCK after Fili dies. Until he picks up stones to fight, he's totally out of it, much like Pippin at "they called us out to fight", and it's REALLY. GOOD.)
Where was I?
I am never going to be over Fili. Ever. It just HURTS. SO. MUCH.
I know I freak out a lot about Richard Armitage's face, but the way he had Thorin slide in and out of the deep end was a.m.a.z.i.n.g., and I will never be over it. The bit where he tells Dwalin to get out, for example? TOTALLY SANE, but he knows he's turning, and then he does and UGH. He did such a good job.
(Also, can we talk about how Dwalin basically shadows him afterwards, presumably to make sure he doesn't do anything to hurt himself or something? And then they MUST kiss and make up before the scene with Kili, because Dwalin's already onside. And then on Ravenhill, Thorin is going to protect Bilbo while Dwalin gets Fili and Kili, but then after Fili dies (AAAAAAAAAAH!), Thorin MUST tell him to go back and protect Bilbo instead, and that was probably the last conversation they had why was I given emotions?)
Bard's little smile when Bilbo admits to stealing the keys from Thranduil's guards warms my heart, as does the way Thranduil ABSOLUTELY AVOIDS touching the Arkenstone (which, fwiw, Bilbo and Bard are like, carrying around in their pockets along with acorns and the Ring of Power and GOD KNOWS what else, because they do not care. They just want a garden/house for their kids and I LOVE THEM SO MUCH).
I will admit to having no clue if Tauriel went back to Mirkwood or not. Like, obviously I stand by my own fic, which I still feel is reasonable, but I think an argument could be made that she DID go back, and EVERYONE WAS JUST REALLY SAD ALL THE TIME, until it came time to go kick the doors in at Dol Guldur again.
The hobbits at the end are all so freaking perfect.
IT IS OVER, though. Like, we still have the EE (and the Sarah Rees Brennan recap) to look forward to, but...
I wouldn't change my own experience for anything.
