I saw the Hobbit on IMAX last night and aside from the trailer, there was no Star Trek to be seen. WTF.

So long as he's not the 8th son of an 8th son of an 8th son. Then there'd be trouble.

As I'm slightly knurd by default, I don't think I'd ever be able to handle that amount of uninterrupted sobriety.

I agree with you on the brie, but provolone's pretty low on my list.

We were somewhere between Lonquimay and Anguil, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

There were also a bunch of Mon Calamari pilots that were filmed but ended up on the cutting room floor. I remember seeing the footage a couple months back but now I can't seem to find it.

Yeah I found that a bit odd.

Maybe that's the Vulcan equivalent of a bad holiday sweater.

Beat me to it.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Lockpicking in a game like ACIII or Skyrim doesn't always make much sense to me. You pick a lock because you don't want anyone to know that you accessed what the lock was protecting, or because you want to be relatively stealthy about the whole thing. If you're breaking into a house in Whiterun that's fine, but if I'm…

Well, considering Gandalf's staff in The Hobbit appears to be different from the one he has in Fellowship of The Ring, I'm going to assume that the staff in FoTW was Radagast's. Or Gandalf's staff is just unfurling itself as time goes on.

I think killing the princess and wearing her dress falls more under chaotic evil. If the character was paid to do so it would be a neutral action, but killing an innocent, defenseless person "just because" is still an evil action, and the alignment would shift accordingly. Personally, I've always preferred the term…

The bats have left the old watermill.

Ditto.

Was I the only one that kept thinking Amelia's dad was Dave Attell?

No, I saw it too. Considering the whole thing was twice referred to literally as "a dream world," I'd like to think that that's actually what it is, despite the heavy-handedness of the implication.

You can't really use visual distinctions from the films to address the issue. They got a lot of things wrong.

When Tolkien wrote The Hobbit he didn't consider it part of his larger mythology. When he decided to fold things together, he adjusted his position on Orcs accordingly.

From: The Tolkien FAQ by William D.B. Loos