It's certainly a very flawed series, but to say that it's as bad as the Prequels, or even to say they're bad movies, is pretty indefensible to me.

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I thought this finale was mostly just okay. Much like last season, this finale pretty much forewent the exciting espionage of the prior episodes to give a more intimate view of the characters' relationships, but this one actually worked a bit better for me (which I know puts me in the minority by a mile).

Yeah that was the video they showed in the previously-on, so that must be it. I was pretty confused too, though, cuz they never really established that his kidnapping and hostage-swap was done in complete secrecy, nor made it seem like that public revelation of which would be a big fiasco.

To me it seriously looks like some sort of lab experiment at crossing Claire Danes's and Damien Lewis's DNA to make some sort of terror hybrid.

Ah, thanks, I was pretty sure there was just such a passage. :)

I thought it looked pretty good. I was never really distracted by bad CGI, and there was enough stuff going on for me to not really notice. I don't know if you saw it in HFR, which I've never actually seen, but I've heard that it really makes the CGI seams show.

I've become pretty anti-3D as it is — the only exception the last several years being Gravity. For each of these movies I've been curious about the whole HFR thing, but I've heard pretty much nothing good about it, so I don't think I'll ever bother.

In the book the Wargs are actually their own sentient, talking beings. There's some discussion with the eagles and Beorn at his house about how they're an independent threat, expanding their territory. Then they join up with the orcs/goblins for the Battle.

I also saw The Hobbit: Too Many Tooks!, and while it was certainly very flawed, I still enjoyed the heck out of it. While I've mostly been on board with the trilo-gizing of the book so far, it introduced the most problems for this one and for the first time really made me wish we'd seen the original two-parter. …

I guess I'm glad I just saw this in regular old 2D. I thought the CGI was pretty good, or at least not overly distracting. I suspect the fakeness HFR seems to add to everything really hurt the CGI.

I don't know that Connolly himself was CGI'ed, but his facial hair sure as hell was (especially the weird little tusks).

Correction: in the books, Wargs are the fifth army.

Closely adjacent to my favorite: "War were declared."

@Scrawler2:disqus, our people tell the same story. Oy…

Nope not clicking on that.

I'm setting odds on who it'll be:

Actually it's about ethics in education.

Didn't they do this same thing back with the fappening, where they all started donating to such-and-such a good cause in the name of hott nudez, in hopes of being able to say "haw haw see we're actually not bad guys"? What I guess I'm saying is charitable jackasses can still be jackasses.

In Cuba.