Unfortunately, it seems that The Hobbit film fails at invoking the more intimate narrative and whimsy of the book due to being stretched out and overblown, while also failing at invoking the epic bombast of the LOTR films due to showing us things we've mostly seen before at a much slower pace.

I'll always have a soft spot for the mecha from Mospeada (aka 3rd Generation Robotech), particularly the transforming armor-cycles.

I'm noticing that almost all the FX scenes in the trailer take place in heavy rain. Sure, this helps in creating a realistic environment, but it also has traditionally been used to fudge some of the more clunky CGI. See also: the 1998 US Godzilla movie.

Wow. Again I say, the 2014 Godzilla is going to have to really go all out to match this.

There seems to be a Daryl kill missing from the chart. The last zombie kill shown in the Season One finale was Daryl using an axe to behead a zombie outside of the CDC before it exploded.

I loved "Q, The Winged Serpent" back in the day. Giant stop-motion feathered snake-dragons snatching topless sunbathers off skyscraper roofs? More please.

The geeks who understood what The Hobbit actually was in relation to LOTR should know better than to nerdrage over such a thing, but you're correct in saying that would then leave the vast majority of the rest of the moviegoing public to wonder about the difference in tone between The Hobbit and LOTR.

Oh yes, we were definitely getting a taste of Jackson's style of over-the-top things to come in certain elements of Return of the King - no argument there. It was a little easier to deal with as part of an already-sprawling trilogy though. By 2005, when we got to the ridiculous vine-swinging battle with the 3 Rexes…

I'm making the challenge right now to any ambitious video editors out there...

I loved Jackson's LOTR, so I hate to keep voicing reservations about this, but...

Regardless of any of this, I will still stubbornly insist that my favorite Tyrannosaurus Rex was NOT covered with feathers like some kind of giant chicken. It's the principle of the thing.

I know that crackpot L. Ron Hubbard considered the OT3 level of Scientology that introduced the evil space overlord Xenu to be "space opera", but I'm not sure he met all these requirements with his mediocre SF writing skills.

As someone who in the past often played Lizardman (or Lizardfolk if you prefer) characters in D&D, I often stuck with the Neutral alignment and its various forms simply because that's been the case for Lizardman NPC's since the race was introduced in 1974. Since I often played them as somewhat heroic,…

"...in order to pull out the femur to use as a shiv is awesome."

Honestly, I'm not too broken up about this decision. The commentary between the fanfic excerpts was funny, but if I want to track down nightmarish NSFW erotica about popular SF/fantasy characters violating each other in increasingly creative ways, I really don't need io9 to help me out with that. Thanks anyway.

Yep, Peter Jackson missed the boat on this one.

Unlike certain others...

Let's not omit the only image that can accompany this story...

Any romantic notions you may have had about living an adventurous, unencumbered, freewheeling lifestyle after society collapses abruptly disappear the first time you have to shit in the woods with no more toilet paper available.

Peter Jackson says: "The trouble with redesigning dragons I've found is… you very quickly can go into science fiction territory.."