I saw The Hobbit last night at midnight with Kat, Dom and 8, which was excellent, modulo some slapstick (and Radagast. I wanted to shake him and shout "You were a Maia in Valinor! Act like it
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The way the old CCG (Middle-Earth: The Wizards) handled this was amazing: normally you play a regular Wizard, but there was an expansion that let you play a Fallen Wizard -- so evil power-mad Saruman, uncaring naturalistic Radagast, even given-up-hope Gandalf. With the two blue Wizards, they figured that Pallando went evil in a traditional dominating-via-armies way (vs. Saruman's dominating-via-technology-and-also-orcs way), but they apparently ran out of ideas when it came to Alatar, because his alleged motivation was...
...turning Middle-Earth into a well-ordered game preserve.
Maybe. But... not awesome in a good way. Except, of course, when he went to investigate Dol Guldur... Okay. I take it back. Overall, yeah, awesome. And, yeah, in a good way.
Radagast was about 85% awesome, I'd say. The scene with Sebastian (Sebastian? Really? Is this the Little Mermaid?) was weird, and his chronic forgetfulness/the mushroom jokes were weird, but otherwise I thought they did a pretty good job.
I ***loved*** the rabbits. But maybe that is just me.
I loved the rabbit-sleigh. And his critters. And everything.
The mushrooms were supposed to reflect more on Saruman, I think. It wasn't even about psychedelic mushrooms, Saruman didn't like how they "yellow[ed] the teeth".
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...turning Middle-Earth into a well-ordered game preserve.
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I ***loved*** the rabbits. But maybe that is just me.
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The mushrooms were supposed to reflect more on Saruman, I think. It wasn't even about psychedelic mushrooms, Saruman didn't like how they "yellow[ed] the teeth".
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