Just one thing tonight...

[dreamflower]

The DH and I watched TH:Bot5A tonight after supper.

This time I noticed something I hadn't before: PJ drew some very interesting subtle parallels between Thorin and Thranduil. Subtle characterization is not usually his strong suit, but this was well done.

Alfrid is still an annoying waste of film.

And from the time Bilbo shows up in Laketown with the Arkenstone, I was absolutely riveted to the screen. So many feels.

And afterwards, I'm a wreck. *sniff* "The Last Goodbye" just does that to me. *sigh*

((hugs Bilbo))

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Yeah, never did warm up to Alfrid! But I just love everything about the stuff with Bilbo and the arkenstone and Thorin!

[shirebound]

I can't even think about "The Last Goodbye" without getting chills.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I really got emotional watching the movie and listening to Billy's lovely voice singing The Last Goodbye made me cry.

I couldn't agree more about Alfrid. He was supposed to break the tension, I guess, but he just wasted valuable screen time that should have been used for more interesting characters.

[dreamflower]

One of these days, I will write an essay about why that song is so perfect for the last movie.

[dreamflower]

He made me more tense. I just wanted him to move out of the way. Or fall in the lake and drown. Or get squashed by a falling troll. Or something.

[dreamflower]

Absolutely. I had said from the start that if PJ got Bilbo and the Arkenstone right, I'd forgive his other excesses.

He got it very right indeed.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Alfrid is SUCH a waste of film. I'd much rather they had kept him slated for Drogo and used him there. It would have been so awesome to have a little to Drogo and Primula....

We've watched BOFA this week too. :) Fun fun. I love Thorin and Bilbo together. There's something so beautiful about Bilbo's relationship with the dwarves. I'm wanting to write a bonding moment kind of experience between Frodo and Gimli for that reason...I think he was way played for comic relief in the LOTR films, but I think Gimli wasn't just the class clown in the books or in what their reality would have been. He wouldn't have been allowed to become a member of the Fellowship if he were. I know Pippin and Merry weren't seasoned warriors and were allowed to go, but clearly they were devoted to Frodo, and I think that's why Elrond, against his judgment, ended up permitting it.

*hugs*

[febobe.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear, HEAR!

*huggies all of y'all*