Digital Gonzo 160: The Desolation of Smaug [Theatrical Edition]
Welcome back to the ninth part of the Middle-earth series of Gonzo podcasts. To any newcomers, the first episode was a prologue, focusing on the books and the animated films, the next six were two-part super in-depth reviews of the Lord of the Rings films, following that was a first impressions round-table of the then just recently viewed theatrical edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a tone we will be reprising with its follow-up, and the eighth was a Sound of Gonzo celebration of the music of Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings scores.
If you are filled with apathy about these films or boundless spite towards their creators, these are not the podcasts for you. We like them.
With me once more are Chris Eason, of GameBurst and Sharon Shaw of Do Try This at Home.
Next December, if Gonzo is still around we should bring you a theatrical edition podcast of film three: There and Back Again, and the following December at the end of 2015, after the release of the last Extended Edition Blu Ray we will potentially be covering the whole trilogy again with the depth and familiarity we possessed during the Lord of the Rings shows, having had years worth of access to the appendices and a full overview of the trilogy as a whole. If that’s the case then you could count on a Hobbit Sound of Gonzo as well.
Fans of exciting prologues to epic book series’ would do well to go to Gonzo Planet and download the audio drama of The Cartographer’s Handbook.
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December 25, 2013
Good review Alex. Could have easily been cut-down by about 20 minutes or so, but for what it was, it was fine. Just not as good to where I can fully say I’m on-board to see what Jackson has in store for us next.
December 25, 2013
I am not making this up: When I saw the film in cinema,at the point where Bilbo first puts on the ring in this film, I heard the following from a child to my left: “What does that ring do?”
Ok, you took your kid to see the Hobbit part 2 without seeing LotR or even the Hobbit part 1? Are you mad!?