177.3. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Josh and Alex's journey concludes. The Battle of the Five Armies closes out the Hobbit Trilogy and we will never have to talk about this again, right? Why did we do this to ourselves?

• (1:38) War of the Rohirrim & animation styles
• (4:57) Gandalf was in the Desolation of Smaug, oh right.
• (7:22) I Hate It, Let's Watch it promo
• (8:12) Smaug smaugs the city and the good parts
• (9:50) Tonal whiplash, war flicks, and too much horror in The Hobbit
• (12:50) Josh hates the word 'Da'
• (18:05) Drunk Galadriel
• (27:11) Thorin Oakenshield: Face-heel-face-heel-heel-face turn
• (34:00) The Hobbit is more hardcore than Lord of the Rings
• (41:04) Thranduil is a bad father
• (46:01) The good moments
• (54:11) final thoughts
• (1:01:00) Josh is proud of himself
• (1:04:39) Smac-rating and wrap up

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