The first one the part about the inherent difficulty about The Hobbit not being a LotR prequel, and the inherent difficulty about making it one was the best part about the overall difficulty of the premise. Some of the parts about padding and pacing were also good to touch on.
The Interview in the second one was really good, since it gives a lot of insight into the ways that the process was breaking down behind the scenes in a way that you can feel between the first and latter films, especially with the Dwarves and the "Human-looking" ones getting all the development at the expense of the latter.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the negative impacts on NZ are all about.
That all being said, you can tell the clips from the films that really annoy her because she uses them
WAY TOO FUCKING OFTEN. I get it, you didn't dig the elf-dwarf romance, but for the love of christ, don't replay that 5 second clip every goddamn time you mention it, please. The way you're padding out the video by retreading the same shit ad nauseam is more annoying than the whole Smaug Gold Statue sequence.
The information is insightful, but the presentation is lacking. Unlike most video essays on film, I'd have to cringe to ever rewatch this one if I wanted to dig out the important bits from it. I get that there's some irony in making a presentation that's as poorly delivered as the films you're criticizing, but c'mon.
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