AUJ and DOS: Pros and Cons Article

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by jallanite

In short Cumberbatch is not, even in Daniel Wood’s view, through a single scene in the third film the saviour of all three films, even if the scene turns out to be as good as Wood thinks it might be.

Originally Posted by Michael Murray

Essentially, as I read the article, its author -- in a triumph of hope over experience -- speculated that perhaps the actor Benedict Cumberbatch would voice the pixel-dragon Smaug in such a way as to make the second third of The Hobbit: A Glacier Race less of a disaster than the first third.

Yes– there’s a very strange leap of logic there. By his own reasoning, the writer could just as well say the “Riddles in the Dark” scene had already “saved” the trilogy.