So… I watched The Hobbit‘s three movies over Winter Break with my sisters and I agree with Honest Trailers in that they do not need to be that long. This is basically just Peter Jackson’s fanfiction where he rewrote The Hobbit with a twist, like many fanfic authors do, and this is what we got because he had the budget to make a live action of it.
For me personally this ruined my ships in that I didn’t have any. I am a huge fan of unrequited love. The angst that the person pining for has makes me happy in ways that should probably make me feel like a bad person. However, I usually link this unhappy person with a happy couple a la the very overused for a good reason love triangle.