Episode 285: The Hobbit: You’re The Man Now, Smaug

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in an extra-long episode to fit with an extra-long movie.

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Your Panel

• Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
• Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
• Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

Further Reading

• Peter O’Toole in The Tudors on YouTube
• “Making It Out” on The Overthinking It Podcast
• The Hobbit 2 is Bad Fan Fiction by Christopher Orr on The Atlantic
• Your Highness on IMDb
• The Geek Hierarchy [PDF] from the Brunching Shuttlecocks

Episode 285: The Hobbit: You’re The Man Now, Smaug originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]