{"id":3078,"date":"2013-12-28T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2013-12-28T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T12:29:30","slug":"book-bilbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/12\/book-bilbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Peter Jackson: I Miss Book Bilbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve previously established during my <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2012\/01\/fun\/\" title=\"Let The Fun Begin\" target=\"_blank\">LOTR rewatch<\/a>, I do not base any of my criticism strictly on the argument, &#8216;It&#8217;s different from the book.&#8217; When adapting a work, changes are necessary. But I do believe that changes need to serve a purpose, and unnecessary changes should at the least be an improvement. <\/p>\n<p>The change in Bilbo&#8217;s character is both unnecessary and a regression. Why is he such a stick in the mud? <\/p>\n<p>I think Peter Jackson believed he was adding some comedy by having Bilbo react so grumpily to the appearance of the dwarves. But I humbly submit that Tolkien had the right idea. The humor comes from Bilbo being so exasperated with the appearance of the dwarves, yet he&#8217;s so well-mannered he continues to put on a good face and serve them to the best of his ability. Who would allow thirteen strange dwarves into his home? None of us would. But Bilbo Baggins did.<\/p>\n<p>So not only is it humorous to see him waiting hand and hairy foot on his visitors, but it firmly establishes his character. That Bilbo Baggins is someone I want to root for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minutes Watched:<\/strong> 20:53<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of Montages:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of Gratuitous References To The First Trilogy:<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start at the <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/12\/happening\/\" target=\"_blank\">beginning<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve previously established during my LOTR rewatch, I do not base any of my criticism strictly on the argument, &#8216;It&#8217;s different from the book.&#8217; When adapting a work, changes are necessary. But I do believe that changes need to serve a purpose, and unnecessary changes should at the least be an improvement. The change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1731,1771,125,1712,2107],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-bilbo-baggins","tag-dwarves","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-peter-jackson","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}