Hobbit thoughts

Saw it again last night. Had a crazy idea that maybe I could record the audio, because there were some good lines in there that aren’t in the original, at least I don’t remember them in there – the bit about small acts being what holds back the darkness, for an example – but in the end I decided not to do that. After all, it’s just not cricket.

BUT, after I saw it the first time, I did have some thoughts, mostly about how people want science fiction to be more “challenging”. And how “challenging” always seems to mean “destructive / derisive of traditional western civilization and all it holds dear without necessarily offering any kind of constructive alternative – just a funhouse mirror that shows how awful it is, and how everyone who is a part of it should feel super guilty.” Or something like that.

So I recorded a little something in soundcloud. Here it is.