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How Now Shall You Challenge Me?

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Tell me, wretch, how now shall you challenge me?  You have nothing left but your DEATH!

 

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Here’s the story behind this:

 

The more I watch the movie Rise of the Guardians, the more disappointed I am of the villain Pitch Black.  He started out strong and menacing.  But as we near the end of the film, something happened.  He was no longer competent, his potential to be scary next to gone.  And it doesn’t help that he’s voiced by that inconsiderate womanizer Jude Law.

 

Despite this, the Big Four fandom wrote him as the leader of the Anti-Big Four, lording over Gothel, Mor’Du and the Red Death.   Seriously?  How can someone who started out strong but ended up comically incompetent lead a band of potential threats?  However, if the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons Wiki is to be trusted, there is debate as to whether replace him with Drago Bludvist from the second How to Train Your Dragon.

 

Moving on, a month after Guardians, me and my family went to see the first Hobbit movie—on the end of days.  Can anyone else think of a greater irony?  The final shot of the film is the dragon Smaug opening his eye at the sound of the thrush banging a snail on the mountain wall.  This is an ideal kind of buildup in preparation for the second film.

 

While waiting for The Hobbit #2, Star Trek:  Into Darkness hit the screens.  I wasn’t a fan of J.J. Abrams’ reboot on the franchise, but he fixed (most of) the mistakes of the first film in time for the second.  In this film, the heroic Chris Pine reclaims control of the Enterprise to hunt down the evil Benedict Cumberbatch.

 

Later that year, Cumberbatch performed an even better villain in The Hobbit:  The Desolation of Smaug.  After a whole year of building up, the dragon simply exceeded my expectations.  He was just like Gollum—a mass of digital pixels transformed, through motion capture, into a strong, memorable character.  He was the highlight of the second film, and was the sole reason the movie was number two on my list of favorite things from 2013.

 

When it ended, I began to put two and two together.  Chris Pine was a playful, mischievous snowball fighter and an ambitious Starfleet captain.  Benedict Cumberbatch was a cunning mastermind and an improvisation of the archetypal modern dragon.

 

Kirk and Khan.

 

Jack and Smaug.

 

The connection seemed natural.

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SMUAG! SMAUG! SMAUG, Sorry jack.