And it is fun, in a way, although it is also heavy with flaws and weakness. It also gives them a chance for a bit of fun away from the modern settings. This jump back in time allows the writers to not have to worry too much about where/how to advance the Moriarty plot, while at the same time appearing to advance it. In the jump back in time, we enter Sherlock's mind as he tries to solve a similar mystery he read about.
There is a sense of both these things with this episode, which occur in the few minutes that the plane takes to turn around and land so that the banished Sherlock can deal with the apparent return of Moriarty. As part of this as well, it must be tough for the writers, as they are trying to write an ongoing story without knowing when/if they will get the next episode. I guess there was also the risk that this amount of effort, and the fact that the stars no longer really 'need' Sherlock as a vehicle, means that there is a feeling of them doing the viewer a favor. I remember feeling that season 3 was a bit too pleased with itself for my tastes, and this is magnified here, where lots of increasingly famous and successful people are crowbarred into place to deliver this episode – and to be fair it must have taken a huge amount of schedule balancing to make it happen, so credit for that.
The star cast of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug are : Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Antony Sher, Orlando Bloom, Mikael Persbrandt, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, Graham McTavish, Adam Brown, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ryan Gage, John Bell, Manu Bennett, Lawrence Makoare, Cate Blanchett, Peggy Nesbitt, Mary Nesbitt, Ben Mitchell, Stephen Ure, Craig Hall, Robin Kerr, Eli Kent, Simon London, Brian Sergent, Peter Vere-Jones, Mark Mitchinson, Kelly Kilgour, Sarah Peirse, Nick Blake, Dallas Barnett, Matt Smith, Katie Jackson, Richard Whiteside, Greg Ellis, Ray Henwood, Tim Gordon, Jabez Olssen, Stephen Colbert, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, Peter Colbert, John Colbert, Norman Kali, Carter Nixon, Zane Weiner, Allan Smith, Jack Binding, Terry Binding, Frank Edwards, Peter Jackson, Terry Notary and Emma Smith.Season 3 of this show already saw it confirmed as 'event television', and there is a greater feeling of that with this first episode to what IMDb calls 'season 4' although it has been a year and a half since the last 'season' ended, and will reportedly be that again before we see another episode.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug scores a 7.8 digit binge rating out of 10 and is a brilliant movie to watch in the Action, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Antony Sher, Orlando Bloom, Mikael Persbrandt, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, Graham McTavish, Adam Brown, Peter Hambleton, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ryan Gage, John Bell, Manu Bennett, Lawrence Makoare, Cate Blanchett, Peggy Nesbitt, Mary Nesbitt, Ben Mitchell, Stephen Ure, Craig Hall, Robin Kerr, Eli Kent, Simon London, Brian Sergent, Peter Vere-Jones, Mark Mitchinson, Kelly Kilgour, Sarah Peirse, Nick Blake, Dallas Barnett, Matt Smith, Katie Jackson, Richard Whiteside, Greg Ellis, Ray Henwood, Tim Gordon, Jabez Olssen, Stephen Colbert, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, Peter Colbert, John Colbert, Norman Kali, Carter Nixon, Zane Weiner, Allan Smith, Jack Binding, Terry Binding, Frank Edwards, Peter Jackson, Terry Notary and Emma Smith are playing as the star cast in this movie.
This movie is 2 hr 41 min in duration and is available in English language. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was released on and was directed by Peter Jackson. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug : Release Date, Trailer, Cast & Songs About The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug