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Originally Posted by Ernest Rister
I don't think he works in the film at all. Cracking jokes when your abdomen is split open is even worse than the dwarf-tossing jokes, and I didn't think that was really possible.
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They're my thoughts too. Neither character nor sequence worked for me, so not thrilled about more unless it shifts the tone.
As it stood in the cinema cut, the Goblin encounter seemed more of an unjustified protraction and pace-killer, to the extent where I was glad when the focus shifted to the Riddles in the Dark. Ideally, each sequence should have helped build the tension of the other; to me, the "comic relief" really didn't work.