“What have we done?”
Those were the last words we heard from Bilbo in the doom-stricken finale to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It seemed at the time a brilliant place to end the second film of The Hobbit trilogy. It left us a cliffhanger for the next film, further emphasized the amazing presence of Smaug that Peter Jackson had accomplished, and all in all just felt like an epic conclusion to what had been a quite rocky road at times, almost redeeming itself in its conclusion.