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Here Is Your First Terrible Look at Radagast

Here Is Your First Terrible Look at Radagast

By August 21, 2012 Miscellaneous, Movies 0 Comment

When I saw that the first picture of Sylvester McCoy, a.k.a. the Seventh Doctor, as the wizard Radagast had leaked from a scan of an unreleased Hobbit movie calendar, I was actually pretty excited. Hobbit news! New wizard! And then I actually saw the “picture”:

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And now I’m just bitter. Seriously, it looks like some one photoshopped McCoy’s head into a fan drawing of Hagrid… badly. Oh, I’m sure Radagast looks just dandy in the movie, but this image is shit, and that was before it was scanned down to 300 x 300 pixels. Hell, I’m not only bitter about the picture sucking, I’m bitter that its still technically news. See, Peter Jackson? This is what happens when you play it too close to the vest. The internet’s going to find shit out one way or another; you might as well make sure we’re passing around something that doesn’t make your movie look like crap.

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.