Adding 25 minutes makes the movie feel shorter. The inclusion of quieter moments, such as Beorn and Gandalf discussing the rise of the Nine, makes the action sequences feel more meaningful. Narrative Symmetry
The theatrical cut raced from Mirkwood to Lake Town so fast you barely learned the dwarves' names. The extended edition fixes this with . the hobbit desolation of smaug extended edition
: Re-establishes the book's sequence where Gandalf introduces the dwarves to Beorn two-by-two to avoid startling him. The Mirkwood Crossing Adding 25 minutes makes the movie feel shorter
In Lake-town, the added scenes flesh out the political corruption of the Master of Lake-town the hobbit desolation of smaug extended edition