I fully expected to hate Radagast, given how many called him the Jar Jar Binks of The Hobbit. That's a huge exaggeration. Radagast is fine. He's even fun to watch most of the time. He just doesn't mesh with the plot of this film (at least not yet.) And someone in pre-production clearly overestimated how much people enjoy looking at birdshit.

I for one, found Radagast's hovel and interesting hodgepodge, with the spiders reflecting the evil that was coming in to the world. The fact that they ran away may have been due to Radagast's use of his power to heal the hedgehog. He clearly is powerful enough to withstand a Nazgul so the spiders may have sensed his power and fled.

Bilbo probably wasn't thinking about the how of getting back-just that he wanted to get back. Thorin's rejection of him was probably abrupt due to the conflict within himself about whether or not Bilbo was worth keeping around. And Bilbo nearly proved him right.

Thorin wasn't dead. I kept expecting him to stab the Orc or Azog. So, Gandalf didn't strike me as any more a Necromancer than Aragorn in Return of the King.

Eagles-oh, why did you do that? They're not Gandalf's pets but I was waiting, and still am, for Trey's comments. I withhold them for now

London is a fair bit away from me, I'm afraid