So I am re-watching the first two Hobbit films but in the extended versions before going to see the third film at the theater.

So the whole point of The Hobbit book is to show how Bilbo accidentally got hold of the Ring from Gollum while trying to defeat Smaug?

Also why do Dragons like gold anyway?

Was it really necessary to turn The Hobbit book into 3 films?

The first 2 films felt like a travel channel movie.

Let's see these band of dwarves and elves and humans go here and go there;

there wasn't much action and some of the action that was there felt rehashed from the LOTR trilogy.