[Diamond18]

I can grudgingly understand their wish to have Faramir "less static" and give him room to grow instead of being picture perfect right off the bat.<P>But they went too far, much too far. Did he have to be hurled to the other end of the spectrum? Couldn't he have maybe, I don't know, just been a little more preoccupied with Denethor than in the book? Maybe at Henneth Anuin he could have shown some extra wavering but still stood fast in the end?<P>I'm just saying, if they felt they needed to make him start out as less and grow, there were other, less cruel ways to do it. I personnaly wouldn't have changed him a bit...grow schmo, let the other characters grow! But I could have forgiven a slightly weaker protrayal. They didn't have to bludgeon us with his new weakness.<p>[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]