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**lindil** · 11-21-2003, 10:08 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> In one more month, we will all know how well this worked or not. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Chances are not HC.Cause if PJ stays true to form, we are likely to see a rather different extended version of RotK, who knows how many months later. Not to mention the possibility of an 'ultra-extended version' available only when buying the whole dang series all over again...I origianlly posted a suggestion for a replacement of the Osgiliath ring scene: hmm how about the legitamate Faramir scenes and speeches in Ithilien? Saucepan posted:'Scant, if any, tension.'To which I say, there was already plent of built in tension, just wondering what PJ might mess up next! A few minutes of authentic dialogue could hardly spoil PJ's built in [for many here I would say] tension. You have a pont though, but I am quite confident that if the original motto had been: 'Stay true to the Books' some sort of cinmatically satisfactory ending could have been found, like.... Shelob!!! <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Yes, it is nice to see the inclusion of more material from the book and touches that greater reflect the spirit of the book, but, for me, the best thing about most of the additional scenes is that they improve on the story told in the film, rather than that they bring it closer to that told in the book. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That is the very thing that saved it [to me]. PJ merely manages to clean up some [certainly not all] of the mess he created in TTT.It is, I think a twist on the bait and switch tactic, only here you serve up something similar in appeal to Arwen's stew [ the theatrical release] and then add a little spice and soy sauce, and now the same stew [which is still a butchering of the original recipe] now tastes palatable, since we do not compare it anymore to the original recipe, but to the horrid [to many here] version whose sour [bitter?] taste was in our mouths for 11 months!.But I am not really complaining so much as deconstructing, cause I admit I fell for it too. [ November 21, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]

11-21-2003, 10:08 AM	#22
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> In one more month, we will all know how well this worked or not. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Chances are not HC.<P>Cause if PJ stays true to form, we are likely to see a rather different extended version of RotK, who knows how many months later. Not to mention the possibility of an 'ultra-extended version' available only when buying the whole dang series all over again...<P>I origianlly posted a suggestion for a replacement of the Osgiliath ring scene: hmm how about the legitamate Faramir scenes and speeches in Ithilien? <P><BR>Saucepan posted:'Scant, if any, tension.'<P>To which I say, there was already plent of built in tension, just wondering what PJ might mess up next! A few minutes of authentic dialogue could hardly spoil PJ's built in [for many here I would say] tension. <P>You have a pont though, but I am quite confident that if the original motto had been: '<B>Stay true to the Books'</B> some sort of cinmatically satisfactory ending could have been found, like.... <B>Shelob</B>!!!<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Yes, it is nice to see the inclusion of more material from the book and touches that greater reflect the spirit of the book, but, for me, the best thing about most of the additional scenes is that they improve on the story told in the film, rather than that they bring it closer to that told in the book. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> That is the very thing that saved it [to me]. PJ merely manages to clean up some [certainly not all] of the mess he created in TTT.<P>It is, I think a twist on the bait and switch tactic, only here you serve up something similar in appeal to Arwen's stew [ the theatrical release] and then add a little spice and soy sauce, and now the same stew [which is still a butchering of the original recipe] now tastes palatable, since we do not compare it anymore to the original recipe, but to the horrid [to many here] version whose sour [bitter?] taste was in our mouths for 11 months!.<P>But I am not really complaining so much as deconstructing, cause I admit I fell for it too. <p>[ November 21, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ] __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.