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[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Laitoste

I remember in the cast commentary for The Two Towers , he said something about how he had watched the animated Lord of the Rings and had disliked how that Sam bumbled around so much. That would have been closer to the Sam I know. This new Sam seemed depressed, almost, and lacked the desperate cheerfulness that I dearly loved.

Mind you, Sam in the animated film lacked the earthy wisdom of Sam in the book ... or any discernable form of intelligence at all for that matter.