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[Essex]

Alatar, good point about Saruman being less of a 'traitor' to Sauron in the movie, and not really showing he wants the Ring for himself.

Also, won’t this conflict later with the scene where the Uruks of the White Hand head for Isengard and not Barad-dur?

Exactly. These are the points that I'll make throughout these discussions. Change certain things and you have LOTS of inconsistencies throughout the movie, and it can have a domino effect.

Now to me, these sort of changes to the plot that have not been CORRECTLY thought out are more annoying than BIG 'Changes' that do not make Big Inconsistencies to the rest of the film. For example, Faramir bringing the Hobbits to Osgiliath is one of the biggest 'Changes' that people hate from these movies, but it really doesn't have any knock on effects to the rest of the movies. Whereas the Saruman 'change' does give inconsistencies later when we have his Orcs bring merry and pippin back to isengard instead of straight to Mordor as Alatar mentions above........