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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mulkhoran" data-source="post: 541864" data-attributes="member: 894">Good point, although I think it's that change to the movie's continuity that bothers me.  They removed the "additional" caves in order to support Theoden's newly-written weaknesses. He *PARDONS* Wormtongue in the book. He gives him the option of swearing his allegiance, and riding with him to war vs. Saruman. He sends someone to ensure that he gets out of Rohan alive, after Grima spits on the floor and runs. Almost EVERYBODY ELSE wants him dead.  He doesn't chase him down the steps of his house, only to be held back by an outsider with a cliched line. I'll freely admit that this is colored by the fact that Theoden was one of my favorite characters, and to see him reduced to a fool - "It's all over, it's all over......the end, the end!" - just to support Aragorn as the Great Hero(tm) is extremely sad. It didn't need to be this way.Clearly, you didn't read what I wrote. I'll say it again, for your sole benefit. I *loved* the first movie, and loved the extended edition even more. It was *exactly* how the movie should have been brought to the screen.I waited a year for this movie, and if anything, went into the theater with a deep desire to love it. So much for your pointless and inflamatory assumptions.Be that as it may, it's still a bait-and-switch.  Why was the first movie such a good rendition of the first book, if he was just going to re-write whatever he wanted? Because he wanted to get people into the theater for the second movie, that's why. I don't hate the man, but I don't respect him either. He's showed how little he cares about the work he's using.</blockquote>

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