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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1237718" data-attributes="member: 5868">I follow their logic behind some of the changes (doesn't mean I necissarily agree, but I love the adaptation anyway).  Moving Shelob was a really good idea; I'm glad they're trying to keep the timeline accurate.Leaving out Saruman seems sloppy -- too many loose ends.  They opened TTT with a FOTR flashback; why not open ROTK with the TTT sequence?  Instead they start with the Smeagol/Deagol scene (which while interesting, I'm not sure is as important as Saruman).  I'm wondering exactly what was cut from the Houses of Healing, as well (as reported by Newsweek).  If it was just a bit of the Faramir/Eowyn love story, I could see that for pacing reasons, but if it's the Aragorn healing scene I'll be disappointed -- I always thought that the "hands of the king are the hands of a healer" line was important exposition for the people of Gondor, and it would provide  a good link for the aethelas lines from the first movie, but I could see them dropping this, because the audience already knows he's the King.Guess I'll just have to wait <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  I trust PJ to put together a good overall production.  He'll make some changes I might not necessarily agree with, but I'm sure I'll like the whole, and we'll at least get an extended DVD to fix the cuts.</blockquote>

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