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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1239994" data-attributes="member: 3400">I agree here. I still think the Osgiliath scene was an unnecessary complication to the film-making. Though, now that we've got a good flashback of Gondor re-taking Osgiliath, it meant they could use the scenery a second time and it's a little more excusable, in my opinion. I still think they could have dealt with Faramir's handling of the ring without going anywhere, maybe with another flashback of Denethor alluding to Faramir thinking more like a wizard or elf than the way his son should think. That clue would have put him more in line with Gandalf and Galadriel and how they resist the lure of the ring. Add some mental flashes as he reaches for the ring on the chain at Frodo's neck of Boromir's funeral boat, Denethor's voice disparaging his 'quality', and you could still have a good scene.Then, I think they could have ended the story with the hobbits and gollum making it to the King at the Crossroads and the blackening out of the sky from Mordor. Think of how dramatic the ending might have been if it went like that. Whoo!</blockquote>