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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OB1" data-source="post: 8814796" data-attributes="member: 6796241">Of course different people respond to things differently, and I agree with you that a lot of modern visual storytelling falls into the trap of using techniques to cover up flaws in the story, but where that is usually a problem is when their is no clarity of conflict.For me, Galadriel's conflict in that scene was clearly communicated.  She didn't want to leave middle earth because her work was not finished, but she had been commanded to leave.  If she leaves, she'll never return.  Therefore, if she wants to finish her work, she must stay in middle earth, and the only way to do that is to jump ship.  That is a simple conflict, but a specific one, similar to Luke turning off his targeting computer or Bilbo deciding to leave the Ring in Bag's End.  The techniques used are all in service to how monumental the decision to leave was for her and ask us to empathize with her.  She waits till the last possible moment, she sees others vanish into Valinor, she's surround by an ocean!  And for me, I was cheering when she jumped!  Yes, don't listen to your king!  Sauron IS coming and you have to help stop him!  And look, providence is shown when she's rescued from the ocean!  She MUST have made the right choice... Only at the end of the first season did I understand just how backward I had it.  A fantastic reversal of the hero's certainty in the rightness of their actions.</blockquote>

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