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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8815512" data-attributes="member: 23751">Oh, yeah.  I completely ignored his, "I could do it better thing."  Didn't even look at it. I was talking about his issues with the writing, like having 100 horses on a small ship, charging over a large land mass very quickly, everything being super close together despite being on a large land mass, etc.  He points out a ton of real flaws in the writing, even if he is over the top with his rhetoric.No. That's because it was one coincidence.  Not three of them simultaneous with a stupid decisions that Galadriel would never have made.  If Luke had gotten the droids, turned around and saw Leia running out of gas and landing at the farm, and then had Han solo stop for directions to Jaba's place all at the same time that Ben decides that now is the moment to teach Luke how to be a jedi at the farm, it would stretch "coincidence" to the breaking point.Some coincidence is fine.  The level of it at that moment in the ocean combined with her decision is just bad writing.  The writers should have just made it a dark and stormy night while they were at it.Yes, but remember, she, Gil-Galad and Elrond all mistrusted Annatar from the get go. Elf Lords(and ladies) are very hard to deceive since they too have supernatural powers and are on par with some of the maia.The article writer didn't dispute that.  It was the length of time that the Stranger was kept in the mystery box that was lame and bad writing.  Some mystery is fine.It's also bad if it is maintained overly long just to keep a mystery.  Who the Stranger was dragged on waaaaay too long.  And we still don't know for sure!</blockquote>

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