Coping with RotK Spoilers . . .

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After hearing the latest RotK spoilers, I was bummed . . . and then I remembered MESPT. Thank you Frotima and Carawise. (-;

If you haven't followed MESPT this won't mean anything, but if you have and read spoilers, here's an RotK Spoiler MESPT-style icon from Tom and me: click not lest ye be spoiled, unless ye wantsa. :-D

Comments

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It certainly does. It makes Gollum the powerful influence over Frodo instead of the Ring. I like that they've emphasized the kinship between Frodo and Gollum--supposing it isn't a coincidence that they both have huge siamese cat eyes--but not at the expense of lessening both the Ring's pull and the power of the bonds of love and companionship. However, they've emphasized Frodo's kinship with Gollum at the expense of the idea of Frodo's empathy, and I think this may be another instance of it and I don't like that--it's what I value most about the character.

I do understand cinematic constraints and am not a purist--I love some of the changes made to the story in FotR, but I don't see how this change helps. Still, I haven't seen it yet, so maybe that will clarify things. Maybe PJ(and maybe Boyens and Walsh) doesn't pick up on the importance of empathy--I thought he did in FoTR by making Gandalf's speech about pity and mercy central, but maybe that's not the part of the speech that moves PJ but the second part--that you've got to do your part in a hostile world--which is probably the part he focused on to get where he is as a producer. Successful people in the movie industry don't tend to get the idea that sometimes people really do need extra care and concern because we don't all have equal abilities, let alone opportunities.

It didn't quite work for me as a humor moment and was just an ewwww moment. Hehe. I agree.