[Kalimac]

Thanks, Diamond! Feel free to quote my ideas all you like (actually I can't even remember what thread I said that in about M&P, but I still hold by it). I also liked the drowning scene and didn't think it was too long - actually the slow-mo was a good way to catch your breath after after all the rapid-fire Orc-slaying scenes. And I'll admit, the last scene between Aragorn and Frodo threw me for a loop at first as well, especially when Aragorn says "I would have followed you to the end," and my first thought was "Well then, why DON'T you?"<P>But after rereading TTT and FOTR it looks like what PJ was doing was just being efficient. In the scene after Boromir's sendoff, Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn spend several hours dithering about whether they should follow Frodo and Sam or whether they should follow Merry and Pippin. In the Aragorn decides, in almost the same words as he uses in the movie, that the Ringbearer's fate is out of their hands, obviously fate doesn't mean them to do anything more for him directly at that point, but that they still do have a chance to save the other hobbits. So off they go. By having Aragorn say that to Frodo we're seeing at once that he can (a) reject temptation and (b) realizes that the Ring's fate is now out of hands for whatever fatalistic or mystical reasons. That way, after Boromir is sent down the river, he and the other two can get right down to Orc-chasing instead of spending some unproductive screen time making up their minds.<p>[ November 10, 2002: Message edited by: Kalimac ]