I could be "pro-movie" (quite apologetically: movies from books are almost always complicated things) in saying what I'll have to say: maybe Merry and Pippin were too dumbfound to say anyhting in the first place. Well, I agree on what the extended dvd will have to do about this, but I'm sure that the editors will try to smooth that out.
But in the mean time, let me just quote:
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