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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Hmm, may be I am missing something, but there appears to be much wailing and gnashing of teeth here over what seem to me to be some fairly trivial issues.

Surely we've not seen real "wailing and gnashing of teeth" yet, as I was withholding the real deal for the other movies in the trilogy, at which point my rabid frothing may require restraint in the form of multiple sedatives and rope.

An example of a trivial issue that may be important later is the 'Gandalf shoulder-grab cheap thrill.' Initially I wasn't sure why this bothered me, and as the movie moves on I hadn't had the time to think about it for long. However, here in the SbS, I was able to figure out why it bothered me, and deduced it to the 'out-of-characterness' of the Gandalf character as created by PJ. Again, admittedly, a few frames in the ocean, but what we see is that PJ is willing to sacrifice character consistency for a not-full-retail-price thrill.

This is what (to me) the SbS is all about: understanding PJ.

Or, in other words, getting inside his head without the messiness of a hatchet .