Any fans of the Smeagol opening?

Compared to the stunning opening scenes of FoTR and TTT, I gotta say I thought the whole Gollumn intro was a bit laboured and gratuitous.<BR>Dont get me wrong, Serkis is a top bloke and a fantastic actor, Smeagol incarnate really. Its just that after seeing the insightfully added Smeagol scenes in the extended TTT, the RoTK intro didnt really invoke the intensity of pity that say the (exTTT) worm eating scene (and others) did, for me at any rate. <P>I would've much rather seen the Saruman/Gandalf showdown at Orthanc on the big screen, and then to have seen the Smeagol opening on the RoTK extended, if anything. <BR>But yeah, I stress that I'm not bad-vibing Serkis, no way, just the directoral decision that spliced this intro into the theatrical edit.