OT: The Two Towers: SPOILER

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#1

On the Elven cloak business: City boys may have a hard time believing this several times I have lain still in the grass (sans cloak or gilly suit) and had pronghorn antelope walk right by me at ranges of ten to thirty yards.

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One last one.... Sure, the Elven Cloaks could hide you from a distance, but
they weren't Harry Potter "Cloaks of Invisibility". What was the purpose of
that stupid scene?

ARG. To many changes, and most seemingly without purpose. Unless they are
to set up even bigger changes inthe 3rd film... No, they couldn't, could
they?!?!? And that is what I found myself wondering during the last 1/3rd
of the movie? Instead of thinking how great it was, I found myself worried
about why they screwed with the story so much, and how much more they would
screw with it.

All in all, I'd give the move a solid A+, but not as good as the first
simply due to lack of "Sticking to the best story ever created".

So, if orcs can walk up walls in Moria, why did they need ladders at Helm's
Deep? See the consistancy porblems created by screwing with stuff for no
reason?

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#2

On the Elven cloak business: City boys may have a hard time believing this
  several times I have lain still in the grass (sans cloak or gilly suit) and
  had pronghorn antelope walk right by me at ranges of ten to thirty yards.
  RD: Doesn't need an elven cloak or even tall grass. My wife and I have gone shopping, separately, in the same city, and by coincidence passed within touching distance, and she has not seen me. No, she's not ignoring me (she needs me to drive her home!), and she's not blind, she simply has her mind focussed on the next shop, and nothing short of a physical impact will divert her.

  So, a whole lot depends on what you EXPECT to find. No doubt the antelope didn't expect a guy in a gilly suit to be lying in the grass. No more did the Riders expect to find a Ranger and elf and a dwarf in the long grass of Rohan. Nor (in the film) did the Easterling scouts expect to find any hobbits (what are hobbits?) under a rockslide.

  Richard.

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----- Original Message -----
  From: Ovatha Easterling
  To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] OT: The Two Towers: SPOILER

  >
  >One last one.... Sure, the Elven Cloaks could hide you from a distance, but
  >they weren't Harry Potter "Cloaks of Invisibility". What was the purpose
  >of
  >that stupid scene?
  >
  >ARG. To many changes, and most seemingly without purpose. Unless they are
  >to set up even bigger changes inthe 3rd film... No, they couldn't, could
  >they?!?!? And that is what I found myself wondering during the last 1/3rd
  >of the movie? Instead of thinking how great it was, I found myself worried
  >about why they screwed with the story so much, and how much more they would
  >screw with it.
  >
  >All in all, I'd give the move a solid A+, but not as good as the first
  >simply due to lack of "Sticking to the best story ever created".
  >
  >So, if orcs can walk up walls in Moria, why did they need ladders at Helm's
  >Deep? See the consistancy porblems created by screwing with stuff for no
  >reason?
  >
  >
  >
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