I've heard that Arwen is "wrong," but since I haven't got a clue what Arwen should have been, I just thought: ooh! Liv pretty! and was fine with it ;) I really don't have a problem with Elijah as Frodo...I guess I just have a problem with Elijah as a sex symbol ;) I thought everyone was good in their roles.
And while I didn't "get" it, I do think Peter Jackson has done an amazing thing, making so many people happy while respecting his source material. I think I expected that I would really like it based on the fact that I still remembered so much about The Hobbit, but that book is, after all, not even part of the trilogy, and even the carry-over characters are in such a radically expanded setting that they became unfamiliar to me.
A hypothesis: the popularity of LoTRiPS vs. just LotR stories has always surprised me (and I may be wrong about this, but it's certainly what I see sailing past on my FL) and I wonder if it's because of the relative lack of character development onscreen while, as one can easily learn, this group of obviously talented, pleasant, clever people developed a real-life "fellowship" that would necessarily have emotional subtleties that were not evident (appropriately) in a sweeping action epic.
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Date: 2004-03-02 07:45 pm (UTC)And while I didn't "get" it, I do think Peter Jackson has done an amazing thing, making so many people happy while respecting his source material. I think I expected that I would really like it based on the fact that I still remembered so much about The Hobbit, but that book is, after all, not even part of the trilogy, and even the carry-over characters are in such a radically expanded setting that they became unfamiliar to me.
A hypothesis: the popularity of LoTRiPS vs. just LotR stories has always surprised me (and I may be wrong about this, but it's certainly what I see sailing past on my FL) and I wonder if it's because of the relative lack of character development onscreen while, as one can easily learn, this group of obviously talented, pleasant, clever people developed a real-life "fellowship" that would necessarily have emotional subtleties that were not evident (appropriately) in a sweeping action epic.
*sigh* I feel like I have no geek cred.