[pjalne]

That's pretty kickass.

I wish Treebeard was closer to the book version myself, but something's gotta give. What had Merry and Pippin contributed with this far in the story? Fucked up a birthday party, alerted the goblins of their presence in Moria, lit a fire at Weathertop when they were supposed to be hiding from the wraiths, blurted out Frodo's identity at the Prancing Pony, gotten kidnapped by the uruk-Hai so Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas had to run for a fucking week to get them and generally been a couple of kids whining "Are we there yet" in Aragorn's ear. They couldn't be tagging along and getting in the way for two movies straight, they simply had to make a difference for the better at this point. So PJ and his girls apparently decided to make Treebeard a little reluctant. It annoyed me a little in the theatre, but when I got to the moment where Treebeard sees what's been going on around Isengard everything turned totally sweet and got back on track.