The original was pretty much just Face from A-Team fighting evil robots so yeah....it was pretty much the best show ever.

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That does sound like the best show ever... *goes to amazon.com and orders the DVDs*

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for me this is "wrong"...

it'd be like if they remade knight-rider, only it was Michelle Knight instead of Michael Knight. you just don't do that!

i had the same problem with Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. i can't watch it. i just can't. i watched the original so much, hundreds of hours... and somebody decided to remake it and change the characters. oh? that character's not in this version of it. oh, and that character's now a woman. oh, and the smart chick? she's now a ditz, and she's blonde, not a redhead. oh, and the main chick is now this and...

they changed everything about the series. i hate it when people release something trying to leverage an existing fanbase when what they deliver has little or nothing to do with the product. look! name recognition! ...

i love Battlestar Galactica. i'd have a hard time watching another series called Battlestar Galactica that had some of the plot elements the same, some radically changed. either change everything and call it something else or be true to the original. i don't like "creative recreations".

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I totally agree... I just never saw the original so I don't have anything to base my opinion off.

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Unfortunately "The Scouring of the Shire" will not be in the movie (It won't be on the DVD either, it was never filmed). I think what they're probably going to do is just go right to the Grey Havens. I can understand why they're not doing it. It would add probably 20-30 min to an already long movie, and the core story can be told just as well without it. Still, it's a shame it's not there, it really shows how much the hobbits have changed over the course of the story, and that evil didn't just disappear.

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Whuh!?! That sucks man, that was a great chapter. It really completes the journey for them...

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Yeah...if you watch the commentary with Peter Jackson from Fellowship of the Ring, during the scene where Frodo looks in Galadriel's Mirror and sees a vision of Hobbiton burning he says something like "this is our homage to Scouring of the Shire since it won't be in ROTK".

I'm not really surprised. Scouring of the Shire is actually pretty crazy when you think about it. What other story can you think of that has the climax, then halfway through the conclusion there's another conflict sequence? It's a huge no-no, one of the many writing conventions LotR breaks. It works amazingly well in the book, but I don't think it would play well in the movie. Us fanboys would love it, but the general audience wouldn't go for it after having sat in the theater for 3+ hours already.

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That's so BS that everyone keeps saying "many writing conventions LotR breaks." That's like saying... Casablanca was a great movie but there was just too much talking.

LOTR is probably the best book I've ever read, meaning that (in my mind) that book did no wrong, despite what some pompous overpaid critic has to say. If they're so damn smart about what works and what doesn't why don't they go write their own damn books. LOTR is solid all the way through, end of story.

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