• grue@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    No, you misunderstood. “Not even X, let alone Y” is just as much about differences in magnitude as it is similarities in kind:

    Meanwhile, Peter Jackson couldn’t even figure out how to get major plot points like the Scouring of the Shire to work, let alone [minor ones like] Tom Bombadil.

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      11 days ago

      be that as it may, even “Scouring…” would have been a bad choice to include in RoTK. The ending is already way too long. I would have loved it as fan service, but from the perspective of film making cutting it was the right choice.