{"id":26201,"date":"2002-11-06T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2002-11-06T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/06\/extended-dvd-review-douglas\/"},"modified":"2002-11-06T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2002-11-06T16:37:17","slug":"extended-dvd-review-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/06\/26201-extended-dvd-review-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended DVD Review &#8211; Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">I saw the extended version screening at Universal Studios in Los Angeles this evening and, put simply, The extended version of &#8220;The Fellowship Of The Ring&#8221; rocks and rules! Such a big improvement! Now the ring&#8217;s betrayal of Isildur makes visual sense, more maps, LOTS more Hobbiton! Much more Lothlorien with vital stuff restored, like the giving of Galadriel&#8217;s gifts. A little bit more <a HREF=\"http:\/\/theonering.net\/movie\/char\/gollum.html\">Gollum<\/a>. Some of Tolkien&#8217;s jokes restored. Aragorn &#038; Boromir have a much more complete relationship arc, so Boromir&#8217;s swearing of fealty as he dies no longer comes from left field. Celeborn has enough lines to establish his identity. We finally meet the Gaffer, and Vita Sackville-Baggins, who is every bit the hobbit harridan she should be. And some unecessary but very welcome shots of additional breathtaking scenic beauty. And then there&#8217;s the shot of the Urak-Hai warrior licking Boromir&#8217;s blood off his blade before going after Aragorn. Nasty. Fights are more violent overall.<\/p>\n<p>Definately the definitive version! Now I can&#8217;t wait for &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221; extended version, and I haven&#8217;t even seen the release version yet.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas McEwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the extended version screening at Universal Studios in Los Angeles this evening and, put simply, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6OB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}