{"id":5719,"date":"2004-07-28T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/28\/extended.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:09:14","slug":"extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/28\/extended.html","title":{"rendered":"Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I missed at the Con was the <a title=\"Ain't It Cool News - View Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/display.cgi?id=18049\">Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Extended Edition<\/a> panel.  For some reason, I hadn&#8217;t even heard of it, which I can only chalk up to being still too busy to sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, a report:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Predictably, the RETURN OF THE KING EE panel was a massive slam dunk. Boyd and Wenham entered to female squeals, and couldn&#8217;t be asked a single question without having to wait for the shrieking hubbub to die down. There was a healthy bit of footage shown &#8212; most notably, the long awaited last stand of Saruman. That was nifty, but what really got me giddy was the brief shot of the Mouth of Sauron holding up Frodo&#8217;s mithril outside the gates of Mordor, an addition that will make &#8220;For Frodo&#8221; a heartbreaking moment of defiance in the face of certain defeat. There was also an extended bit depicting Gandalf facing down the Nazgul during the Battle of Pelennor Field that was pretty hair-raising. And what about that avalanche of skulls?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah.  I am so ready for this.<\/p>\n<p>(The rest of the article has some good reviews of other movie panels, including some &#8220;Okay, obviously I need to watch the damned DVD set, because I never did understand <em>Firefly<\/em>&#8216;s popularity and those folks at the <em>Serenity <\/em>panel screamed the longest and loudest of any group at the Con&#8221; stuff.)<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/004466.html#4466\" target=\"_blank\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I missed at the Con was the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: Extended Edition panel. 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