Originally Posted by Thrasher
So all in all I wasn't greatly disturbed by Jackson's portrayal of Saruman. Just the ending (i.e. missing Scouring of the Shire) and the parlay scene at Orthanc was weak. Saruman's power of voice was not properly demonstrated….

I guess we simply place value on different things. You were more annoyed about changes to certain scenes, while I took offense to changes to a primary character. To each his own. I'm not going to beat a dead dog though, so let's just move on.