#oh my god I wonder what Howard Shore js going to do to try saving this mess

[hopelesstvaddict]

Listen my take from the very beginning is that they never should have touched LOTR again. PJ's work was good enough that it was universally recognized both by audience and critics. To even attempt to make another adaptation was a folly from the get go. The standards to achieve were simply too high. The only thing they could do is they had to respect them and match them to make a work that could pass as a continuation of PJ's films. Make them as if they were done by the same company. That meant similar sets, similar visuals, similar costumes, similar atmosphere. Attempting to do anything else was not going to be well received.

I see now that I was right and that this is not the case.