The Saruman death scene was hard to decide upon. It gives somewhat proper closure but it’s done with such cheese and outlandishness. And it goes on for a full 5 minutes. It throws off the pacing immensely. And how the theatricals do it is actually pretty cool I think. At the end of two Towers, Saruman sees everything fail before him, his mistakes of cutting down the forest haunting him. He hides away in embarrassment, shame and utter defeat. Gandalf, with elegant mercy, leaves Saruman as he is, a broken, lost and defeated wizard who has lost all his power.

So yah, I’m pretty set on cutting the death of Saruman scene.