I pretty much lost interest in the film(s) when I heard a while back that there would be a major female character involved.

Different characters, different story. And I remember the amount of 'respect' these people have shown to the original material in the past, all the awards and amazing visuals not withstanding.

Not sure if that makes me 'sad', but of excessive use of 'artistic license' when reproducing the much loved work of other(far better) artist a fan I am not. :/