yeah I agree, she's the only one that had any real opinion on what was going on.
I'm not really that obsessed with making a purist cut, for me it's more about making a good film with what we have, if it ends up being more pure than that's cool too. I think it's hard to see what bot5a will look like until the extended edition comes out, because as it is now, I would probably cut most of the entire battle sequence, and the movie would be like 45 minutes long. So I hope they add in some more useful stuff. in Smaug I cut about an hour from the film, but most from the theatrical cut, all the extended stuff was pretty good.
btw,i know a bunch of people have seen this fan edit, it would be cool to get a few reviews up about it up on the ifdb =oP