Now me, I personally liked the schizoid conversation between Smeagol and Gollum in TTT. I thought it was a wonderful device!
I agree that we could have done without the Deagol/Smeagol scene. Time better used on another chapter.
Pippin and the palantir was okay! It was the proper unseen dread that the book had.
Agreed! I loved that too.
If I could chop the movie up the way I'd like, it seems like during the conversation in TTT between Frodo and Gollum, where Frodo says the name "Smeagol" and causes Gollum to remember his name.... That would have been a much better place to stick in the flashback to the Deagol fight.