Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries

Several readers have written in with unhappy opinions on the Legend of Earthsea miniseries just aired on the Sci-Fi channel. Ursula Le Guin has also chimed in, with a short but highly critical blurb on her website, and now this dissection on Slate.com.

Comments

She must be kidding

[nagora]

" They said they had already secured Philippa Boyens (who wrote the scripts for The Fellowship of the Rings) as principal script writer. The script was, to me, all-important, so Boyens' presence was the key factor in my decision to sell this group the option to the film rights."

Given just how mangled Fellowship of the Ring was in terms of the original characters and meaning of the book, I can only assume that UKlG has never read Lord of the Rings. Boyens' presence was a guarantee that the characters would be unrecognisable and that the story would be reduced to a shallow and meaningless shadow of its former self.

TWW

Sci-Fi Mini-Series are Awful

[mothlos]

This is news? Did anybody see the Dune mini-series or countless other TV Movies they have made that just tear up the intent of the author?

Good Sci-Fi is a genre where authors play hypothetical sociologist to reflect on humanities strengths and weaknesses (albiet with often erotic consequences), but it doesn't translate very well from book form to screen form, particularly when done by a second-rate cable channel just trying to make a buck on the name recognition.

Re:Maybe I should be more familiar, but...

[Minter92]

A fantasy/sci fi writer. I personally thought the earth sea books were terrible but there are some uber fanboys of it.

Re:Le Guin at the Agony Column - Chronolgy

[John Harrison]

So there are articles on her website, Slate, Salon, and now The Agony. She has spammed half the internet with her rant.