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Le Guin Peeved About Earthsea Miniseries

Posted by michael on from the hack-job dept.

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.

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  1. yuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    If it's bad enough to not even bother downloading you know it's gotta be lame.

  2. She must be kidding by nagora · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    " 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

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  3. Sci-Fi Mini-Series are Awful by mothlos · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

  4. Re:Maybe I should be more familiar, but... by Minter92 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

  5. Re:Gratitude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please, are you suggesting that the Lord of the Rings were good movies? Get your head out of your ass. I've never been more bored than when I watched that drivel. Maybe Peter Jackson did the best he could with an uninspired story, but none the less it certainly wasn't worth watching.

    Mod me a troll if you want, but I hated these movies, and that's a fact.

  6. Re:30 years ago? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Considering they broke two central themes to the book in the first five minutes, and got the main character's names backwards, you may wish to reconsider your serious doubt there.

  7. Re:Le Guin at the Agony Column - Chronolgy by John+Harrison · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

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  8. Re:Did you slashdot the nice lady's website? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    She sounds like a typical liberal racist who claims not to be one, says everyone else is one but her actions betray what she really believes.

  9. Re:I shut down the nice lady's website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what you're saying is that your company can't live up to its obligations. I hope someone reports you to the Feds. You should be in jail for deception and breach of contract.