Looking through the comments, I'm struck by the number of people who either seem to think that she should have known this was coming and has no right to complain, and the race thing is no big deal anyhow.
The first complaint seems unfairly harsh. I have a lot of sympathy for her optimism that they would come up with an adaptation that was reasonably true to the work. To me, the recent Lord of the Rings movies served as a sign that good book adaptations were possible. I might feel hopeful in her case, too.
And for the second criticism: this is a writer who approaches her work like an anthropologist or sociologist, one who is most interested in the human aspects of her stories. To white-wash the characters, and on top of that, flatten her story out until it resembled generic European fantasy material, is an insult to her ongoing attempts to write about more diverse worlds. Part of what makes her best writing stand out for me, is that the people and cultures are never generic. It's a shame the producers of the miniseries couldn't see that.
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Looking through the comments, I'm struck by the number of people who either seem to think that she should have known this was coming and has no right to complain, and the race thing is no big deal anyhow.
The first complaint seems unfairly harsh. I have a lot of sympathy for her optimism that they would come up with an adaptation that was reasonably true to the work. To me, the recent Lord of the Rings movies served as a sign that good book adaptations were possible. I might feel hopeful in her case, too.
And for the second criticism: this is a writer who approaches her work like an anthropologist or sociologist, one who is most interested in the human aspects of her stories. To white-wash the characters, and on top of that, flatten her story out until it resembled generic European fantasy material, is an insult to her ongoing attempts to write about more diverse worlds. Part of what makes her best writing stand out for me, is that the people and cultures are never generic. It's a shame the producers of the miniseries couldn't see that.