Earthsea "miniseries"
Whereas Ged is not another name for Harry Potter, nor for Luke Skywalker.Whereas Ged is quick-tempered and overly proud, but not whiny.Whereas, Vetch's other name is not Samwise Gamgee.Whereas the wiz... continue reading »
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"A disgrace to good cinema, and writing."
"I think I'm going to be sick"
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"I am appalled at the bahaviour of the Sci-Fi Channel in desecrating a book which was listed as one of the UK's top 100 books of all time. A disgrace."
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"Fix it and give us the real deal this summer"
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"I'm afraid to say anything because I might just go off ."
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"I was so excited to see the miniseries, but laughed and cried through the whole thing (NOT a good thing!)"
"You should address the errors that have been made in the mini-series"
"It is disturbing that a petition has evolved even though the show has yet to air in my country, Singapore. I've anticipated a movie/show based on Ursula Le Guin's masterpiece ever since I read it for the umpteenth time. I second this petition strongly."
"Earthsea is a magnificent property--handled correctly, it could produce huge returns for generations. Give it another shot and do it right."
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"The near entirely caucasian world we see in the miniseries did not exist in the books."
"they ruined my favorite book and it sucked, there was no light in the tombs, there was no tower huge doors to pray on, noone was allowed into the tombs and noone knew about ged but tenar and Kossil. and where was tenar's servant? why did you ruin it!??"
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"I speak only as a fan of the genre, of cinema, a product of the 12 years of public school English I was forced to endure. This "miniseries" was a deplorable production created solely to generate as much instant revenue as possible, with no regard for inte"
"This "adaptation" was a complete and total rewrite and a whitewash of a multiethnic world created by the author. The presence of Danny Glover does not make up for the fact that everyone else was caucasian in a world where caucasians were supposed to be RA"
"I am appalled that something that meant so much to me was so horribly mangled."
"I saw the movie first and thought it a second rate movie. I then read the books and found the movie to be appaling and shameful to the director,producer(s) and SCI-FI. This was as bad as the Bourne series going from book to movie or The Firm. Writers and "
