YevaudSoulQuest1970 wrote:Orm Embar
In any case, everything you've mentioned there just about turned my stomach. What a travesty. I'm appalled.
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Oh, no, you aren't the only one! Now as I read the book I thought it was kinda sexist in that girls couldn't go to Roke and demeaning a woman's magic, but still they should be more faithful to the book. As outraged as I was about the view of women in the book, I was still stunned at how changed it was with girls at the school (I think there should be an all girls school lol). It did feel rather Harry Potterish.taraswizard wrote:Ok, I must be the only one who thought the guys making this movie were trying to remake Earthsea into Harry Potter. IMO, they were overinfluenced by the HP books and movies.
"In the spirit of her wonderful books"? The very thing she was challenging was the fact they had completely ignored the spirit of the original works! Apprently, high ratings = a good adaptation, no matter how little similarity is left to the original work.We respect Ms. Le Guin's right to voice her opinion and we understand her frustrations. However, adapting two major novels down to four hours of television is highly challenging and requires significant reworking. That being said, we stand by the creative decisions we took in the spirit of her wonderful books and which made our miniseries the top entertainment program on cable over two nights, with over 13 million viewers.
OMG!!!!! Was that before or after the Marx Brothers rowed by in a canoe?Furls Fire wrote:Well, they screwed up Yevaud too. When Ged calls him by his true name, its Orm Embar!!!! UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!! I turned it off after that.