Hmm... I 'aquired' the miniseries a week or two ago, but i didn't want to watch it before i read the book. So now, halfway through the first book, i thought let's watch the miniseries untill it catches upto the book (that was five minutes ago)...
After four minutes and 39 seconds i turned it off again, there were exactly two things i recognized, two names actually 'Ged' and 'Earthsea'. The rest looks like a bad Xena episode, it seems i'm not the only one.
I purposely didn't read much about it, but from what i've seen it seemed that the producers wanted people to say Earthsea in the same sentence as Lord of the Rings.