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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strithe" data-source="post: 1920292" data-attributes="member: 18813">I find it interesting when artists knowlingly make business deals and come out with mock outrage when Hollywood changes their works.  She could have always elected not to sell the rights to her book, especially if she was so concerned about certain core concepts.  Artistic integrity aside I don't see her complaining about the check they wrote her.From my point of view, I've never really cared about the ethnicity or gender or orientation etc. of the characters in books I've read.  What usually matters to me is if the characters and/or story are compelling in some way, not whether or not the characters resemble me physically.  Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that I'm a German/Italian/Russian/Czech mutt.I haven't read LeGuin's books, although I've got a copy of Wizard of Earthsea I've never got around to reading.  Of course, if you follow her article it seems that the only central theme to the Earthsea books is that they don't have Caucasians in them, so maybe I'll pass.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> She may want to climb down from the pedastal too, she's hardly the first author to write about multiracial characters in Fantasy or Science Fiction.  H. Beam Piper had mixed-race characters in his far future stories & novels, which were published about 10 years before the Earthsea novels.As far as the miniseries series goes itself, I taped it Sunday night and watched about the first hour or so.  My initial impression is that it has decent acting and good visuals.  The storyline.... nothing spectacular but at least it's watchable and fairly entertaining.  At least it's not the Shatneresque-overacting and late-80's-video-game-look-CGI craptacular that was Dungeons & Dragons (a film that is only out-badded by such horrors as Space Hunter and Metalstorm: the Destruction of Jared-Zin).</blockquote>

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