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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strithe" data-source="post: 1922364" data-attributes="member: 18813">I might be more forgiving if she were a younger author with little real-world experience.  This is a mature, educated woman who has dealt with "Hollywood" before.  Maybe she should have spent some time actually watching typical Sci-Fi-Channel fare instead of believing what some media exec told her (that's always a bad idea).  And in any case her books are far from "ruined", you can still get the Earthsea books in their orignal form with all the original ideas intact.  You can't say the same thing for, say, the original Star Wars Trilogy.  If anything even the "whitewashed" Earthsea may be a good thing for what she seems to be trying to do because an audience that otherwise might not ever have heard of her books at least knows they exist.The point I was trying to make is that, just going by the essay, the only thing I got that made her books distinct is that they don't feature Caucasians.  From comments here that's obviously not the case, and I think she would have been better off talking about more specifics of what makes Earthsea special than harping on one facet and the fact that she feels betrayed.Let's face it, even the most well-intentioned adaptation effort is going to undergo some degree of metamorphosis when it put into the film/video medium.  The beauty of books is that you get the work directly from the writer, filtered only by the editor(s).Movies & TV shows have way too many egos involved.  You not only have the director & script-writer(s), but you have producers who think that their ability to dump money into TV projects suddenly makes them experts on art.  Then you have all the rest of the "talent", actors, costume designers, set desginers, casting directors, etc. who all have their own paticular ideas and agendas with regards the work.  The only time you avoid having a mess is in these situations is when one individual has the clout, ego, and stamina to keep things on-course as possible.That really is the difference between a decent adaptation of a book, such as the Lord of the Rings movies, and a movie that bears little if any resemblance to the source material.</blockquote>

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