Plane Sailing said:Sorry about the thread necromancy, but, well, I've just had the opportunity to watch this miniseries.
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I couldn't believe that the story which they had created using the words Ged and Earthsea could actually be as bad as people said.
If only everyone hadn't been so generous about it!
I suppose it isn't well enough known to get a decent treatment (a la LotR), but one can hope, maybe, someday...
I actually understand the way they changed Ged's names around from a tv perspective. TV producers always play to the lowest common denominator, and they probably figured that 'Sparrowhawk' was too long a name for the average viewer to remember.Squire James said:I doubt involving Le Guin in the filming of the movie would have made it much better. Some of the things she fixed on in the books would have made horrid movie material too. That being said, this movie had too many things wrong it's easier to tell what's right and declare that everything else was wrong.
The dragon was done right. That's about it. Everything else was borrowing loosely from the books, putting them in the wrong places at the wrong times. To use a LoTR reference, the movie was full of "Go away, Sam!" moments. Stuff that would make someone who liked the books cringe.
Like Jeez, they couldn't even get the main character's NAMES right! In a world where true names were the basis of magic, no less!