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December 14th, 2004, 03:25 PM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
Yeah, I felt the same way about the Dune miniseries on the SciFi channel. It seemed more fashion show than good quality sci-fi. After a caught some bits of it however, I liked it a little more. So, I tivo'ed the Wizard of Earthsea. Some rainy day, I may be bored enough to go check it out.
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December 14th, 2004, 10:19 PM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
I expected as much when I saw that the cast was almost entirely pasty white. LeGuin's world is the Asia-Pacific region in microcosm. The only 'white' people are barbarians who hardly figure in the stories. And of course the stories themselves have relatively little 'glitz' of the sort that modern media requires. No car chases, no huge explosions, and horrors... no 'love interest' in the whole dang thing!
But this is television where everything must be mutilated to suit the marketing department, so of course they made up a whole different world and pasted the 'Earthsea' label on it to attract an audience. I'm somewhat surprised that Ursula K. LeGuin commented at all. Most authors today are already quite aware that a film or television 'adaptation' of their work is just a 'brand' purchase by the commercial hacks of hollywood and rarely bears much resemblance to the original story. That she bothered to publicly condemn it makes me think it must be very bad....
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December 14th, 2004, 10:33 PM
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Have you ever tried finding an entire English speaking cast of Asian appearance lol I'm sure it's quite hard 
Well at least Kruek is Hawaiian which I guess they figure is close enough 
Seriously though she shouldn't have sold it to them if she was going to whine later, get over it, they made a good story IMHO and I'll look at that and the book as two serperate stories that are both good (if Earthsea the books are any good).
But if you like that Asiatic theme to fantasy books read:
Daughter of the Empire
Servant of the Empire
Mistress of the Empire
Excellent books with great plotline, limited romance which actually does play into the story overall, and a lot of intrigue and action, plus a little magic (mostly in the 2nd and 3rd books) and a very realistic and human cast of characters
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December 14th, 2004, 10:45 PM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
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Have you ever tried finding an entire English speaking cast of Asian appearance lol I'm sure it's quite hard
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No, it isn't. Especially not in California...
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Seriously though she shouldn't have sold it to them if she was going to whine later, get over it, they made a good story IMHO and I'll look at that and the book as two serperate stories that are both good (if Earthsea the books are any good).
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December 14th, 2004, 11:09 PM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
I don't think it's that corny I like it as I said. But aw well to each his own of course.
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"If men build things to look like our penis such as towers and ships does that mean female achitects represent women having penis envy?"
A line that made me chuckle, I can't remember where I heard it I just know it made me laugh.
"I'm not really a slapper....I mainly punch and gouge."
Tammy Lee my kung fu instructor/sifu's daughter when asked if she ever slapped a boy for saying something nasty to her.
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December 15th, 2004, 12:03 AM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
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Have you ever tried finding an entire English speaking cast of Asian appearance lol I'm sure it's quite hard
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No, it isn't. Especially not in California...
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Heh, same in southern BC...
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December 15th, 2004, 02:38 AM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
The dragon has a lisp. A lisp. *shakes head*
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December 15th, 2004, 02:49 AM
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Well he HAS a forked tounge
Besides nothing wrong with a dragon with a lisp, I have a lisp and I think it's cool a being as cool as a dragon could have one.
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"If men build things to look like our penis such as towers and ships does that mean female achitects represent women having penis envy?"
A line that made me chuckle, I can't remember where I heard it I just know it made me laugh.
"I'm not really a slapper....I mainly punch and gouge."
Tammy Lee my kung fu instructor/sifu's daughter when asked if she ever slapped a boy for saying something nasty to her.
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December 15th, 2004, 02:51 AM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
It epitomizes the butchery...
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December 15th, 2004, 06:27 AM
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Re: Legend of Earthsea == Atrocity
Never read LoE.
My dad thinks it's cruel that the word 'lisp' has an 's' in it.
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