Support NeoGAF

[SD-Ness]

I taped it, but haven't watched yet.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[tenchir]

I am watching it right now and it seems that they have taken "some" liberties with the story.

 

[GG-Duo]

Le Guin didn't have a hand in the production, and she doesn't like it.

 

[nitewulf]

damn, missed it? i thought it was supposed to be on sunday...

 

[fart]

kristin kreuk plays a le guin character??? WHA WHA??? want to touch

 

[Azih]

Well LeGuin went seriously loopy a few decades ago anyway. But still I'll be avoiding this one. Nothing more than a cheesy attempt to rip off the LOTR success methinks.

 

[Agent Dormer]

Not too bad, but there have been many a liberty taken with the story taken so far.

 

[tenchir]

Halfway through, very Harry Potterish for the Rouke school. There's a character who's a lot like Draco, and Ged is introduced to a Ron and Hermione-like characters...

 

[Particle Physicist]

havent read the books. so i cant compare.

it started out kinda slow. with some shitty action sequences.. but it really picked up by the end. looking forward to part 2 tomorrow night.

 

[Mejilan]

I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW FUCKING BAD THIS WAS.

For reference, I picked up all 6 Earthsea books about 2 weeks ago when I got really sick, and finished reading the last one Saturday night. I just finished watching part 2, and they should have called this Legend of Evisceration, because that's exactly what they did to the first two books. What a farce.

 

[fart]

guess i'll skip it. kristin kreuk though touch touch

 

[tedtropy]

guess i'll skip it. kristin kreuk though touch touch

Her average outfit in the series makes Smallville look like porno. Why bother, it's not worth enduring this tripe...

 

[fart]

yah like smallville isn't tripe

 

[tedtropy]

yah like smallville isn't tripe

Sometimes, yes, but dammit Kristen looks better in it.

 

[Amneziak]

Acting was flat, dialogue stilted. Danny Glover looked like he was barely awake. My wife wanted to see how it ended, though, so I won't see RotK EE until tonight.

 

[Xenon]

It wasn't that bad even though it had the atypical story line for the genre. I wish they would have stretched it out into 5 episodes. It seemed like that had to rush through everything, especially the ending. So the whole thing came off as a little superficial. If you lower your expectations it’s tolerable. Maybe I'm just hard up for some new fantasy.

I was a little annoyed that they felt a need for a 5 second preview before every commercial.

 

[Mejilan]

What they should have done is drop Book 2 and focused only on Book 1. Cramming both books into 4 hours was impossible. The ONLY reason they did it the way they did (IMHO) is because the first book had almost no major female characters.

They slaughtered Tenar's character so badly, I don't understand why they even included her.

Fuck me, the "Amulet" of Peace wasn't even supposed to be a fricken amulet. It's like they ignored EVERYTHING that makes the Earthsea series what it was.

There's a REASON why Roke has no women in it. They ignored that (which is a central issue within the main story arc of the 6 books) just to make Roke look kinda like Hogwartz (which they completely failed in doing, btw.)

And who the fuck was that tyrant supposed to be? He wasn't even IN the books. And Jaspar? He never even attained the rank of Magus, he merely became a Sorceror and left Roke. Here he betrays Roke? And Roke FALLS? A much more powerful man (a wizard with a fleet) attempted to take Roke when Roke was still an infant community, and he FAILED UTTERLY, to the point where Roke lost not one man (or woman), and only the wizard actually reached Roke then... only to lose all of his powers for the rest of his life.

What a fucking joke. Ugh. And, bright idea turning Yevaud into Orm Embar, and making Ged's "true name" in the common tongue.

They got EVERYTHING wrong in this mini series. Not a damn thing was right. Ugh.

 

[ManaByte]

Le Guin rips apart the mini-series.