Earthsea Review: Earthsea. I can't review this miniseries as an independent example of fantasy film-making. I am a huge fan of the books and can only judge it by how well it does as a cinematic adaptation.It fails miserably.It's not just that the writers fail to get anything right beyond the names, and sometimes not even that:- "Ged" is the wizard's secret name, "Sparrowhawk" is his commonly used one- Ged and the other Archipelagans are aboriginal peoples (LeGuin says they are like the Inuit), not white- There are no girls at the school ... Read more »
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