View From the Bushes

Short on time, so I only have time for one brief topic: The Wizard of Earthsea miniseries the SciFi network just did. I had a co-worker tape it for me and when I arrived this morning the tapes were waiting for me on my desk. One other thing was waiting for me, an article by Ursula Le Guin on how the SciFi Channel had wrecked her books. I was very interested in what she had to say, but after reading it I was kind of unimpressed. Her central argument was that they didn't get the racial make-up right. Well one could argue that they didn't get the racial make-up correct in The Magnificent Seven either, but that didn't keep it from being a great movie.

I guess one of the problems I had was that I had never paid much attention to the skin color of the characters in the book. So I'm far more interested in plot elements that were changed or events that were re-ordered, than I am in whether Ged was too white. And isn't not paying attention to skin color precisely what I'm suppossed to be doing? I'm so confused...

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