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ow excited I was to open yesterday's [newsletter] and see that there was to be a production of Earthsea on—and to look up and see that it started in 15 minutes! Off to the den to turn on the television for the first time in months with something I actually wanted to see.
What a huge, wasted disappointment, again. And again the next night for the second episode. It just isn't worthwhile turning on the TV anymore at all—a deeply involving tale I have loved reading repeatedly has been turned into a slash-and-fight [flick] over the power to rule a simple and beautiful country (world, actually) by power-mad conniving warriors who fail to appreciate something better left the way it was, with intrigue and poisoning and a near-total lack of magic and wonder—with the exception of a few who think their local boy is crazy to want to become like those wandering weirdos, whom they respect without appreciation.
It seems the producers sought out some kind of lowest common denominator of a subplot to make their little drama and steal a title from a quality classic, to sell advertising to stupid tube drones, as usual.
I shall not go on, as it is beneath the effort of describing how poor and low it is, with the exceptions only of some talented actors, new and old, wasting their efforts trying to make this worth the time and a $2 VHS tape, only to disappoint us again.
I shall go back to my books and reread it to refresh my sense of literature, and remind myself to not bother to turn on the TV in search of inspiration and wonder, nothing the
