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Scifi and Fantasy Forum: Television: Earth Sea - Scifi Channel
Earth Sea - Scifi Channel
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Posted By:  Nomad Dec 14, 2004 - 05:44 pm |       | An angry, headstrong youth, whose magical power could rival that of the greatest wizards....
A beautiful young priestess, introduced to evil....
A warrior king who wields words and weapons with equal force....
All on a world of islands and incantations, mystics and maidens, prophesies and power. All on a world called EARTHSEA.
The SCI FI Original Miniseries Legend of Earthsea will premiere as a two-night television event in December 2004. The four-hour coming-of-age fantasy stars Shawn Ashmore as the young mage-in-training Ged; Kristin Kreuk as the priestess Tenar; Isabella Rossellini as High Priestess Thar; and Danny Glover as the master wizard Ogion. Produced by Hallmark Entertainment in association with Bender-Brown Productions, Legend of Earthsea is written by Gavin Scott (The Mists of Avalon) for executive producers Robert Halmi, Sr. (Merlin, Gulliver's Travels, Animal Farm), Lawrence Bender (Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction) and Kevin Kelly Brown (Roswell).
Adapted from the award-winning Earthsea novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, this epic fantasy follows the tale of a reckless youth destined to become the greatest sorcerer that the mystical world of Earthsea has ever known. When the difficult and rebellious Ged discovers the extent of his magical powers, he seeks to master the ancient arts — and his own impulses as well. As he journeys to manhood, he will combat dragons, fall in love, cross death's threshold and ultimately wield the power to reunite a planet.
Frequently mentioned in the company of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth and C.S. Lewis's Narnia, Earthsea is thought to be one of the great fantasy creations. Le Guin, beloved by readers of all ages, has received accolades including five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards and the National Book Award. The Earthsea books have been translated into 16 languages, with millions of copies in print.
| Posted By: Nomad Dec 14, 2004 - 05:54 pm | | All I can say so far is that it obviously skipped a lot to get it in within 2 hours. It is going WAY too fast. I assume the book(s) are MUCH more detailed. Otherwisw, like waht I see/
| Posted By: Magus Dec 14, 2004 - 06:00 pm | | I couldn't get it taped last night!!! And then when I came to tape it tonight I was too late for the first part of it. They're bound to repeat it soon, I'll just tape/watch it then.
| Posted By: Sindatur Dec 16, 2004 - 06:13 am | | I belive it's repeated Sunday. Nommy, it's actually a two parter, so 4 hours.
i tried to read the book i think it was last year, but i was distracted by the lord of the rings and then when i went back to the library to check it back out, they yelled at me for holding their books hostage (my sisters used my card and "forgot" to return their books. for 8 months!grrr...) well anyway, i saw the fist part and half of the second,(they're rerunning the second part tonight at seven, i believe) and i loved it. yeah, some of the acting was pretty meh, and that jasper guy had a dissappearing brittish accent, but all things considered, i was pretty impressed. the special effects were awesome, and shawn ashmore...don't get me started!  good story too, except they sent ged to hogwarts!!!! and dumbledore was there!!!! lol it was pretty reminiscent of HP (or harry potter is reminiscent of it, since the book was written in the 60s...)but short story very very long, i liked it a lot.
| Posted By: Magus Dec 16, 2004 - 02:06 pm | | Yeah, I heard Sunday as well. I'll be sure to set the VCR for then. I'd hate to miss it a second time!
It's kind of like what Entertainment Weekly said this week in the What to Watch section of the magazine.
It does look good. But it really doesn't matter what it is, just so long as it fills the vacant Lord of the Rings gap.
they reran the second part last night, and i thought the end was pretty predictable, but other than that, it was excellent in the capacity of filling the lotr gap, as magus so eloquently put it and i was happy because it killed the two hours before The Breakfast Club came on. i was a happy camper
(p.s.: they're showing the entire miniseries (earthsea, not the breakfast club)on sunday at 8)
| Posted By: Sindatur Dec 17, 2004 - 12:53 pm | | Well apparently Usula K. Leguin wasn't impressed.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-12/17/11.00.books
| Posted By: Magus Dec 17, 2004 - 01:35 pm | | Well, ~*FallenFaerie*~, those were Nisha Gopalan's words, not exactly my own. I guess you could say that's me paraphrasing her, but no more.
My sister's coming home today! I'm sure she'd love to see this, even more then me. She's practically a Tolkienian scholar, and loves Sci-Fi/Fantasy as much as I do.
| Posted By: ZimNova Dec 17, 2004 - 05:26 pm | | Me I skipped it since I'm not into the S&S scene.
I tried to watch the LotR second movie but lost interest when the obvious CGI "Gollum" showed up and it was so irritating I never finished the film (vary rare indeed for me).
I read the books back in the 60's and being in my head the movie, at least the second one, did not fit that vision. Oh well.
Now I'm not saying the trilogy of adapted films are bad, I'm just saying they didn't work for me and I still cannot understand all the hoopla over them.
One further comment. The parts I did watch were beautifuly filmed on location in New Zealand, the cast looked wonderful, the sets were outstanding as were the costumes but as stated, Gollum turned me away from the film.
Maybe it's just me but I have an aversion to "blockbuster" movies most times.
I've never watched any of the comic book adaptations, Spiderman et al because they to me are too "common".
Want to watch something different this Sat. night then rent *The Saddest Music in the World", a Canadian film produced by Atom Egoyan, Directed by Guy Maddin and starring Isabella Rossellini whom also played High Priestess Thar in EarthSea.
It will renew your faith that great films can be made outside of the Hollywierd machine!
ZimNova
| Posted By: Nomad Dec 17, 2004 - 07:10 pm | | You are a rare breed, indeem Zim. I have always thought that of you and your...er...views on Scifi. You have a very sofisticated view on scifi that I have an apprecdiation for.
Though, I stilll love a good , mindless, wicked "B" episode of the original Flash Gordon. Of that holds no candle to the sofisticated 5 year Science Fiction Soap Opera called Babylon 5. Hmmm..Maybe Farscape the exception.
| Posted By: Nomad Dec 17, 2004 - 07:13 pm | | Geez..I got off track...
Earth sea, it was fun to watch and definately filled in a GAP of missing Scifi/Fantasy . I enjoyed it and it had great effects.
Waiting to see how well they can do Battlestar Galactica. After all, it is a complete reqrite of what we saw in the campy,, yet fun to watch version.b
| Posted By: Magus Dec 18, 2004 - 07:06 am | | You didn't like The Lord of the Rings movies?
I just watched the extended version of Return of the King. Man! I don't know what they were smoking when they made that avalanche sequence! Other then that, more awsome then it was before, but still missing The Scourging of the Shire.
I read the books before I saw the movies. I must say that (exempting Sauromon of Many Colors, Faramir in TTT, Gimli used more as a comic relief, that one avalanche sequence and The Scourging of the Shire) it was true in every way to the book, except maybe those elves at Helms Deep, but that one kind of worked and wasn't so bad. The acting was brilliant, as was the adapting and directing and the music and the whole shebang, at least that's my opinion.
Gollum obviously CGI? He was state of the art, actor guided, animatronics. He was as life-like as I think they could have made him.
Oh, well. To each his own, I suppose.
I felt it was a little too fast too. It had a good quality behind it but way too rushed. I would like to see it again though...
| Posted By: Magus Dec 20, 2004 - 09:44 am | | Son of a Biscuit! I missed it again!
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