Ohdearlord. I just saw last night's TDS, on which Isabella Rosselini made an appearance to plug "Earthsea". They showed a scene from the miniseries.

I'm going to need lots of alcohol for this, aren't I?

The scene looked like something from Harry Potter, with a "scroll of poisons" and two girls in schoolgirl jumpers and frocks standing before IR's desk, being scolded.

Brainbleach, please?

No! Like a British girls' school uniform?

Oh, yes. Brown jumpers over white blousey dresses. They looked and sounded like something out of Anne of Green Gables.

t flails helplessly Arha is Eaten. She wears black, and lives in a room with a cot and a table, and before she is fifteen she starves three trespassers to death. This is so far from Harry Potter. Argh!

Well, in cheerier news, I'm watching Atlantis 15, and the McKay Sheppard show is in full effect.

The episode itself is kinda whatever, though.

When are they airing on Scifi?

Starting January 21, I think.

Personally, I think that any editing that cuts out the cameo is injudicious.

Darn tootin'.

And I love the Sheppard McKay show, so yay for them.

I have zero familiarity with Earthsea. Sounds like I still will even if I watch the mini. Interesting.

I have zero familiarity with Earthsea. Sounds like I still will even if I watch the mini.

I expect so. I rather doubt they'll get into all the really interesting stuff, about the naming of names, the constraints on the use of magic, the importance of language, all the thousands of years of history behind the characters.

I'm really very nervous about this.

Jen, while the first two books are arguably for children, they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me. I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.

they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me.

In many ways, more so. What the protagonists do, in pride or ignorance, is far beyond any error Bilbo would ever make.