The funny part is, the source texts are basically a "How to Confound Hollywood" manual, you know? Hero is black, as are almost all the supporting characters. (The only white people are barbarian invaders, and one guy in the third novel.) Major actions -- Ged becoming a dragonlord, e.g. -- happen between one novel and the next, and are never flashed back to. The climax of the first book is the hero's surrender. Ged goes on a quest and meets a pretty girl, and takes her home with him, and she ends up... becoming an obscure farm-wife to somebody not named Ged.

I'm secure in the knowledge that even the faithfullest filmmaker would have huge difficulty making a good film out of the novels, so knowing that unfaithful filmmakers are making a bad film out of it -- I don't feel the need to care.

I'm secure in the knowledge that even the faithfullest filmmaker would have huge difficulty making a good film out of the novels, so knowing that unfaithful filmmakers are making a bad film out of it -- I don't feel the need to care.

Which is a very healthy attitude about it all.

I still think I'll have to stock up on single-malt to survive this.

I'll have to go looking for leftover Krell machinery so my antipathy for Kristin Kreuk can take on lethal physical form after I see the adaptation.

Well, you've heard of LeGuin, I assume, yeah?

Heard of? Yes. Real familiarity with her work? Not so much. So, I'm saying... surprised. You know, I go through life, I think I know a lot of shit, yet I learn, time and again, not really. Fortunately, I'm OK with that.

I've been reading danvers' recaps of post-hiatus Atlantis, and ... she doesn't hate Teyla. She sees Sheppard/Weir.

She's also really excited about Sheppard/McKay, so she's not nuts or anything -- she gets pretty funny.

But it's so weird (and an odd sort of betrayal from SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW) to be bopping along totally in the groove, and lo! She doesn't hate on Teyla when it's the only right thinking thing to do.

She sees Sheppard/Weir.

I am not alone, then. Excellent. Going to read her recaps. Not understanding the liking Teyla. Except, of course, I've only seen ep 11, as I've just whined about.

Sheppard/Weir isn't more wrong than Sam/Daniel -- it's just more ... dude, did you see him with McKay??? Or McKay with her, all told.

But it all pales in the face of not hating Teyla.

But it all pales in the face of not hating Teyla.

I'm saying. Well, you're saying. I'm agreeing.

I dont' know why, I just find Shep/Weir endearing. In the Sheppard to Weir direction, specifically. It's weird.

And from the recap of ep 11:

Kolya? You idiot! Have you seen Shep's hair?

Heh. Although, to be fair, at that point, I don't think he had, actually.

Teyla. Dude. She's just... god, she's like wonder bread. There's no there, there. No sharp edges, no anger, no nothing. Except hair that makes me want to cut off her head and hang it from the side of my chariot.

Except hair that makes me want to cut off her head and hang it from the side of my chariot.

I'd pay cash money to watch, sister.

I haven't really warmed to Ford yet, either. I don't actively dislike, I just don't get much of a feeling for him. No spark. At least the hair is OK. And he's pretty.