Advance notice from London on Spooks 310 (no spoilers):
The Holy Shit Quotient was 11 -- one louder -- even though I kinda sorta knew it was coming.
Those utter, utter bastards -- and I mean that as a compliment.
t bounce
I've been haunting the nova that is supr for a couple of days now. Is the torrent up?
I've been looking and I haven't seen it either, Suela.
Hmmm, they said his name, but they pronounced it correctly.
Also, what they're showing on tv resembles NOTHING I remember from the books.
(Watching
Earthsea
.)
(Watching Earthsea .)
So am I, god help my soul.
Approaching it as something with the same name, but really just another story.
It seems strangely like
Arthurian legend
to me. I think it's the
prophecy and the curse and the king. Why don't I remember a king
?
Sumi, because there isn't one. Well,
not in the Archipelago. There was a God-King in the Kargish lands, who was basically a priest who seized power from the ruling family.
It's Harry Potter of Earthsea.
It really is.
Also, Mrs. Minchin's School for Girls.
Stilted dialog, bad acting.
Why couldn't this have had a director that loved the original? You know? And who had an excellent gift for casting? Or an excellent casting director?