Le Guin Strikes Back

[truepenny]

Ursula K. Le Guin has things to say about the SciFi Channel's Legend of Earthsea miniseries, and in particular about race.

[ETA: ide_cyan has pointed me to the first, longer version of the article, Earthsea in Clorox. I recommend it even more highly than the Slate version.]

Which I find particularly, I don't know, comforting? gratifying? Because, as Mirrorthaw and heres_luck can attest, I didn't really flip out about what SciFi was doing until I saw who they had cast as Ged.

(Le Guin also has some scathing things to say here, about the way the producers tried to appropriate her approval without having given her any kind of voice in their decision-making.)

Many things about this debacle pain me. But I'm glad Le Guin is speaking her mind. And in so doing, is speaking for those of us who love the books.

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

That's a splendid notion!