Editing The Earthsea Cycle (section)

==Film and Television==
Now, some more lazy fa/tg/uys and/or ca/tg/irls may not want to read the 860 collective pages of the main series, and may probably go looking for something much more easy to consume. A quick google search of "Earthsea film" will yield two results; The sci-fi channel's "Earthsea" mini-series and studio ghibli's "Tales from Earthsea".<br>
The unfortunate result from watching these two would likely be an unwillingness to investigate the books from which they came, and as such, '''watching either of these is unadvised'''.

The Sci-fi channel original mini-series is everything you would expect. A poorly produced, cheesily executed, and just plain [[Heresy|bad]] [[skub|skubfest]] that managed to turn the author, sweet old Ursula, into an [[Angry Marine]] due to how bad it was. There are many ways that this adaptation rapes the source material, from the hasty salad-toss story that mixes book one and two together, the terrible acting, cinematography and over-abundance of stock sounds but the biggest and most horrendous offence is how it turns the ethnically diverse and unique setting of Earthsea into some generic, Tolkienesque medieval world, something that, you know, the books were trying to AVOID!!!

The much less offensive of the two is the studio ghibli made "Tales from Earthsea" made by the one and only Miyazaki...Goro Miyazaki, that is...Hayao's son. While the name may lead you into thinking it's an adaptation of the short-story collection, don't be fooled, because the main chunk of its story comes from "The Farthest Shore", with a bit of "Tehanu" mixed in...and book one...and book two...yeah. It's kind of a mess.<br>
At least, unlike the mini-series it gets the setting and tone right enough, even if there's a bit of ghibli weirdness thrown in. Its biggest problem, however, is that it's just not that entertaining of a movie. To top it all off, it's also clearly not their best animated film, with the animation having a reasonably low frame-rate at times and a noticeable lack of detail compared to their other films.

If you absolutely have to, though, as in you're dyselxic and also deaf rendering you physically unable to read the books or listen to the audiobooks, the Ghibli version is the "best" way to go, but not even [[Awesome|Willem Motherfucking Dafoe]] and Timothy [[skub|"the best bond"]] Dalton could make this one a worthy substitute for the original.

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