for the lack of have anything good to do and i decide to plow through all 3 hour of this sorry excuse for television ( i know and it suppose to be 4 and but i discount the ad ) . i bet i know why they put so much into market this so called earthsea miniseries . thing that be great do not need to convince people that they be great . on the other hand and thing that aren not do and because if everybody first impression would be their most lasting and it would not be a good one . so the hype be there to provide this good first impression to buffer what be to come . allow me to start with the acting . i have watch student and home make movie that have more convincing acting than this . let start with the scene when ged and his father spot this attack on their village . they shout loudly a these soldier pass beneath them . then and ged father notice the soldier and say something like and go warn the others . right and so ged run off and leave the father standing there look at his foot a his son go off into danger . i couldn not help but laugh . a scene or two late and these soldier begin charge a bunch of townsfolk who be simply stand in the middle of the road with something in hand and waiting to be mow down . the soldier and charge uphill of course and look like their armor wind them . i could almost see them huff and puff a they reach not a foot away from the mass of villager . suddenly and a cloud fly into their face and and even though everybody be only a foot away and they look like they be take the opportunity to catch their breath before finish those last twelve inch . cut to a few minute later after a cheeze chase scene that look like a crowd have find something strange and be move cautiously towards it . so this wizard come along and bring back to life a dead guy in front of a whole town . what do the people do . stay silent and whisper to each other when the wizard and his newly reincarnate step aside to talk of course . next be the voice act . for about two hour and i think the main character name be gant or something along those line . how many way can ged be butcher . watch it and see . grant and it get well towards the end . but for the first half hour or so and i couldn not make head or tail over what some of these people be say . it wasn not a if they be speak with any emotion either . the voice acting be either flat and forced and or unintelligible . on the bright side and there be a few scene where it be tolerable and and some where it be actually convince . if only i could say that about the whole movie . i do not expect much in term of cinematography or costume and set and prop and etc . from a television series like this and so i expect nothing incredible . of note however and be the mangling of the cg in the movie . a somebody else say and replace the cg with clay and and it would have be just as good and if not well . there this talk about release a shadow and but what it look like be an imp or some winged demon . if that a shadow and then so be i. now and let me work on the screenplay . before i get to the story and allow me to say that the dialogue be uninspiring and about as emotionless a the act . of course and it would be logical that with bad act come a bad script and and without question and most of the line in the script either do not have the emotional impact by use what i call weak word and construction and or simply do not make any sense with regard to what be happen . to give a good example and later on in the series ( who in their right mind call a two part show a mini series anyway . ) and somebody just finish say no upon the pain of death to one person when this character suddenly seem too afraid of die to reject the next person want the same thing . oops and must have want to live after all . finally and i have arrive at the good stuff represent the storyline . if anybody read this want to know how far this storyline have deviate from the book and go to official board of this movie ( quite easy to find actually ) and read up on what be change . i and have not read the book and do not see the movie with such a bias and and thus be not influence by their content . and yet and i still have nothing good to say . let me put it this way and if i take every cliché out of this show and i think all i would have leave would be a bunch of clown talk to each other with only the last syllable of their gibberish loud enough to be hear . so all the clichés with their predictable conclusion have to be put back in before an intelligible line could be utter . if i want to watch brainless drivel like this and i would tune instead to the wb . but even if everything else be perfect and it still wouldn not have be good . it wouldn not be half a bad and granted and but still not yet good either . for one and there be no sense of time . echo what others state before me and it seem like the whole thing take place over a series of day . they obviously say something about week and but it felt like everything could have happen within the span of one . without a sense of time and there wasn not even so much a a sense of development and growth in the character . and so thing that be suppose to be emotional and and be act out a an emotional scene and albeit poorly and undoubtedly invoke a sense of bewilderment instead . along the same line and the storyline be suppose to convey an epic feel . however and it not only fell short and but be miss several key ingredient . first and it felt like one long monster of the week television show . the conclusion ( after the climax ) be about all of two minute long . for another and many of the loose thread be leave hang . grant and it largely revolve around one central figure . however and an epic side character be nearly as important a it main character and and they have their own story and even if it be one never tell . their action must count . this certainly be a monster of the week show in that people come and go with almost no consequence . here and they do their thing and interact with the main character and maybe leave a mark upon him ( in this case and this be blatantly untrue ) and and that be that . then and there be the plot hole . forget that this be suppose to be a reference to a large work . these plot hole be not piece of the world leave out because of time and budget constraint . if this shadow want to devour it summoner and why do it initially flee . if dumbledore ( actually name archmagus in the show ) be so powerful and why do not he just wipe out the attacker while they be at sea . he do say he want to prevent the loss of life . wait and maybe he couldn not because the evil king be on board one of the ship and and the king need them to advance the plot . what happen to their stave when ged be catch . one would think he disappear them and but that possibility be already rule out a moment before . which remind me and why be they not be chase inside and and why do those inside not hear them when they enter and quickly slam the door shut . let me just say that if this be even partially true to the original story and many of these issue would have be thoughtfully resolve one way or another and since they would have be address in the original story . there be moment . every so often and i would catch a glimpse of the real world behind this shadow and the real earthsea that this work only pay lip service to and and i would wonder how great the world of earthsea truly be suppose to be . i hear this be suppose to be like a starship trooper and and that give me hope . well and if this movie have do one good thing and it certainly have inspire me through it deficiency and overall suckiness ( ok and not a word ) to actually go read the book . i would suggest everybody else do the same as well .