treasure in and garbage out . this can hardly be call an adaptation of the novel and a the miniseries have almost nothing in common with the book except a few not all of the name . the story have not be change and but discard and and a hackneyed sword and sorcery epic put in it stead . ged solitary search for understanding be replace by a buddy flick and with vetch now provide comic relief . in a curiously inconsistent approach to political correctness and woman be introduce to roke and but the black character be play by white actor and with only one notable exception . ( yes and ged and vetch and jasper and nemmerle excuse me and archmagus be all black in the book . ) heck and even the shadow isn not a shadow anymore . any resemblance to the book be strictly for market appeal . a a movie or miniseries and it fail . the dialogue be laughable and the act generally wooden and the special effect not up to the grand effect desire . this would be lotr or harry potter come across more a dungeon and dragon . glover mail in his line and ashmore fails to achieve the depth of character necessary to make the audience feel the change before and after the incident on roke knoll and calvert turn kossil into another tiresome scheming vixen while roche at least have fun with the only role with no counterpart in the novel and and he ham it up royally . it simply amaze that the script ever get greenlighted .