two third through last night show the first half of earthsea i mutter to my wife and this be so bad . she say and so tomorrow you will be at the computer type up your gripe to someone . i look at her indignantly and say something like and ah and why waste my time . of course and she be right and so here i be . an earthsea adaptation be long overdue while i be just so sad that it be do so shabbily and with such an eye ( apparently ) toward anticipate what the unimaginative mass would like to see and a oppose to the rich and subtle and mystical world that ursula le guin so beautifully create in her great earthsea novel . i do not have the heart ( or time ) to break the mini series down and bit by bit and to show what wrong with it . let just say that the screenwriter and producer and and director insist on reshape a great work of popular art into a cookie cutter shape and substitute clichés for subtlety and an epic ( read lord of the ring ) war story for what should have be a personal struggle with good or evil . bad and i suspect that in part ii and tonight and be all gon na see ged and whose little cheek scar only add to his overall hotness and smooch a princess ( the smallville babe ) . this thing be almost as bland a last month election . mr and ms. producer and either do le guin justice and tell the story right or do not bother .