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Aurora Celeste ([info]auroraceleste) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2004-12-14 15:32:00
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EarthSea Wank
SciFi channel debued it's new EarthSea miniseries last night.

The Author, Urusla K. Le Guin, Is less than pleased and posts wank on her website.

Bonus: IMDB has a few semi-wanky threads, too.
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[info]phosfate
2004-12-14 10:44 pm UTC (link)
I'm not entirely sure that dislike of the adaptation = wank.

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[info]setsunastar
2004-12-14 10:47 pm UTC (link)
I don't think Ursula Le Guin's actually being particularly wanky... she's clearly annoyed, but she states it pretty plainly without recourse to name-calling, and the thing she seems most annoyed about is not that they've made changes, but that they've implied that they didn't.

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[info]selene_avis
2004-12-14 11:05 pm UTC (link)
::Snerk.::

When I read the Earthsea books, I fell in love with them. After reading this wank, I shall now fangirl the author as well.

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[info]auguris
2004-12-14 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Being less than pleased with the SciFi EarthSea miniseries isn't wanky, it's common sense.

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[info]alpheratz
2004-12-14 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Clearly I need to get around to reading these books.

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[info]nevadafighter
2004-12-14 11:28 pm UTC (link)
If she's being wanky, then I'm an overweight fifty year-old man.

*looks down* Well, maybe not the fifty or man part . . .

Wank = non.

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[info]deoridhe
2004-12-14 11:36 pm UTC (link)
That woman has a way with words, doesn't she?

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[info]chaimonkey
2004-12-14 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Well, since she's not being wanky, allow me: the miniseries sucks. Terribly. It sucks big, fat, undouched ass after a particularly bad bout of the stomach flu. Quoth my da: "I don't care about the book. That was the worst acting I've ever seen!" And as a book fan m'self, I'm appalled that they actually put money into a script so far off the mark.

Tissues, anyone?

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(Anonymous)
2004-12-15 12:43 am UTC (link)
Ursula is NOT wanky. She's annoyed that someone claims that she envisioned something she clearly did not.

Please, guys, stop posting things as a wank that you just disagree with. Wank means a complete utter bitchfest. Not dislike of a movie, or criticism.

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[info]octavia
2004-12-15 01:19 am UTC (link)
I haven't read the Earthsea saga, but I think I love her.

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(no subject) - [info]mistressrenet, 2004-12-15 04:08 am UTC
It's a refreshing anti-wank!
(Anonymous)
2004-12-15 01:19 am UTC (link)
My opinion of Ms. Le Guin just rebounded about 300%. You go, girlfriend.

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[info]janegraddell
2004-12-15 01:31 am UTC (link)
Read Ms. LeGuin's message earlier and immediately fangirled her all over again.

I meant to watch the Earthsea series, even considering the Sci-Fi Channel's record with book adaptions (horses on Riverworld?! WTF?!), but now I'm kinda not so sad I forgot. I'm gonna go read The Tombs of Atuan again.

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Tomb of Atuan = not worth the pain - (Anonymous), 2004-12-15 01:44 pm UTC
Re: Tomb of Atuan = not worth the pain - [info]selene_avis, 2004-12-15 10:56 pm UTC
Re: Tomb of Atuan = not worth the pain - [info]starherd, 2004-12-16 01:35 am UTC
Re: Tomb of Atuan = not worth the pain - [info]selene_avis, 2004-12-16 04:34 am UTC
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[info]smo
2004-12-15 01:33 am UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHA PWNED!

*resolves to reread all of her parent's Ursula LeGuin books over Xmas break*

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[info]texta
2004-12-15 01:45 am UTC (link)
Ms Le Guin rocks.

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[info]bastet
2004-12-15 02:13 am UTC (link)
If only poor Phillip Pullman would jump on that bandwagon. Though granted, the movies of his books haven't been made yet.

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[info]rawles
2004-12-15 02:27 am UTC (link)
I read this yesterday and fangirled Ms. Le Guin. Her books were already on my To Read list, but if they weren't they certainly would be after this.

And I must agree that it's not wank. No one should have to suffer through Kristen Kruek starring in an adaptation of their work. As soon as I saw her on the cast list I knew it would suck.

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[info]jamac
2004-12-15 02:57 am UTC (link)
Maybe the wank is in how shite that miniseries is?

*fangirls earthsea books*

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[info]diane_duane
2004-12-15 03:00 am UTC (link)
I'd say UKL (bows before the much-admired mentor) has reason to be cranky.

But her note confirms many things that until now (only having been reading the trades on the subject) I'd suspected about this production. I am now more determined than ever that no one is getting their hands on the YW universe without first giving me script veto, guaranteed first and second drafts, and executive producer status. Period. (And thank heaven I now have sufficient screen credential to swing this. [Just.])

(sigh) Meanwhile, I feel for the Elder Sister. My sweet Goddess, what terrible reviews that thing has been getting. Argh. Argh. (headclutch)

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[info]pipssister
2004-12-15 04:08 am UTC (link)
Too calm and reasonable and lacking in crazy. Not wank! Not good enough! F Minus Minus.

[/Strong Bad]

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(Anonymous)
2004-12-15 04:10 am UTC (link)
...and yet another reason I'll never bother to read those books...

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[info]serai
2004-12-15 04:30 am UTC (link)
I can't see what LeGuin says as being wank. She's absolutely right to be pissed off, and says so in a calm, reasoned manner. It's her website, she's the author, etc. Where's the wank here?

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[info]sideofzen
2004-12-15 06:00 am UTC (link)
That's two posts in a row that weren't wanky. Where is our wank?

*sends out the monkeys*

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[info]adora_spintriae
2004-12-15 06:15 am UTC (link)
I think this is wanky, simply because every single fucking forum I go to is bullshitting on about how bad it is. From the atheists to the perverts to the anime fans.

What'd they expect? Fucking Shakespeare?

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[info]troglodyke
2004-12-15 10:45 am UTC (link)
Yay for Ursula K LeGuin.
And yay for all [info]fandom_wank for agreeing with her.

!!! *happy*

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[info]erototoxin
2004-12-15 11:07 am UTC (link)
If anyone wants me, I'll be building a shrine to UKL in my basement with popsicle sticks.

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