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Now, I'm not really part of this fandom (yet). I've only watched the first disk of season 1 and although I enjoyed it and plan to watch more I'm not camped out at the library waiting for the next disk to come in either. I was familiar enough with it that when my friends mentioned the new Avatar movie at dinner a few months ago I thought for a couple of confused minutes that they were talking about the Airbender movie not the James Cameron thing.

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A while back fans of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series got a slap in the face from Scifi channel and there was a storm of outrage that even I, who don't get cable, and never got beyond the first book in the series heard about.

Well, I call it a storm but as storms go it was more a sudden thunderstorm with hail over in the next county than even a category one hurricane. In fact it was pretty limited to a small corner of fandom and was promptly forgotten by just about everyone else.

I haven't seen the miniseries they made but I haven't read one review that was kind to it. Everyone pretty much agrees that they took good written fantasy and created standard made for TV dreck out of it. They apparently didn't even bother keeping to the plot of the books and they made major changes in the characters.

One of which was taking the hero, Ged, and making him White.

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