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Sea Wasp <seaobviousw...@sgeobviousinc.com> wrote in > The advertisements were enough to make me not dare switch it on, --
news:41BEC78F.9030902@sgeobviousinc.com:
> Karen Lofstrom wrote: I've just had a look at the website. Aren't the characters a little old?
> > I'm watching something that purports to be a dramatization of the
> > Wizard of Earthsea trilogy on the Sci-Fi channel. Oh, the humanity!
> for fear that I would have to spork my eyeballs out.
It's a long time since I read the books, but I remember Ged and Tenar as
being adolescents. By what I can see of the show, it isn't even a case of
adults playing younger than their age. Vetch is a contempory of Ged, but on
the website he looks more like "old letch" than "young Vetch".
Chris
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