SciFi winter season

[42]

So I've been watching Stargate SG-1 and Alantis on SciFi and I'm finding I'm kind of looking forward to winter season. Mini-series that are coming out:

Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars (October)
Earthsea (December)
Battlestar Galatica (January)

I'm hoping the Peacekeper wars will give dome resolution to Farscape. They have the old cast coming back.

Earthsea has the hot chick from Smallville.

Battlestar Galactica didn't excite me until I saw the trailer. Now it looks cool.

[Nicadymus]

Is this the original Battlestar Galactica, or the remake?  I haven't seen the preview yet.

[42]

It's a mini-series based on the original. So it's a remake, but not a full-series like the original.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

everything I read, from SF.com itself, has made me afraid of the SciFi miniseries of BG

[Nicadymus]

I watched only one episode of what I think was the remake, and it was nothing like the original.  I wasn't very impressed with the remake, but then again you are talking about a guy who owns the original on DVD.  My opinion may be a little biased.

[Spriggan]

Ya the BG remake looks horrible.  They've changed everything that make the original so good, and basicaly turned it into a mindless action flick.

[Slant]

The only one I am waiting for is the Farscape special.  I hope it makes SciFi reconsider their decision to put the lid on Farscape.

[42]

Okay, my excitement for the BG mini-series has been crushed.

I'm still excited about Earthsea. I liked the books when I was a kid, so I'm curious as to how the mini-series will portray them.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

did the first Earthsea book even HAVE a girl in it?

I think I read the next couple books after that, but not the more recent award-winning book...

[42]

the Earthsea mini-series is covering the first couple of books.

[stacer]

So have any of you seen previews for the Earthsea show yet? I've been following it because of this project I'm working on. Ursula Le Guin has posted a vehement objection to it on her site. (You have to scroll down a little.) Apparently they didn't consult her at all, and she feels they've pretty much negated the whole meaning of the books.

[Skar]

I hope no one, least of all Ursula, is surprised at that.  Look at what the TV jackals did with Dune when they made the Mini-series.

(Gag, fall over, claw at throat, weep uncontrollably) http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=40

[stacer]

I don't think she's surprised at that, and I'm certainly not; I think she's ticked off that the director felt he could put words in her mouth ("Miss Le Guin intended such-and-such").

[Rican]

I don't known anything about the books, but if it's her book and she no say in the film then can't she sue or try to do something.  Or did she take some money form who ever made the film

[stacer]

Film rights are pretty complicated. Usually the options are give up control, or no movie. And when you sign those rights away, you really don't know who is going to do it or even if it's going to be done--it's just an option to produce it sometime. Relatively few authors have any kind of weight to throw around when it comes to that. I only know of a handful that had any say: Cornelia Funke, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and Louis Sachar (the author of Holes, who I believe was also a screenwriter in some part of his life).