Great interview

[firecat]

I've been casually following reviews of the Sci Fi Channel's "Earthsea" miniseries, and this led me to the following marvelous interview - actually an online Q&A - with Ursula K. Le Guin in the UK Guardian. It only briefly mentions the "Earthsea" miniseries because it was done in February.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1144428,00.html

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

This is so at odds with my sense of LeGuin, whom I probably know well enough to call "Ursula," but I always feel uncomfortable doing so. I find her to be completely polite, pleasant, thoughtful, and straightforward. Are you really saying that she's unpleasant or that you disagree with her on a couple of crucial points (like the TV issue)?

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Neither. I'm saying precisely what I said, which is that from these interviews I've been reading, she *seems* like an unpleasant person. That impression is based on other people I have known who behave in similar ways and have been decidedly unpleasant people. I could be wrong, of course; I'm just saying how she comes across to me.

On the TV issue, by the way, it's less about me disagreeing with her and more about me perceiving that she's being ignorant and snobbish. If someone says: "I've watched all of the shows on television these days and all of them sucked," then we disagree, and that's fine. If someone says something demonstrably false about television, such as what she said in this interview, then that disappoints me and makes me think less of them. I don't really watch television myself, and I only pick up DVDs based on others' recommendations, but I would know better than pass judgment on the entire genre based on my meager experiences.

-J