Re:Earthsea
It only makes sense that the author would denounce the miniseires after it aired. It was pretty awful. On a sadgeezer.com scale, it gets a 00,003 out of 10. The supporting characters were reading their lines, the plot set up was hackneyed and predicatble, and so much of the story was derivative of other recent movies. It MIGHT have been original at the time of hte writing, but not in 2004. The plot ran like every other crap Sci Fi Channer MOW, with the same poor direction and special effects budget. I’m embarrrased to say that I watched both parts, and considered (a few months ago) to make a section on the site for it.
Oh, and the Sci Fi Channel preview of its 2005 programming lineup, was pretty lame when compared with what it did for Taken, BSG and CoD.