Joey, the lemur

[ebonlock]

Busy, busy, busy yesterday as I did the work of two people and still managed to get out of the office on time. Go me! Got home in time to throw some more laundry in the machine and get some serious stuff done on the computer. Even got my printer up and running, yay! Cleaned and puttered and got the two big Xmas cards I needed to send out ready to go all while watching the first hour of "Bell, Book and Candle", which I've decided is also going to be my Xmas film of choice this year.

I then switched over to see what desecration the Scifi channel had enacted upon poor Earthsea. Oh it was truly painful to watch. I felt so sorry for the author, who apparently wasn't involved in it in any way and was pretty appalled by the final product. Good for her, but still, ow. I did watch about an hour of it for the sole reason that in the first scene I tuned in for the evil king had a peg lemur. Not having read the books I have to ask, was a lemur actually featured in them? 'Cause they sure made the most of this one, generally when you saw the king you saw the lemur, he even took it into battle. I considered muting the thing and making up my own dialogue but just couldn't be bothered.

Watched two new episodes of Last Exile and I think it's going to finish up tonight. Poor Dio, that boy just isn't going to end well. I'm in the process of making up mood icons using screencaps of Dio because he is so cute. Of course I've nowhere to host them at the moment, but I got my Yahoo hosting account successfully terminated yesterday and renewed my domain so it can be hosted elsewhere. Soon I should have a new home for ebonlock.com. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Comments

[scar-let.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you're the Sci-Fi Channel, and you've got the Sci-Fi Channel's budget, and you paid for a lemur...you're gonna trot that thing out at every possible opportunity.

It will probably also be prominently featured in their next Dune movie.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

It will probably also be prominently featured in their next Dune movie.

Mmm, giant sand lemurs...

[scar-let.livejournal.com]

Mmm, lemur spice...that does some whacked out things to your brain, yo.

[eilonwey.livejournal.com]

It was appalliig - thanks for posting the link to the LeGuin website. About five - ten minutes in, I realized that the miniseries wasn't going to have anything whatsoever to do with my beloved childhood books, and went into heckling mode. I particularly love how Ged uses his fog spell when the enemy is already on top of the village. (Whoops - can't see you in all this stage fog. No, really. Even though I should have bumped into you by now. Or this cliff that's in bright sunlight and doesn't have any fog around it.) Or how about the bright, perky temple with lots of cute little kids running around? Kind of different from Tombs of Atuan, ain't it?

Sigh. I admit that I had some problems with LOTR, but this is a whole new level of disrespect to the original author.

Sorry, just had to rant.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sorry, just had to rant.

No problem...but dude, what about the lemur?

[shadowchaser44.livejournal.com]

I didn't see it, but my guess is they wanted to bring in the huge lemur audience that wouldn't otherwise have bothered watching. You know the lemur demographic is crucial to the ratings!

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Keep your fingers crossed for me.

No, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for ME. I need that fic!

This moment of complete selfishness brought to you by: Raven with a fixed connection.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

No, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for ME. I need that fic!

This moment of complete selfishness brought to you by: Raven with a fixed connection.

Of course this does give me the perfect excuse to finally update the Cupid archive like I've been meaning to for years. It really shows its age I'm afraid and I'd like to make it look more like the rest of my site. Should probably dust off the old Joxerotica stuff as well...

[tyee.livejournal.com]

Not only was there no lemur in the books, but there was also NO EVIL KING. I mean, there was mentioned once or twice that somewhere in the same continent is a king of a Kargish lands, but at no point does he appear in the books. And he sure as hell is not boinking Kossil in the books. I think in making the miniseries, they started with some character names, mixed Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings together, and then threw in a dash of gratuitous horizontal tango for good measure. Good lord was it ever awful (and not just because it differed from the books).