Worked on US edits after the second half of the very, very bad Earthsea miniseries. It didn’t get any better, although Shawn Ashmore and what’s her face the cutie from Smallville (Kristin Krunk?) worked well together. I watched the show mostly to see if Ashmore (who played Bobby in the X movies) could act, but the writing was so bad you couldn’t tell that Danny Glover and Isabella Rossalini could act, for God’s sake.
Found some very frustrating errors in US that I thought I’d caught on the last edit pass, and one that hadn’t crossed my mind at all but needed to be dealt with. I’ve got about 7 chapters left to do, so I expect I’ll do those in the morning and fax them back to NYC. Most of the alterations are mine, truth be told, not printer or editor errors. But man. I’m having a hard time not going cross-eyed and yelling, “It’s crap! It’s crap! It’s ALL CRAP! It doesn’t make sense! It doesn’t work! It’s CRAP!” It *does* make sense and it *does* work and it’s *not* crap…at least, I think it does and that it isn’t. Gah.
Going to bed now, before my brain fries any further.
I’ve read it. US is actively NOT crap. It wasn’t crap umpteen drafts ago when I saw it, so it certainly isn’t crap now.
It’s not crap! And it works and it makes sense and it’s not crap! And you’re amazing for being able to put such a personal part of yourself out in the world!
Carry on, carry on.
A note about Earthsea: Check out what Ursula had to say about it. http://www.slate.com/id/2111107
Oh, and it’s Kristen Kreuk.