Some consolation for stealthpup

It turns out there is some real entertainment value to be gotten from the SciFi "Legend of Earthsea".

No, not by actually watching it, but by reading reviews such as this from Matthew Gilbert in today's Boston Globe. (No registration required, but it will probably only up for a day or so.) Herewith a few choice excerpts:

The accents in Sci Fi's ''Legend of Earthsea" are a wondrous thing to behold. Our hero, a young wizard named Ged, has a blacksmith father who sounds like Mike Myers's Scottish Shop Owner reciting Chaucer while on barbiturates. He's a wee bit silly. And then Ged's first girlfriend is straight outta the WB's ''One Tree Hill," as is Ged, for that matter, except by way of Geppetto's workshop....

And those diverse accents are the only wondrous things in the two-part fantasy adventure, which premieres tonight at 9. Based on two novels by Ursula K. Le Guin, Sci Fi's ''Legend of Earthsea" is earthbound and altogether not worth seeing. It's the cheesiest adaptation of Le Guin you could imagine, rendering her stories into sword-and-sorcery cliches and little more than wannabe ''Harry Potter" and ''Lord of the Rings" tales.
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There are moments, particularly when Ged's father opens his mouth, when you may wonder how the actors go about stifling their giggles during the filming of a scene. Fortunately, we don't need to follow their example.
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Calvert's Kossil, meanwhile, can't cast a glance without reminding us that she's up to no good, poisoning the high priestess so she can free the Nameless Ones for her lover. If only she could also help to free the Campy Ones, those creative creatures who could push this miniseries into something intentionally entertaining.