Earthsea Just Can't Win
Aug. 21st, 2012 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetI've been meaning to post about this for a while, actually, but haven't gotten around to it until now.
See, for the next-to-last AI Staff White Elephant, I ended up with an unopened copy of Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea. I really wasn't sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, Studio Ghibli! Unopened, even! On the other hand...
Well, I'd seen the DVD around in stores. I'd been reluctant to pick it up then because the characters on the cover were of a light pink shade. Is it just another case of the Do Manga Characters Look "White"?, or is the studio taking a page from the SciFi Chanel?
It took me entirely too long to remember that, yeah, Le Guin explicitly described Sparrowhawk and Arran as "mud brown". And no, I don't care how you spin it, light pink isn't mud brown.
The DVD is still sitting unwatched and unopened in my room, cardboard slipcover still in place. If I took it to Target, do you think I could get store credit for it without a receipt, or maybe exchange it for something? Or should I just toss it on the stack to take to Half Price Books, see if I can't find something there I like?
See, for the next-to-last AI Staff White Elephant, I ended up with an unopened copy of Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea. I really wasn't sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, Studio Ghibli! Unopened, even! On the other hand...
Well, I'd seen the DVD around in stores. I'd been reluctant to pick it up then because the characters on the cover were of a light pink shade. Is it just another case of the Do Manga Characters Look "White"?, or is the studio taking a page from the SciFi Chanel?
It took me entirely too long to remember that, yeah, Le Guin explicitly described Sparrowhawk and Arran as "mud brown". And no, I don't care how you spin it, light pink isn't mud brown.
The DVD is still sitting unwatched and unopened in my room, cardboard slipcover still in place. If I took it to Target, do you think I could get store credit for it without a receipt, or maybe exchange it for something? Or should I just toss it on the stack to take to Half Price Books, see if I can't find something there I like?
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Date: 2012-08-21 10:40 pm (UTC)2. It's not a very good movie. I made it through 25 minutes on Netflix before I decided I had better things to do with my time.
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Date: 2012-08-22 12:28 am (UTC)2. Good to know I'm not missing out on anything. Really good, in fact. It'll probably end up in the Half Price Books box at this rate.