Stumbled across a mention of SyFy’s notoriously bad adaptation of the first two Earthsea books and went looking for commentary on it. I think this scathing article by Le Guin herself gets the idea across.
https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html
#fantasy #earthsea #whitewashing
I briefly considered tracking it down to see for myself how bad it was, but after re-reading that article….Nope! Not gonna bother!