Why the faces of yesterday are back on our screens

You know how sometimes you know exactly how an article is going to turn out? I often get that feeling with The Guardian articles: sometimes they’re the kind of glib shallowness that you can string together with no understanding of the knowledge or issues in an attempt to get a laugh in place of informing people. But sometimes your expectations are confounded.

Take this article from The Guardian‘s Guide on why familiar faces from the 80s are back on our screens again. I expected something pretty rubbish. Instead I got something celebrating competence. How refreshing.

Trailer for Gedo Senki online

There’s a trailer for the animé Earthsea movie Gedo Senki online at catsuka.com. I have to say, it looks pretty awful. Don’t go looking for something that’s authentic to the book, whatever you do, because you’re definitely not going to get it.

But yet another Aryan Ged? Surely not. Okay, that’s the animé way, but would it have hurt them much to change it, just this once? How many times does Ursula K have to point out that Ged’s native American-looking, Vetch is black, etc, before people get it?