For one second all I know, everything is made of snow

[sovay]

I was just informed that there will be a television adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).

If the Gethenian characters are not cast with genderqueer actors, I will feel someone is missing the point.

Comments

[redbird]

Yes: the journey over the ice could work well on camera, but so much of what's going on in that chapter is conversation and introspection.

And there's a moment during the time Genly spends with the Foretellers that could work beautifully, but what is television going to do with "the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question"?

[sovay]

Yes: the journey over the ice could work well on camera, but so much of what's going on in that chapter is conversation and introspection.

I feel very strongly that good television can be made of conversation, but I agree that introspection is tricky.