I guess I should point out, I watched this thing over the holidays, and it was horrible. If you've read the books, avoid it. If you haven't read the books, read them instead. The first three books are fairly simple and straight forward, and skip a lot of things that I thought could have been fleshed out well in the mini-series, but instead we got a wishy washy forced combination of the first two books that seemed like an overly obvious attempt to shoe horn Earthsea into the same "formula" as the Harry Potter movies. Jeez.