Political revisionism
This is supposed to be a somewhat historical "look at the final days of Knights Templar during the 14th century" yet they have black knights of the templar. WTF???
shareAll tv shows piss on European history these days. Take Vikings, for example.
share"Vikings" is not supposed to be historical. The main protagonist was legendary figure (although his sons were historical personae - go figure) and they compressed about 400 years in less than a lifetime.
The Templar era on the other hand is well documented and all these badly written historical liberties and the general intellectual laziness of the show's authors (seemingly getting all their info from Wiki) have no excuse.
Doesn't change the fact that Vikings dance to liberal flute (Lagertha and her army of strong, independent women is bullshit). Strong anti-Christian, pro-islamic messages squeezed in that show too. Haven't watched it since certain point. I'd rather watch Knightfall now, but it, too, has put muslims in honourable light. Can't make a proper historical movie or TV show without playing it politically correct. When one starts making historically accurate TV shows it will be the left sounding alerts about racism and misogyny in them. Our history is being rewritten. That's why they go with fantasy themes.
shareI was actually impressed that the show portrayed Templars and crusaders as having any honour at all. I was really expecting every single Templar knight and crusader to be portrayed as scum. But the majority of them appear to be the "good guys". It's the political people and the larger Catholic Church (the Pope and his cronies) who are being shown as more sinister and evil than the Templars.
I'm particularly impressed with Hamill's character. He could easily have been written to be a Snape type jerk who held grudges and just hated Landry, but he doesn't. He's a little cracked. He's a fanatic to his faith. But he isn't being shown as some evil nutbar. The scene with him and Landry in the woods...he's like a father figure. Tough love. (Yeah, he's a little nuts, but that makes him more fun and nuanced not less).
But, yeah, the stuff in the Holy Land in the first episode, I'm amazed that there was music swelling and camera angles showing the crusaders pushing back the invaders (temporarily - the cavalry charges) as a heroic thing.
>"Vikings" is not supposed to be historical.
How flat out wrong is that? The entire show is based off of actual viking folklore and stories. The insertion of modern leftist diversity into authentic viking tales is just more historical revisionism.
I'm sorry, folklore and stories are not the same as "history".
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