Literally a TV show about interplanetary space empire ruled by an evil wizard, so... very likely it will deviate from reality by leaps and bounds.
Its entertainment. It happens to be entertainment with good politics, but its still just a big dumb show for the hogs. If you want history, read history. If you want politics, go to a fucking meeting full of other people interested in doing politics. If you want a fairy tale about some cool dudes cosplaying as that one Russian guy who successfully led a revolution, then that's fine. Everyone wants a bit of entertainment now and then. But that's what that is.
Humans are a storytelling species, I'd hazard that for the average person a well put together narrative has infinitely more swaying power than history. You can transform actual history into a clean, compelling narrative, but then much nuance is lost and it becomes something of a mistruth. To package a narrative taken from history into a fictional story allows the themes to stand out, without risking someone feeling misled.
Literally a TV show about interplanetary space empire ruled by an evil wizard, so... very likely it will deviate from reality by leaps and bounds.
Its entertainment. It happens to be entertainment with good politics, but its still just a big dumb show for the hogs. If you want history, read history. If you want politics, go to a fucking meeting full of other people interested in doing politics. If you want a fairy tale about some cool dudes cosplaying as that one Russian guy who successfully led a revolution, then that's fine. Everyone wants a bit of entertainment now and then. But that's what that is.
Humans are a storytelling species, I'd hazard that for the average person a well put together narrative has infinitely more swaying power than history. You can transform actual history into a clean, compelling narrative, but then much nuance is lost and it becomes something of a mistruth. To package a narrative taken from history into a fictional story allows the themes to stand out, without risking someone feeling misled.
Okay sure. But Space Wizards make for a poor historical dialectic.
I kinda like the "this man isn't a space wizard, and yet must oppose them" aspect. But yeah, in general, totally.