G*mers getting mad at Yasuke like how mayos got mad at Green Knight for being "historically inaccurate" with Dev Patel as Gawain and PoC in general in the film when in the expansive canon of Arthurian stories there were characters outside of Europe as far as India, Baghdad and Babylonia
Yet another case of g*mers and "Historical Accuracy" whiners continuing to project their racism on media "inaccurate to the source material" but not actually knowing the source material.
I'm furthest from a "this has to be completely 'period and canon accurate' piece"-kinda media person, get wild and fun with it, twist things in new ways and create new perspectives in pre-established western media, especially if it makes these sort of culture war chuds mad, but even within their own flawed parameters of 'acceptable' media creation they did not do the homework.
E: Oh wait, I forgot about my favorite of these examples which would cause CHUDs to shit themselves: Gurman the Gay from Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan or Gormund in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae who, depending on the sources was the son of an African king (Tristan) or a king himself (Historia Regum Britanniae) who conquered and held lands in Ireland
E2: And there was a pretty unambiguous gay character and relationship from the Vulgate-Lancelot cycle through Galahaut/Galeholt, a half-giant ruler who fought against Arthur, faced off against a anonymously clad Lancelot, and was so amazed at his prowess he gives up in the middle of the battle that he was winning just to be with Lancelot who accepts his close companionship. And at the end of his life, Lancelot is buried at his castle in a grave next to Galahaut, who died earlier after hearing (falsely) that Lancelot was killed. The grave was specifically built to eternalize the two's companionship.
Unless the Arthurian media piece in question has like a run-on list that introduces 50 different dudes who each appear in one vignette then promptly get killed unceremoniously in the same or a future escapade (or in the case of Sir Colgrevance in Le Morte D'Arthur killed twice in 2 separate vignettes) then I really don't consider it a faithful Arthurian adaptation close to the source material and can be discarded thusly
G*mers getting mad at Yasuke like how mayos got mad at Green Knight for being "historically inaccurate" with Dev Patel as Gawain and PoC in general in the film when in the expansive canon of Arthurian stories there were characters outside of Europe as far as India, Baghdad and Babylonia
Yet another case of g*mers and "Historical Accuracy" whiners continuing to project their racism on media "inaccurate to the source material" but not actually knowing the source material.
I'm furthest from a "this has to be completely 'period and canon accurate' piece"-kinda media person, get wild and fun with it, twist things in new ways and create new perspectives in pre-established western media, especially if it makes these sort of culture war chuds mad, but even within their own flawed parameters of 'acceptable' media creation they did not do the homework.
E: Oh wait, I forgot about my favorite of these examples which would cause CHUDs to shit themselves: Gurman the Gay from Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan or Gormund in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae who, depending on the sources was the son of an African king (Tristan) or a king himself (Historia Regum Britanniae) who conquered and held lands in Ireland
E2: And there was a pretty unambiguous gay character and relationship from the Vulgate-Lancelot cycle through Galahaut/Galeholt, a half-giant ruler who fought against Arthur, faced off against a anonymously clad Lancelot, and was so amazed at his prowess he gives up in the middle of the battle that he was winning just to be with Lancelot who accepts his close companionship. And at the end of his life, Lancelot is buried at his castle in a grave next to Galahaut, who died earlier after hearing (falsely) that Lancelot was killed. The grave was specifically built to eternalize the two's companionship.
You say you value historical accuracy, yet all of the medieval English characters speak with a post-GVS dialect of English. Curious, very curious.
Unless the Arthurian media piece in question has like a run-on list that introduces 50 different dudes who each appear in one vignette then promptly get killed unceremoniously in the same or a future escapade (or in the case of Sir Colgrevance in Le Morte D'Arthur killed twice in 2 separate vignettes) then I really don't consider it a faithful Arthurian adaptation close to the source material and can be discarded thusly