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Jeez, did we all watch the same show?

posted 14 years ago by sphinxvictorian
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I just got this show on DVD, and I enjoyed it thoroughly for what it was: a lovely bit of pulp storytelling, old-fashioned and lots of fun. The dialogue wasn't that bad, and I certainly found it a hell of a lot more fun than either the most recent Robin Hood or the laughable Merlin series.

I'm not saying that there weren't some roaring inaccuracies, but that's the joy of pulp fiction that others seem to have forgotten. Not everything has to be perfectly historically correct.

I for one am sorry that it did not get a second series. I particularly liked Julie Graham's Dr. Magwilde as a character, it was nice to see a woman at the head of an adventure team for a change. I also liked the whole underlying plot of the sword and her mother and everything.

Anyway, I do wish people could lighten up and just be entertained for once. Not everything has to be correct and proper all the time!

[–] Swordwind-4 14 years ago

It's not so much about being incorrect as it is about tearing the history books to pieces to conform to your own agenda. The Templars were violent extremists who were excommunicated for being too brutal. Islam is peace. Christians are the real terrorists. A handful of freed slaves won the battle of Yorktown but the evil white man covered it up.

When you base a show around real people and real events you have a responsibility to get things at least somewhat right.

[–] andrew_jakobs 12 years ago

Uhm.. I guess you should read up on your history as the show isn't completely wrong, and who knows maybe it was won by a handfull of freed slaves, the conspiracy theory they used sounded pretty plausible (not that it actually happened). Nowhere was said that the templars where violent extremist who were excommunicated for being too brutal (and if you meant with that line that they were, then you're really completely wrong). And the Islam isn't peace (just look around the world what happens when someone ridicules an idol, you call that peace? normal people just shrug their shoulders and go on with their business), and if you didn't get the 'christians' in the show as being extreme right (which is just as bad as extreme left) then you really have a problem. The 'Islam is peace' and the beheading was a well written way of showing that it's not always the followers of islam that are bad, it also showed that some followers of the islam are really peacefull..

The show was great, and being a fan of those history I even thought it all being plausible (not thinking it also happened that way).. Just as one of the characters says 'you've got to dream a little'..

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

The Templars were extreme.

In fact I heard a story that some Christians in Germany once killed 6 million Jews!

Its that man again!!

[–] andrew_jakobs 12 years ago

I agree completely with you, the synopsis here on imdb seems also wrong as it's saying that 'Dolly' was the leader which in fact he wasn't..

I'm also sad to hear there wasn't a second series, but on the otherhand it doesn't really matter, a lot of series aren't getting any better, then again, it's still 18 episodes short of a regular american season, so 18 more episodes wouldn't be bad either..

Personally I loved the way they made the stories of every episode seem plausible, which is something that doesn't happen often in a lot of american series..

[–] chiaro_di_luna 10 years ago

Very much agree. I quite enjoyed the series, and was surprised to see how hated it is. I was hoping for entertaining stories, and I got them. I had no expectation of good science. The leaps were indeed wild, but it didn't bother me as much as it seems it did others.

Oh well, chalk another one up to different strokes, I guess.