Netflix Cursed - Arthurian legend from the POV of Nimue

CarlManvers2019

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Don’t take my dream away from me but nah Netflix knows sex sells.

That depends, you mean HBO sex? I think they’ll still go with more “realistic” looks than something that would be for an audience they look down on to appease an audience they think are intellectually superior and all
 

Shipmaster Sane

You have been weighed
Anyone else remember the early arthurian legends where a "big, scary person" would be bluntly referred to as "A Black Man"?

"He came then to a Black Man of the wood, who had been waylaying men on the road" "His face was Black in anger", Hags having black skin, etc etc ?



Anyone?


Also Fate is Gay.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Because race shouldn't matter when casting roles you bigot!:mad:


Unless its casting a non-white role in which case you better choose an appropriate 'coloured' person to do it.... you bigot!:mad::LOL:

To me, it feels like they use stuff like “realism”
as a bludgeon, only to go “it’s just a show, what are you? A bigot”
 

Lord Sovereign

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I think this also displays the ignorance of the Left. When the Romans thought "African", they thought the lighter skinned people of the Sahara and Mediterranean, Berbers, or the descendants of Phoenician colonists and the like. "Aethiopes," or Sub-Saharan Africans, were an incredibly rare sight in the Roman Empire. Sorry, lefties, Septimius Severus was not a black man. I hate to say it, but throughout the majority of European history, Black people have been a footnote. Arabs and Turks have had far more of an affect than Sub-Saharan Africa, yet they aren't the emphasis in diversity hires when it comes to historical dramas.

And, as a final note, when we first start really recording black people in Britain, there were about 400 of them in Tudor England. This was out of a population of four million.
 

Urabrask Revealed

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There was also once a Black Samurai, but his life was actually recorded, and him being black was something noticed by everybody else when he arrived in Japan. A slave of some missionaries who got the attention of many including the local Lord who tried to see whether his skin was black or not, ended up working under him and getting a Japanese name.
Yeah, and he became the inspiration to Afro Samurai from what I know.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Yeah, and he became the inspiration to Afro Samurai from what I know.

Honestly, man I’d actually like to see some actual Alternate History series wherein the Roman Empire stretched that far as a justification/explanation as to how interracial/“interprovincial” metropolis’ or populations are a thing

Think like Cyrodiil from Elder Scrolls, as the Capital/First Province it’s got connections to the populations of the rest and “foreigners” of different races are even nobility there

Or something like Japan having had samurai and steampunk ships traveling the world and not too unusual a sight for a samurai and viking berserker to work together in the same mercenary company on an expedition to conquer the Incan Empire
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
There was a black dude in Russian nobility, don't remember if he was enobled by a czar
Abram Gannibal, a slave from Ethiopia, he was freed and raised in Peter the Great household, eventually rising to become chief military engineer. He also convinced Suvorov's parents to let their son pursue military career and was Pushkin's grandfather. It's funny how ''we wuz kangz'' crowd who invent black ancestry for all kinds of historical figures, simply ignore existance of this guy.
 

Lord Sovereign

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Abram Gannibal, a slave from Ethiopia, he was freed and raised in Peter the Great household, eventually rising to become chief military engineer. He also convinced Suvorov's parents to let their son pursue military career and was Pushkin's grandfather. It's funny how ''we wuz kangz'' crowd who invent black ancestry for all kinds of historical figures, simply ignore existance of this guy.

There are some rather interesting stories about such individuals that the "we wuz kangz" mob conveniently ignore (partially down to historical ignorance and partially because they want to push themselves into parts of history they really weren't in due to their damnable victim complex). There's Walter Tull, a gallant British Officer who fell on the battlefield in the early days of Kaiserschlacht. There's John Blanke, a trumpeter in the Tudor court who came over to England as one of Catherine of Aragon's attendants, although much less is known about him than Tull.

They actually have their heroes. Why do they ignore them?
 

Terthna

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There are some rather interesting stories about such individuals that the "we wuz kangz" mob conveniently ignore (partially down to historical ignorance and partially because they want to push themselves into parts of history they really weren't in due to their damnable victim complex). There's Walter Tull, a gallant British Officer who fell on the battlefield in the early days of Kaiserschlacht. There's John Blanke, a trumpeter in the Tudor court who came over to England as one of Catherine of Aragon's attendants, although much less is known about him than Tull.

They actually have their heroes. Why do they ignore them?
Because it's not about having their own heroes; it's about taking everyone else's.
 

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