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who is justin and why is he being executed

how can we know before it even airs?

I think this article was dedicated to unpopular rom coms only lol

thanks for the warning

yeah I lost interest in second half too

I give up, it's like talking to a wall

But from examples you gave Bridgerton is a great example of period series that is not historical, that is, it doesn't portray any real life historical event, it's merely set in loosely defined past setting

There are plenty of other such series, Norsemen, Peaky Blinders, etc. Their focus is not historical accuracy, thus they are not historical series, and certainly not what you referred to as "historical epics". And don't get me started on semi legendary and fantasy stuff, how many king arthur and robin hood movies have there been? Is Ring of the Nibelungs historical?

Consider the following. What is the difference between tv series "Maria Theresia" and "Bridgerton"?

how can it be a historical fiction that isn't under categorization of historical? That's an oxymoron

and if someone makes a historical drama, in europe, people are usually first to analyze it and talk about what was historically accurate and what wasn't, just look about all the negative feedbacks shows like "Vikings" or "Barbarians" got, no one was excusing it saying "it's a historical epic"

in europe they are also usually referred to as "period dramas" or "costume dramas" and only called historical dramas if they attempt to show some actual historical event

lol ruskies don't even teach about crimean war (the 19th century one) and ribbentrop-molotov, they push fake narrative that russia was 1. never an agressor in a war 2. Never lost any war

if you think that japan not educating their citizens about their warcrimes is bad, remember russia exists

hey, I love murder scenes and self inserting as serial killer

what? there is smex? benis in lasagna?

oh wow it was hyped so much, why such a low score?

You know, Russia actually doesn't teach about its own warcrimes, even about entire wars it fought, but germans, poles, finns, czechs etc. (the list is really long) don't feel obliged to lie about history in their own period dramas and movies.

Unlike you. Consider, for a moment, what you are doing now. You are responding to rather innocent comments about katana and armor with huge paragraphs of rant about entire history of japan, japanese war crimes, and j-dramas.....as if what japan did or does excuses korea for making historically inaccurate productions. But what does one have to do with the other?

Also I just noticed he said "historical tensions between Japan and Korea, China, Philippines, Austria, etc.". Now this can't be right, why is Austria there?

Probably confused it with Australia.

Like I said, some dramas are slightly exaggerated, some are significantly exaggerated. 100% historical accuracy is not possible, but there is a difference between trying and not trying. Consider for example "Asterix and Obelix" versus "Rome (2005)".

And this particular drama isn't being promoted as fantasy, it seems to take itself deadly serious. Hence why people are nitpicking about katana, armor etc.

As for history of east asia, I am quite an expert on the subject. I know very well how insecure koreans are regarding japan, hence why they make movies and dramas about this japanese war and japanese colonial period over and over again, in which they do the equivalent of drawing themselves as chads and japanese as soyjacks. And this seems to be another one of these movies; deadly serious for a korean nationalist, silly or perhaps even creepy for most other people.

Btw if you aren't insecure, why are you talking to us from alt account made yesterday?

nokdu flower had something similar too, except it was brothers there; the good one who joined bad guys (of course, japanese) and bad guy who became a hero

not that history is poor, it's just that modern filmmakers chose to obsess over 1% of it while ignoring 99%.

yes, of course, we don't have a time machine so we can't know how it really was back then. But there are various degrees of authencity and fiction.

Personally, I like when historical series are based on actual reality, as I can use them to learn something new or revise what I knew already about that time period.

Btw, no one mentioned Shogun until you did, nor j-dramas. You seem to be quite insecure, take a deep breath ok?