i can let a lot of the other historical inaccuracies slide because i sympathize with not wanting to constantly emulate the sexism and racism of the immediate US civil war (even if i feel a little like it's robbing the heroes of being heroic if like... you're saying your heroes are heroic for standing against it, but ....eeeeeveryone else is kinda doing the same damn thing and it's not a problem? like have them actually stand apart)
but that... that bugged me LOL
@wigglytuffitout there's also the fact that a lot of "historical accuracy" claims are in fact people mistakenly projecting that the past is necessarily "less progressive" than the present, by whatever definition the present considers to be progressive, either as a means of demonizing the past or as a way of supporting shitty beliefs with Historical Precedent >.>
I get way more annoyed at historical inaccuracies portrayed as accuracy than any other kind of inaccuracy and That's Saying Something
@InspectorCaracal honestly very valid
but it does sort of create this weird dynamic where the only racist/sexist characters are shown to be really over the top villains, and there's not really any examples of... everyday shit. it comes across a little too "well you see, we can all be assured of our own moral goodness because we're not out there pouring acid on black men so we can't be at all racist uwu", which is... annoyingly watered down gruel for the audience as far as morality goes.
@InspectorCaracal it's also odd to laud a heroine as "look how brave she is, being the first woman detective in the pinkertons!!" and then... not do anything much in the way of letting her show that?... like all action against her is horrifying misogyny to everyone which i'm sure was also an obstacle, but as a writer i'm just like "dang y'all this is a huge pile of missed opportunities, let your heroine encounter some obstacles and vault over them, that's your premise right???"
@InspectorCaracal or hell they could do some really interesting writing along the lines of "yeah you thought there would be misogyny and racism but IT'S THE FRONTIER Y'ALL, AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME TO BE PICKY, here's a moral tale about some foolish assholes making their own demise therein" and then they Didn't.
it's disappointing lol
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it DOES sound like moffat don't it lmfao,
@wigglytuffitout sounds like a moffat series