The Winter King Cancelled (GWGB)
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Was this the one that was supposed to be super diverse?
Well in the books there was a single African who was left behind after Rome left England. In the Series there's heaps, of all sorts. This Forbes review does a good job of explaining all the differences but also goes on a rant about other franchises being ruined by woke writers catering to the mythical modern audience.
Yep, Sagramore. In the Matter of Britain Arthur does have Moorish/Saracen knights at the Round Table, but Sagramore himself isn't one of them (Moriaen is the Moor and Palamedes the Saracen IIRC), being Hungarian instead - I think Cornwell just condensed these 'foreign' knights into one guy for convenience's sake, and went with the most plausible ethnic background for a darker skinned dude in Dark Age Britain (the Hungarians wouldn't come to Europe for centuries later). And to be fair, the Mauri (original, Christian Moors) were both very real and a significant element to the late Roman imperial cavalry.
But man, this series clearly fucked everything up in usual DEI fashion. And not just that, but they seem to have not even tried their hand at the slightest pretense of an authentic late Roman/Dark Age setting. What the hell even are those black outfits on the guys in the article's photos? They look absolutely nothing like Late Roman/Romano-British civilians or soldiers, much less barbarians of either the native Celtic or invading Anglo-Saxon varieties. End stage GoT's fashion direction of overly dark and modern-looking outfits for everyone has been a disaster for the depiction of historical fashion on screen as much as woke racial politics have been for anything resembling accuracy in the ethnic makeup of every historical setting adapted to screen.
At first I was like, Forbes? Aren't they quasi-leftist/mainstream media fucks? Why would they say something like that?
And then I saw oh - Erik Kain, the fencesitter who has TDS but at the same time sort of sees why being woke is retarded.
Surprised to see that from a Forbes article. I’ll look for the books. Honestly now when I see a show coming out with an interesting premise I’ll just get the book it’s based on
Bernard Cornwell is an awesome writer. His Sharpe series is just pure adventure fiction catering to males. I haven't read any of his stuff covering earlier time frames, but I bet it's in a similar vein.
It's got to be almost impossible to adapt any of his work "for modern sensibilities" so it's unsurprising this show was a disaster.
He sounds a bit like David Gemmell
Highly recommend his Saxon Tales series.
The Saxon Stories he wrote are great, and the show they made out of those books (The Last Kingdom) was actually pretty good. An accurate portrayal of early medieval England, no diversity and very little wokeness.
I had to quit watching that when I heard "Uthred, son of Uthred" one too many times.
The article was written by a 'senior contributor' to Forbes, which is funny, because Forbes was one of the anti-white DNC-controlled magazines that encouraged this garbage in the first place.
Anyway, he needs to choke on it. This is just pure comedy to me.