i dont know much about the series, but i was watching and reading about assassin's creed 3 and the main character is a half red indian who wants revenge because evil white colonialists burned down his tribe's village and the bad guys are racist White colonialists. Also his mother is some grumpy girlboss chick. She's like Pocahontas if Pocahontas had an obnoxious and unpleasent personality and a permanent resting bitch face.
was this series always woke or something?
That's silly. You can absolutely portray good guys and bad guys, certainly well enough for the sake of a video game, and constraining the story to the issue at hand is an imperative of every story. Fictional or Non-Fictional, I don't have to know whether or not a guy who climbed up Hacksaw Ridge broke up with his girlfriend, either during the war or after the war. This is less about "greater context" and more about basic compartmentalization in the structure of stories.
Literally almost every single one has.
And a couple of things there: there's a good argument for Americans being there, the vast majority were not draftees until the US started basically pulling out of the war, and they had majority support at home. Even the Leftists had to push "we're against the war, not the soldiers" narratives publicly.
The only one that didn't was Men of Valor, which basically pushed a right-wing argument. That surprised the hell out of me when I read it, but it also really showed that no one on the political left was prepared to touch the story, and that's the problem.
I'll level with you man. I'm recovering from the flu and its not been great on my ability to think. I had a point originally and I can't even remember it or what I was building to.
So I'll just concede whatever here because I cannot pull it back from the fog.
It's okay, man. I hope you feel better. You were a good conversation..ator?