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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Historical accuracy in popular media
« on: July 13, 2019, 09:14:55 PM »
That is a good point! Or American westerns ... from what I hear, the audience is supposed to have mixed sympathies between the settlers who will win in the end and the gunmen who are cool.
L. Sprague de Camp's solution in the 1950s was to make his viewpoint characters philosophically-minded, middle-to-upper-class Greeks who were not interested in boys. Tolkien had his hobbits. George Macdonald Frazer channeled his grandfather and his buddies from settler days in Africa and his own contrarianism.
In a novel you have a little more space to get across "to my viewpoint character, disease is not bacteria, it is the hand of a god" than in a roleplaying game or a TV episode.
L. Sprague de Camp's solution in the 1950s was to make his viewpoint characters philosophically-minded, middle-to-upper-class Greeks who were not interested in boys. Tolkien had his hobbits. George Macdonald Frazer channeled his grandfather and his buddies from settler days in Africa and his own contrarianism.
In a novel you have a little more space to get across "to my viewpoint character, disease is not bacteria, it is the hand of a god" than in a roleplaying game or a TV episode.