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This show is such a fucking hate watch for me. Space Napoleonic wars that has a episode which is just 30 minutes of history channel just barely clears the "what if fash is good though" jack off fantasy the whole thing is.
Can we get a LotGH sub, so I have an excuse to re-watch fash propaganda and rant about it online, and learn ways a space napoleon story could be made better by people who actually know Napoleonic history?
The show's title is basically Great Man Theory ~in Space~, so I'm already expecting some "what if the space Prussians were the good guys, but they just have the wrong dictator" shit.
apologia for their fascist imperial past and their neoliberal hell present
I was having such a hard time putting a name to the style of history they were doing. Is that really the name for it? It really is aggravating in the show and so lazily explained why all events depend on like two people.
I believe so, but I don't have any academic experience in history so take that with a grain of salt.
It's aggravating to me when people do it with modern and contemporary history. I think I have a bit more tolerance when it has fantasy elements or enough focus on the melodrama.
I'll probably be sick of LotGH after dozens of episodes, but I'm hopeful that I'll enjoy it enough stretched out over a year or two lol
Someone here made a good point in a thread a while ago, but it's fun to imagine the show as an in-universe historical drama. That way it makes sense why such a small cast is so responsible for great change, why they sidestep that Reinhardt was definitely gay for Kircheis, etc. Same reason why the 30 minute history session goes on about "moral degradation" in the pre-empire government: because this is a universe where the fascists won, so their propaganda is official.
But yeah in reality the author is definitely a lib and it shows.