[And so ends a 10-hour miniseries of the Hundred Years War, just with tons of historical inaccuracies including -but not limited to- the presence of demons, the fact that some people were animal-people called "Therions", and that Joan of Arc was a magic girl.]
... I don't get it.
They spent so long to show that the British were absolute monsters... especially that Bedford man. He puts his own nephew's soul in a frog and hands control of England over to a DEMON! A demon he KNEW was evil incarnate because he'd fought tooth and nail before to seal him in the first place! He even killed one of his friends over all of this! And yet he gets a dignified death because somehow it was all for the sake of his nephew and England!
And then there was Joan herself! She vows to fight the British, her best friend's burned at the stake in her place, she sees time and time again that the British are just wrong in attacking France... and she still goes for "understanding" them at the end?
And on top of that, everyone else from her village was alive the whole time and just never bothered to contact her?
It's like they suddenly were afraid of telling a good story and backpedaled on everything they could in the last act. And it wasn't even that good to begin with.
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Date: 2014-08-19 11:55 pm (UTC)... I don't get it.
They spent so long to show that the British were absolute monsters... especially that Bedford man. He puts his own nephew's soul in a frog and hands control of England over to a DEMON! A demon he KNEW was evil incarnate because he'd fought tooth and nail before to seal him in the first place! He even killed one of his friends over all of this! And yet he gets a dignified death because somehow it was all for the sake of his nephew and England!
And then there was Joan herself! She vows to fight the British, her best friend's burned at the stake in her place, she sees time and time again that the British are just wrong in attacking France... and she still goes for "understanding" them at the end?
And on top of that, everyone else from her village was alive the whole time and just never bothered to contact her?
It's like they suddenly were afraid of telling a good story and backpedaled on everything they could in the last act. And it wasn't even that good to begin with.