Dear Heroes, the historical inaccuracies in your show make my eyes bleed.
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AGKAHGJKAHGKAGHAKGHKAHGKLAGH.
I CANNOT SUSPEND MY DISBELIEF TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE IGNORING HISTORY, HEROES.
NO SERIOUSLY. IF THIS HIRO IN 1671 STORYLINE IS TO BE CONTINUED, HIRE A HISTORY CONSULTUANT. DAVID ANDERS IS WHITE. WHITE WHITE WHITE. DAVID ANDERS IS CLEARLY NOT JAPANESE AND EVEN WITH HIS FACE COVERED DOES NOT SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE SPEAKER.
...Which would be fine or whatever, but you are expecting me to believe that this dude is not only running around in a period of Japan when no foreigners other than a few Dutch men (and only in Nagasaki/traveling to the capital to pay homage to the Shogun... I am so riled up I almost typed Emperor there which would be MISINFORMATION LIKE YOUR SHOW GOD.) but is running around ON MAINLAND JAPAN ON HELLO ONE OF THE STOPS OF THE TOKAIDO?? DUDE THAT IS LIKE IMPOSSIBLE. OKAY.
Not to mention the IMPERSONATING A SAMURAI BIT. HELLO THAT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. DUDE.
I just do not understand how he has not been captured by the bakufu yet?? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Clearly he is white. This is not just a matter of him not having papers to produce at checkpoints and evading bakufu officials and checkpoint guards as many women did during the period. It is a matter of everyone ever in all of Japan knowing that HE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE BECAUSE HE IS NOT JAPANESE EVEN REMOTELY. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS.
Look, I am all for fanservice, and David Anders speaking Japanese is clearly fanservice. For me.
BUT IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR HISTORICALLY ACCURATE FANSERVICE???
I hope all of you are prepared to either hire me as a history consultant or have David Anders's superpower on the show be the ability to change people's perceptions of him, otherwise we might be having these words every week until I throw my tv at your offices. COME ON Y'ALL. SERIOUSLY.
No really seriously. You couldn't READ A HISTORY BOOK OVER THE HIATUS??
I... just... akgjakgjagkljaglkagj!!! Why did I study this for seven billion years if my tv which is supposed to relax me just makes me write ranty lj entries? IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
So really, all you all who are like, "This is the best show ever, I will love it and hug it and call it pete," that's great and everything, but please do not do it near me. I fear I will foam at the mouth.
In other news... Oh wait, I have no other news. Carry on.
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AGKAHGJKAHGKAGHAKGHKAHGKLAGH.
I CANNOT SUSPEND MY DISBELIEF TO THE POINT WHERE WE ARE IGNORING HISTORY, HEROES.
NO SERIOUSLY. IF THIS HIRO IN 1671 STORYLINE IS TO BE CONTINUED, HIRE A HISTORY CONSULTUANT. DAVID ANDERS IS WHITE. WHITE WHITE WHITE. DAVID ANDERS IS CLEARLY NOT JAPANESE AND EVEN WITH HIS FACE COVERED DOES NOT SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE SPEAKER.
...Which would be fine or whatever, but you are expecting me to believe that this dude is not only running around in a period of Japan when no foreigners other than a few Dutch men (and only in Nagasaki/traveling to the capital to pay homage to the Shogun... I am so riled up I almost typed Emperor there which would be MISINFORMATION LIKE YOUR SHOW GOD.) but is running around ON MAINLAND JAPAN ON HELLO ONE OF THE STOPS OF THE TOKAIDO?? DUDE THAT IS LIKE IMPOSSIBLE. OKAY.
Not to mention the IMPERSONATING A SAMURAI BIT. HELLO THAT IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. DUDE.
I just do not understand how he has not been captured by the bakufu yet?? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. Clearly he is white. This is not just a matter of him not having papers to produce at checkpoints and evading bakufu officials and checkpoint guards as many women did during the period. It is a matter of everyone ever in all of Japan knowing that HE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE BECAUSE HE IS NOT JAPANESE EVEN REMOTELY. OH MY GOD YOU GUYS.
Look, I am all for fanservice, and David Anders speaking Japanese is clearly fanservice. For me.
BUT IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR HISTORICALLY ACCURATE FANSERVICE???
I hope all of you are prepared to either hire me as a history consultant or have David Anders's superpower on the show be the ability to change people's perceptions of him, otherwise we might be having these words every week until I throw my tv at your offices. COME ON Y'ALL. SERIOUSLY.
No really seriously. You couldn't READ A HISTORY BOOK OVER THE HIATUS??
I... just... akgjakgjagkljaglkagj!!! Why did I study this for seven billion years if my tv which is supposed to relax me just makes me write ranty lj entries? IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
So really, all you all who are like, "This is the best show ever, I will love it and hug it and call it pete," that's great and everything, but please do not do it near me. I fear I will foam at the mouth.
In other news... Oh wait, I have no other news. Carry on.