But it's brilliant.
And hilarious.
And disturbing.
And ironic.
And it definitely awakened my inner TV plot-analyzer instincts.
And the author is right. The History Channel really should try to "add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."
GET THE STORY.
(CHT: Instapundit.)
I also agree with what the author says about Babylon 5 and Doctor Who (mostly).
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That’s hilarious (and all that other stuff you said)!
The thing is… reality is weird. People sometimes do inexplicable things that would look absolutely absurd on paper.
If it hadn’t actually happened, no one would believe WWII. In a couple thousand years, probably all the professional historians will put 90% of it down to “myth”. Kind of the way a lot of experts have done with the New Testament.
Ages ago Analog magazine did something similar in the form of a lecture doing a “text criticism” of ancient documents purporting to be the history of an actual 20th century war.
Of course, text critics are too smart to accept any narrative at face value so the whole thing is an allegory for the victory of Beauty (Rose-field), Faith (Church-hill) and Fortitude (Man of Steel) over villains so evil their names are meaningless syllables; Hitler and Tojo.
Who…Who….Who DOCTOR WHO! 🙂 EXTERMINATE!
AWESOME!
That’s the funniest WW2 thing I’ve read since this:
(WARNING: STRONGLY PROFANE LANGUAGE)
http://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_jokes_20057151.asp
Basically, that link is to a funny post. What if WW2 was a real-time-strategy game? What would the on-line conversation look like?
Hey, where’d my comment go? Type pad is so untrustworthy.
hehehehehehehe
scuttles off to pass that link around
This reminds of the Hitler routine from the album Don Adams Meets the Roving Reporter
“Merely corroborative detail intended to add artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”
Your quoting The Mikado makes me wonder if you’ve seen the film “Topsy-Turvy”. Despite the completely unnecessary 20 seconds of nudity, one of my all-time favorite period pieces.