I'm gonna burn in a bad bad place.

[ickaimp]

So I was thinking.... In Japan, you have a lot of live action historical tv series, highlighting various figures and eras. Last time I was there, it was all about the Shinsengumi, and currently it's Sakamoto Ryoma in the Bakumatsu period.

Obviously by the popularity, it's good TV and it's a way of bringing Japanese history to life, give people a way to know and be proud of their heritage.

Why don't we do this in the US? Think about it. "Founding Fathers - The TV series." Make it like one of those popular modern Crime Dramas. Or like Firefly.

You have internationally jet-setting playboy Ben Franklin, the go to guy for strange possibly illegal things, smuggler John Handcock, web-comic artist and sculptor Paul Revere, the fans are off slashing Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr even though there's -nothing- going on, and Washington and his second-in-command Jefferson are trying to keep everyone together to get this Revolution going.

The bat-shyte insane fandom would be EPIC. /o\

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[morgan-idril.livejournal.com]

The problem that I see is that Japan is much closer to its history than the US is, in fact the US is busy shoving its past away since parts of it is embarrassing and heaven forbid there are white males involved. And yes there is embarrassing as the Europeans were not politically correct in their invasion of the northern American continent

[morgan-idril.livejournal.com]

Sigh... thought I had beta'd myself, guess not. Please to excuse very poor end sentence. ought to have been 'there is embarrassing behavior' or some such. I am preaching to the choir here I know.