One thing I’ve noticed is that at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction and fantasy.
I didn’t learn about vaudeville or butter churns or knights in school, I saw them in media.
Gonna add The Last Kingdom to this list. Super cool show about the Viking invasion of England in the 11th 9th century, it’s got like 5 seasons and a movie to cap it off. Highly recommended.
It could be that making kids’ content with historical settings could be too fraught to bother with: either you include the problematic stuff and people get mad at you for exposing kids to it, or you exclude it and people get mad at you for whitewashing history.
Yeah, I remember when scifi was this niche thing on TV and now it’s literally everywhere. I blame the Doctor Who revival for bringing it to the masses, as well as Key and Peele pairing amazing CGI with their surreal sketches. It set a new standard of what could be entertaining
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One thing I’ve noticed is that at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction and fantasy.
I didn’t learn about vaudeville or butter churns or knights in school, I saw them in media.
There’s still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:
Gonna add The Last Kingdom to this list. Super cool show about the Viking invasion of England in the
11th9th century, it’s got like 5 seasons and a movie to cap it off. Highly recommended.Edit: I’m a dummy 🤪
At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!
I didn’t say there was none, I said that it had gone from being ubiquitous to being rare.
Also, none of that is aimed at children.
This is a silly argument, but:
Reminds me of https://archive.org/details/banned-cartoons
It could be that making kids’ content with historical settings could be too fraught to bother with: either you include the problematic stuff and people get mad at you for exposing kids to it, or you exclude it and people get mad at you for whitewashing history.
Or (perhaps more likely) such shows are still being made and you just haven’t noticed. “Peabody’s Improbable History” may no longer be around, but kids today have “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum” instead, for instance.
Yeah, I remember when scifi was this niche thing on TV and now it’s literally everywhere. I blame the Doctor Who revival for bringing it to the masses, as well as Key and Peele pairing amazing CGI with their surreal sketches. It set a new standard of what could be entertaining