About as ridiculous a historical piece as I've ever seen but why bother any more. Judging from the reviews most people don't know any more about american history than they do about china. So you can't really expect hollywood to produce anything intelligent because 1) they're just as ignorant as their consumers, 2) anything else, no one would understand anyway. What's particularly annoying though is how the producers spend so much time and effort getting period accurate, like in the dialog and technology of the time and then completely get other things so wrong in the interest of being entertaining. And because, they get a flintlock rifle period correct, their consumers then assume everything else is historically accurate, aka dumbed down. So for example, a hundred years before plymouth, francisco pizarro with fewer than 200 men defeated thousands of incans and capture their emperor, Atahualpa, with no casualties, according to eyewitness accounts. There's probably some exaggeration but we know for a fact that pizarro marched his men all over latin america for years and most of them made it back to spain, and they didn't have any better skillset than the pilgrims at plymouth rock. But, in this soap opera, we're supposed to believe that these europeans showing up in the americas were in constant fear of a stone age people? But, not afraid of wearing heavy armor to row hundreds of yards in unknown water. Yes, the pilgrims struggled but it was because they brought 1600s skillsets to a land where people were still hunter/gatherers. Native americans were flourishing in the america. We often respect but denigrate native american people because most tribes in the north american were not formed into civilizations similar to european history but still, the people here flourished and were well adapted; much better than the early europeans. The part with Samoset where he breaks into this hollywood pidgeon english dialect so cliche of how hollywood views native americans, is where I got off the bus. I can't understand though why native americans put up with this nonsense. Is it because of tourist dollars? Are they making money off this cartoonish portrayal of their culture? Or, are they just as ignorant as the rest of country?
Review of Saints & Strangers
