If you are going to portray yourself as history, as something that is supposed to represent reality, then you need to be accurate to the people and events. It doesn't mean that every nitpicky detail needs to be correct or that you cannot spin a different interpretation--but major events should not be out of order (or ignored, even if men…
If you are going to portray yourself as history, as something that is supposed to represent reality, then you need to be accurate to the people and events. It doesn't mean that every nitpicky detail needs to be correct or that you cannot spin a different interpretation--but major events should not be out of order (or ignored, even if mentioned only in passing) or that the characters should not act/behave in ways that we know they did not.
If you are doing Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure kind of stuff, then anything goes--because you aren't pretending to actually be historical.
A big part of it is what are setting people up to expect.
OTOH, dwarves without beards (be they male or female) in a movie set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth are just WRONG, LOL.
If you are nitpicky about historical accuracy, I strongly recommend that you do not watch much (or even any) "historical fiction."
If you are going to portray yourself as history, as something that is supposed to represent reality, then you need to be accurate to the people and events. It doesn't mean that every nitpicky detail needs to be correct or that you cannot spin a different interpretation--but major events should not be out of order (or ignored, even if mentioned only in passing) or that the characters should not act/behave in ways that we know they did not.
If you are doing Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure kind of stuff, then anything goes--because you aren't pretending to actually be historical.
A big part of it is what are setting people up to expect.
OTOH, dwarves without beards (be they male or female) in a movie set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth are just WRONG, LOL.
If you are nitpicky about historical accuracy, I strongly recommend that you do not watch much (or even any) "historical fiction."