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> is so often used as evidence of some type of historical precedent. Wait till you see Bridgerton. Ive had a teenage girl mentionthe series of an example of

> is so often used as evidence of some type of historical precedent. Wait till you see Bridgerton. Ive had a teenage girl mentionthe series of an example of "how things were".

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
The sad/bizarre thing is that I've seen a number of serious articles/commentery that Queen Charlotte was actually black or biracial, which is basically invented nonsense. Even if you give too much credence to a piece of her ancestry 15 generations back, given all the intermarriage of European royalty, most of Europe's royals have Madragana as an ancestor, including King George III. I think this is especially sad because there are much more fascinating true stories of European nobility with Sub-Saharan ancestry, e.g. the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was black.
- jfengel 5y ago
  The series is consciously playing with race. Certainly Charlotte didn't look like that, but her slightly-mixed racial background was inspiration for designing the character that way. Similarly, her costuming is patterned after pre-revolutionary France. Other Regency-period movies are probably more accurate with respect to people's complexions -- pasty white, uniform, and bland. Bridgerton isn't designed to give you a photograph of what you might see were you in the Regency court. Rather, it's designed to give you a sense of what it might have felt like: diverse, colorful, exciting. To focus on Charlotte's face is to miss the ways in which everything about the show is inauthentic -- the clothing, the language, the dances -- but also deeply in love with the period that inspires it. The couldn't have played with the tropes so consistently without knowing them very, very well. There is also a lot more to be said about the way real race affected real people at the time. We should have more TV shows and movies, rather than this being the only one.
  - ungamedplayer 5y ago
    Can we just take a moment to appreciate the small band accompanyment that covers modern music while maintaining respect to the original.
kergonath 5y ago
> Ive had a teenage girl mentionthe series of an example of "how things were". Hell, there are people who say that about Game of Thrones. Enough for it to be a somewhat regular topic on ACOUP.

> is so often used as evidence of some type of historical precedent. Wait till you see Bridgerton. Ive had a teenage girl mentionthe series of an example of "how things were".

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago

The sad/bizarre thing is that I've seen a number of serious articles/commentery that Queen Charlotte was actually black or biracial, which is basically invented nonsense. Even if you give too much credence to a piece of her ancestry 15 generations back, given all the intermarriage of European royalty, most of Europe's royals have Madragana as an ancestor, including King George III. I think this is especially sad because there are much more fascinating true stories of European nobility with Sub-Saharan ancestry, e.g. the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's great grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was black.

jfengel 5y ago
The series is consciously playing with race. Certainly Charlotte didn't look like that, but her slightly-mixed racial background was inspiration for designing the character that way. Similarly, her costuming is patterned after pre-revolutionary France. Other Regency-period movies are probably more accurate with respect to people's complexions -- pasty white, uniform, and bland. Bridgerton isn't designed to give you a photograph of what you might see were you in the Regency court. Rather, it's designed to give you a sense of what it might have felt like: diverse, colorful, exciting. To focus on Charlotte's face is to miss the ways in which everything about the show is inauthentic -- the clothing, the language, the dances -- but also deeply in love with the period that inspires it. The couldn't have played with the tropes so consistently without knowing them very, very well. There is also a lot more to be said about the way real race affected real people at the time. We should have more TV shows and movies, rather than this being the only one.
- ungamedplayer 5y ago
  Can we just take a moment to appreciate the small band accompanyment that covers modern music while maintaining respect to the original.

kergonath 5y ago

> Ive had a teenage girl mentionthe series of an example of "how things were". Hell, there are people who say that about Game of Thrones. Enough for it to be a somewhat regular topic on ACOUP.