Historical Accuracy in TV and Film

[grumbler]

You must have really hated A Man for All Seasons

Not much historical accuracy there, but it was an excellent mor[e]ality play for all that.

[Ed Anger]

I wish he'd have the treecat rape Honor Harrington. There would be a 20 page infodump on the Treecat and it's junk though.

[crazy canuck]

You must have really hated A Man for All Seasons

it was an excellent mor[e]ality play for all that.

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe you mean the episode "First Contact," which was pretty good and didn't involve Picard's first devolution into unbelievable action heroism and Star Trek's worst, most ruinous villain concept, the Borg Queen.

Nor destroy official Star Trek canon dating to TOS concerning Zephrem Cochrane.

Alternate timeline!

[Iormlund]

Also one thing I've always been curious about is what happens when a plot point is around a foreign speaking character obviously from a certain country-what happens when it comes to that country's version?

When possible the character is given a new country of origin. For example, in the Goonies there is a scene with a Mexican maid who doesn't speak English. In the Spanish (Castillian) dub, she's Italian instead.

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting.

[Syt]

Hans Gruber is not German in the German dub of Die Hard. He and his cronies have English names and they're basically terrorists for profit, not ideals.

[The Brain]

Hans Gruber is not German in the German dub of Die Hard. He and his cronies have English names and they're basically terrorists for profit, not ideals.

Great. Timmyesque alt-hist.

[jimmy olsen]

Been a long, long time since I've seen Die Hard (at least 10 years) but wasn't that their actual motive. I thought the real reason behind their plan was so they could break into and rob some kind of vault in the building. 

[The Brain]

Being English isn't a motive. Hmmm, unless they needed the money to fix their teeth.

[Eddie Teach]

I can't tell for sure, but nothing glaringly wrong with them.

[The Larch]

Been a long, long time since I've seen Die Hard (at least 10 years) but wasn't that their actual motive. I thought the real reason behind their plan was so they could break into and rob some kind of vault in the building. 

They used a fig leaf of political extremism to engage in plain thiefing. IIRC, Hans Gruber asks for the release of "revolutionary comrades" jailed all over Europe as a way to earn time to crack the safe.