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Alexander: The Making of a God (2024)
Is it intentional?
I am starting to notice a pattern.
You watch a Netflix series about some true historical figures, and you are shown some admirable things about them. The aesthetics are beautiful. You finish watching it, and you feel satisfied, and are glad to have been told an interesting chapter of history that you now feel you "know from beginning to end".
Then you later find out, through reading either the primary sources (or reading other people's reviews, as in the case of this series) that the series was actually wildly inaccurate, and in a suspicious way. A ton of really epic stuff was just LEFT OUT. They also added a lot of inaccurate stuff that makes the characters look bad.
The end result is that the story, and the characters portrayed, were watered down and made mediocre in the series, contrasted to the actual real story.
I've seen this with the abominable series "The Last Czars", and now also with this Alexander series. I also Notice that there is some overlap between these 2 series, regarding the writers behind them!
I can't help but wonder if this is done intentionally, to wipe away our history? As an analogy, it's like people going to see a huge epic temple that they've heard about, but someone has set up a cheap mediocre replica on the way, so that the people will stop there instead, and not see the real one.
The Last Czars (2019)
Don't believe any of it
I fell in love with this series the first time I watched it, and it made me interested in the Romanovs.
After reading primary sources about/by the Romanovs and the last days of Imperial Russia, and re-watching the series afterwards, I was horrified to discover that the series is the most dishonest knavish piece of slander you can possibly imagine.
There are a billion things which are omitted, falsely implied, based on wild arbitrary speculation, based on unreliable sources, and sometimes just invented out of thin air, in order to make the Romanovs seem like mediocre people (they even slander the children), and to create the impression that the "revolution" was something the Russian people in general supported, because they were sick of the czar, etc. Absolute horse****
One of the historical "experts" used for commentary in the series is even considered a really bad Romanov historian by the mainstream normie sources. I'm not kidding!
Why do you think Russian Christians today venerate this last Romanov family so much? Because they were a billion times more noble people, and had so much richer lives, than what you see in this series. Read the primary sources. If you can even find them....... A good introduction book: The Romanov Royal Martyrs.