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[–] 35 points 3 days ago* (6 children)

Whenever nobles tell stoopid peasants how to do basics in order to justify (to the audience) why they're in charge because they're so smart:

  • In Bridgerton, Duke Hastings returns to his manor to find it in disarray. He tells his peasants they have to let land lay in fallow so the ground can restore nutrients. The concept of fallow land was thousands of years old at this point, and even the 3 field system was 800 years old in Europe.

  • In Kingdom of Heaven, John of Ibelin (a French blacksmith) explains to native Palestinians how to irrigate their farmlands. Europeans learned irrigation from Arabs, not the other way around.

  • In a later season of Game of Thrones, Lady Sansa commands her soldiers to wear furs between their skin and armor so the metal doesn't sap their heat in winter. She tells this to soldiers from the land where winter lasts years.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    In Kingdom of Heaven, John of Ibelin (a French blacksmith) explains to native Palestinians how to irrigate their farmlands. Europeans learned irrigation from Arabs, not the other way around.

    yeah that's funny. people in the levant, egypt and mesopotamia were irrigating their fields back when western europeans were hunting with flint spears

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I took a different reading from that, though it may be due to differences between the theatrical cut and the directors cut. I interpreted it not as him showing them how to irrigate, but organizing the work and directing it to be done.

    The line "your father was important, his lands were not" suggests to me that this was not considered particularly good land worth capital improvements, hence why it had not had such a works built previously. Or, alternatively, it was badly administered land with an absentee landlord.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    That's an interesting interpretation, but not how the scene is actually presented. I love the movie, but it's a white savior movie in every respect.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    I wouldn't say my interpretation makes it any less of a white savior story. It still takes a quirked up white boy to believe in investing in something others had dismissed (motif repeated during the bit where he knights everyone at the defense of Jerusalem)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    In a later season of Game of Thrones, Lady Sansa commands her soldiers to wear furs between their skin and armor so the metal doesn't sap their heat in winter. She tells this to soldiers from the land where winter lasts years.

    Iirc, they're Reach soldiers, not from Winterfell. The Reach also looks like a cold place, with a lot of sheep, so I guess they still should know that.

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