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Alexander: The Making of a God: Death or Victory (2024)
Some improvements, some more faults
Was reading another review that complained that the actors were too tall as ancient people were smaller (did they want the entire cast to be bolivians?), the battle scene was pretty lame and unhistorical and then went on for 3 paragraphs about macedoian sarissa pikemen. Agreed about the battle, was very messy and felt small. They mentioned that cavalry was important and you could kinda see pikemen maybe in the background but just felt very lame and not well made. Feels amaturish and made the stakes feel low. Also alexander was brutal no problems with that but alexander in the show executes the captured greeks on the persian side when actually he sent them back as slaves. Also that terible curved sword the perisan kind had
There were in a way more things to like in this episode though, alexander and hephaestion's visit to the tomb of achilles who he looked up to a lot, and the fact that alexander actually seemed to have some gravitas. They included how reckless alexander could be to. Some of the persian clothing was better in this episode to. Still same general problems as the last episode.
Alexander: The Making of a God: The Boy King (2024)
Mediocre
People are acting like there saying the holocaust didn't happen in this show, i understand its kinda confusing as its a bit of a soap opera mixed with actual histoians explaining parts but its not thaat innacurate. There are a great deal of historians who do believe that alexander and hephaestion were lovers due to how close they were and how he became hysterical and depressed after his death. I mean this is a guy who very happily killed family members and friends and massacred cities but the death of hephaestion was very different for him. I think they should have been clearer about it but its not as bad as people are acting. I have a far bigger problem with the lack of any mention of alexanders previous military experiance, his schooling under aristotle and the clothing (especially the persians, eeek not close). So in total, this first episode is meh, mainly dissapointed about the lack of historical depth, the costumes and how uncharismatic alexander seems, like jeez this is a guy who convinces his men to take on the largest empire in history (at this point)