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Oct. 18th, 2024 03:16 amI just saw someone with a post about period dramas, and guess what!
Every single show they mentioned was a fantasy show! Game of Thrones, Merlin, etc.
Those are not period dramas, because they do not take place in a historical period. They are fantasies, and more than that, every single one of them was a secondary world fantasy! (I consider Merlin to be a secondary-world fantasy because it has nothing to do with what the actual historical period Arthur would have lived was actually like.)
Something can be a period drama and a fantasy; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes to mind, as does Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Although people rarely refer to them as "period dramas," they tend to get exclusively classed as fantasy stories.
If Game of Thrones and Merlin are period dramas, then so is Star Wars, Star Trek, and every other SF/F story that's not set in the present day.
Every single show they mentioned was a fantasy show! Game of Thrones, Merlin, etc.
Those are not period dramas, because they do not take place in a historical period. They are fantasies, and more than that, every single one of them was a secondary world fantasy! (I consider Merlin to be a secondary-world fantasy because it has nothing to do with what the actual historical period Arthur would have lived was actually like.)
Something can be a period drama and a fantasy; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes to mind, as does Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Although people rarely refer to them as "period dramas," they tend to get exclusively classed as fantasy stories.
If Game of Thrones and Merlin are period dramas, then so is Star Wars, Star Trek, and every other SF/F story that's not set in the present day.
