Shogun was adapted from a book by the same name written by James Clavell who wrote a series of historical fiction books that took place in different times in history.

The series stayed pretty faithful to the novel from what I remember, so the person your replying to’s complaint doesn’t really make much sense in that context.

[–] vogo13@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh I'm well aware that it was "adapted" from a novel which was quite terribly written, they essentially tried to take from the novel which bastardized history while staying true to the real story which obviously makes no sense. Shogun is an awful fantasization of the story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, James Clavell is an idiot whose books should have stayed dead. It was a great opportunity to right wrongs and portray history correctly, yikes. Rome is another terrible TV example of fictionalizing history when there is plenty of real content to take from.

[–] LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

I only ever read Shogun but I remember enjoying it.

Of course, what you call “bastardized history” everyone else calls historical fiction and I thought it seemed to do a good job of mixing history and fiction.