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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4997165" data-attributes="member: 35909">Newish show on the History Channel friday nights I just discovered.  I'm mostly looking forward to 12-11-09, when my hero and role model, Genghis Khan, is featured.  Though, the next week Alexander the Great is up, which will be interesting.  In school I only learned about how genius he was and all his accomplishments and spreading of Greek culture.  Since then, I've learned he was actually quite the sick <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, crazily killing his best friend in a dispute,  and allegedly even enjoyed hunting down and killing defenseless enemies like they were game animals, so...I'm curious to see how they portray him.Oh, right...about the show.  Seems the schtick of the series is evaluating if a demonized historical figure was truly evil, and if so...grading him, utilitarian style!  I like ancient/medieval history, I like evil, and I like hedonic calculus exercises to over-simplify morality, so it's a triple win in my book!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Tonight was Attila the Hun, and he wound up (spoiler!) being rated fairly evil due to no real goal or plan other than plundering and killing as its own end.  Which led me to believe that in the creators' eyes, killing "for a purpose" makes you slightly less evil.  These guys are Machievelli fans, too?  This show must've been MADE for me!If you've watched the more recent ancient history series on the channel, you're probably familiar with the CGI renderings of the people being covered, often portrayed as ridiculously muscular and badass.  Well, in this series it looks like they went for a more cartoony, simplistic art style which I actually enjoyed much more than the Battles B.C. alternative.  Then again, I like anime and am comfortable with cell-shaded graphics, as well as old-school 2D video games.  The visuals weren't quite like any of those per say...but they were...similar.  Hard to describe.  In any case, the show was fairly informative and entertaining, I recommend checking it out.  Anyone else seen it so far?</blockquote>

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