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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1590287" data-attributes="member: 5171">The "Good Empire" wouldn't really interest me.  Or at least, not any more so than any other show.  The key is whether it's done well.There've been a fair number of TV shows that are "told from the point of view of the villain".  They tend to do really well with people who are so entrenched in the genre in question that they are tired of the standard tropes, but they rarely generate enough mass appeal to last very long.  "Action" on Fox was beloved by TV critics and TV insiders, and went nowhere.  There was also something called "Profit" that was supposed to be dark and evil and brooding and depressing and intelligent, and... it also went nowhere.I'm perfectly willing to read another book about an evil empire and a bunch of plucky o'ermatched heroes who fend them off with skill and courage, as long as it's done well.  Modessit's Corean Chronicles seems to be doing it well so far -- small country that is trying to survive while a big country tries to take it over.  The big country is definitely the antagonistic side, but it has perfectly logical and not-evil reasons for what it does.I'd much rather have that than a poorly rendered "Good Empire being attacked by Evil insurgents" with stock characters and no moral ambiguity and villains who drool and hurt children and chew the scenery.</blockquote>