Historical fiction can be great fun and a learning experience, too. Good historical fiction writers do lots of research. James Michener was a famous example. More recently come series like Rome, The Last Kingdom, Saving Private Ryan. You take a timeline with historical plot points and fill in the gaps. The further back you go, the wider the gaps and the more fiction to the history. Sometimes you just have people that history only says lived and events that history only says happened and nothing else, and away you go.
We know about the Templars, in general, but not in much reliable detail, so we take what we know and fill in the gaps with believable, plausible narratives. And here is the fraud of this Knightfall and of the History Channel. As others have pointed out, even things we know-historical facts-are presented falsely. About the only thing reliable about Knightfall is that there were Templars.
The moment I saw something billing itself as The History Channel running a series called "Ancient Aliens," I knew it was a fraud. That's fine, as long as you enjoy nonsense presented as if it were historical but don't kid yourself that you're being educated. But to take seriously the likes of this garbage is to buy into fraud.
We know about the Templars, in general, but not in much reliable detail, so we take what we know and fill in the gaps with believable, plausible narratives. And here is the fraud of this Knightfall and of the History Channel. As others have pointed out, even things we know-historical facts-are presented falsely. About the only thing reliable about Knightfall is that there were Templars.
The moment I saw something billing itself as The History Channel running a series called "Ancient Aliens," I knew it was a fraud. That's fine, as long as you enjoy nonsense presented as if it were historical but don't kid yourself that you're being educated. But to take seriously the likes of this garbage is to buy into fraud.