#002 - Historical Fiction

More errors, more crows, more side-tracked tangents! This week we talk about historical fiction, or fictional history, or both!


Ending music is Never Found by Ronin Narasu. soundcloud.com/ronin-narasu/never-found

[Index]
00:19 - Defining "Historical Fiction" and "Period Pieces".
06:12 - Are Westerns considered Historical Fiction?
12:46 - Historical Fantasy and the difference between Historical Fiction and Historical Fantasy.
20:36 - A brief chat about the show notes of the previous episode (Riveting).
29:28 - Talking about the setting of Conan.
35:30 - Favourite Historical Fiction work.

[Error Log]
03:43 - Neither of these series were produced by the BBC, and I (Greg) could not remember or find any which were. However, if you know of any, please let us know! ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE
09:30 - Westerns were at their high point in the 60's and 70's, not the 70's and 80's. ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE
27:10 - 1602 features Queen Elizabeth, not Queen Victoria. ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE
30:24 - The Hyborian Age is roughly 20,000 BC to 9,500 BC, not 40,000 BC. ERROR LEVEL: IRRITATING (Would be ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE if not for the repetition)
33:44 - The Conan works were originally written in the 20's. As I (Greg) was getting into the topic of Marvel Comics, I was thinking of the Conan Comics they put out in the 70's (which I totally recommend). ERROR LEVEL: MISLEADING.

[Fun Facts]
8:24 - Fun Fact: A Fistful of Dollars is an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo.

[Historical Naval Shows:]
(*) Hornblower, a series of British television dramas (7 total) produced from 1998 to 2003, following the captain Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
(*) Sharpe, another series of British television dramas that follow a soldier named Richard Sharpe (played by Sean Bean) during the Napoleonic Wars.

#001 - Introductions

Our three hosts introduce themselves, talk about some of their favorite media, and make horrible mistakes! "This is where it all began..."


EPISODE INDEX:
01:40 - Introducing the three core members of the Open Field podcast. Trevor says um excessively, Cat-the-not-cat laughs a lot, Greg actually describes himself well.
04:24 - Definitive works for each of us.
11:12 - Greg just up and ruins /everything/.
16:20 - A fairly lengthy chat about Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
20:46 - It seems like we were about to talk about Kiera Knightly movies but then it turned into a discussion of historical fantasy films and games, Pirates of the Caribbean and Assassin's Creed in specific.
24:22 - Conclusion, we coincidentally come across the (now) name of the podcast and then everything gets meta. Smooooth Jazz. Closing music is Twenty at BrownStone by Amon26, off his album Gravity Mako. (amon26.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-mako)

ERROR LOG:
03:43 - Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of eachother. What we were thinking of was homonyms. [ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE]
05:33 - Phantasmagoria was released 2 years after Myst. [ERROR LEVEL: NEGLIGIBLE]
16:57 - Master and Commander was /not/ Ridley Scott, yet we continue talking as if he was for the rest of the conversation. I have a feeling this is going to make someone somewhere very angry. [ERROR LEVEL: BUT THAT'S WRONG]