To show that GMA is serious about the cultural and hsitorical aspect of the series, a documentary special was shown to show to the viewing public the effort the network had gone through to make sure of the historicity of the series.
Historians were consulted to make sure that the character had some historical parallel. Anthropologist, archaeologists and other experts were interviewed to add authority to the claim of historical accuracy to the settings and the implements etc.. Ancient Filipino languages experts also contributed their knowledge of ancient Filipino language so that the dialog would be appropriate for the time setting. Hence, the dialogs are anachronistic.
DepEd and National Historical Institute even promoted the program for its historical and cultural value. Blah,blah,blah...But they missed one important and obvious detail.
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| For heaven's sake, she is a meztiza. I have nothing against Marian, but she looks like a Spanish seniora, an alien (not that alien). |
The fictional epic (as in epically inspired by Korean epic historical TV series featuring epic historical women) was supposed to be set in the Visayas before the coming of the Spaniards. Hence, common sense, or logic, or my brain, tells me that pre-Spanish Filipinas should look like pre-Spanish Filipinas.
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| This is how I imagine a pre- Spanish, pre-Vicky Bello, pre-Glutathione Filipina should look like. |
What I mean is that I believe, even historians, anthropologists, archaelogists, biologists and lobotomists would agree with me that meztizas were not supposed to exist before the Spanish era.
Of course, they have artistic and creative freedom...I am just asking!
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