Historicity of _American Primeval_

[Brent Metcalfe]

Y'all may find this discussion illuminating...

https://www.youtube.com/live/6mcd7FNeSv ... _z2sZbt4k9

[Fence Sitter]

Please, sir, visit us more often. Your contributions to exposing the truth about Mormonism are legendary.

[I Have Questions]

Y'all may find this discussion illuminating...

https://www.youtube.com/live/6mcd7FNeSv ... _z2sZbt4k9

What are they key things you think it illuminates?

[Brent Metcalfe]

Please, sir, visit us more often. Your contributions to exposing the truth about Mormonism are legendary.

You’re very kind. My time is limited given other projects. A couple of weeks ago Mormon Stories and Mormonism Live collaborated on a podcast interviewing me...

https://www.youtube.com/live/G6le6mltJw ... rvq9C6oo_b

[Brent Metcalfe]

Y'all may find this discussion illuminating...

https://www.youtube.com/live/6mcd7FNeSv ... _z2sZbt4k9

What are they key things you think it illuminates?

Pretty much everything... both Barbara and Darren lay out in detail where the TV series goes astray historically.

[I Have Questions]

What are they key things you think it illuminates?

Pretty much everything... both Barbara and Darren lay out in detail where the TV series goes astray historically.

I don’t think the intention was to produce a historically accurate documentary. The article I link to below gives an insight into what the director and producers were trying to achieve, and how and why they produced scenes inspired by real events.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ ... -explained

Berg and Smith worked with cultural consultants to depict both the peoples and the period as accurately as possible, while taking creative license to center the story around the fictional Sara (Gilpin) and Devin (Preston Mota), a mother and son hurriedly journeying across the frontier to Utah, where the boy’s father lives.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ ... lor-kitsch

Were people expecting a Discovery Channel documentary?

[drumdude]

Were people expecting a Discovery Channel documentary?

BS:

Dr. Park says the show isn’t trying to be accurate--it’s using historical people and events to tell a fictional story that explores a broader question of humanity.

A fictional story that is so wide of actual historical accuracy and, accordingly, so harmful to the reputation of real people (and a real people) should probably use fictional names

Won’t someone think of the good name of Brigham Young??

[drumdude]

FairMormon has released a "fact-checking" webpage dedicated to the series:

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/hom ... n-primeval

I'm eager to watch the show when I have some spare time. I've skimmed through the Mormon Stories video in the OP, and googled a bit about the show.

I have to admit it seems like Lindsay Hansen Park may have allowed the show to portray early Mormonism as much more violent than it actually was. At one point in the Mormon Stories video above (1 hour 10 minutes in), they're even laughing at how historically inaccurate it is.

I hope we get to hear from Lindsay herself soon.

[Gadianton]

Will have to take this a piece at a time. So far the message seems to be that the horror of the act was significantly worse in real life and the movie downplayed it, and the movie overplayed the involvement of the Indians. Seems like the Church got off easy.

[Moksha]

Y'all may find this discussion illuminating...

https://www.youtube.com/live/6mcd7FNeSv ... _z2sZbt4k9

What are they key things you think it illuminates?

That American Primeval was a fictional story based loosely on a few historical events (so it does have a leg up on the Book of Mormon which contained no historical events).

This will be heyday for Mormon apologists to assert that their fictional story was better because it allowed their prophet Joseph Smith to act caddishly, and their Church to become the richest in the world while remaining tax-free and controlling the lives of millions of adherents.

Brent is right about the illumination bit.