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As a history lover myself who has spent thousands of hours on reading books, watching documentaries&shows, 'Ottoman Rising' didn't satisfy me at the end.
The reason is that I have found the show covering just the surface of events and not detailing anything from strategy, characters, battles, politics of the era, previous conflicts&alliances between europe, byzantine and ottomans. The short history documentaries about the conquest of Constantinople on youtube are much more satisfactory and reflect the history in much more detail.
Also I didn't like acting a bit except for 'Emperor Constantine' and 'Prince Mehmed'. They were the only ones who acted according to events that surround their characters.
And for the last one the show tried to stay away from Turkish&Greek conflict and hold a neutral ground but that again caused unrealistic characters. That was a medieval war and rulers had to be unjust, cunning, violent and brilliant for glory. I could not see any of these characteristics especially for Mehmed the Conquerer.
But at least it was a decent try and watchable but it's far away from the perfect 10/10 score.
score 6/10
altugozhan 25 January 2020
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31-1-2020 01:29:10
