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I't overall pretty solid for a turkish-made TV drama for a wide audience. Most of the big facts check out with the academic books I've read about it, and the CGI and set design brings parts of the city alive, which is good. Most of the acting is pretty good, and the casting of Constantinos XI is excellent. Overall, the Romans are portrayed pretty favourably/heroic.
Most gripes I had with it are this:
- The overhead CGI shots show a large Constantinople, with most ancient monumments intact. We thorougly know this wasn't the case in 1453.
- Loukas Notaras is portayed as a coward and traitor, while he played an important part in the defence of the City.
- The costume design was apparently subpar, according to people smarter than me.
- It is triumphalist, and fails to show the sacking and pillaging of the city. That was an essential part of the story that is barely shown.
- I thought the emperor lived in a war tent next to the walls, not in his palace (though I'd have to look it up to be certain)
- little nitpick, but who decided that that ugly-ass bust of Constantine should have been used in so many close-ups?!
Either way, compared to other Turkish productions about the Siege, it's miles ahead in terms of prodduction quality and biases IMHO
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multiethnic empire with the monarchs from the Ottoman dynasty (1299–1922)
Factsheet
(c. 1299–1331)
Nicaea (İznik)
(1331–1335)
Bursa
(1335–1360s)
Adrianople (Edirne)
(1360s–1453)
Constantinople (Istanbul)
(1453–1922)
(c. 1299–1331)
Nicaea (İznik)
(1331–1335)
Bursa
(1335–1360s)
Adrianople (Edirne)
(1360s–1453)
Constantinople (Istanbul)
(1453–1922)