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Both examples are weaselly worded. "The issue being that most assumed ..." is stating facts not in evidence. Also we have "...the character could more likely represent..." which is weasel wording and highly speculative. If we had Word of God stating who the character is supposed to be, that would be one thing, instead the example seems to be indulging in some mass assumptions and guessing. Personally I'd cut the whole thing, and move the fan reactions to a more appropriate trope.
Also, the word you want is "predictably" not "predictively".
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From YMMV.Vikings Valhalla:
- Fan Dumb: The reaction to casting African descended Caroline Henderson as jarl Haakon predictively stirred up disapproving reaction from history buffs and even more predictively from white supremacists. Several vloggers in both camps has created several videos about the real jarl Haakon. The issue being that most assumed the character to be a representation of Hákon Sigurðsson (more commonly known as Haakon jarl), while any one with access to wikipedia would quite quickly be able to tell that Hákon Sigurðsson was long dead and the character more likely represented his grandson Hákon Eiriksson. That confusion is pretty forgivable to a layman who would not know that there were 3 Hákon jarl (Hákon Sigurðsson's grandfather and grandson). But coming from people who claims to know everything about the viking age it comes off as very sloppy. Those who watched the show and knew of the figures would be able to tell that jarl Estrid Haakon barely resembles any historical or saga figure at all and it's very unclear if there was any serious intention from the writers to make her a representation of a historical figure.
For one, let's point out the use of a Flame Bait trope on YMMV. The entry is complainy in an unjustified way. First of all, Vikings does have a massive track record of Artistic License – History (and Valhalla is no exception), so mistaking Series!Haakon for whatever historical Haakon is far from being a dumb mistake. Many characters were placed out of their historical timeline: notably Ragnar Lothbrok and Rollo are brothers, while historically they lived almost a century apart and weren't even distantly related. Or, the historical Norwegian king Saint Olaf was "adapted" in the series twice: once as a pagan king in the original Vikings, then in Valhalla as a character closer to his historical self. I could make dozens of examples. And I'm less sure about this, but I remember also the Google engine erroneously identify Series!Haakon with historical Hákon Sigurðsson. With that in mind, it makes no sense that the entry wants to be eagerly targeting white supremacists and know-it-all history buff. The main purpose of the entry should be first and foremost to correct a wrong belief spread among the audience. And since the audience is mostly made up of Norse history enjoyers who may be knowledgeable, but don't have the presumption of being experts, there's no need to immediately talk about white supremacists and fake history buffs. Especially with a series deeply susceptible to Artistic License.Personally I'd rewrote the entry like this and put it either under Cowboy BeBop at His Computer or under Common Knowledge:
- The reaction to casting African descended Caroline Henderson as jarl Haakon predictively stirred up disapproving reaction from history buffs (and even more predictively, from white supremacists). Several vloggers created videos about the "real Jarl Haakon". The issue however is that most assumed the character to be a representation of Hákon Sigurðsson, who was dead before the events of the series, so the character could more likely represent his grandson Hákon Eiriksson. Either way, when the series was released, it was obvious that jarl Estrid Haakon barely resembles any historical or saga figure at all and it's very unclear if there was any serious intention from the writers to make her a representation of a historical figure.
Edited by gc10