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apricops:

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I\u2019m gonna pitch a show as \u201clike Game of Thrones but even more gritty and realistic\u201d and then it\u2019s nothing but a baron handling land estimates and organizing road repairs and stuff. There\u2019ll be an entire episode about how a peasant gets brought to court for letting milk cattle graze on communal pastureland even though it\u2019s supposed to be reserved for draft animals.

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nine hours of tapestry weaving and ribald jokes

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Subplot where the baron\u2019s heir is a free-thinker looking to the new ways and then there\u2019s a season 2 arc where he reconciles this to his inherited destiny by hatching a plan to build sawmills as part of a long-term campaign to develop a finished goods industry and make land clearance more cost-effective

But it gets abandoned in season 3 because there\u2019s not enough free capital with the duke\u2019s border-warring campaign on, and the season finale reveal is the duke is deliberately draining his vassals\u2019 resources to support his own ends whenever they\u2019re in a position to threaten his dynasty\u2019s supremacy

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