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If you’re looking for something anachronistic and weird, you’ve come to the
right place. The Elizabethan Era ran from 1558 to 1603, during Queen
Elizabeth’s reign. The Victorian Era started in 1837 and ended in 1901. They
are both iconic periods in Great Britain’s history, but vastly different as
they were separated by more than 200 years. The technology here is hard to
get a grasp of. Not only are we dealing with stuff that they were using
nearly a millennium ago, but they’re juxtaposed by each other. When you walk
into a building, you never know if it’s going to be lit by gas lamps, or
incandescent bulbs. It could be both! Which, I mean, it’s not like they
destroyed all the gas lamps when they invented electricity, did they, innit?
People walk around in all sorts of different clothes. They all looked alien
to me, but I could tell that some of them were really old, and some were
really, really old. The architecture is a mix, of course, with wooden
cottages and natural stone buildings right next to giant even-stoned
factories. Again, I’m sure a lot of the old stuff still existed in the new
era, but the way they have it organized so randomly, it seems very forced
and intentional. I’m not sure if I was supposed to learn something here, but
it was fun to spend an afternoon getting a look around. I don’t think I
would want to spend a lot of time there, though. I don’t much care either
way, but I went with a historian friend, and they didn’t like it. They would
prefer a historical dome to be accurate. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like
they were shocked and appalled. The design was very clear in the prospectus,
and you know they read that whole damn thing, because I waited for them to
finish it while we were sitting in the vactrain station. They told us that
it was intentionally incongruent, and in that goal, they delivered. That’s
all you can ask sometimes, innit? (Hey, am I using that word right? I don’t
even know.)
PS: Please read my friend’s review. They actually know all the historical
and cultural stuff that kind of flew over my head anyway.
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