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Originally Posted by BooG690
The fact that Capone is in Boardwalk Empire makes it all the more interesting imo.
In a way it certainly does, but I feel like they should have gone full fiction and fabricated entirely new characters. They could still use everything of the time, but make it with all new identities so we don't always know who the Capone is, who the Rothstein is, etc
At least they have some leeway with Nuck being partially fictional. Rome did the same thing with Lucius Vorenus and it worked. Caesar, Octavian, Brutus, and Antony were certainly interesting characters, but they worked best when the real plot lines revolved around the entirely fictional Vorenus. Nuck is the same way, but I feel BWE is different than Rome in that everything really did revolve around Vorenus, but in BWE there is great potential for things to not revolve around any key character like Nuck.
If the roles were entirely fictional, we would be thinking "omg Rossetti could kill everybody, even Capone, and the evil scumbag will become the greatest kingpin of all time omg omg." But now we can't think that because we know the history
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