Organizing as a World Building Process

I was actually talking to ruthie gilmore about this recently as it relates to story telling in television shows, which i love. It sometimes feels with some of these historical shows that bear almost no relation to actual vikings or whatever historical figures they're depicting. As entertainment goes, that's usually fine, since most of us watching either don't know or won't care much about the deviations from reality. Professors and history buffs might get annoyed, but most people won't care. But i do often wonder how much better some of those stories would have been if they existed in their own worlds on their own terms. In the real world, when the stories we tell do not connect