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Ragnar returns.
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You know it.Still in love with Logatha/Lagertha/whatever it really is!
Yeah, great reaction by Kalf when she wields the knife. At first it's like "Yeah, that's my woman" then he realizes that could be him if he ever crosses her.Still in love with Logatha/Lagertha/whatever it really is!
MikeIke said:Rollo, Rollo, Rollo... How could you?
hopefully sooner rather then later the needed Ragnar vs. Rollo happensIts only like the 5th time he's flipped on Ragnar, no wonder he was upset at Bjorn for leaving him behind.
Rollo sure is the dandy now. Looks like he could try out for membership in the BeeGees. I didn't realize they had hair driers back in the dark ages.
The rescue the queen fight scene at the end of last week was really good.
I am the exact opposite. I am struggling with this season so far. It seems like they have way too many smaller story lines going right now.
Really enjoying this season so far.. Tough to top the Paris battles last season, but this one is getting close to being my favorite season so far
I am the exact opposite. I am struggling with this season so far. It seems like they have way too many smaller story lines going right now.
Other then last season where there was basically one story line .. Attack Paris, this has been the easiest season for me to follow..I am the exact opposite. I am struggling with this season so far. It seems like they have way too many smaller story lines going right now.
The son of the King of Wessex was sent to retrieve the son of Ragnar and hier to a neighboring ally. I don't get the Wessex story line this season. Last I remember the King ordered his son to slay all the Nords who were promised land and were settling in farm land? Then the story moves on to just Paris for the seige and now we are brought back to a un-nord settled story line. I'm guessing it is for future story with the son of Ragnar, but am I missing something?I'm a little lost. Who were those people in that scene where the child is freezing and the man (Aethelwulf maybe?) feeds the mother and tells her "You must live"?
Interesting. He just killed one bear and now...Had a feeling he wasn't going to kill Floki.
The bear scene was pretty cool - looking forward to the showdown vs the Beserker next week. Think he called him the beserker?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BerserkerEtymology
The name berserker derives from the Old Norse berserkr (plural berserkir). This expression most likely arose from their reputed habit of wearing a kind of shirt or coat (serkr) made from the pelt of a bear (ber-) during battle. The bear was one of the animals representing Odin, and by wearing such a pelt the warriors sought to gain the strength of a bear and the favor of Odin.
The element ber- was sometimes interpreted as berr-, meaning "bare", which Snorri Sturluson understood to mean that the warriors went into battle bare-chested, or "without armor" as men of Odin.[5] This view has since been largely abandoned.[6]
That was hard to understand. Maybe the wanderer represents infidelity in a general sense - the women staying at home whoring around while the men are off in battle?Ragnar and the rest got their a$$es handed to them by trader Rollo.
Now Ragnar is addicted to the Chinese herb and completely lost it..
The whole wander/prophet sleeping with Ragnar's wife but Floki has visions he is doing her was very confusing...
Read that earlier in the thread by others.. and yet, for me it was easier then other seasons. .. well until the whole Floki doing Ragnar's wife but not really as she was doing the Wander after he just did another broad in a barn.Not into this as much this season. I have 5 episodes on the DVR waiting to be watched. It seems like there are way too many story lines going on and I am having a hard time following.
The whole episode was a bit off, which sucks, as it was a pretty cool point in the plot.Read that earlier in the thread by others.. and yet, for me it was easier then other seasons. .. well until the whole Floki doing Ragnar's wife but not really as she was doing the Wander after he just did another broad in a barn.
Easily the least interesting season so far.Gr00vus said:This season has gone steadily downhill since Bjorne took care of that "berserker." Some really lazy/bad writing this season.
It's all over the place, and not in a good way. They've tried to game of thrones this thing, when it should have just focused on Ragnar and his sons - maybe the start of Normandy would have been o.k., but I don't need the perspective of all the other kings. Just take it from the Viking perspective. And this thing with the Chinese woman - apart from the low likelihood of a Chinese woman being anywhere near that part of the world in the first place, and having a seemingly copious stash of opium that somehow never got confiscated while she was slave traded all the way to Sweeden, of course she's a daughter of the Chinese emperor.Easily the least interesting season so far.
Yea, the Chinese thing is very and I can do without the Ragnor the Junkie thing too.It's all over the place, and not in a good way. They've tried to game of thrones this thing, when it should have just focused on Ragnar and his sons - maybe the start of Normandy would have been o.k., but I don't need the perspective of all the other kings. Just take it from the Viking perspective. And this thing with the Chinese woman - apart from the low likelihood of a Chinese woman being anywhere near that part of the world in the first place, and having a seemingly copious stash of opium that somehow never got confiscated while she was slave traded all the way to Sweeden, of course she's a daughter of the Chinese emperor.
If you're not avoiding "spoilers" (and this assumes the show will stick to some of the main points of the legend) check out Ragnar's (and his sons') "history" on wikipedia. I imagine the Vikings and the British Isles will meet again in the show (if they get renewed).I am having a hard time figuring out why they are spending time in Mercia. For a while, I thought it had to do with Monk or the Vikings coming back... but the Monk is dead and the Vikings seem to have no interest in going back to the British Isles.
I am not as up on my Norse history as I could be. I do know how they used some historical people and rolled them into the characters we have and how some of it actually plays out in history such as with Normans/Normandy and the eventual conquest of Britain by the Normans which I found interesting. I know bits of history for Ragnar, the sons and Rollo but missing big chunks. I think I rather keep that way for now.If you're not avoiding "spoilers" (and this assumes the show will stick to some of the main points of the legend) check out Ragnar's (and his sons') "history" on wikipedia. I imagine the Vikings and the British Isles will meet again in the show (if they get renewed).
O.k., suffice it to say, I think there's a strong probability that the show has Vikings revisit the British Isles if the series continues.I am not as up on my Norse history as I could be. I do know how they used some historical people and rolled them into the characters we have and how some of it actually plays out in history such as with Normans/Normandy and the eventual conquest of Britain by the Normans which I found interesting. I know bits of history for Ragnar, the sons and Rollo but missing big chunks. I think I rather keep that way for now.
What's the guesstimate on how many years went by? How is Bjorn not king by now? Dd they just all sit around waiting on him to come back, or is Aslaug ruling as queen?Now THAT was a finale !!
Freakin fantastic
Remember seeing somewhere that 7 years had passed.What's the guesstimate on how many years went by? How is Bjorn not king by now? Dd they just all sit around waiting on him to come back, or is Aslaug ruling as queen?
I always find it funny how main characters are able to find each other in the middle of a battle and have a personal fight scene. But, man, what a knock down brawl that was.