Who followed the first season "Vikings?" The mythology of Ragnar Lodbrok? Its set for 10 more espisodes starting in February. Wow?
Filmed in Ireland, Vikings is inspired by the tales about the Viking Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the best-known Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of France and England. It portrays Ragnar as a Viking farmer who pioneers the first daring raids into England with the support of fellow warriors, his brother Rollo, and his wife, the shieldmaiden Lagertha.
Now how about Viking religion?
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Mmmm…. Ragnar…
That is one delicious hunk of man meat.
I have to pick up the DVD of the first season, since I missed the last episode. But I’m ridiculously glad they brought it back for another series.
I’ve been reading more into the Vikings lately. Fascinating people. Truly. Not the rabid barbarians everyone makes them out to be. Well, at least not completely. ^_^
I’m looking forward to the second season. The first season ended with my jaw hitting the floor.
Great first season.
Looking forward to the second.
also wondering where to get some of those ‘religious’ mushrooms they like to eat . . .
When you find out, pass the word. And the shrooms
I watched a couple of episodes but it just wasn’t grabbing me, sadly.
@Darth I watched a couple of episodes but it just wasn’t grabbing me, sadly.
Often the first shows are more about character development. This was one to stick with. Wow.
I get Amazon Prime streaming video so I saw all the last season and we were stuck by episode 3 and started watches 2 or 3 at the time.
The last two were killers.
@MadMadMax “Often the first shows are more about character development.”
Yes, but if I’m not caring about the characters, at least to some degree, by a couple of episodes then there’s no motivating reason for me to continue watching.
I felt that way about The Wire and I found it hard to understand. then I gave the show a second chance.
You can be introduced to the characters but its what they do and the world they live in that can really change your mind big time.
Seek: I knew Athelstan was in trouble from the beginning of that episode. He seems a bit thick; kindly but thick sometimes.
The way I see it is that my time is a valuable resource to me. If I’m going to spend that resource watching television then I want to watch stuff that really grabs me and reels me in. If it’s not hooking me by a couple of episodes in then I don’t particularly wish to keep watching in hopes that I’ll like it eventually when I could be spending my time watching or doing something that I’ll find more immediately enjoyable.
Awesome! Thanks for letting me know! I loved that series and feared it had vanished!
I haven’t actually watched a single episode. Not that I’m not interested, far from it. I really want to see this. But I don’t have cable, so I’m stuck waiting for DVD releases, or until they put it up on the PlayStation Netweork, or on Crackle. yeah, fucking right
It’s on my list of things to stream one day, along with Game of Thrones and The Tudors, both of which I have heard are great but I just don’t have time now. One day, when I’m stuck in the house…...
@jca
‘The Tudors’ was excellent, in my opinion. Never watched ‘Game of Thrones’ (not real big on fantasy, which surprises some, considering my love of Tolkien and Robert Howard’s Conan).
What I heard about The Tudors is “great costumes, great jewels, great sets, great locations, great sex.” Sounds like a must-see to me!
Pretty much. It’s also a pretty cool story and fairly well written and acted as well. The only thing is they’re squeezing 30 years of history into less than 40 roughly one-hour episodes, so the pacing is a little…I dunno….you just don’t really get a proper sense of time. There can be spans of months in a single episode and of several years between episodes. The fact that the production didn’t do much to really make the characters look like they’re aging (apart from different beard and hair styles) doesn’t help this. But that is a minor blemish on an otherwise outstanding series.
By the way “Vikings” was created and written by Michael Hirst who also wrote and produced the films Elizabeth (1998) ( Cate Blanchett),
and Elizabeth:The Golden Age (2007) (Cate Blanchett) ,
and he was the creator and writer of “The Tudors.”
Regarding Game of Thrones. While it is fantasy, it doesn’t feel like it goes too far in that regard. I read two of the novels before I saw the first Episode and it sucks you in and feels like the high middle ages. I have a useless but completed masters in Medieval History and I adore Game of Thrones. I don’t pick at it – it’s art. It’s enthralled me and it is so fresh.
I was raised on Tolkein and I love him. I have the LOTR in a collectors DVD and then bought it in Blu-ray. So I’ve read it at least 4 times and read to my kids page by page but I have to say, I feel compelled to see the new Hobbit films and just saw the Desolation of Smaug and I’m burned out. The Hobbit should never have been stretched out to make three three hour films.
The end of the book could have been the end of the last film. I can’t believe they are going to suck three more hours out of a chapter. The Hobbit’ Part 3 release date is officially set for 2014 – Oh no!
They lost me completely. Little guys running up and running down and ending up on cliffs forty times and too dark in the 3d glasses—I wanted to blow my brains out.
Now he’s making The Silmarillion. That was virtually unreadable. It’s an author’s wiki. Yikes. A franchise that is killing a classic.
@MadMadMax “Now he’s making The Silmarillion”
No he isn’t. No way in hell. Not while Christopher Tolkien is still alive at least.
I love the Sil. And there’s enough actual sappy crap in there he won’t have to invent new characters to please the female audience.
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