VIKINGS - A Race To Discover What's Out There - A Storm Is Coming 3/3/13 - Film, Television and Music

5 minutes :D hype train departing

awww yissssssssss

wow I completely forgot about this show. ill record it and watch it some time over the weekend, can't wait

Fucking Aslaug I'm on Team Lagertha 100%

Man, that was a fucking amazing episode. Other than being slightly disappointed at the short[sp]fight sequence at the start of the episode (rip Arne)[/sp]everything was set up beautifully for the rest of the season This is how you start off a new season. I can't wait to see[sp]grown up Bjorn, fighting alongside with his mother, King Ecbert, Jarl Borg being a conniving cunt, and more raiding in Western lands.[/sp] There's just too much to look forward to fuuuuuckkk

Spoilers ahead. [sp]The moment when Aslaug arrived with her maidens on the ship and Ragnar hid on the dock then the awkwardness that commenced was hilarious, couldn't stop laughing.[/sp]

That monologue by the water was really moving. Main actor is def good

the only tidbit that deeply bothered me was the obvious hollywood "charge" at the beginning of the battle they don't make a shieldwall, and then "charge" thats ludicrous

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;44085975]the only tidbit that deeply bothered me was the obvious hollywood "charge" at the beginning of the battle they don't make a shieldwall, and then "charge" thats ludicrous[/QUOTE] I cringed really hard when I saw both groups pick up the spears while in shield wall and charge each other, then every spear missed their targets apart from some random magically appearing cannon fodder dudes for death scenes and that's about it.

I finally saw the episode. It was great, though I'm disappointed at [sp]Rollo's quick change of mine in the first ten minutes of the second season when half of the first season was building up to his great betrayal. [/sp] Also, what was up with the topless ax wielders jumping clear over 3 rows of grown men fighting?

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44111716]I finally saw the episode. It was great, though I'm disappointed at [sp]Rollo's quick change of mine in the first ten minutes of the second season when half of the first season was building up to his great betrayal.[/sp][/QUOTE] Fucking Rollo make up your mind already. [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44111716]Also, what was up with the topless ax wielders jumping clear over 3 rows of grown men fighting?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker#Etymology[/url] I don't know what's up with them jumping over the others though. That entire 'battle' scene was terrible.

is it me or does episode 2 [sp]jump a good ten years, because i'm pretty sure that bjurn is like up towards his 20s easily[/sp] i wonder how far the timeline of this show will go

thread bump, got around to seeing ep2 poor ragnar, everyone is out to get him makes it all the more better when he stomps them out

Happy that they're finally [sp]heading back to England.[/sp] Though I'm a bit disappointed [sp]that the monk went full Viking. His character really is completely pointless now save for translating at times.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;44191639]Happy that they're finally [sp]heading back to England.[/sp] Though I'm a bit disappointed [sp]that the monk went full Viking. His character really is completely pointless now save for translating at times.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]I'm sure he'll probably relent somewhere later on[/sp]

Hoping so.

[sp]The whole Jarl Borg thing was really stupid imo, he lost a -shitload- of good fighting men for Ragnar's rather poor village, when he knows that Ragnar didn't even really want to not take him raiding[/sp]

I'm up to Episode 9 of the first season. I didn't really enjoy episode 8 but it's a great series so far.

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;44240829][sp]The whole Jarl Borg thing was really stupid imo, he lost a -shitload- of good fighting men for Ragnar's rather poor village, when he knows that Ragnar didn't even really want to not take him raiding[/sp][/QUOTE] Have to have a villain somehow, I suppose.

I'm a bit confused about the languages quite often. So when they're speaking english to each other, they're really speaking Danish but its so we can understand them and not resort to subtitles? But theres occasionally times they'll speak Danish and they're actually speaking it and theres subtitles iirc. Then theres times when they're talking to actual English speakers, so they'll actually speak English? Or if the character doesn't know it we get Danish? Is that the jist of it? Its a little confusing

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;44253774]I'm a bit confused about the languages quite often. So when they're speaking english to each other, they're really speaking Danish but its so we can understand them and not resort to subtitles? But theres occasionally times they'll speak Danish and they're actually speaking it and theres subtitles iirc. Then theres times when they're talking to actual English speakers, so they'll actually speak English? Or if the character doesn't know it we get Danish? Is that the jist of it? Its a little confusing[/QUOTE] At that time there was no "English" as we speak it today. None of the characters are speaking actual, modern English, even "the English" in what isn't even England yet. Though I think subtitles would be a lot easier of they just stuck to the Vikings speaking English for us to understand and all others speaking their own with subtitles. It would add to the perspective of the Norse being in a new, foreign land I think.

i believe it's a mixture of english and danish so we remember that they are actually not speaking english, but the show was designed for english-speaking crowds. then they throw in other languages when speaking to englishmen, who didn't quite speak english at the time, but also as a reminder that they don't speak the same languages just yet. pretty neat in my opinion. hell, i'd even love an entirely subtitled show with it being in old norse. but that's just me.

[QUOTE=Pops;44255169] pretty neat in my opinion. hell, i'd even love an entirely subtitled show with it being in old norse. but that's just me.[/QUOTE] Not just you. I think that would be pretty damn neat.

[QUOTE=Pops;44255169]hell, i'd even love an entirely subtitled show with it being in old norse.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I would too but it would require a substantial amount of more resources. First you need a good translator that can both translate and teach the actors how to pronounce the sentences. Actors would also have to take extra time to learn their lines. That one line Floki says, "Oss fylger han" is like a rawer markup of "Han kommer med oss". It works pretty good and I think that would be enough to use stuff like that because old norse would mean a lot more work.

I hope that one guy was being sarcastic about giants living on the island. It's not like when the Roman Empire fell apart everyone suddenly got stupid and didn't know what happened or what was a hundred or few hundred years ago. Especially with the church's long arm into everywhere. People knew some history and people at courts of kings definitely knew history.

Well, a few hundred years in backwater lands can certainly warp history into legend, imagine your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers telling stories through each generation in a world without the internet or publicly consumed books or easy to obtain knowledge, its like the telephone game on steroids

Never mind, I finally got around to seeing the episode and saw what you were talking about and I sort of agree but I also maintain my original position slightly. Until Alfred's time, education in the Isles was quite stagnant, and its possible that that specific earl was a dumbass or was being sarcastic

I watched the whole first season this week, thought that it might give it a try. I don't really know what to think of the series. The series looks amazing and so are the costumes, the whole setting is really great. The basic premise is really simple and great but somehow I can't get into it. Characters are really boring and the plot advances so slowly, also Ragnar is a pretty unlikeable main character imo. Don't know if I should continue watching this, it's pretty boring at times. The music is great though.

I agree with you for the most part, except for the fact that I think the actor who plays Ragnar is [I]really[/I] good and he is the only thing that keeps me watching it.

Personally, I don't think he's charismatic or anything. He's annoying to me and looks like a clueless child at times. But he's a good actor nontheless, don't like the person though. The issue is that everything happens so slow and characters don't stand out that well. Beards and axes alone don't make them badass enough. The only character which I find really interesting is the christian priest that got captured. I also want to see what happens in England, not some war between Jarls.