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I'm glad they killed every character I dislike in one scene
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Apr 8, 2013 03:21
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Old guy ruled. "Yeah, so I was too badass to die when I was younger so...uh, yeah."
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Apr 8, 2013 03:27
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So I'm assuming that Ivar the Boneless made his "debut" tonight?
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Apr 8, 2013 05:03
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He hasn't even raided France, which is practically like...the main storyline for Ragnar. Plus his sons are kinda too young or not born enough to lead the Great Heathen Army.
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Apr 8, 2013 14:42
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The guy that plays Floki is just amazing.
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Apr 15, 2013 03:25
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I nodded in approval when Old Guy went down.
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Apr 15, 2013 03:52
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:What happened to the fuckton of cavalry? Did they all just dismount and the horses gallop away? Yeah, they did. The Northumbrians seem to have no idea what they're doing.
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Apr 15, 2013 04:03
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Every time people start getting hit with axes, I'm afraid Floki will die
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Apr 16, 2013 00:51
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The good guys are clearly Ragnar because without Ragnar we'd probably call Thursday something stupid. Jovisday or something I bet.
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Apr 17, 2013 19:15
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Family Values posted:Pretty sure the Vikings of this time period would be no match for the Franks of this time period. Its within living memory that Charles Martel shattered the Muslim armies at Tours, and that's back when the Muslim armies fell into the "invincible and unstoppable" category. Tactically, technologically, and numerically, the Vikings wouldn't have stood a chance against a Frankish army at this point. Also, realistically, Christianity is probably the major reason why have a cultural lineage that stretches back to ancient Europe because the Muslim armies wouldn't have broken a sweat against a fragmented Europe.
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Apr 21, 2013 23:40
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Is anyone other than Floki wearing corpse paint? Is he the semi-historical mythic figure that invents black metal?
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Apr 22, 2013 03:08
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Arglebargle III posted:I just remembered (from reading Wikipedia earlier in the week) I'm just waiting for Ivar to be born, so that we are ensured hot blood eagle action when he kills Ælla.
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Apr 23, 2013 14:14
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that the historical Ragnar was actually supposed to have a son named Bjørn so I looked him up
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BrianWilly posted:This may be an obvious question in retrospect, but is it really all that important for Ragnar to have more sons? Doesn't he already have one? Which do you want: one son to avenge the eventual death of his father or a pissed off hoard of sons to avenge his death, then collapse in on themselves fighting over the wealth he left behind?
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Apr 24, 2013 02:04
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Deadpool posted:http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/04/the-cast-of-historys-vikings-all-cleaned-up/ Floki looks like some nerd that designs furniture for Ikea and lives in a house where everything is white and angular.
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May 1, 2013 05:40
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So in that awesome beach battle wherein Rollo (I think it was Rollo) was reciting a poem of some manner, while Floki was hatcheting people to death, is that poem, like, a real poem? Because it sounded awesome.
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Jul 21, 2013 21:24
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If you're a human being, your ancestors were probably murders and rapists anyhow so that they could have survived the crappier parts of human history to give rise to you.
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Nov 15, 2013 03:51
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Out of all the stuff that happened in season 1, I think the "so...you still Christian" scene at Uppsala is my favorite. Guy asks that third time and the Priest is like  Or at least he should have been, because I'm not no Bible scholar but I remember that coming up somewhere in there.That and literally everything Floki did.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:13
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As a Catholic, this is an accurate depiction of what you want to do when you taste communion wine.
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Feb 28, 2014 01:49
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What sort of offering should I be making to Eir right now 
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Feb 28, 2014 04:14
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Floki's been mixing it up since always! He was hacking guys up with two little axes over in England. Helga's my favorite of the ladies. She seems nice. After a long, hard day of putting axes in people's faces, I'd like to have someone waiting for me with a wet animal skin to wipe the blood from my brow and a skull full of hot bear meat ready for me to eat. Also to keep me from doing things like volunteering to be sacrificed and cram hot irons into my wounds.
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life is killing me posted:As far as shield maidens, I can totally buy the rational explanation, or inspiration really, for "shield maidens." I didn't know there was anything on which the mythology was based in regards to them. That's pretty cool. Never seemed like much of a stretch to imagine that either real women saw combat and inspired the idea of valkyries or that valkyries came first and women went into combat because of that. Speaking of, did they say that Aslaug's mother was Brynhildr? Wonder if that was just the name or if they were like "my mom was a demigod." I mean, it can kinda go either way here.
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Mar 1, 2014 06:54
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savinhill posted:I hope Floki becomes the most unlikely teen heartthrob when all these girls start watching. Unlikely? More like completely reasonable.
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Mar 3, 2014 22:01
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Brennan posted:I think holding a hot knife like that is a poor decision Now he has a scar shaped like that knife if he ever needs a pattern for one, like the Nazi in Raiders, so he's clearly planning ahead. Dvsilverwing posted:Wow those all his kids? You say that like a guy like Ragnar wouldn't be boning all day every day.
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Mar 7, 2014 04:19
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I can't wait for them to get to England. I mean, its fun seeing them doing their stuff at home, but that's fun like how the draft and training camp is.
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Wessex eh? Yeah they got pretty far off course.
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Mar 7, 2014 05:02
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In the long term, it's going to be really interesting to see how they handle throwing Ragnar into a snake pit, given that he's the main character and you don't kill off the main character...like ever, unless its the end of the series. Also, we were talking about the show at work today and I got to semi-coin the term "Chekhov's Snake Pit."
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Mar 8, 2014 00:56
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I imagine at this point that Floki is more of a manager than anything else. He probably works directly on Ragnar's ship because 1) Ragnar's riding in it and 2) so is Floki. But more walking around the wood directing other guys which trees to cut down and inspecting finished parts going into ships. Wasn't Floki holding a baby in one scene too?
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Mar 8, 2014 21:10
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Pinky Artichoke posted:Was it confirmed or just a theory that Rollo is meant to be the Rollo that founds Normandy, even though in real history he was not contemporaneous with Ragnar? It makes Siggy's continuing existence make more sense to me if so. Being baptized as Robert seemed like a pretty major yes to the idea that he's that Rollo.
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Personally, I figure the history is so uncommonly known its best to treat it like a spoiler. I mean, it's not like...the Bible where literally everyone watching it knew Jesus gonna get crucified.
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darthzeta88 posted:gently caress you I wasn't done with that book yet. I'm pretty sure they even mention it in the back cover blurb.
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Mar 11, 2014 01:00
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I love how Floki is practically non-human when he's in raiding mode. Like an alien or something.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:21
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Man, I kinda wanted to see Siggy throw down.
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Mar 14, 2014 03:49
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Brennan posted:So you want to see her get killed? Regardless of the outcome, I'd have been entertained
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cheerfullydrab posted:I'm excited about (preview spoilers) Ragnar hanging out in Ecbert's schemin' pool. What got me about that was...so is that before Ragnar tries to go back to his place and finds out it burned down? Sash! fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 18:52
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DarkCrawler posted:This show's imagining of Charlemagne would be great. Egbert is already badass as hell. You know, I knew that plenty of guys would be squatting in Roman-era construction or repurposing their buildings. But for some reason I never thought of the baths still working and still being used.
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Mar 16, 2014 00:47
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Ragnar looked about as uncomfortable as I would look as I eased into a pool with a naked guy
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Mar 21, 2014 03:14
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I'm not a doctor of lifeology but I'm pretty sure he'd have died by now
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DarklyDreaming posted:Crucifiction was a slow, agonizing method of execution that usually took hours or even days seemed like an awful lot of his blood was already on the outside of him!
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marktheando posted:Well, about Jarl Borg- (episode title spoilers) episode 7 is called Blood Eagle.... I can't believe they're going to blow the blood eagle load so early in the show. Now it'll be all been there done that when we get to see Aella all blood eagled by Ivar the Boneless after Ragnar goes into the snake pit.
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