yeah, i wasnt fond of "the church is dumb durrhurr" even then, can do without the black and white cliches.
yeah, i wasnt fond of "the church is dumb durrhurr" even then, can do without the black and white cliches.
The Saxon Stories always viewed the church as a plague. The church and its priests are usually seen in deceptive and outright stupid acts. Father Beocca, however, represents the good and loyal side of the coin.
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"We're nice mainly because we're rich and comfortable."
see, thats still cliche, you got one good guy, who happens to be connected to the hero. #not all priests.
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"We're nice mainly because we're rich and comfortable."
we have people trying to be witty round here, and not being good at it, thats a cliche for sure.
and how can the church be bigoted, while the priest are not?
My point was just that the two actual priest characters we've seen (Beocca and the hostage dude) have been decent people. Background priests may have been :wub:s, but they remain just that; background priests. We don't know them, we probably never will. So far the priests have been decent fellows
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A better episode this week, though Utred is still behaving like an utter cad. It'll be interesting to see how they turn him around and make him likable, but it'll take some doing.
I doubt they will make him likeable.
Maybe likeable is the wrong word. Even an anti-hero needs some qualities that endear him to the audience. Ragnar (Vikings) is far from an angel but he has qualities that make the character likeable. Utred could be honourable without the petulance. Instead he's consistently self serving and throws a tantrum every time things go against him. He comes up with plans which could make his lot better and then makes a balls of them, he could at least be smart.
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He's a total , but the women are getting progressively hotter, so I approve of it all.
The most recent episode was really good
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I liked the finale but the ending felt a bit rushed.
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Hope it gets renewed. It is a good show in its own right, but what makes it even better is that it airs in the offseason between GoT and Vikings.
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Really enjoyed the show, damn good finale too. Was a bit worried they wouldn't make the books justice, but they really managed to make it good. I'd even say it's better than Vikings, though the latter has some fantastic battle scenes, TLK has a better overall plot imo (not surprising since it's based on a coherent story, unlike Vikings which is just a bunch of historical events and legends merged together).
just a little laugh, aparently this is "the thinking mans game of thrones" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...ne-review.html
seems now that a fantasy show dares being mainstream (for like, 5 years), the snobs are sharpening their monocles.
Never really got out of the made for TV vibe. It was okay but killing Utred's child to make him seem less of a tool was extreme and didn't really work for me.
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Roll on the return of Vikings.
Finished it.
I honestly found it watchable but pretty mediocre. Way too many caricature characters.
Loved it myself, cant wait for season 2. (tell me its getting renewed pl0x). Back then by watching the trailers and all i didnt think Alfred and Uhtred were casted well but i was quite happily mistaken, both actors did their job perfectly in my opinion.
Then, as throngs of his enemies bore down upon him and one of his followers said, "They are making at thee, O King," "Who else, pray," said Antigonus, "should be their mark? But Demetrius will come to my aid." This was his hope to the last, and to the last he kept watching eagerly for his son; then a whole cloud of javelins were let fly at him and he fell.
-Plutarch, life of Demetrius.
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The show was meh.
The person cast as Uthred didn't have the physical presence or temperament to pull of being a Viking Warrior. He looked more like a sculpted gym-bod instead of a strong man.
In addition, and whilst I liked that they attempted to bring authenticity into the battle scenes, they often failed to follow through with it. The final fight started fairly well, but quickly just degenerated into the same old hack-and-slash, every man for himself combat scenes we're accustomed to.