About Vikings

Okay, so I am not jumping for joy yet - the characters need more fleshing out and there are things that are perhaps a tad easy to predict in the narrative (like where exactly they are going to go raiding considering the year). It's very much - it shows the world of the Northmen as seen through their own eyes I'd say, or at least it tries, so the protagonist, Ragnar Lodbrok, sees visions of Odin, as an example. And there are bits where it's pretty clear that this is for the History Channel and wants to explain things: for instance, we get an explanation of how the vikings navigated. And there were bits I disliked, but overall - overall, it's okay.

I'll keep watching. The setting is pretty good (I suppose it must be supposed to be Norway, even if the mythical/historical Ragnar Lodbrok was supposedly Danish, but Denmark never had such mountains (then again, the mythical/historical Ragnar Lodbrok slew a dragon, too... - and anyway, he lived later than this is set, if he could run around and besiege Paris half a century later)), and I am hopeful that the characters and plot will grow more interesting as the story unfolds.