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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.
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.
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And Ragnar Lodbrok is the protagonist and sems about to almost single-handedly launch the great age of raiding, pillaging, plundering vikings terrorizing the Christian world. We'll see how it goes.
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Oh, my. That's an interesting take on it...
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Floki - when I read he was supposed to be a trickster character, I had hoped for a bit less of the giggling fool variety. Also, I'm sort of annoyed that he's basically the only character played by an actual Scandinavian, though at least nobody looked particularly un-Scandinavian (actually, I'm quite happy that we are not getting the all-vikings-were-tall-and-blonde stereotype).
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I'm wondering if Ragnar's visions are meant to be taken at face value. It seems a bit like the other characters don't feel quite comfortable with what he says he sees, so I'm wondering if it's meant to be a modern interpretation that he has some kind of cognitive atypicality.
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About the visions, maybe - or maybe the thought of a simple karl seeing visions of Odin, god of magic, berserkers and war, the god with a tendency to visit and shape new kings - well, that might make people worry a bit. Whether they think Ragnar is actually seeing Odin or if they think Ragnar might be building his own reputation, preparing for a bid for power. Now there's a thought...