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Oh, wow, it's actually winter for once. Colour me shocked. (For a show purportedly set in Scandinavia - and northern Scandinavia at that - winter tends to be surprisingly absent...)
Dear Ragnar, what are you doing with that rat?
Jep, Ecbert likes Athelstan. Everybody does. Maybe he really is a mutant?
Is that sorry-looking boy the kid that got all shy when Ragnar said hello back then? The age fits. Hmmm...
And a snake - somebody needs to make a gifset of Ragnar and his pets: the hounds from the first season, goats, the eagle, the snake (and Athelstan, of course).
And I proceed to get distracted during Floki and Helga's scene by the view of Floki's workshop.
Of all the times this show might have a Northman backing away from saying things straight...
Dear Jarl Borg. Horik's got you fooled too, hasn't he. Anyway, if you kill Ragnar and make Rollo Earl - do you really think he wouldn't avenge his brother?
Why am I adoring Bjorn's attempted courtship? Him a love sick little fool and at the same time so earnest and nice, and poor Thorun, who knows perfectly well how the story goes, when the master's son grows interested in a slave girl. So why do I like that plotline?
Oh, dear: Rollo said. On one side that's a callback to Rollo's actions back with that poor slave girl, and Athelstan talking about the difference between slave and free, but still. Oh Rollo. Did you have to? Even if it's just words?
Why is everything pregnancy in this episode scary and doomed?
I wonder if Floki and Ragnar are working together to see who would carry the story of their falling out to Horik? Hmmm...
On one hand, I'm wondering why King Ecbert isn't inviting Aella into his bath - on the other hand, I'm kinda grateful for it. :-)
And we're constrating the solemnity of the Christian marriage with the wild joy of Floki's - of course, Floki and Helga are a love match if ever there was, unlike poor Aethelwulf and Judith, who are arranged and probably wasn't even asked their opinion at any point. Well, maybe Aethelwulf was, but Judith? Never a chance.
Rollo Lothbrok? Rollo Lothbrok?! Dammit, show, that is not his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, look - the weather wane! The one they also used on Havhingsten fra Glendalough. Cool - though bad Floki, giving pretty things to Horik. Also, I don't think you usually had both a weather wane and a dragon's head?
Oh my, that's a lot of Clive Standen's naked skin. I wonder (goes off to check) - nope that scene starts later in the US version. Poor babies, missing out on the nice, loving part of the sex scene. and cutting straight to "You're hurting me".
Oh my - Ragnar's taken to bathing and talking. Ecbert's rubbed off on him.
This whole Ingstad business would have worked better if they hadn't spoiled it completely in a promo. Still: HAIL EARL LAGERTHA!!!!!!!!!!
(And I quietly wander off to rant about how a woman did not take her husband's name and Lothbrok was a personal nickname and bloody hell, Michael Hirst just doesn't get old Norse naming traditions, does he? Anyway, let's hope Ingstad was just Lagertha's trick, shall we?)
I am sorry Athelstan missed the wedding - but I am really, really glad he missed the eagling. Such slow, loving torture.
Dear Ragnar, what are you doing with that rat?
Jep, Ecbert likes Athelstan. Everybody does. Maybe he really is a mutant?
Is that sorry-looking boy the kid that got all shy when Ragnar said hello back then? The age fits. Hmmm...
And a snake - somebody needs to make a gifset of Ragnar and his pets: the hounds from the first season, goats, the eagle, the snake (and Athelstan, of course).
And I proceed to get distracted during Floki and Helga's scene by the view of Floki's workshop.
Of all the times this show might have a Northman backing away from saying things straight...
Dear Jarl Borg. Horik's got you fooled too, hasn't he. Anyway, if you kill Ragnar and make Rollo Earl - do you really think he wouldn't avenge his brother?
Why am I adoring Bjorn's attempted courtship? Him a love sick little fool and at the same time so earnest and nice, and poor Thorun, who knows perfectly well how the story goes, when the master's son grows interested in a slave girl. So why do I like that plotline?
Oh, dear: Rollo said. On one side that's a callback to Rollo's actions back with that poor slave girl, and Athelstan talking about the difference between slave and free, but still. Oh Rollo. Did you have to? Even if it's just words?
Why is everything pregnancy in this episode scary and doomed?
I wonder if Floki and Ragnar are working together to see who would carry the story of their falling out to Horik? Hmmm...
On one hand, I'm wondering why King Ecbert isn't inviting Aella into his bath - on the other hand, I'm kinda grateful for it. :-)
And we're constrating the solemnity of the Christian marriage with the wild joy of Floki's - of course, Floki and Helga are a love match if ever there was, unlike poor Aethelwulf and Judith, who are arranged and probably wasn't even asked their opinion at any point. Well, maybe Aethelwulf was, but Judith? Never a chance.
Rollo Lothbrok? Rollo Lothbrok?! Dammit, show, that is not his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, look - the weather wane! The one they also used on Havhingsten fra Glendalough. Cool - though bad Floki, giving pretty things to Horik. Also, I don't think you usually had both a weather wane and a dragon's head?
Oh my, that's a lot of Clive Standen's naked skin. I wonder (goes off to check) - nope that scene starts later in the US version. Poor babies, missing out on the nice, loving part of the sex scene. and cutting straight to "You're hurting me".
Oh my - Ragnar's taken to bathing and talking. Ecbert's rubbed off on him.
This whole Ingstad business would have worked better if they hadn't spoiled it completely in a promo. Still: HAIL EARL LAGERTHA!!!!!!!!!!
(And I quietly wander off to rant about how a woman did not take her husband's name and Lothbrok was a personal nickname and bloody hell, Michael Hirst just doesn't get old Norse naming traditions, does he? Anyway, let's hope Ingstad was just Lagertha's trick, shall we?)
I am sorry Athelstan missed the wedding - but I am really, really glad he missed the eagling. Such slow, loving torture.