Vikings: The Lord's Prayer

[oneiriad]

I just randomly love the background parts of Kattegat - everyday life just going on.

Points for stating the obvious, Floki. Trust me, she probably knows better than you...

Did the actress playing Horik's wife really need to give her character such a thick, Hollywood-Swedish accent? It makes me cringe just to hear it and reminds me of The Producers - and it's Swedish! Why the hell is she apparently Swedish???

I'd really like to know about Bjorn's pretty necklace - I simply cannot place the pattern. I wonder if it might be a replica of something, like so many other props on the show?

And random naked people dancing pagan dances - wanna bet that's cut in the US version. Not cut - dressed. Oh well...

Dammit, Floki - stop being mean to the tiny viking.

Athelstan, did somebody drug you again? Why aren't you cuddled up with Ragnar somewhere - doesn't he know not to let you wander by now?

Dear Floki: kill Horik! Dammit.

I think Athelstan's hungover - sitting apart from the others, holding his head. Awwww.

I don't think I've encountered the idea of Hel being divided that way before - usually it's right/left, now above/below. Nice image, though.

No, not Torstein - and out of all the people he could have picked! Rollo would have made sense as vengeance, Athelstan as religious motivated - but Torstein? Torstein who Helga mentioned as their friend even before Ragnar. Torstein, Floki's friend, part of the secondary OT3. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Unless - please tell me it's a trick. Please tell me Floki arranged with Torstein to pretend to be dead, yes? Yes? Pretty, pretty please with a monk on top?

Horik is making me more and more satisfied to know that he is the one that gets wiped off the face of this earth - that he is so forgotten in the North that the only sources we have for his name is from abroad. He never existed up here.

Well, on the upside Ragnar finally got his threesome (and doesn't he look smug about it). On the downside, it's the wrong threesome for my tastes. --- And apparently the US cut that???

I wonder what Siggy was before she was Haraldson's wife. I mean, for a society where family mattered so very much, where knowing your ancesters generations back mattered - most of the characters in this show feels oddly - dangling?

Hey, Thorunn knows kung-fu? Where the hell did she learn that?

I wonder if it's coincidence that Bjorn's necklace looks so very much like a cross? He did have a monk for a babysitter during his formative years, and he has spent years in Hedeby, close to the border to Christian Europe.

Oh my, bossy tiny viking. I like it :-)

I am constantly surprised that Kattegat has any population left, considering. There must be something about that population explosion theory...

Yay, fierce tiny Christian viking. Good for you, Athelstan!

Yay! Death to the crappy, Swedish accent!

Torstein!!! YAY!!!

HAIL KING RAGNAR! (Okay, I don't think he's actually king yet - he needs to go around and be hailed king, and negotiate and things, but I doubt the show will care about such details. It seems to like its Klingon promotions.)

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[doolabug]

Yeah, I got no naked pagan dancing or threesome! God damn these hypocritical Puritan bullshit sensibilities. Let's blow the shit out of someone with an AK47 but seeing a boob will send us all to Hell .

So, who was the threesome?

[oneiriad]

Ragnar/Aslaug/Lagertha - not the threesome I'm cheering for, but we make do with what we get (and write fanfic about the rest). I posted some screencaps of the scene on my tumblr - http://oneiriad.tumblr.com/post/84539337766/from-the-international-version-of-vikings-i - it's not that there's even anything to get really offended at, apart from Ragnar's smug smirk...