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Post by Morgana on Dec 29, 2018 8:58:11 GMT
Unlike other, I couldn't enjoy the battle to a tiniest bit due to Alfred's poorly given speech. Sure, neither is the actor Keneth Branagh, nor the writers like William Shakespeare, but this was lousy at best. It took out the pace and the momentum. Furthermore he is just woefully portrait of a king compared with King Alfred from "The last Kingdom". And that Ivar could kill the Seer without witnesses....his hut is in the middle of the settlement, his prominence, and there are also too many witnesses among Ivar's men. Too many to kill off all, hence, sooner or later one of the soldier will talk...and then hell will brake lose. If Ivar has killed the Seer, what must he have told Ivar...the people will go nuts about it. In the long term a huge mistake. And did Harald lose any men at all considering these many and fully staffed boats. And was the idea of the fire to prevent this flight? I wished for a better pace and a clear victory, as clear and striking as Agincourt. Was this brawl Edington?! Except for Ubbe and Lagertha there is no one to root for. Ivar sucks Harald sucks Brooding Björn sucks Wimpy Alfred sucks Floki sucks Ivar sucks now - he could have been interesting. Harald - he did become King of Norway so why Hirst has chosen to make him an idiot, I do not know or understand. Wimpy and boring and useless Alfred - sucks. Floki - who was one of my favourite characters in the show - sucks. I stopped watching half way through episode 11 and haven't watched since then. I feel Vikings has lost it's way. Ragnar should never have been killed off the way he was. Why Hirst does these huge time jumps is beyond me. They have added nothing. Perhaps it would have been interesting to see Ragnar's sons grow up and take over from him, but gradually, not in the stupid way Hirst did it.
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