Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jan 17, 2019 14:07:31 GMT
Episode 5.18, 'Baldur'.
**spoilers below**
Hvitserk & the Viking sauna storyline with King Olaf (who he thinks is a Buddha)? Not overly interesting. Though I did find it mildly amusing that Hvitserk was looking for some sympathy after his travels but was simply instructed to strip and then was going to get sauna'd to death. And poor Thora! See, Hvitserk, this is why you don't leave your girlfriend behind with your unstable (to put it mildly) brother. The burning to death sequence was pretty horrible to watch, and I hated that Thora died in such agony - but at least she got to tell Ivar off beforehand, explaining why Ragnar was awesome and Ivar...isn't. Yet again Ivar can't handle the truth, and decides to kill the person who tells it like it is. You suck, Ivar!
I cared even less about Harald Finehair and Bjorn gaining yet another wife in Gunnhild (though I don't mind her character - she looks like she could kick *both* their arses).
Magnus, meanwhile, has gotten super annoying with his try-hard "I am Viking! I'm a Son of Ragnar!" crap. He's like that kid in school who wants to hang out with the 'cool' crowd and just doesn't belong. I hope someone offs him/shuts him up soon.
The Floki-land storyline has been boring as Hel...but it was nice to get a glimpse at the Floki-of-old this episode when he made this threat to Viking Edge who murdered everyone last week:
‘The man I once was would have dug my axe in your head only enough to make you unconscious. I would burn your wife and force your remaining son to cut off your balls and make you eat them. And as you slowly bled out, the last thing you would see would be me raping your son, not knowing if I would show him the mercy of killing him.’
Now, if we could've seen more of that^ Floki in this storyline, maybe it wouldn't have been such a bore. And now it looks like Floki's going to disappear into a cave.
I also want to see Ubbe kick the arse of that King who didn't side with him and who he challenged with hand-to-hand combat.
And now, the moment I'd been waiting two/almost three weeks for...Lagertha's return! Well, those complaining about how she looked should finally shut up now, since she was looking pretty rough this episode (I hope she doesn't go full-on Seer mouth).
It was especially sad to see she'd gone all crazypants (and got a haircut?) since we last saw her. I would've much rather spent the last two episodes seeing what she'd been up to than half the stuff we actually got. The best part, though, was her getting to 'see' Ragnar's death. Although she wasn't actually there when it really happened, this gave us the closest we'll get to seeing her be there for the death of her husband (and it was good to see Travis Fimmel's Ragnar again...even if it was archive footage. I liked how they inserted Lagertha into the scene). It was pretty mind-trippy (especially when she started speaking with other characters' voices). Thankfully, though, she seemed to calm down a bit later on at dinner with Judith, Alfred, and Alfred's wife (who I'm not a fan of. I'm sure why, but I think she's kinda shifty). I would've hated to see Lagertha being crazy for the rest of the season - though we might still get that. We'll see. She deserves better than to end up a crazy person. I was sad to here her say she was no longer Lagertha: Shieldmaiden (though I did like Alfred referring to her as Lagertha: Queen of Vikings).
I found it kind of amusing that when Judith confessed to killing her son, the others didn't really bat an eye. And how nice of Lagertha to streak blue paint over Judith's face (especially given what she'd been saying about the colour blue just prior to that).
Lastly...Ivar the hypocrite. Spent most of his life whining about being abandoned by Ragnar as a baby because he was deformed...then does the same to his own son, Baldur. I really want to see Ivar die soon (though I know that's probably pretty unlikely), but if a slow agonising death for Ivar isn't on the cards...then at least have his son grow up to be as much of a bastard to him as he's been to everyone else - that'd be quite fitting.
**spoilers below**
Hvitserk & the Viking sauna storyline with King Olaf (who he thinks is a Buddha)? Not overly interesting. Though I did find it mildly amusing that Hvitserk was looking for some sympathy after his travels but was simply instructed to strip and then was going to get sauna'd to death. And poor Thora! See, Hvitserk, this is why you don't leave your girlfriend behind with your unstable (to put it mildly) brother. The burning to death sequence was pretty horrible to watch, and I hated that Thora died in such agony - but at least she got to tell Ivar off beforehand, explaining why Ragnar was awesome and Ivar...isn't. Yet again Ivar can't handle the truth, and decides to kill the person who tells it like it is. You suck, Ivar!
I cared even less about Harald Finehair and Bjorn gaining yet another wife in Gunnhild (though I don't mind her character - she looks like she could kick *both* their arses).
Magnus, meanwhile, has gotten super annoying with his try-hard "I am Viking! I'm a Son of Ragnar!" crap. He's like that kid in school who wants to hang out with the 'cool' crowd and just doesn't belong. I hope someone offs him/shuts him up soon.
The Floki-land storyline has been boring as Hel...but it was nice to get a glimpse at the Floki-of-old this episode when he made this threat to Viking Edge who murdered everyone last week:
‘The man I once was would have dug my axe in your head only enough to make you unconscious. I would burn your wife and force your remaining son to cut off your balls and make you eat them. And as you slowly bled out, the last thing you would see would be me raping your son, not knowing if I would show him the mercy of killing him.’
Now, if we could've seen more of that^ Floki in this storyline, maybe it wouldn't have been such a bore. And now it looks like Floki's going to disappear into a cave.
I also want to see Ubbe kick the arse of that King who didn't side with him and who he challenged with hand-to-hand combat.
And now, the moment I'd been waiting two/almost three weeks for...Lagertha's return! Well, those complaining about how she looked should finally shut up now, since she was looking pretty rough this episode (I hope she doesn't go full-on Seer mouth).
It was especially sad to see she'd gone all crazypants (and got a haircut?) since we last saw her. I would've much rather spent the last two episodes seeing what she'd been up to than half the stuff we actually got. The best part, though, was her getting to 'see' Ragnar's death. Although she wasn't actually there when it really happened, this gave us the closest we'll get to seeing her be there for the death of her husband (and it was good to see Travis Fimmel's Ragnar again...even if it was archive footage. I liked how they inserted Lagertha into the scene). It was pretty mind-trippy (especially when she started speaking with other characters' voices). Thankfully, though, she seemed to calm down a bit later on at dinner with Judith, Alfred, and Alfred's wife (who I'm not a fan of. I'm sure why, but I think she's kinda shifty). I would've hated to see Lagertha being crazy for the rest of the season - though we might still get that. We'll see. She deserves better than to end up a crazy person. I was sad to here her say she was no longer Lagertha: Shieldmaiden (though I did like Alfred referring to her as Lagertha: Queen of Vikings).
I found it kind of amusing that when Judith confessed to killing her son, the others didn't really bat an eye. And how nice of Lagertha to streak blue paint over Judith's face (especially given what she'd been saying about the colour blue just prior to that).
Lastly...Ivar the hypocrite. Spent most of his life whining about being abandoned by Ragnar as a baby because he was deformed...then does the same to his own son, Baldur. I really want to see Ivar die soon (though I know that's probably pretty unlikely), but if a slow agonising death for Ivar isn't on the cards...then at least have his son grow up to be as much of a bastard to him as he's been to everyone else - that'd be quite fitting.