Vikings

[Daywolf]

Feb 18th has almost landed on the beach. Just two more days of Thor's hammer over the open seas, and the Viking hoards breach our gates. Will there be blood? WILL THERE BE BLOOD?!? DO ... YOU ... WANT ...... BLOOOOOD!!!?!

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Forget about that that ice wall thingy... aint no w-walkers here, just blood and death, an no one comes back from death here. It's time for Vikings, and more Viking, vikings pouring through the gates! It's time for death.

http://i.imgur.com/P8vwIn9.jpg

And more death. =(Vs.)=

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What say Ye?

Vikings: Season 4 Official Trailer (https://youtu.be/3PK2tIyENVA)
Vikings: Rollo and Gisla Sneak Peek (https://youtu.be/uxm4HPJTOMU)
Vikings: Brother Against Brother Teaser (https://youtu.be/pn7yUSVx960)
Vikings: Lagertha Trailer (https://youtu.be/fWvHueqyDoQ)

Power Built With Blood: Vikings Season 4 Teaser (https://youtu.be/hMGWF_ZJfFE?list=PLob1mZcVWOaikyF40734rSXKyi00eSQr r)

http://i.imgur.com/kmyH0j6.gif

[maerilith]

goog show, a little too graphic and violent for me, but rly well done, my pagan friends sit at the electronic alter and lap it up

[AzzarTheGod]

Looking good.

I fell back from Vikings the same way I fell back from Black Sails.

First 1.5 seasons I was onboard then I just drifted off. I think I wasn't getting a big enough dose of Lodbrok's wife. Or the premium cable snob in me. If its not premium, it can't be that good! Even if its good.

Nobody I know watches Black Sails so I can't find out if its worth catching up or if it jumped the shark.

[iruinedyourday]

TIL that the baristas that make me coffee, also were viking warriors long ago.

PS I just watched a new show can i talk about it in this thread or do u want me to start a new thread?

[AzzarTheGod]

PS I just watched a new show can i talk about it in this thread or do u want me to start a new thread?

Already started go.

[Daywolf]

Looking good.

I fell back from Vikings the same way I fell back from Black Sails.

First 1.5 seasons I was onboard then I just drifted off. I think I wasn't getting a big enough dose of Lodbrok's wife. Or the premium cable snob in me. If its not premium, it can't be that good! Even if its good.

Nobody I know watches Black Sails so I can't find out if its worth catching up or if it jumped the shark.
Oh did you miss Blood Eagel? That was just cray-cray. That happened after 1.5. It was a little slow through parts of season two, but a lot to do with Ragnar's rise and better establishing of characters. I'd say season 1 was rise to local power. Season 2 towards regional power. Season 3 a failed attempt towards western power. Season 4... vengeance.

http://i.imgur.com/Z4lChuR.gif


Will Ragnar completely lose it this season?

http://i.imgur.com/Gsfh5vr.gif

[sOurDieSel]

Is Ragnar even in this one or did he take off to do that WoW movie?

[Daywolf]

Is Ragnar even in this one or did he take off to do that WoW movie?

Seems like a legit question. But I think that would be a spoiler, and spoilers are for cars, not longboats. But i do digress ;)

Vikings: Season 1-3 Recap [SPOILER ALERT] - New Season Thursday 10/9c | History (https://youtu.be/8awWaBTJ-pc)


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[Buellen]

Anyone Else think the show is setting up the background to English & French hostilities we know from History?

that aside I am really looking forward to this season !

ps

When it comes to melee combat Ragnar vs Rick from walking dead which one wins ?

[maerilith]

It's ummm historically kewl cause H channel bros.

[Daywolf]

It's ummm historically kewl cause H channel bros.
It's based on the Norse sagas, their poetry, as well as other written accounts. Loosely based. Many of the characters were real, such as Bjorn Ironside and his family, among others portrayed in the show; including sagas of Ragnar, though debated among some academics. Including Ivar the boneless as well, one of the most brutal Vikings, historically, and the son of Ragnar. Ragnars brother Rollo (Ganger-Hrólf), well.. wasn't his brother, though did marry in Paris after a later siege and became first ruler of what became to be known as Normandy.

Historically accurate it's not, but historically authentic it is. Most historical movies/shows are often far from authentic. This is one of the reasons you see this series mentioned on most geek entertainment sites (most geeks like history), while nerd sites wait for the comic book :o (e.g. walking dead is considered nerd).

But the writers here do inject some creative writing into the show, such as pulling accounts from varying historical events. Such as Ragnar was never at the raid on Lindisfarne (though did authentically happen), but he was likely at Paris. But if he were in the Paris raid, he was never baptized there, though that did happen I believe near Rome, and not Ragnar but with another named Hastings who was with Bjorn, and infiltrated a Roman city after being declared dead and entered the city inside a coffin. Spoiler alert: Ragnar won't die in Paris.

http://i.imgur.com/ShM844X.jpg

[Samoht]

The show also includes some of the Viking mysticism, but not too heavily. Like Harbard is supposed to be the walking embodiment of Odin. That's why Floki got so excited when they mentioned him since Floki feels closer to the gods than to the other Vikings. Harbard did some magic on Ragnars colicky baby to make him stop crying and then walked away.

[Daywolf]

As far as Ragnars ending, it could be in the show at some point, hard to say. But one thing for sure, Ivar the Boneless will avenge his death (historically anyway); part of why he was considered so brutal as in the way he did it. No one knows why he was called the Boneless, some accounts say he was carried on a shield often. In the show he is portrayed as having been born without bones in his legs or something, though impossible. He had either a bone disease at birth, was a large big-boned man, or suffered from impatience hehe... or maybe just a lack of interest in that.

Anyways these guys were bad ass, ruthless, and the show tries to portray them that way w/o the modern social creativity stuck into most historical-ish shows to make them seem more relevant to today's social engineering with the whitewash effect. Many of these guys settled into western Europe, make up part of the intermingled western bloodlines.

http://i.imgur.com/Jjfo7XM.jpg

[Baler]

Sign me up for the hype. Vikings > Game of thrones
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[Pokesan]

daywolf you realize they're actors right? these aren't real vikings you know

bad show, very fake

[Daywolf]

Hmmm... inaccuracies between the show and the vikings. As far as for the battlefield, the most glaring inaccuracy is their armor, or lack-thereof. In the show, they seem to be more armored in the fashion of the Celts. The Celts were known to run screaming into battle pretty much nekid, and quite successfully as like wild berserkrs.

In the show, they are even less armored than the Romans, which were armored well in the front (girth hoops), used shields, but were nekid at the back. Vikings would wear heavy padding or if affordable (or looted) they would wear chain. But they shared a bit of tactics with the Romans nonetheless, however a little more armored in general on the retreat side of things.

http://i.imgur.com/4lHfZDr.jpg
First shield on the left... :rolleyes:

[Baler]

First shield on the left... :rolleyes:
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[AzzarTheGod]

Someone in costume design dunked on the show.

[Spyder73]

daywolf you realize they're actors right? these aren't real vikings you know

bad show, very fake

Vikings is pretty good. You should give it another try and stop being such a tw@t

[Fifield]

cant wait, tonight !!!!

my fav show

[Daywolf]

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haha yeah someone on the set was flexing their nerd superpowers. I think that was Arne's shield left from season 1-2, you know the guy with the eye patch that Rollo impaled.

http://i.imgur.com/MU8fP9p.jpg

Yep, you see it just as he drops it in his death scene (https://youtu.be/NE7g3oqHIOY)

[Samoht]

Hmmm... inaccuracies between the show and the vikings. As far as for the battlefield, the most glaring inaccuracy is their armor, or lack-thereof. In the show, they seem to be more armored in the fashion of the Celts. The Celts were known to run screaming into battle pretty much nekid, and quite successfully as like wild berserkrs.

In the show, they are even less armored than the Romans, which were armored well in the front (girth hoops), used shields, but were nekid at the back. Vikings would wear heavy padding or if affordable (or looted) they would wear chain.

What were you intending to say here? Are the Vikings on the show are more armored than they're supposed to be? Because you go on to compare the guys on the show to the Celts and say that the Celts didn't wear armor. That would make it accurate, no? Are you saying that they're wearing less armor than they should be? Because after that, you said that they wear mostly leather and some chain if they looted it. And that's also how it's depicted in the show.

Halp.

[Daywolf]

What were you intending to say here? Are the Vikings on the show are more armored than they're supposed to be? Because you go on to compare the guys on the show to the Celts and say that the Celts didn't wear armor. That would make it accurate, no? Are you saying that they're wearing less armor than they should be? Because after that, you said that they wear mostly leather and some chain if they looted it. And that's also how it's depicted in the show.

Halp.No, they wore padding, and if available chain. Not thin leather. You know, like thick padding? In the show though, they mostly wear yes leather or nothing at all. This was something mainly the Celts did (not always), according to ancient battle accounts. And the Romans did, but only on the flank side (retreat could get you executed). You see a little armor in the show, but mainly among the leaders/main characters, while the rest mostly nekid (peasant clothing, thin leather, bare skin etc).

Viking armor example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmwI55c1qXg


http://i.imgur.com/RyZ23Md.jpg

[Kevynne]

Oh did you miss Blood Eagel? That was just cray-cray. That happened after 1.5. It was a little slow through parts of season two, but a lot to do with Ragnar's rise and better establishing of characters. I'd say season 1 was rise to local power. Season 2 towards regional power. Season 3 a failed attempt towards western power. Season 4... vengeance.

http://i.imgur.com/Z4lChuR.gif


Will Ragnar completely lose it this season?

http://i.imgur.com/Gsfh5vr.gif

100% accurate

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+1

[Daywolf]

100% accurate
hah yeah actually if you are referring to the blood eagle, right it wasn't Ragnar that did that, it was his son Ivar, when later he went back and conquered and then executed his fathers killer. At least that's by historical accounts - though may not be accurate as some accounts conflict. Not far fetched Ragnar did the same, and then later Ivar thinking it was so cool - yet so gross - did it to his fathers killer/executioner. Authentic, but not so accurate. A jumble of stuff to make a good show.

http://i.imgur.com/p1rjVf6.png

[maerilith]

One day, I will come back to this thread, read and learn things.

Also, ladyfap 2 hot viking dudes.

[Daywolf]

One day, I will come back to this thread, read and learn things.

Also, ladyfap 2 hot viking dudes.
Quite a lot of western history wound up in it. Later, a descendant of Rollo took Jerusalem in the first crusade. But way beyond the realm of this show of course.

http://i.imgur.com/htOVVhX.png

[Baler]

Yep, you see it just as he drops it in his death scene (https://youtu.be/NE7g3oqHIOY)

At 25 seconds the shield is facing the camera and rolo hits him. The next cut shot 26 seconds the shield is facing the opposite direction and rolo is still in contact with him.

lol finding these filming mistakes.

[Daywolf]

lol finding these filming magics!
FTFY
C'mon man, it's a magic shield, it's suppose to do that!

Best part of S4E1 was the bedroom scene. Always good when the sex toys are used.

[AzzarTheGod]

FTFY
C'mon man, it's a magic shield, it's suppose to do that!

Best part of S4E1 was the bedroom scene. Always good when the sex toys are used.

Ok now I have both X-Files and Vikings to catch up on this season.

I'm not well-versed on the military stuff, why did the Romans not use chain? Incredible expense and not much more protection than very good leather? I would assume the Romans fighting in warmer climates would favor chain because it breathes. Leather in harsher climates would waste rations and expend the soldiers faster.

Did anyone favor chain? The Anglos? Seems like not really based on what you have said so far.

[Daywolf]

why did the Romans not use chain?I didn't say they did "not use" chain, but they did use girth hoops. As for leather, provides little protection apart from protection from the elements. It's use was more as an under-armor padding.
Did anyone favor chain? The Anglos? Seems like not really based on what you have said so far. You're really reaching there. I never said no one used chain, that's crazy.
..Well except on the show, where they are mostly under-armored from what they should be.

http://i.imgur.com/8403Z.jpg