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We accidentally mainlined the History Channel's new series, Vikings, yesterday. Late afternoon, we were looking for a way to kill time while prepping dinner, and it was interesting enough...
Hah! Apparently they replayed everything to date - we stayed with it until 11:00 pm, through dinner and cleanup and everything. So tonite's new ep will pick up where we left off last night.
( My thoughts on the characters, with very minor spoilers )
I've read a few critiques that discuss how badly the historical facts are being handwaved, and yeah, there are some things that just jump off the screen. But the story is pretty good, and the characters are pretty interesting. The feminist bits are cool, because you see women who are very strong in their selves, having to exist in a very macho, patriarchal society. Yes, they're not really treated as equal citizens (probably factual), but there's no doubt that they are fully-developed people, they just don't have fully-developed standing in their society (hmmmm, Athelstan is in a similar societal gray area). This is way closer to 'reality' in a soft-science sense than we usually get from mainstream stories. I'm really glad I'm not a Viking. I'm way too squeamish to deal with all the blood and gore. Not just from the sanctioned warrior violence, but just from the day to day life of that time period. I'm going to say an extra special thank-you prayer for my shower today.
So we're looking forward to tonight's ep!!
Hah! Apparently they replayed everything to date - we stayed with it until 11:00 pm, through dinner and cleanup and everything. So tonite's new ep will pick up where we left off last night.
( My thoughts on the characters, with very minor spoilers )
I've read a few critiques that discuss how badly the historical facts are being handwaved, and yeah, there are some things that just jump off the screen. But the story is pretty good, and the characters are pretty interesting. The feminist bits are cool, because you see women who are very strong in their selves, having to exist in a very macho, patriarchal society. Yes, they're not really treated as equal citizens (probably factual), but there's no doubt that they are fully-developed people, they just don't have fully-developed standing in their society (hmmmm, Athelstan is in a similar societal gray area). This is way closer to 'reality' in a soft-science sense than we usually get from mainstream stories. I'm really glad I'm not a Viking. I'm way too squeamish to deal with all the blood and gore. Not just from the sanctioned warrior violence, but just from the day to day life of that time period. I'm going to say an extra special thank-you prayer for my shower today.
So we're looking forward to tonight's ep!!
