Norsemen!
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Soon!
A truly remarkable series. As "The History Buffs" on YouTube comments, "Vikings" doesn't strive to achieve exact historical fidelity, but does a great job in conveying the overall "feel" of the early 10th and 11th centuries. In that sense, it's like "Master and Commander," historical fiction done right.
I am so looking forward to the conclusion of this epic story.
I might just go back and review the first 10 episodes, because Ivar.
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Season 6B (602)
On Amazon Prime Video nowThey knew to automatically put it on my view list
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08QRGTRGJ/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_iEgOEZ_2_1
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://ew.com/tv/vikings-finale-michael-hirst/
Can you talk a bit about the upcoming spinoff, Vikings: Valhalla?
It's set 100 years from my show, and it features actually some more famous Vikings. People might have heard of Harald Hardrada and Erik the Red. It's a new kind of heroic age, a very different canvas. The Christians and the Christian Vikings are making huge headroads. What Floki always feared is coming to pass. And also, Jeb Stuart, who's writing the show, is essentially a thriller writer, so it is going to be different in many ways. It's a great tribute to the show, I think, that Netflix wanted to do a spinoff.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://ew.com/tv/vikings-finale-michael-hirst/
Can you talk a bit about the upcoming spinoff, Vikings: Valhalla?
It's set 100 years from my show, and it features actually some more famous Vikings. People might have heard of Harald Hardrada and Erik the Red. It's a new kind of heroic age, a very different canvas. The Christians and the Christian Vikings are making huge headroads. What Floki always feared is coming to pass. And also, Jeb Stuart, who's writing the show, is essentially a thriller writer, so it is going to be different in many ways. It's a great tribute to the show, I think, that Netflix wanted to do a spinoff.
We finished last night.
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We finished last night.
It was a satisfying ending to a long, long story.
But, there were, IMO, too many "throwaway" stories - Finehair's witch wife, for example. The whole Greenland subplot for another. It's almost as though they tried to extend the story to last another 10 episodes.
Historically, there were lots of liberties taken, even more than in previous seasons.
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No evidence that Ubbe made it to North America, for example.
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Nevertheless, it was nice to see Floki again. He was the unifying character through the series.
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I enjoyed it, overall. A lot. Time well spent and very entertaining. High production values, great sets and scenery. Interesting characters, and a story that always seemed to be "going somewhere" despite the detours I mentioned above.
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We finished last night.
It was a satisfying ending to a long, long story.
But, there were, IMO, too many "throwaway" stories - Finehair's witch wife, for example. The whole Greenland subplot for another. It's almost as though they tried to extend the story to last another 10 episodes.
Historically, there were lots of liberties taken, even more than in previous seasons.
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No evidence that Ubbe made it to North America, for example.
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Nevertheless, it was nice to see Floki again. He was the unifying character through the series.
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I enjoyed it, overall. A lot. Time well spent and very entertaining. High production values, great sets and scenery. Interesting characters, and a story that always seemed to be "going somewhere" despite the detours I mentioned above.
I would agree 100%. I want to go back and watch an episode from season 1 just to see how much it all evolved.
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@loki in my opinion, it was never the same after Ragnar.
The show-runner/producer commented that he wanted to kill Ragnar off at the end of Season 1, but he was such a great presence that he was able to justify him for another 2-3 years.
None of his sons, as portrayed in the series, rose to the charisma of Ragnar. They were surely interesting, Bjorn probably being the most interesting and Ivar being the perfect foil, but ... Ragnar!
I got disenchanted with Floki's mysticism and all that crap. It was a story that went nowhere, IMO.
