it gets super crazy. i'm almost finished with the first season c:

overcasts: I'm digging it, I'm up for crazy too.

I've heard good things

The costuming makes me head tilt a bit . The leather used is sometimes odd looking or out of place but heck I can deal with that.

Touches I do love... Lagetha's beads and broaches, so culturally important and cool. Bjorn Ragnar's son with his long front short back hair cut. I've studied the Vikings and Pagan Anglo-Saxons for so long...

I don't know where this came from, but I'm pretty sure that haircut is a age and cultural thing for Viking boys.

Gyda and Lagetha working on the warp weighted loom together.

The sets are lovely!

So accurate according to my understand least ways.

The show acknowledges the existing hierarchy within the culture, ie Ragar isn't a lone farmer without a chief to piss off if he goes West.

mentions of shield maidens.

Things that are not so great... A few men who are clearly bad guys or being set up to be bad guys rape. Now I understand these things happened just as they do now, but one character rapes the daughter of his...

villages blacksmith and no one is the wiser. It's possible she may not say anything, but if she did or say her father got wind of it. Said character would be in a lot of trouble.

Also it sort of just feels like a hamfisted way to make the audience go okay this guy is a dick.

This one is more knit-picky and I appreciate the difficulty from a historical fiction writing perspective. within a few days Ragnar does not view Athelstan as a slave. Histo-culturally (I don' think that's a...

word but it is now suck'as!) Ragnar has no reason to view Athaelstan as not a slave or thrall as they were called. I think the writers chose to make it this way because slavery= bad so character owning a...

slavery= bad character. It's complex and not what we're used to thinking of with slavery and or what's a good person to person relationship. We'll see how it goes it could be that Athaelstan is going to...

still be very much a dependent of Ragnar's household by just being a capture/foriegner that's good history too so there

's that.