A new show premiers to night on the History Channel called Vikings.
I am beginning to doubt that vikings even existed.
The commercials look awful but I think I may give it a go anyway. Is anyone else going to subject themselves to this torture?
I’ll probably skip it.
The website: Watch Vikings Full Episodes, Video & More | HISTORY Channel
The Chicago Daily Herald likes it, FWIW: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130303/entlife/703039975/
Yep! I plan on watching it and I like the commercials! It’s in my DVR recording queue.
It has to fill the big shoes left by The Vikings. Hard to beat the performances of Vikings played by Bernie Schwartz and Izzie Danielovitch.
I’m down for it, but then I have the DVD collection of The Barbarians series. Lurves me some actual history about the Dark Ages rather than medieval fantasy shit.
I’ll DVR it (I DVR anything with commercials, and plenty of stuff without), but I’m not setting up a Series Record until I see the first episode. They better not have an Ancient Aliens in it!
I hear there may be some hand fishing in them there fjords!
It’s fiction. Sigh.
Better than I expected, but still not very good. I’ll watch one more episode, but if it doesn’t get much better, I’ll probably drop it.
I’m descended from Vikings, so it’s on my radar. And in my DVR right now. I’ll watch this week.
Anyone have any comments on the premiere?
It wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be, but I’ll watch a few eps.
I’m unimpressed so far with the story so far. Like all period pieces the people are dressed too well. And Viking Long Boats didn’t go out with a handful of crew and two oars, or depend on sail power. So this will be another soap opera, and it isn’t pulling me in right now.
An overwhelming amount of brown clothing without colourful dyes, and a lot of leather vests, no hauberks or spectacle helms, and ridiculous amounts of dirt all around - so that’s a total pass on the “real” then!
Nice baggy pants on the guy who got the spear in the back, though.
I’m the opposite: It wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. I was expecting those awful re-enactments that you get when watching The Vikings or The Barbarians only strung together to make a coherentish movie. Instead it’s a real movie!
I’m wondering exactly how authentic everything is. The you-are-now-a-man ceremony, the trial by tent, the one guy building a ship in half a year. . .
That was just a test drive. They haven’t taken the boat out for reals yet.
It’s History Channel (Ancient Aliens, MonsterQuest, UFO Hunters). It was about what I expected. I was hoping that it would be set a little bit later (Erik, Leif, Iceland, Greenland, Vinland, etc.) and based more closely on the sagas. Even Farley Mowat’s (controversial) Westviking would have been entertaining source material.
There’s just everything wrong with that ship. And it certainly couldn’t have been built by one guy at all. If I hadn’t read up on Viking ship buildng recently it wouldn’t bother me that much, and if the story was compelling, not at all.
I watched because the reviews were more positive than not, and it was better-than-ok. Not quite “good,” but not bad either. If it stays at about that level, I’ll watch the season.
Well, it was not as good a as I had hoped but much better than I expected. I think this is something I will keep PVRing for at least the next 3 or 4 episodes.
Did anybody watch any of the new Bible series?
Even to an infidel like myself, the Bible has some great stories, whether from deeper meaning or just-good-stories depending on what chapter of what book. However, Mark “SURVIVOR” Burnett and History Channel have proven that it is not at all impossible to completely strip them of anything remotely interesting or compelling.
So I’m not planning to watch VIKINGS.
I liked it well enough and will continue to watch. I think his rogue voyages to the west will take us to some tales about finding those new lands (Greenland, etc.) BTW there’s an excellent book titled Greenland—don’t have it right here but I think it’s written by a woman—that seems historically accurate with a gripping over-all story.
Can’t find it on Amazon. Tomorrow I’ll post title and author.