What are you watching?

[Suzanimal]

The Last Kingdom on BBC America. It's about the Viking invasions of England (and especially of Wessex, though it starts out in Northumbria with its main character as a child). It's only four episodes into the first season. I like it (but I like Vikings better).

That's cool. I hope I can find the episodes I missed.

It's interesting to compare it to Vikings. One of Ragnar Lothbrok's sons (Ubba) is a character, and another (Ivar) is mentioned but does not appear. (The martyring of King Edmund of East Anglia by Ubba features in one of the episodes.)

Ivar - is that the "boneless" son or "snake in the eye"

I also had a forehead-slapping epiphany about Vikings while watching The Last Kingdom - Athelstan's son, Alfred, will become Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.

Yeah, I knew that too.:o

I don't know how I missed such an obvious thing ... :o (Alfred is a prominent character in The Last Kingdom.)

So in Vikings (if the series gets that far), Athelstan's son and Ragnar's son are going to be mortal enemies ...

Thanks for the spoiler.

 

[Occam's Banana]

That's cool. I hope I can find the episodes I missed.

Here's my source: http://www.couchtuner.la/watch-the-last-kingdom-online/

Ivar - is that the "boneless" son or "snake in the eye"

Ivar the Boneless (Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye is the other).

Thanks for the spoiler.

You're welcome!

 

[CPUd]

I was just getting ready to check out The Last Kingdom.

Yes, baby Ivar in Vikings is Ivar the Boneless. I think they have plans for Alfred in Vikings, because the king went out of his way (by not killing the mother) to make sure he was born. And he knows the father is Athelstan, who he loved like a son. Ragnar eventually becomes jealous of his sons because their fame is much greater than his own. He makes someone outside the family the king of Sweden. It might end up being Horik's son, because from the promos it looks like he is allied with at least some of them.

 

[CPUd]

I made it through almost 3 episodes of The Bastard Executioner. It is Sons of Anarchy 700 years ago, set in Wales around the time Edward Longshanks died, but not the kind of show you can take seriously. It will probably get cancelled.

 

[presence]

What are you watching?

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[Suzanimal]

Here's my source: http://www.couchtuner.la/watch-the-last-kingdom-online/


Ivar the Boneless (Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye is the other).



You're welcome!

I've always love those nicknames.

From Olafir Thick-Legged to Ragnar Fur-Pants, Viking Nicknames were Colorful, Descriptive and Fascinating

An American scholar did both his master’s thesis and his doctoral dissertation on old Norse nicknames as recorded in medieval literature to reveal a world of people with monikers like Wise of Dreams, Harm-Fart, Autumn Darkness, Toil-Skull, Grimacer and The Ridiculer. A nickname in Scandinavia during Viking times could be insulting or laudatory, derived from body parts or mythology, from places or accomplishments or from a number of other inspirations.

Aside from boxing’s Ray Boom Boom Mancini, Carl The Truth Williams, and Smokin Joe Frazier, modern nicknames such as Al or Annie seem prosaic compared to some of the monikers Vikings came up with to describe their contemporaries.

While modern people may use nicknames out of affection, in the Middle Ages in Scandinavia that wasn’t always the case. Take Eysteinn Harm-Fart, Hergils Button Ass Thrándarson, or Authun Coward, for example. One might wonder if Mr. Eysteinn, a settler in Iceland, was given to drinking copious amounts of beer.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/10/no_author/olafir-thick-legged-ragnar-fur-pants/

 

[JK/SEA]

i'll be watching the Seahawks defeat the Cowboys in about one hour from now...

 

[timosman]

 

[Carlybee]

Into the Badlands is strangely interesting

 

[navy-vet]

Into the Badlands is strangely interesting

Yes it is....
giving it another episode.

 

[navy-vet]

Fargo is one of the best shows IMO at the moment.

 

[Carlybee]

I had high hopes for Minority Report and Heroes Reborn but just took both off my recording list.

 

[CPUd]

This song was at the end of one of the Fargo episodes, because of the UFO/ET references:

 

[navy-vet]

This song was at the end of one of the Fargo episodes, because of the UFO/ET references:

That's interesting...I had forgotten that.

 

[RJB]

This cracked me up a bit. It supposed to be a prank where they convince some clown he is famous. I don't know if it's legit, but it's funny.

 

[CPUd]

Haha, you can't fire me, I quit!

Maybe this will take him down a notch and he'll do a good job on the SoA prequel.

 

[CPUd]

Legit:

 

[Suzanimal]

Peaky Blinders on Netflix. I watched 2 seasons in 2 days.

 

[Carlybee]

Thinking about watching Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle".

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Frankenstein Chronicles - a six-part mini-series starring Sean Bean.

(I'm curious as to whether his character will survive ...)