OOC: Episode discussion: S3E9 - Breaking Point

[gods_that_haunt_me]

Under the cut are my reactions that I posted on my Facebook while watching this episode live. Perhaps I'll be more articulate and coherent once we get to discussing stuff.



- LADY VIKINGS BE LIKE FUCKING NINJAS IN THE NIGHT

- HOLY JESUS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING

- WATCHING A VIKING ATTACK IS LIKE WATCHING A HOCKEY GAME. I SHOUT EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS AT THE TV.

- RAGNAR THIS IS FREAKY WHAT IS GOING ON

- OHHH SNAP VIKING BEHEADING FAKEOUT

- ECBERT & CO: WORST FAMILY DINNER EVER

- jfc ragnar laying down the law

- BAPTIZE ME BITCH

- OH FUCK OH SHIT OH FUCK OH SHIT THEY WERENT SUPPOSED TO SEE THAT

ETA: Me watching this episode:

Comments

[athelstanthescribe]

Oh, and Aslaug subjecting the wandering missionary to trial by red hot iron, then casually ordering him killed when he fails. Wonder what Ragnar will make of that if he ever gets to hear about it...

[yakalskovich]

This is Ansgar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansgar

He's not going to get killed just yet, I would say.

Also, the accounts of the settlement of Iceland all state that the settlers left because their kings at the time were a) exerting undue influence and b) converting to Christianity, while Iceland stayed heathen and converted to Christianity by democratic, unanimous decision in the year 1000 exactly -- so that house? Might have been Floki's...

Actually, now I say the name, this might be supposed to be our Floki after all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_Iceland#Hrafna-Fl.C3.B3ki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrafna-Fl%C3%B3ki_Vilger%C3%B0arson

Floki would have been the first person to deliberately sail to Iceland and to name the entire place!!!

[gods_that_haunt_me]

Ansgar is the new Athelstan? But less likeable.

I did read that Floki was somewhat based on that particular historical figure. And then I got to theorizing, if Ragnar doesn't kill Floki out of revenge, he could maybe banish him? And Floki would be all, fine, I'm taking all my ships and naming an island! SEE YA

[yakalskovich]

Yes, totally!!



That is Hrafna-Floki as seen in the wax museum of Icelandic history when I visited there in the summer 2013 -- picture by my sister.

Also, as I said, the settlers left the Viking homelands because their kings had a) become too powerful and b) Christian...

ETA: Also, my Inner!Ragnar says that Ansgar is totally not the new Athelstan; there is no replacement for Athelstan and never will be. He is willing to abandon everything for Athelstan, after all!

[gods_that_haunt_me]

Sorry not sorry I laughed at the hot iron trial.

[athelstanthescribe]

...got to admit, the missionary's happy imagining of how he'd pass it without a mark on him, and then the actual reality, was kind of funny.