Okay, I watched it now, and I have a few things to say:
I'm going to make a spreadsheet. This is too much of a mess to keep distributed in the wetware and juggle as we go along. The spreadsheet will list season two and three, with columns for the episodes and rows for the characters, and space in-between for the OOMs we plan to do, where we can leave links when we have done them, so we will all have easy access to the way we as a group are messing with canon while canon is messing with us.
All the 'ow' at the end!! Ragnar talking to Athelstan looking up at the night sky (heavens above and all that, of course he takes that literally) was so painful to watch; and at the end, HE IS SPITTING BLOOD! He's sustained internal injuries by his fall on that heap of corpses. Now I am very worried.
We can OOM that conversation so he's actually talking to Athelstan in the forests in Milliways.
Also, in the preview, there was a scene with Athelstan's face! Even though he's dead, it's all about him still.
The French princess, though, is actual history if you ignore the pesky numbers and the way we casually jumped into the 10th century for a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela_of_France
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