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JeanneHedge
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Apr-07-13, 10:08 PM (EDT) |
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"Vikings"
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-07-13 AT 10:12 PM (EDT) Anyone else watching History Channel's new series "Vikings"? Gotta give Gryphon lots of credit on his research. The way they're portraying the main guy, Ragnar Lodbrok (a legendary Viking hero played by Travis Fimmel) and his wife, Lagertha (another legendary Viking, played by Katheryn Winnick), they could well be Corwin and Utena. ESPECIALLY Lagertha/Utena. Assuming HC did their research (however accurate Viking sagas are), G's portrayal of the Viking culture aspects of Corwin and Utena is just perfectly spot on. One of the first things you learn about Lagertha is that she's a shieldmaiden, and she saved *his* life when they first met. She kicks butt in a fight, is still raising 2 kids at home, and yet goes out on the occasional raid too. Sounds a bit like something Utena could do :)
If you haven't heard about Vikings, it's not your typical History Channel documentary (it's not any kind of documentary). Think "Game of Thrones" with Vikings as the main characters. It's on Sunday nights at 10 (eastern). (Gabriel Byrne is playing the Viking chieftan, and, for Glee fans, Jessalyn Gilsig plays his scheming wife) Jeanne
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SpottedKitty
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Apr-09-13, 11:10 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: Vikings"
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Sounds interesting. Reminds me of something that was on over on this side of the Pond a couple of years ago; a dramatisation of the 1066 invasions. (Yes, plural. a bunch of Vikings softened up the English before William the Bastard got his feet wet in the Channel.) As far as I could tell, apart from a bit of dramatic licence, Harald Hardrada's men behaved pretty much historically accurately. Although IIRC in this one, the girl with the sharp pointy toys was a bit more Chaotic than Lawful; definitely not an Utena-type... -- Unable to save the day: File is read-only. |
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Gryphon
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Apr-11-13, 03:19 PM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: Vikings"
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>>In fairness, Utena is only lawful when the law is just. >> > >Perhaps I'm insane, but that's always how I've felt Lawful Good should >be played. Well, yeah, fair enough. It's just that (as we've seen) she'll not only ignore unjust law, she can get downright chaotic when confronted with it. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Verbena
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Apr-12-13, 00:02 AM (EDT) |
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6. "RE: Vikings"
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Ah, law and chaos. The axis of the old D&D alignment system that a lot of people I know seem to want to misinterpret. The thing to remember about law is a person can be Lawful with respect to their own moral code, utterly separate from what the legal standards of the area are. It's not as if Utena, or anyone else in her circle, abandon their sense of morality just because they're in Earth Alliance space; quite the opposite, in fact, because the evil and oppression they run into is so much more prevalent there--and made even worse by it being dolled up in a veneer of legality. What is personally Lawful and the temporal law are not the same--and neither are related to what is -right-. --------
this world created by the hands of the gods everything is false everything is a LIE the final days have come now let everything be destroyed --mu |
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