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Season 2 Sucked

posted 2 years ago by InquiringMind (2272)
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This season sucked donkey dick. Barely anything happened. It's nothing like the way Vikings used to be — especially in the early seasons — no great battles, no great exploration, no intrigue or politics. It was boring. It's not that there weren't any battles, but they were tiny and insignificant. They didn't really feel important. The story mainly focused on Harald and Leif Erickson traveling by boat to Constantinople with a small group of people they met. So the season was about the journey of getting there, but it just felt so small. In the original Vikings you had Ragnar sailing and discovering new land. Now 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 was a journey. And that journey didn't even take up the whole season, there was so much more. It was so good. This pales in comparison.

Another thing is, the story seems like it is about the two male characters, when in fact it is about the female character being the hero and the badass. This is a common woke trope bait and switch that is perpetrated by Hollywood these days — a woman girl boss overshadowing the male hero. It's getting tiresome and is cringe as fuсk. This is the wokeness that is poisoning the entertainment industry. They got all these women writers now who don't deserve to be there and are not wanted, but you are forced to have them in the writer's room because of diversity requirements. And this is the shit they produce.

Lastly, this season was only 8 episodes. This has become commonplace in TV shows these days and I'm tired of this bullѕhіt. The whole point of dropping a whole season was so you could binge watch it all weekend. At 45 min an episode, you can burn through 8 episodes in one evening. A TV show is supposed to have a minimum of 10 episodes. The standard should be 12-13 as it was in the mid 2000s during the golden age of television.

5.8/10

[–] ATG6 (3000) 2 years ago

There was still politics and intrigue (in England, Norway and elsewhere), and the old ways vs. the new (Christianity). Focusing on Leif and Harald wasn't a bad idea -- they're the two best characters. And the real life Freydis was a stone cold killer, if you believe the Greenland sagas.

They play fast and loose with the history, of course. It's more like an alternate universe, or fan fiction or something. King Cnut taking power in England in real life was around 1016. Harald Sigurdson was in exile from 1030 to 1045, yet the show sets the stories at the same time. And Leif Ericsson discovered Vinland (America) around 1000, but in this show he hasn't been there yet, and is shown learning navigation from a Syrian princess (!).

But it's still an entertaining show, with great characters. If anyone wants a history book, they can find one. Their real life stories are pretty amazing too.

[–] InquiringMind (2272) 2 years ago

Like with the battles, yes, there was some intrigue and politics, but once again, it felt small, unimportant, and uninteresting.
Despite my criticisms I do like the characters, and agree that Leif and Harald are the two best characters, but the problem was the story. It was just boring and uninteresting compared to the kind of stories in the original Vikings.
I also agree about Freydis, and it's not that I dislike her character, it's just this woke girl boss trope of always making it about the woman while overshadowing the men is getting tiresome and I no longer want to see it.
I want to see stories like we used to have — a straight, usually white (although doesn't have to be), male hero, who is the star of the show. And the women are not there to be the hero, they are there to be the love interest and/or support the male hero on their journey. Or be the prize or whatever (damsel in distress). I want movies that Fail the Bechdel test spectacularly. No woke feminist bullshit. No representation. No diversity. Just a simple old school hero's (or anti-hero's ) journey.