I am fully aware of the sad events that led to this part of the show but I still have issues with it.
My main problem was that I was not interested in seeing origins of characters who I know to be killed. Batiatus wasn't a great character to beginn with. He was an upstart, a wannabe, basically an a**e all the time and why do I care about the reasons ? Most of the story we already knew, we just hadn't seen it. Gannicus and his story could have been done like intended - in a one episode flashback.
Plus this all suffers from the usual prequel problems. If you know a character doesn't die there is no exitement by putting him in dangerous situations.
Maybe it would be better, now that the option is there, to watch this before the first season. There are sure pros and cons about that. But I guess you could as easily just skip it.
Shout by FinFanBlockedParent2018-10-09T08:15:36Z
I am fully aware of the sad events that led to this part of the show but I still have issues with it.
My main problem was that I was not interested in seeing origins of characters who I know to be killed. Batiatus wasn't a great character to beginn with. He was an upstart, a wannabe, basically an a**e all the time and why do I care about the reasons ? Most of the story we already knew, we just hadn't seen it. Gannicus and his story could have been done like intended - in a one episode flashback.
Plus this all suffers from the usual prequel problems. If you know a character doesn't die there is no exitement by putting him in dangerous situations.
Maybe it would be better, now that the option is there, to watch this before the first season. There are sure pros and cons about that. But I guess you could as easily just skip it.