Damn, I always loved Harald, he's always been the unlucky guy with big ambitions that never quite work, always taken as an ally in battles to very little benefits to him, while still a great warrior and clearly loved by his people. So what ? His jealousy of Bjorn broke him so much that he behaved like a common criminal and just rape his rival's wife ?
The timeline is totally fucked up in this episode anyway. Nobody noticed her ? She seems to come out while the battle is already started. But Harald is fighting on the beach with Bjorn. So when does that happen exactly ? Conveniently the night before the battle ? Because how would he have justified that afterwards otherwise ? The whole think makes no sense.
The battles themselves are kinda ok. I very much doubt the engineering involved is historically accurate, but the action is fun.
Nice touch: Ivar and Bjorn talking on the beach, as a metaphor of generals discussing through their strategies.
But then, it's hard to follow and a lot of nonsense.
The Rus basically have a ship for every warrior on the Viking side, so do they even need any strategy ? They keep the little prince exposed, on the spearheading ship, really ?
The strategy flashbacks in the middle make it look like the battle takes place in several steps which is apparently not the case. The attempt at having an original narrative structure really fails there.
So they manage to put a whole army in the back of the defenders, through an apparently inaccessible path. OK. Sure. But then how come the defenders had specific siege defenses on this side ? And if they were expecting it, why not attack on the mountainside instead, that would have been a pretty easy win.
And then, Ivar, manages to go through all that, pass through this line of defense, go through the whole battlefield and the wole viking army, and stab Bjorn by surprise ??? I really hope that was a metaphor for his strategic victory because it makes no sense at all.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2021-03-12T00:42:00Z
Damn, I always loved Harald, he's always been the unlucky guy with big ambitions that never quite work, always taken as an ally in battles to very little benefits to him, while still a great warrior and clearly loved by his people. So what ? His jealousy of Bjorn broke him so much that he behaved like a common criminal and just rape his rival's wife ?
The timeline is totally fucked up in this episode anyway. Nobody noticed her ? She seems to come out while the battle is already started. But Harald is fighting on the beach with Bjorn. So when does that happen exactly ? Conveniently the night before the battle ? Because how would he have justified that afterwards otherwise ? The whole think makes no sense.
The battles themselves are kinda ok. I very much doubt the engineering involved is historically accurate, but the action is fun.
Nice touch: Ivar and Bjorn talking on the beach, as a metaphor of generals discussing through their strategies.
But then, it's hard to follow and a lot of nonsense.
The Rus basically have a ship for every warrior on the Viking side, so do they even need any strategy ?
They keep the little prince exposed, on the spearheading ship, really ?
The strategy flashbacks in the middle make it look like the battle takes place in several steps which is apparently not the case. The attempt at having an original narrative structure really fails there.
So they manage to put a whole army in the back of the defenders, through an apparently inaccessible path. OK. Sure. But then how come the defenders had specific siege defenses on this side ? And if they were expecting it, why not attack on the mountainside instead, that would have been a pretty easy win.
And then, Ivar, manages to go through all that, pass through this line of defense, go through the whole battlefield and the wole viking army, and stab Bjorn by surprise ??? I really hope that was a metaphor for his strategic victory because it makes no sense at all.