GoT ripoffGod I hope not GoT went downhill fast.
GoT/vikings ripoff
GoT/vikings ripoff
I want to like this show, I really do. I've read the books and this weekend binge watched the first 4 episodes and the amount of "meh" I feel is really disappointing. I'm not sure what it is, maybe it's the acting, but I really don't feel like it's that good of a show. If you haven't seen the first episode stop here.(click to show/hide)
It came out 2 weeks earlier on BBC America
In fairness that's how I felt Alfred came across in the books.
Bastards. They even get our shows first.
It does suffer from looking BBC, although so far the scale of battles is beyond what you'll normally get from the BBC (see Sharpe) so i'm happy for that. It irritates me that most medieval shows end up looking more like people cosplaying than anything else, but not everyone has a Game of Thrones budget. I hate grey filters. Seem unnecessary.
In the same token, BBC usually does a great job at casting. I hope I was just drunk and that fucked up my perception of it. I'm basing my opinions solely on two other shows I'm currently watching, Vikings and Outlander. Both did a great job casting, although being further along (vikings) and having a bigger budget (outlander) they may not be good comparisons to be making. As they are different (for the most part), I just like the actors better in both of those vs. this one. I digress, it is early in the shows existence so I'll give it more time and report back my feelings next week, not that they matter to anyone but myself.
I want Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles by HBO so bad
Warlord Chronicles are my favourite books. I don't think I'd want them made into a series because I don't think they'd do it right.
I'm pretty sure most of us have read the books xD
I just watched the first episode. This shit gave me so many high school flashbacks. I hope the rest of the series keeps up with the pilot. I think it's got flaws I wouldn't tolerate in another story/genre, but I'm in this all the way.Yeah fakkin baiters, I thought twas a girl too til he turned and I was like you bastards suk.
Addendum: Anyone get the gayest moment in the Uhtred aging transition? I thought that was a fine ass back, and then boom! facial hair.
Not only had my confusion begun to lead me to feeling negative about the show, but I feel that Uhtred is one of the worst played and perhaps written characters in the show, in the book I do remember him being hot headed etc, but he didn't seem like a complete fucking idiot like I feel he comes across as in the Tv show.
Think you have something there with the shorter series of books.
The first 3 Last Kingdom books were significantly different from each other with major life-changing events happening in each. After that, they all seem to blur together a little bit (although still enjoyable), I suspect he just gets a bit comfortable writing for the same characters in a similar setting for too many books.
UBBA UBBA
Moar sex scenes neededgaysex scenes
Just binge watched this yesterday, awesome series. The big battles look super silly, tho.
Yeah the final battle seemed a bit daft to me in that Uthred jumped the shields and started hacking away but it took a bloody long time for any Saxons to join him. Seriously though I'd have thought the Vikings wouldn't be so stupid as just to stare and watch whilst leaving a big gap in their wall.
Hollywood seeping in. Tbh when they zoomed out on that last shieldwall vs shieldwall battle I was like what the hell, there's so much space around to flank and shit, why are they confined to shield wall? It's not like there was any ranged. Why didn't they use whatever cavalry they had to flank, for example? I have to agree with ptx on big battles.
Mmm, disappointed that Wulfhere stayed a traitor in that final battle. In the book him and his men see all the Saxons united and try to switch sides midbattle to join the Saxons. If memory serves that's what creates the gap in the Danish lines and lets them break the shieldwall. But then the battle has a whole 2nd phase where the Danes fall back to a Roman fort.Wow that would have been so much better and way more believable than them turning Uhtred into a 1 man army.
Man, what I love about The Last Kingdom is the pace. So much happens from episode to episode.Yeah they get right to the point and not drag out episodes with alot of boring dialogue. If this was The Walking Dead Uhtreds whole sold into slavery storyline would have drug out to 3 or 4 episodes rather than the 1-2 it did here. And it was still interesting too.
Man, what I love about The Last Kingdom is the pace. So much happens from episode to episode.Yeah, no kidding. One episode of TLK feels like six episodes of GoT or some other series.
Unless already linkedLindybeige is overrated as fuck, some (most) of his musings on combat are cringeworthy at best
https://youtu.be/vCJUDdEirco
Is it worth watching?
I liked it. Only 1 season atm but season 2 is 4 days out but I dunno if that's US release or just BBC.BBC has already started they are 7 episodes into season 2. I heard Netflix is airing for na.
Vikings is better imo but only because Ragnar makes up for it. Plus 4 seasons of stuff. Vikings has more fluff over Last Kingdom though.
BBC has already started they are 7 episodes into season 2. I heard Netflix is airing for na.
Oic. Awesome.For some reason BBC decided to only air it on their uk channel and not BBC America too. I guess being on Netflix means when it comes out in America you can watch the whole season at once 😝
Thanks for the heads up.
For some reason BBC decided to only air it on their uk channel and not BBC America too.
If it aired anywhere in the world it should be available to watch... Have you guys never heard of primewire.ag?I have a jailbroke Amazon fire stick with the Kodi app. It's awesome for shows, movies are iffy but shows come in nice esp on my TV.😀
battle scenes are stupid, the guy is overrated and arrogant.. still watching tho dunno whyOverrated and arrogant? Huh? Can't even tell whether you're talking about the actor or the character because those two adjectives make no sense together in this context.
Yeah ummmmm, why is Uthred so fucking stupid? At S1E7
I got mad whenever he did smth stupid too, but then I realized that's a part of his character, Uthred is fucking stupid.
"I loved you once" to his wife, forty minutes after they got married wtf???