Author Topic: [Nord] The Nordmen (Invite only) (Read 244055 times)

//saxon · « **Reply #2940 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:31:38 pm »

Quote from: Xant on December 01, 2013, 11:33:20 pm

They aren't speaking English, they're speaking Chav British.

nah its not, you are obviously clueless to what a chav accent is..

Osiris · « **Reply #2941 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:40:00 pm »

Quote from: okiN on December 02, 2013, 04:03:09 pm

I like how it's supposed to be a battle between two rival kings' armies (Or was the other guy a jarl? Well, whatever) and instead they're just gangs of a few dozen dudes on each side. Like okay, I get that the History Channel (lel) probably doesn't have the same kind of budgets as HBO does, but seriously? And why are they doing shirts vs skins?

i dunno

in the first series the battles were small scale. Like one viking shit on a raid etc there were no major armies in it

okiN · « **Reply #2942 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:50:54 pm »

Yeah, it was all kind of laughably small-scale, and it looks like that hasn't changed. It just looks so silly, a royal army having a little gang brawl on a beach. It's also weird that they put a spoiler like Floki dying into the season trailer.

Osiris · « **Reply #2943 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:52:31 pm »

yeah but if it was made by HBO there wouldn't be shield walls and cool stuff

americanising it just makes them all 2h/duel wielding heroes

okiN · « **Reply #2944 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:55:13 pm »

Quote from: Osiris on December 02, 2013, 04:52:31 pm

yeah but if it was made by HBO there wouldn't be shield walls and cool stuff americanising it just makes them all 2h/duel wielding heroes

But one of the main dudes in that trailer was a 2h hero and the other one a dual wielder. Also shirtless dudes, nobody wearing helmets, shieldwall done wrong -- why are they holding the shields above their heads like that? And actually you're wrong, the battle scenes in HBO's Rome were done very well.

Osiris · « **Reply #2945 on:** December 02, 2013, 04:58:35 pm »

because vikings are supposed to be bad ass i guess

still the first series had less crazy naked fighting O.o hmm rome looks ok i must be thinking of something else from HBO

okiN · « **Reply #2946 on:** December 02, 2013, 05:05:02 pm »

Rome was a good series and reasonably faithful to history (with dramatic license taken in the narrative, of course). Definitely recommend it.

Maybe you were thinking of that Spartacus show? That's not by HBO, though. I can't think of any bad historical dramas from HBO; Deadwood and Band of Brothers were both good. The fighting in Game of Thrones is a bit Hollywood sometimes, but not really ridiculously over the top.

Siiem · « **Reply #2947 on:** December 02, 2013, 05:53:43 pm »

Quote from: Osiris on December 02, 2013, 04:58:35 pm

O.o hmm rome looks ok i must be thinking of something else from HBO

True Blood?

Back on recent topic, Rome was very darn good. Vikings is retarded, I hate that show.

Xant · « **Reply #2948 on:** December 02, 2013, 06:38:31 pm »

Vikings started out decent but by the end of the season it was super gay. Also, the writers had a fetish with threesomes.

karasu · « **Reply #2949 on:** December 02, 2013, 10:26:37 pm »