This is sad. I loved this show. I own the first 4 season on DVD and watched multiple times, and will watch again. The first half of season 5 was ok. But this half is just plain garbage.
Here's what happened, if you were able to stay awake:
1, Floki is still tripping in Iceland (?) with a bunch of losers. One of the girls is missing, and dead. Her ghost comes to Floki and tells him who killed her and where to find the body. They find the body. Floki exiles the murderer and his entire family. Exciting? No.
2, Ivar the Terrible Actor, psyche out. What a build up from last episode, where the show tried to convince, or con, the viewers that he was going to sacrifice the only brother that stayed with him, Hvitserk. The sacrifice? A girl that looks like Lag. While Ivar and his Wife are in clown face, they hang this poor girl upside down, cut her neck and burn her down, while Ivar shouts that he is killing Lag. Great? No. Garbage? Yes. Hvit visits the Seer. Then Ivar visits the Seer. The Seer tells Ivar that he is full of Garbage. Ivar kills the Seer. I think the Seer was telling us that not only is Ivar Garbage, that the show is now Garbage. We see some rebels brought in front of Ivar. Ivar asks for loyalty, but only gets spit on his face. These guys are hung as an example. Real garbage, low impact nonsense. Ivar's acting consists of shouting, and ridiculous unfunny jokes.
3, England. Alfred gives an ultimatum to Bjoke, Lag, Torvi, Ubbe. Either fight for him or they'll be killed. Nothing can save Alfred the Terrible Actor. Alfred is in the mafia now. "I gave them an offer they can't refuse". Didn't Ubbe and Torvi convert to Jesus? Alfred walks over to Bjoke, and what comes out of his mouth? "You cut your hair". Nonsense. Then we see a scene where someone is playing with their hair. It's Alf. He cut his hair. He asked Ubbe to train him in fighting. Some short scenes of training, and Alf will transform from loser to super fighter. I can't wait for the comedy. Meanwhile at the batcave, Aethelred is married, and some soap time with his new wife. Real Soap. Then we see Aeth conspiring with Conspirators to kill Alf. Alf gives Aeth a hug, Aeth backstabs the backstabbers, as the Vikings try to look suspicious. This is all so poorly performed, it's just sad.
We see Bjoke, bringing Magnus to meet the family, Lag, Ubbe, and Torvi. Mag, another poor actor with poor dialogue. Mag wants them to join Harold against Alf. Ubbe sees the BS. We then see Lag meeting Heahmund the Batman Voice. Heah will go to hell for Lag. Evil Soap.
King Harold taking a boat ride to Wessex with his new buddy and his wife. Harold looking to make a move on his buddie's wife, Manface.
What we have here is poor writing. Poor characters. Rag is dead. Rollo showed up for a paycheck. Floki a great character and actor is relegated to the sideline with crap story and dialogue. Lag, Bjoke, Ubbe, Torvi, and Harold are decent characters and actors but they're also relegated to poor story and dialogue. Alf, Aeth, their wives, Judith, Mag, Heah all crap. Ivar the Terrible Actor, terrible. Just garbage.
We have no lead character. We have no lead story. We have poor acting. Poor scenes. 3 episodes and no battle scenes. Just a poor girl getting sacrificed in a cheap psyche out. Hung rebels. And our dear old Seer, one of the only real actors left on this show, gets a hammer to the head. The Seer saw the show is now garbage. I'm afraid if this keeps going on it will tarnish the first 4 seasons.
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