The Last Kingdom
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Love this show. I enjoyed Vikings, but found the pacing of Last Kingdom to be far better, and more enjoyable overall.
Excited, and sad for season 6. Definitely has a bit of femempowerment, but it avoided to gayness for the most part. Sadly, the last of a dying breed of shows.
Excited, and sad for season 6. Definitely has a bit of femempowerment, but it avoided to gayness for the most part. Sadly, the last of a dying breed of shows.
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Threelions
Victory Through Harmony
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Absolutely pumped for another season. Thought they were going to end it for good.
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popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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Love the show, but forgot who half the characters are. Might just watch from the beginning and skip most of the witch episodes.
Asshat wormie
2023 Asshat Award Winner
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popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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Whaaaaat? Strong badass woman just in time for lady history month. She's badass and her motives as a single mother are very relatable.
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popsicledeath
Potato del Grande
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Not in the first new episode. So not yet, at least. Just some of the usual women are as strong as men in battle trope. She's very scorned though, so I'm a bit nervous they'll turn her into a harpy.
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Wurstsalat
Silver Knight of the Realm
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I fucking hate Brida - i am so sick and tired of woman or girls playing any role in combat or medieval films. Just fuck off. She would have gotten annihilated in seconds back in the days. Same with the new Valhalla expansion - seriously a black woman as a jarl? Keep diversity where it belongs but keep it out of historic series / films.
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Mahes
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It started slow but it picked up. I actually enjoyed how they ended it. Brida was managed for those who hated her character.
The show overdid the strength of woman during this time. Alfred's queen was perhaps the best representation but far to many of the females had combat skills that just did not exist in that time period. That being said, the show was a very good watch. I liked many of the characters and enjoyed the combat scenes. It certainly could have kept going but I think it ended at a very good spot.
The show overdid the strength of woman during this time. Alfred's queen was perhaps the best representation but far to many of the females had combat skills that just did not exist in that time period. That being said, the show was a very good watch. I liked many of the characters and enjoyed the combat scenes. It certainly could have kept going but I think it ended at a very good spot.
Arden
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Honestly, I get really annoyed at historical shows that throw in ridiculous anachronistic bullshit just to try and check boxes and broaden their fan base. I love historical fiction but I'll turn a show off really fast if it starts getting way more fiction than history- especially if it feels like it's pushing an agenda.
That said, I haven't felt that way about Last Kingdom to this point (still on ep 2 of the most recent season). I was worried it was going that route when they made Æthelflæd ruler of Mercia, because I thought something like that would have been extremely unlikely for the time.
I looked it up and apparently it actually happened pretty much the way it was portrayed. Yes, it WAS an extremely rare and unusual event, but it actually happened.
From what I'm gathering, it wasn't completely unknown for "Viking" cultures to have "women warriors" like Brida. Rare? Yes. But not unheard of.
So I don't think it's really that unreasonable to imagine that someone like she could have existed. A little stretch that she would be that "badass"? Maybe, but definitely not enough for me to ditch the whole series.
That said, I haven't felt that way about Last Kingdom to this point (still on ep 2 of the most recent season). I was worried it was going that route when they made Æthelflæd ruler of Mercia, because I thought something like that would have been extremely unlikely for the time.
I looked it up and apparently it actually happened pretty much the way it was portrayed. Yes, it WAS an extremely rare and unusual event, but it actually happened.
From what I'm gathering, it wasn't completely unknown for "Viking" cultures to have "women warriors" like Brida. Rare? Yes. But not unheard of.
So I don't think it's really that unreasonable to imagine that someone like she could have existed. A little stretch that she would be that "badass"? Maybe, but definitely not enough for me to ditch the whole series.
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Six episodes into season five, and the pacing is fantastic. Something major happens every two episodes or so, compared to, say, Game of Thrones, where you don't have shit happen for 8 episodes.
In one of these episodes, they mentioned a possible hidden child of Uhtred that's not Stiorra or his kid that got his dick cut off. Did I hear wrong, or is there some secret kid of Uhtred's roaming around? I can't remember anything from previous seasons.
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Vandyn
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Just finished this and I thought they did a good job of tying up Uhtred's story. The season as a whole is probably not as strong as earlier seasons but still pretty good. As far as the 'overdone female aspect', a lot of the show is actually based on history so I don't think they went too overboard with it. Overall one of the best shows on Netflix.
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