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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:17 am
E21
- Spoiler:
-Leif and Thorfinn finally gonna be reunited!
I have no idea how Thorfinn's gonna handle getting back that connection to his family though.
-ohshit, he recognizes Askeladd
-"You're going to die right now" HOLY SHIT, ASKELADD! (though, it's got to be a plan, maybe to fake his death?)
-Thorfinn is not impressed by assassins
-Holy fuck we're expecting a touching reunion, and then Thorfinn slams down from the roof and murders a guy in front of Leif
-I forgot they don't have crossbows, they don't even know what it is, I guess that's why that woman who saw him aiming didn't react more
-Thorfinn's got a reputation now
-Thorfinn totally stunned as he recognizes Leif, and Leif just grabs him and hugs him
-it's weird they're doing so much humourous-style animation when it's such an important scene, kind of ruins the effect
-They set up a female body double for Canute and everyone's freaking out that he's a woman
(sucks to be her, though)
-Leif getting ready to bring Thorfinn back by going back to who he used to be
-doesn't even want to hear about his family, just about his happy dream-place that doesn't shake up his feelings and who he's become
-Again, they're doing so much exaggerated crazy-face on what should be an emotional scene, this is really bugging me
-Bjorn's "I'm fine so go, it's time for you to make your evil plans" was strangely touching
-"Tomorrow," I guess Askeladd's agreeing to kill him like a warrior instead of letting him die a lingering death in bed
-Townspeople figuring out what was up with the assassination, planting "only a rumour" to reinforce it, to tip the scales on what Sweyn can do without looking bad, Askeladd was pretty much born to be Canute's right-hand man, he's so good at this shit
-Using Gunnar being a spy to feed info to the king
I'm enjoying all the strategy dealing with Sweyn
-Thorfinn going for the duel even though he's still in such bad shape he has to bandage the knife to his cast
-Canute wants them to stop when he tells them, is Thorfinn really going to accept anything other than to the death? Probably he's just ignoring that doesn't intend to stop anyway.
-Bjorn wanted to be friends with Askeladd even though he knows he hated him
-that moment of silence before Askeladd stabs Bjorn and the sound comes rushing in again
-And he says Bjorn was his only friend before he dies
-flinging the blood from his sword and telling Thorfinn "now I'll play with you" but he just sounds tired and sad instead of trying to needle him, what an opening act for the big duel
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sun Dec 15, 2019 5:09 pm
E22
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-I liked the detail of the heavier snowflakes plopping into the lighter snow on the ground, makes it feel solid and real
-Thorkell betting on Askeladd b/c of his aura, I wonder if he realized Askeladd helped Thorfinn in their duel
-Even for Thorkell, you sometimes win and sometimes lose and there's no real saying who's stronger or weaker. We're getting a little more depth to him, he's not always in cartoonish friendly enormous, violent puppy mode anymore
-Thorfinn hesitating so much, is it really just wariness b/c Askeladd's acting different? I'm wondering if he's lost something of his nerve or his bloodlust from meeting Leif
-Askeladd fucking throwing his sword away
-And completely kicking Thorfinn's ass with his bare hands, I didn't seriously expect Thorfinn to defeat him here (and it'd be a waste of an awesome character to let him get killed now), but it's a little shocking how utterly pathetically Thorfinn's doing after seeing his incredible fight against Thorkell. Thorfinn just hasn't learned anything about how to outwit him or even any awareness of the fact that Askeladd can read him so easily!
-I think he wouldn't have delivered the killing blow even if Canute didn't object. He's kept him around this long, he's lost his only friend, at least he still has his most devoted enemy
-Askeladd basically giving Thorfinn lessons in how to beat him. But I'm kind of confused by the bit about losing his temper, b/c he honestly seemed a lot more rage-filled and desperate in the fight against Thorkell than he did in this duel, especially with that brutal eye-gouge at the end
-"I'm going to tell you how to kill someone you hate." Also, he totally sees himself as a (hate-based) father-figure to Thorfinn
-So his name is basically Cinderella
-His father didn't even bother to name his bastard children so they went nameless, there's something very damning about that
-Avalon is Askeladd's Vinland
-even if Arthur was still alive, he'd never come back from his paradise to a world like this; it's a lot like Canute's feeling about god
-Oh man, she thought Askeladd's dad was Artorius come to save her and he just casually takes out his sword to kill her instead
-"Someone must do it. A person, not a hero and not a god."
-plays nice for two years, then kills his dad and dad's wife(?), frames his brother and lets him hang (even though the brothers seemed pretty nice), damn he's a snake, no wonder Thorfinn can't kill him, he doesn't even understand what level he's playing on.
-Canute asking why he even follows him rather than try to be king himself, and Askeladd's "I'm just a viking."
-Thorfinn seeing himself in his past memories backwards to when he was a kid,and just bawling at the sky
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:45 am
E22
- Spoiler:
- Thorkell getting mad that he might be the weakest of the Canute's three
- Man, Askeladd beats him with his bare hands, he's always watching Thorfinn so he knows all of his habits and tendencies
- Askeladd's sick of Thorfinn and feels good after killing Bjorn so he might just kill him too
- I wonder what would happen if Thorkell knew Askeladd killed Thors in such a blasphemous way
- The first man Askeladd ever killed was his own father, god damn
- "I'm going to tell you how to kill someone you hate."
- His name is a nickname because he was always covered in ash from the blacksmith's forge
- OH SHIT
- Askeladd had to do it because no hero was going to do it
- Olaf fucking spared him because he was his kid and "had potential"
- Holy fucking shit, he killed him in his sleep
- Like, not in battle either so he'd go to Valhalla, in his fucking sleep
- Oh man, he set up the family to take a fall too
- Thinking back, Thorfinn was going to kill him in his sleep and decided against it, and Askeladd was awake while it was happening
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Mon Dec 23, 2019 12:33 am
23
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(Oh shit, Thorfinn's apparently based on a real person)
- Courtly politics
- Even half out of his mind, Thorfinn can beat the shit out of most people with ease
- They're going after the Irish next, oh boy
- Askeladd smiling realizing he's seen through all of King Sweyn's strategies
- Wait is it the Scots who refused to bend the knee
- Or maybe the Welsh, something to angrily throw Askeladd off guard
- WALES
- They made a fucking deal with the Welsh to to leave them alone, fucking outmaneuvered
- Askeladd can't think his way out of this one
- Leif telling him the legend of Vinland again
- The final episode is called END OF THE PROLOGUE
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:55 am
24/Finale
- Spoiler:
- Sweyn trolling the shit out Askeladd by bringing up Wales, looking for signs of weakness
- Calls him on it, oh shit
- He won't back down when it comes to Wales, even if it fucks up everything
- It's not worth the cost to conquer Wales, and some of the people are sighing in relief because they didn't want to say it out loud too
- And now Sweyn's showing that he approves of Askeladd's actions, god damn the sneaky bullshit going on here
- "Wales or Canute, choose one." HOLY SHIT
- "The only merchandise Wales produces is slaves" Askeladd's fucking kill-you eyes
- Thorfinn gone just like that
- Shit-talking Sweyn to his fucking face, in front of everyone
- "Don't push your luck, you savage."
- Lucius Artortius Castus
- HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
- And now he's taking as many fucking Danes as he can with him
- He's putting on an act, but it's also what he's always wanted to do
- FLOKI ENTERS THE FRAY
- "You killed the King!" "What are you talking about? I'm here, alive and well."
- Canute just stole Thorfinn's kill
- "Just hurry up and do it." Oh god
- Thorfinn's just yelling his brains out and suddenly "How do you plan to live your life?" He's asking him a question Thorfinn doesn't want to answer
- Canute had to peel his own fingers off of the blade
- HE FUCKING LUNGED AT CANUTE THORFINN HOLY SHIT
- Drops Thors blade and the obsession goes with it
- According to reddit, this adapted the first 55-56 chapters and only the first major arc. There's 160 someodd chapters and they just entered the fourth and probably final arc. MORE ANIME PLZ
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:18 pm
I'm running behind, but I should be able to get to both episodes in the next couple of days.
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:49 pm
E23
- Spoiler:
-someone passing by jostling Thorfinn is all it takes for him to fall right over
-Askeladd dodges saying why Thorfinn's not there
-Thorfinn: looks half-dead, can barely see, broken arm and leg, completely given up, still takes down multiple adults with his bare hands
-that was the most hate-filled hug I've ever seen
-the bit zoomed in on Askeladd thinking to himself his strategy was right with the out-of-place wavy background seemed super-clumsy and uncharacteristically like they think their viewers are stupid, just him smirking would have been enough to show us he thinks he's won and make us get ready for a countermove from Sweyn.
-oh shit, he's going for Wales
-and again the over-dramatic close-up on Askeladd, we would have understood all this without being so clumsy
-Leif!
-painting the picture of his family, then reminding him of the sense of adventure and heroism and honour he used to love in Leif's stories, and then brings it all to "my responsibility to Thors," and it finally gets a reaction from Thorfinn
-extended closeup of the mashed up food in Thorkell's mouth
-whyyy all these awkward interior monologues all of a sudden?? And why did they think showing us his brain pulsing would do anything for the storytelling?!?
-And once Leif's seen he scored a hit on Thorfinn's feelings, grabs him with Vinland and a promise of hope, offering comforting peace while calling to the childish sense of adventure he'd lost and IT'S WORKING!
-Askeladd just telling Thorkell exactly what Wales is to him, he must be pretty shaken, or maybe just feeling the loss of his friend
-THAT SMIRK
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:12 pm
E24
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-Sweyn poking Askeladd that he knows about Wales, so Askeladd just comes out and argues against it
-Thorkell's all excited the king might kill Askeladd
-Wales or Canute, Sweyn is crafty as hell
-Thorfinn reaching for the bird, and then he's gone
-HOly FUCK, Askeladd, what are you doing??!
-he's goddamn King Arthur II and he's going for the crown. I-is this a plan or is he snapped for real?? If it's real it's a little too quick to go from 0 to "I'm King of Brittania", though, not quite enough provocation to believably get him there already, they could have played up being pushed to the edge a little more gradually first
-HE FUCKING CUT OFF SWEYN'S HEAD HOLY FUCKING FUCK!
-the shot of flinging the blood from the sword on the ground, like after he killed Bjorn and was getting ready to kick Thorfinn's ass.
-Thorfinn desperately fighting his way in
-Oh fuck, it wasn't real after all, he just decided to save Canute and Wales and go down fighting
-Thorkell telling Canute he should take Askeladd down himself
-"Is that how you talk to a king?" Askeladd seems like he's genuinely having fun with this, I guess it's his own personal Ragnorok and he's going out with a bang
-oh noooooo, Canute stabbed Askeladd before Thorfinn could, that total horror in Thorfinn's eyes
-"Is this the first time you've stabbed someone, Prince?" Cool till the last.
-"Just hurry up and do it. Sorry to make you wait," and "We're enemies, aren't we?" I've got something in my eye
-and instead of taking the final blow Thorfinn just keeps screaming at him to get up and duel, god, this is brutal
-Asking how he's going to live his life, and "go beyond the world where Thors went" and "become a true warrior, son of Thors." Askeladd's last moments are trying to help him
-Thorfinn's childlike look of absolute fear and devastation
-FUCK, he went for Canute!! Pure rage or attempt at suicide by cop?
-Canute letting Thorfinn go and putting on the crown
-the dagger reflecting that whole past as it falls, and then the whole wide world...
-is that supposed to be Thorfinn grown up in spite of the different haircolour?? Or else who is it??
I feel like the last bit was a little rushed, they should have had more build-up before Askeladd makes the decision to win everything and go down fighting, and something about the timing of Thorfinn's parts seemed a little choppier than it needed to be, but damn, that whole thing was amazing anyway, the only ending that really could have worked for Thorfinn's revenge story, and a perfect death for as awesome a character as Askeladd.
Seems like it'll be almost a totally different series after this, but whatever it lands up being, I hope it hurries up!
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:07 am
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It's probably rushed because King Sweyn does die only a few weeks into becoming the King of England IRL. There wasn't enough time for Sweyn courtly-intrigue if they're meaning to follow some historical accuracy.
Body's ready for Season 2 WHEN
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:00 pm
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- I suppose I can't blame history But it's not so much the timeline that felt rushed to me so much as the immediate build-up storytelling, it needed a few extra beats within the same timeline, not more linear time.
YES! WHEN?? I feel like there are a bunch of next seasons I've been super-excited for and somehow still haven't come, so hurry up!!
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sat Jan 14, 2023 4:56 pm
S2E1
- Spoiler:
-my first reaction was "what the fuck, jumping into modern times?!" from it starting off with motorcycles before I realized it was the studio intro thingy.
-new intro is pretty trippy
-are we totally switching main characters? Hopefully it'll join soon and isn't like a season per character till there's a big enough crew to sail to Vinland or something like that.
-I love a show where you can see in the art that it loves its setting
-I thought this was a flashback to when the village burned before and therefore didn't think the mom was really dying
-greyed-out scribbles and screaming, that's kind of different for this show
-just throwing someone overboard because she's probably dying
-"Don't go getting sick without our say-so," in what kind of situation would they tell their slaves to get sick?
-preparing the slaves to look good for market
-Leif! Yay, I was hoping we'd get connected to last season soon, otherwise it kind of seemed like it was setting up to be a similar story to last season, just with new characters.
-Einar thinking Thorfinn must be a lucky guy
-well, even if the stories stay separate for a long time, Einar being taken as a farmer seems like at least it'll probably be a different story, so that's good at least.
-seeing the golden farmland like his home and thinking he's never going to be free again
-THORFINN???
-what the fuck happened since last season that Thorfinn's a farmer and Leif is still looking for him???
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Sun Jan 15, 2023 9:07 am
S2E1
- Spoiler:
- We farmin
- Man knows his way around a teat
- Thorfinn's gonna be the baddie who fucks this place up, isn't he
- Maybe this was the village Thorfinn befriended people in before it was attacked?
- Kill'em all Einar
- Sick person's going overboard
- Y-You can do it Einear, you can kill'em all
- AH, Leif!
- From when Leif was trying to find Thorfinn
- That reaction to "Ayyy, want to help me farm?"
- Ayyyyy Thorfinn
- Hell yeah, now Thorfinn AND Einar can kill'em all
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:31 pm
S2E2
- Spoiler:
-Thorfinn's definitely older than he was at the end of last season, so I guess must be something arrested for being with Ashkeladd and sold as a slave and so Leif lost track of him again? Poor Leif
-Einer's not used to the idea of slaves that can work off their debt and go free
-his sad little lunch I was thinking he got optimistic awfully quickly.
-weird to see Thorfinn being polite.
-And he's so defeated, I guess he hasn't really recovered from losing his goal of killing Ashkeladd
-they did a great job on the son, his look and his voice and everything is so instantly bratty.
-the girl's parents standing outside waiting excitedly for her to have round two with the master's son
-Thorfinn's expression when Einar starts talking about his village being destroyed by Danes
-and then just closes his eyes
Kind of can't wait till something pushes Thorfinn to fight and out of nowhere he destroys everyone
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:11 am
I'm totally going to watch Episode 2 and 3 at some point. Totally 
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:55 pm
Lemme know if I should pause and give you a chance to catch up, or if you're dropping it.
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:08 pm
S2E3
- Spoiler:
-dude doesn't seem like he'd ever be a fun drunk.
-bahahaha, that look between the two bodyguards and then just knocking over the table
-a 17-year-old having a literal tantrum with kicking and wailing on the ground, feels like they're going way too heavy on making this character suck. Also, I wish they'd hurry it up and get to stuff we care about, this season feels like it's starting out just as slow as if it was a new series
-setting this brat on killing someone to become a man, what's he hoping to accomplish by that?
-Come on, go for Thorfinn, I want to see him break out the assassin skills. Or probably going for Einar would have the same result if they're together, so that's fine too.
-when your crush tells you you have a wonderful face and you have a heart attack and die
-here it comes
-Einar seems like he's gotten less stupid than last episode. I guess he's just started getting the measure of the place.
-"Please die" in a warm and friendly tone
-aww, Einar tried to save Thorfinn
-hoping Thorfinn's just volunteering so they'll let Einar go and he can kill them all and give us our fight, but he seems so depressed he might just pick death as long as it comes straight to him, even if not suicidal enough to have killed himself or stopped working and starved to death or anything.
-who's that guy now? .
-warriors don't want to give away death for free
cutting and cutting him to try to make him scared and it's never going to happen
-Nooo, his ear!
-saved by the Snake
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:25 pm
Vinland Saga S2E2
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- I don't know, but this moment where Einar and Thorfinn are meeting each other kind of reminds me of a One Piece flashback where the Pirate King Gold Roger randomly met his First Mate. Like two dudes who were basically nothing and someday will become legends.
- This guy is letting his slaves buy themselves back?
- What's the awful catch to all of this. Like Thorfinn could kill'em all in like 5 seconds if he wanted to
- Is Pater the shitfucker in all of this
- You got this, guys
- Ah, the shitfuckers have arrived
- Kill'em all, Einar
- Thorfinn, Einar and this horse are going to conquer Europe together
- "They ate my lunch." Speaking of One Piece, countries have fallen for literally that
- Oh boy, this lady is gonna be the spark that sets Einar off into a viking murder spree
- Master's working too, good guy
- Master's son wearing a sword on his back. Thorfinn is totally killing this dude eventually
- Can't pull is sword out
- Or maybe he'll become another member of the squad
- Spying on their daugther's sex life because she's gonna fuck her way into farm ownership
- "Women are rotten, every last one of them!" Okay, this idiot's probably gonna join the squad
- Oh, he's hanging out with the retainers, Thorfinn's totally killing him
- "After them came the Danes." Thorfinn's eyes open up, god damn
- Yo, Einar hates Danes the same way Askeladd did
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:55 pm
S2E4
- Spoiler:
-flashing back to Ashkeladd jolts him from despair-mode to PTSD-violence mode for a sec
-"Your body wants to live," and now he has to consider the possibility
-Einar's expression hearing that Arnheid ran to get them help. I forgot this show did ridiculous faces!
-Thorfinn looks genuinely confused about how he's supposed to react to someone giving him a shirt. A shirt is a lot in those times! That's probably the nicest thing anyone's done for him in a decade.
-Feels like we're going to get a My Fair Lady/Training Montage exchange where Einar makes Thorfinn learn manners and Thorfinn unwillingly teaches Einar to fight.
-that grumpy little hedgehog baby! That little guy might be my new favourite character!
-I'm a little surprised Thorfinn's so focused on working in the woods, wanting to be free seems like a lot more direction and self-care than he otherwise seems to have. Maybe just because he needs to have something to do that badly. Or maybe he doesn't like the idea of anyone having a hold on him even if he doesn't care about the freedom itself.
-the tree falling, and Einar staying still, nice juxtaposition
-"Do you hate me now?" He actually cares. Seems like that "your body wants to live" really got something moving in him.
-I like the way even just how they lie in bed shows who they are, Thorfinn curled in on himself like he's waiting for an attack or freezing rain, Einar's pose less tensed even while he's thinking of his village burning, the tension isn't fundamental to who he is like it is for Thorfinn
-Jesus, trying to strangle him in his sleep
-he seems younger in his dreams than he actually was at the time
-god, I love the way Thorfinn fights, so fast and brutal
-Einar wakes him from the nightmare even just barely having not murdered him in his sleep
-I do wish they wouldn't zoom in so over-much and make over-drawn, ugly faces for emotional scenes, it really breaks the mood
-"we're here because someone kept us alive, how can you say nothing good's ever happened to you."
-HE THANKS EINAR!
-And apologizes! Way to go, kid!
-Canute, maybe we're finally about to get back to some bigger shit happening
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:19 pm
S2E5
Should I be pausing and letting you catch up?
- Spoiler:
-the 'Ashkeladd killing the king' scene has a different feel when we're watching it from Canute's perspective, feels almost like an inevitability
-it's been a while since we got a history lesson
-beheading soldiers for pillaging, that's not going to win him many friends
-Canute's deadpan at whassisname crazy fighting guy charging towards him made me lol
-"Frogs?"
-Thorkell hates Floki's square hair too
-Canute's path of blood, I wonder if all the similarities to Griffith are intentional
-the advisor guy quietly just about choking to death at the sight of the massive pile of treasure
-Canute's gotten so cool with that bleakly unperturbable thing he's got going on
-can't be paid to leave because it's his land
-"Mercia has been reduced to ash," this whole bit talking to Eadric has been so badass
-Poor Thorkell, all that taking the heads of kings he didn't get to do
-shit, it's already 1018? Iirc, he only has like a decade or decade and a half left.
Should I be pausing and letting you catch up?
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:32 am
No
S2E3
S2E3
- Spoiler:
- Not a fun 17 year old drunk today
- He wants to "test their skills" but they're too seasoned to fuck around like that and just push him over with a table flip
- "A rite of passage." Wuh oh, they're gonna get him to kill one of Thorfinn or Einar
- "Once you know how fragile human bodies are, you won't be afraid of others anymore." Jesusssssss
- Damn, Thorfinn has nightmares
- Einar telling Thorfinn to run. It's both "What a guy" and "Aw, you don't know, do you"
- Uh oh, Thorfinn's gonna solve the problem
- "He can cut me down." Oh boy
- I love how Thorfinn's like "We have another busy day, so can we get this over with." Like he's saying the guy can kill him but also acting like he's definitely not going to die and the others aren't catching on to it
- The product of death
- So does Thorfinn not give any fucks about dying or could he tell Fox wasn't going to dice him through?
- Oh, he's going through an emo phase
- AGH PART OF HIS EAR
- Good guy, Snake. Solid you could say. A Solid Snake.
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Tue Feb 21, 2023 10:04 am
S2E4
This episode is called "Awakening" and my body is fucking ready
This episode is called "Awakening" and my body is fucking ready
- Spoiler:
- Snake recognizes there's something up with Thorfinn
- Recognizes the killing intent similar to Askeladd, and backs Snake off
- "Your body says it wants to live" Aw, Snake
- Einar scolding Thorfinn for not saying "Thank you"
- Uh oh, Einar figured out he's probably a Viking raider
- Thorfinn's probably cut down more men than trees at this point
- Einar might hate him for being a warrior, but he also mentioned that he's the descendant of English and Norse raiders too, that may complicate things
- Fire in the straw as flashbacks
- Holy fuck, the rage
- If Einar was choking him, would Thorfinn actually be able to make his nightmare noises?
- Either way, hearing Thorfinn have PTSD nightmares stays his hand
- Einar's now fucking mad that he won't quit being a BITCH and just stay alive already
- "It's not like you killed my family." I dunno man, he might've
- Thanks him ;_;
- Ohhhhhhh SHIET is that a grown up Canute?
- Familiar faces in the preview
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Re: Vinland Saga
by bomaye Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:11 am
S2E5
- Spoiler:
- Flashback to Askeladd being a badass
- Canute plays for keeps, I see
- "Have them beheaded and have their heads displayed on the road." DAMN
- That shitbag Floki
- Thorkell gonna Thorkell
- He hates frogs?
- Thorkell gives absolute zero fucks
- The coin animation when the pile is stepped on
- Who or what are we burning?
- Oh, we're burning all of it
- Damn, Canute being very un-Viking using poison
- Guess we won, series over?
- "We need a horse" is the name of the next episode
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:23 pm
S2E6
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-Einar's angry walk is hilarious
-Einar hugging and patting the horse and it just looks at him with hate in its eyes
-and his crazy laugh
-on the one hand, I kind of wish they'd get to some fighting again, but on the other hand, I do appreciate that they're treating the other side of Viking times life with the same interest and respect as the violent stuff. Most Viking stuff seems to completely dismiss anything but raids, this feels more real.
-that wary look on Thorfinn's face when Einar puts his hand on his shoulder, almost hopeful
-Einar completely amazed at the existence of people who don't farm. Though, did really no-one in Thorfinn's village farm? And they also didn't fight, what the fuck did they do for a living, I don't think you can support that kind of village entirely on nothing but fishing, hunting and livestock.
-the old guy's the old master? Man, all those chores were worth it!
-Thorfinn actually sounded happy seeing all the plowing they've managed
-All that talk about whether raiders would come here is probably a bad sign for their new happiness.
-Aww, he agreed they're friends
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sat Feb 25, 2023 7:00 pm
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-Thorfinn looks really different with the beard, I keep thinking he's Ashkeladd
-Einar's doing well with his crush, I think she's doomed
-or Einar will do something stupid someday when he sees her getting slapped around
-Einar's way of praying
-and Thorfinn's look of horror
-that's adorable, he's totally going along with it and being intimidated by Einar's fervour
-oh god, he thinks the necklace of ears is jerky
-the master's an old badass fighter, I was initially thinking this was all leading to the farm being destroyed and Thorfinn and Einar going/being taken elsewhere for whatever fighting's coming up and all the setup of the farm characters was a little pointless, but seems like there's gonna be a point to them after all.
-something about the way Ketil seriously sits in his chair to judge the kids all set up like there's a whole line of supplicants and criminals to judge struck me as funny and also kind of touching; he takes the fate of two small thieves as seriously as if it was his whole realm.
-Ketil's tearing up over the thieves' situation while his son casually says an arm should be the punishment, his kids really don't take after him
-it looked like Ketil actually had no idea how to resolve this without doing something awful, he was so relieved when Pater suggested having the boy work for him.
-He doesn't even want to give them a beating, I guess he's on the extreme side of lenient for the time/culture. It seems to have worked out for him so far, though.
-why the fuck did he let his son do it, then?
-oh shit, he was lying about being a great warrior. How did he get so many people to back it up for him, though?
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Re: Vinland Saga
by Enail Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:08 pm
S2E8
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-his nightmares now involve worrying about Einar, that's kind of sweet
-uhoh, people are starting to get jealous of their success
-not killing Ashkeladd isn't world-ending to him anymore, but not hating him anymore leaves him with nothing. I really wish we'd gotten to see the immediate aftermath of last season's ending, seems like the first half of his arc of moving beyond that was left out. I guess maybe there isn't much in it but time.
-wow, fish are so plentiful you can just scoop them out in the shallows by the netful
-No meat for Lent, being Christian would have been pretty limiting. Though I guess a lot of poor people didn't ever have much meat to begin with.
-the old master telling him how to stop being empty
-Einar's impression of warriors
-all this talk of rebirth, wonder if he's gonna go religious
-oh shit, those assholes destroyed their planting, that's a pretty massive awful thing to do!
-still feels weird to have Thorfinn being the one trying to prevent violence
-Thorfinn's so...I want to say self-centered, but not in a bad way? The first thing he thinks of is that if the retainers deserve to die, he deserves it so much more, he's so focused on his own penance. Also, seems like he feels like Einar's judgement is basically the determinator of who he is and can be
-Pater's been there too
-uh-oh, here come the retainers, Thorfinn might have to do some violence to stop Einar from killing them. I realize this is supposed to be a story about becoming someone non-violent like his dad, but I still really want to see some of that badass Thorfinn fighting.
-YES! THORFINN! DESTROY HIM! (but hopefully don't kill him) The way you see the punch coming, you think it's Einar, and then it just smashes his face completely to pieces and you realize it's Thorfinn, and we never even saw him fight with grown-up strength before!
-and then he gets fucking knocked out from behind, what happened to his battle instincts?? Goddamnit, I thought we were gonna get a real fight!
-almost remembering his father's words
-looks like things get serious for them next week.
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