Vikings

Now back to our regularly scheduled blog cramming. Today’s special is from your family friendly and undeniably accurate media source the History Channel. It’s the historical fiction series “Vikings”.

               To start off, I am a huge fan of historical fiction to begin with. Throw in some big mother trucking Vikings running around beating the crap out of England and France while taking everything that isn’t nailed down… and you have yourself a satisfied costumer. The show fallows the man Ragnar Lothbrok and his family as he rises from farmer - warrior - chieftain-King and finally into a Legend.

 

               The beginning of the show starts displaying the struggling economy of Ragnar’s village and the conflict he is having with his chieftain about where they show go raiding. After Ragnar discovers England and brings back a literal boat load of treasure that jump starts his village’s economy, the relationship between him and his chief are worsened until it finally turns violent and eventually leads to a dual between him and Ragnar that eventually puts Ragnar in position as the new chieftain.  

               The rest of the seasons fallow him as his name and power grows until he is the high king of his people and leads massive invasions of the European powers. This show is full of interesting character development and political squabbling that turn into some of the coolest battles I have ever seen on TV.