Any other Bongbros watched The Last Kingdom? Does it ever get good? Uhtred alone is so fricking unlikable its killing my interest in the show, everytime he's in a scene I just want to turn it off
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Would have been a better video game.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla isn't good, but it captures the essence of what this was trying to convey better.
It's genuinely written, paced and directed like a videogame, and it makes you kinda sad that it not reaching It's potential by being a Cinemaphile and not a Cinemaphile.
Not really but it might be worth continuing for the soundtrack, Alfred and scenery
Don't listen to others on here - season 1-3 is very good. It goes downhill from there but it still isn't bad.
>battle scene
>it just turns into a random brawl with everyones backs to the enemy
no one knows for sure how any army fought except for phalanx and even then it's up in the air.
It's kino.
Damn, is that Butterworth?
DAMN QUEEN YOU FRICKING FINE
The show entirely hinges on whether you like or can grow to like Uhtred. If you can't you won't enjoy the show.
Also Hild is best girl.
He's just a vain, arrogant moron that somehow escapes the consequences of his actions everytime. Every moment he is in scene is like watching a child have a tantrum. Im on the beginning of season 2 and he's 'loved' 3 different women now along also being the equivalent of the 20 good men trope and lucking himself into winning every confrontation. Being from Northumbria I was starting to enjoy the show as it moved north but so far Uhtred is so insufferable its ruining it for me tbqh
lol this. Wait for him to be Alfred's 'top guy' and him being the glue for every significant battle
Have you visited Bebbanburg castle?
Bamburgh? Yeah once, was mainly passing through to visit Lindesfarne though. Was only a kid like but I remember it all being cool
>and he's 'loved' 3 different women now
it's a really cheap shit to keep the audience engaged.
Its unnecessary and detracts from his character. Makes him seem like an immature idiot that doesnt even know what love is
Was it the same in the books though. There's like 13 books in the Saxon Stories, and they adapt 2 per season. Same author as Sharpe.
>There's like 13 books
George R. R. Martin could never.
>Same author as Sharpe.
That explains alot, then I think that TLK suffers from the fact that their main character doesn't have the charm and charisma of Sean Bean
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dreymon did alright
played a right northern c**t
What kino?
One of the Sharpe television movies - Sharpe's Eagle.
he saw the "jewess" for what it was
smart lad
Sigma grindset.
He's a deeply flawed hero. But it's refreshing, he's supposed to be kind of an butthole. Also the show makes him more stupid than the books because the show rush the story and forget important details, Uthred really get screwed by Alfred at every turn.
But the show is good, you get e-girl breasts in the Pilot !
>Uthred really get screwed by Alfred at every turn
Seems the other way round to me, but im only 2 seasons in. Everytime Uhtred brazenly breaks the law, threatens the King or kills people without trial he's bailed out by Alfred
You've got a fantastic scene between the two of them coming up in season 3. The show peaks there.
Alfred looks like he needs a brew
The real King Alfred had Crone syndrom, constant abdominal pain for his entire life. Untreated, it's one of the most painful chronical disease short of leprecy.
It made him very religious and also a very good king who pretty much created England.
I know, I did grow up at a time where we learned about the formation of England in school as a kid. No idea if they still teach that anymore though
all a lad needs now is a nubian queen
>The real King Alfred had Crone syndrom, constant abdominal pain for his entire life. Untreated, it's one of the most painful chronical disease short of leprecy.
Crohns isn't constant, sufferers have periodic flairups. And there's no effective treatment, just avoiding trigger foods like fibrous vegetables and grains.
Not true, Crohns cannot be cured but modern medecine can considerably ease the pain during flairups, shorten them and expend the time between them.
During Alfred time, their knowledge about food probably means he was in a state of quasi constant flairups or starvation.
>Not true, Crohns cannot be cured but modern medecine can considerably ease the pain during flairups, shorten them and expend the time between them.
The lack of any real nutritional understanding in modern medicine means it has no effective treatment for crohns and the medicines they use to treat it (steroids, immune system suppressors, antibiotics) just make the inflamation worse in the long run.
>The lack of any real nutritional understanding in modern medicine means
Modern medecine understand perfectly nutrition... but is useless against morons who thinks they will never get sick if they eat well and do sports
>ARE YA WINNIN', UHT?
No you're getting that wrong.
Uthred literally saves the kingdom again and again, Alfred "honors" him with a land full of debts to "teach" him how to be a good christian. Uthred accept anyway and realise the Church and some lord is trying to scam him and his wife, Alfred barely listen and turn into pure rage because Uthred get his sword inside a Church (remember, this was a new rule at the time, Uthred had no idea how important it is). Alfred "bail out" card tends to put Uthred in even shittier situation he only get away by saving the kingdom AGAIN and save Alfred's child. And Alfred is still ungrateful.
He's a full on Gary Stu though, he won Cynwit by being the typical '20 good men' trope and going alone to burn the boats, he does similar things over and over and its clear its just the writer protecting his little OC character. And it doesnt matter what rules are 'new' to him, cheating on your wife and abandoning her along with drawing your sword in the presence of a king are crimes in any culture. The whole 'I dont know the rules' is a load of shit
Alfred could have had him killed at least 10 times over and im not even finished with the show yet
he's a bit of a stu in the early books/series because he knows how the danes think. he knew that the saxon lord was making a mistake by waiting, he knew what the ships meant to the danes and saw they were vulnerable if they split. In the book he also plays almost no part in that battle beyond being in a shield wall and challenging ubba. Ubba was seeking him out because of the things he said about the gods. He also only beat ubba because he slipped and he was 20 years younger.
Uhtred is a stu, and he knows it, but trust me, he rarely benefits from it
this but skade was best schizo gf
Crazy b***h.
She's so unbelievably hot.
uhtred is the man
actor and otherwise
lad did a great job
when I saw the goofy battle scenes I was turned off from it
Alfred is the best part of the show and it suffers when he's gone
same with based Leofric
Arseling son of Arseling
it's good from the start, pleb
I gave up on season 4 a few episodes in because it seemed like the sudden influx of female writers and directors had no idea what they were doing.
Does it get any better?
Yeah there was only one bloke adapting the books for season 1-3 I think, so it had some consistency.
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Bernard Cornwell writes self-insert fanfiction for boomers. Sharpe worked because they dialed it down enough for the TV version, but Netflix just indulged it too much, fedora-tipping and all.
I have tried to enjoy this show, but what the frick is this guy's problem?
>willingly swears his allegiance to Alfred for a year, then changes his mind tries to find any way to escape his own deal
>marries good Christian girl who is completely devoted to him and has his son, only for him to just abandon them the moment some new pagan b***h shows up
>kills his own peasant servants only on suspicion of theft, doesn't have any proof
>bursts into church and draws his sword on the King in the middle of Sunday Mass because he's mad about inheriting a simple debt
I haven't even finished Season 1 yet, and this guy is one of the most despicably unlikable main characters I have ever seen in a show. Every other character in a position of power in this show seems to bend over backwards to help him and he treats them like absolute shit for no reason and throws constant temper tantrums like a child when he doesn't get his way. Why isn't Alfred the main character?
Just wait he gets worse
He's an arseling. Just make peace with it and move on.
Season 1 goes way too fast. Those decisions are a lot more logical in the books. Alfred is an butthole with no concept of gratitude, the christian wife never tried to understand her husband, the peasants hated him, cheated him when he was already tired being cheated by everyone, the Church was corrupted and very dishonest with him.
By the end of S3 you want to be screaming at the screen at King Alfred for once again taking Utrehd and his reputation on a wild fricking ride to expand his Kingdom's territories and then denying Utrehd any recompense or gifts or assistance for his claim to Bebbanberg for being an 'untrustworthy pagan.' Every single time Alfred's going to lose his crown, he asks Utrehd for help. Utrehd drops everything and anything he's doing, saves Alfred and his family's life AGAIN, and then Alfred proceeds to tell him to frick off. Alfred gets objectively worse as a King and as a friend and Utrehd gets objectively better as a Lord and as a friend throughout the show.
>you want to be screaming at the screen at King Alfred
No, I want to scream at the hack author who gave all of Alfred's historical accomplishments to his shitty gary stu self insert
Your only reason to watch this is Alfred.
GOD WILLS IT!
I know it was to differentiate the Anglo-Saxons from the Danes, but it's still silly they've got rectangular shields.
>Does it ever get good?
season 1 was ok, season 2 was shit and I stopped there
He's supposed to be an arrogant, unlikeable prick that makes shitloads of really, REALLY terrible decisions in S1. He's a horny teenager with a sword and a legitimate land-claim, which is the equivalent today of being a jobless yuppie with a guaranteed quarter-billion Trust if he can pay the rent for his own apartment for 1 year. I fricking hated Utrehd in Season 1 and also only wanted to continue for other characters. But by the start of S3 you really, really love Utrehd and you can see where he learns and grows as a character. His character transition is actually pretty brilliant.
Alfred the Great, more like Alfred the Nerd with his books and literature lmao.
WTF YOU SAY CRAKKA CRAKKASON?
there's a reason why Alfred is remembered and not the Viking warlords that nordicists fixate over
The show ends well.
Destiny is all.
ON YOUR BELLY
>Does it ever get good?
It gets worse
>Uhtred alone is so fricking unlikable its killing my interest in the show, everytime he's in a scene I just want to turn it off
Yep he's a shit character
I cannot believe nobody posted the webm of the ginger e-girl showing DFC in episode 1