#floki/katherine

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I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun

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Some attempts to Floki x Katherine gifs

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10 Fandoms/10 Characters/10 Tags

So I assume what I need to do here is list my 10 favorite fandoms and 10 (-ish) favorite characters in each one, right? Okay, here we go.

1. DC

The Joker

Bruce Wayne/Batman

Harley Quinn

Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane

The Ventriloquist and Scarface

Ratcatcher 2

Mime and Marionette

Catwoman

The Valeska Twins

The Batman Who Laughs

2. Marvel

Wanda Maximoff

Loki

Baron Zemo

Yelena Belova

Gambit

Wolverine

Jessica Jones

3. The Boys

Homelander

Soldier Boy

Frenchie

Billy Butcher

Ashley (look at me) Barrett

4. Vikings

Ivar the Boneless

Ragnar Lothbrok

Floki the Boatbuilder

5. Stranger Things

Vecna/Henry Creel

Eleven/El Hopper

Eddie Munson

Max Mayfield

6. The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Negan Smith

Rick Grimes

Carol Peletier

7. Yellowjackets (I’m obsessed with this show now lol)

Misty Quigley (btw I want a Harley Quinn movie with Christina Ricci)

Natalie Scatorccio

Lottie Matthews

Shauna Sadecki

8. Euphoria

Maddy Perez

Cassie Howard

Fezco (RIP Angus Cloud)

Nate Jacobs ! (btw Jacob Elordi is a big fan of Heath Ledger who was the reason he started acting)

9. American Horror Story

Kai Anderson (yes, season 7 is my fave)

Tate Langdon

Michael Langdon

Madison Montgomery

Misty Day

The Countess

10. Game of Thrones/ House of the Dragon

Daenerys Targaryen

Cersei Lannister

Daemon Targaryen

Rhaenyra Targaryen

Ramsay Bolton

Arya Stark

Honorable mentions/misc. (Fandom / Characters)

Disney / Cruella de Vil

American Psycho / Patrick Bateman

The Vampire Diaries / Katherine Pierce

Skins UK / Effy Stonem

Misfits / Rudy Wade

Twilight / Edward Cullen, Bella Swan

The Big Bang Theory / Sheldon Cooper

Fight Club / Tyler Durden

Saw / John Kramer, Detective Hoffman

Wayne / Wayne McCullough (y’all should watch Wayne)

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the best things about Vikings

*spoilers ahead*

🎵VIKINGS playlist “in the name of the raven king” on Spotify🎵

Floki’s laugh

Floki in general (and his makeup!)

Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha

war paint

anyone saying “Christian” in a snarling/mocking manner with an Old Norse-ish accent always gets me

Ragnar taking the world by storm

“WHO WANTS TO BE KING?”

💖 Ragnar x Athelstan 💖

the Ragnarsons

Ivar, the baddest bitch in tow-  I mean boneless

Ivar killing someone by pouring liquid gold in their mouth (hell of a way to go if you ask me)

Ivar walking upright on crutches for the first time

like that scene was so powerful, I got chills

also, his brothers’ faces literally said “oh shit” when they saw him and I loved it

casting Jordan Patrick Smith as Travis Fimmel’s son

Alfred looking to Ubbe for hairstyle advice

Rollo acting like his baptism didn’t mean shit although we all now know that was major fucking foREShaDowiNG

Björn deciding to leave with his mother (in your face, cheater!!!)

Lagertha just kicking (male) ass left and right throughout the whole show

also her kinda literally stabbing Aslaug in the back (finALLY!!)

Aslaug’s love for Ivar though... might’ve been her best trait

on the topic of motherly love: Judith killing Aethelred

THE blood eagle

Ivar killing Sigurd and then visually seeing it in his face when he realizes what he’s done

Alex Høgh Andersen is an international treasure

Björn taking the stereotypical young adult “i NeEd tO fINd MySElf” trip (usually you wouldn’t encounter bears or assassins, admittedly)

the makeup skills of whoever managed to make everyone’s skin look so weathered and worn in the later seasons especially

Ragnar pulling a ✨death prank✨ on all of Paris

Ivar’s iconic “you can’t kill me” moment

the Great Heathen Army™

Floki and Ivar (psychos unite!)

Björn really taking after his father with the “let’s ruin every good relationship I’ve ever had with a woman ever”

Hvitserk being haunted (surprisingly neat special effects, mad props)

Ivar adopting Igor

Ivar asking to leave the dinner table like a little kid when Prince Oleg decides to f*ck his dead wife’s lookalike on it (understandable though)

everyone agreeing that Lagertha’s funeral has to be the greatest one the world has ever seen

Björn and Ivar talking at the beach

Ingrid being like “well, my husband’s gone, let’s get another, oh now that one’s leaving, time to blind the sub and become queen”

the show ending with Floki and Ubbe sitting on the shore while the theme song softly plays in the background

bonus:

occasionally remembering that Ragnar and Lagertha just wanted to be fucking farmers

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the best things about - masterpost

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A Good Treason - Vikings (2016)

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Well this scene broke my heart for sure 😢

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Reviewing Cursed (Netflix)

So I finally jumped on the bandwagon for this show and I’ve got some thoughts: (spoilers)

Bad Stuff:

For all the hype I’ve read about the show, I was expecting the main lead to be at least more than she was. Nimue was a disappointment and honestly is one of the weaker parts of the show. 

The 2nd weakest part being Nimue x Arthur relationship  

And I’m not going to even start on the effects in this show, JESUS

While I don’t necessarily blame the hollowness of Nimue’s character on the actress Katherine, (I will say the reason it took me a while to get into this show was because Katherine has 13 reasons why stamped all over her still in my head) I do think she handled some of Nimue’s scenes a bit... awkwardly. 

Case in point: Her first interaction with Arthur 

^But honestly, this wasn’t that horrible when you look to the effects the show used to make this show “graphic” 

All the bloody gore they showed was done so badly that I scoffed more than  grimaced.

^Also can we just point out that when Nimue strung up that red paladin in vines, they made it seem like it was horrible and prime gore material when in reality it looked like a cheap set piece... what a let down

Now lets chat this up a moment:

We all know how the King Arthur tale goes. He marries Gwenevere who then G cheats with Lancelot (more of him in a moment) etc. I feel for Nimue from the get go when I noticed how quick they were to use her to glow up Arthur... like seriously? 

What girl would start a relationship with Mr. Goody (to the point where he is boring) when her life is literally turning to shatters in all directions? All male writers red flag

And while we are on the topic, Arthur-sir, you are the most annoying and basic good guy I’ve watched in some time. Not only does he seem to be too good to the point that its unrealistic, they seriously played off him stealing Nimue’s sword as an okay thing to do... Sir no. 

Devon portrays all the characteristics of King Arthur perfectly, but I feel like if Arthur is to progress into becoming a king, we should be seeing him making mistakes and learning so as to become the great ruler he will one day be. (writers take notes please)

We need some dirt in that perfect persona he carries 

Also known as Weeping Monk 

Good Stuff: 

Let me just start by putting this magnificent thirst trap right here: 

I’ve got to hand it to Daniel Sharman, he has a very loyal fanbase that seems able to carry THIS ENTIRE SHOW on their shoulders. 

Like honestly, I looked through plenty of content on various apps and the Weeping Monk is blowing through social media like wild fire. 

And for good reason too:

-he’s an attractive dude playing the gothic misguided character (serious cliche but highly effective)

-he’s one of the few characters with an interesting character arch (so far)

-he’s Lancelot (hello ladies man)

-he’s great with kids *swoon*

-and don’t get me started on that entrance in ep1 (the writers knew what they were doing)

I’m going to write another post at some point to address why I don’t think he is a toxic, manipulative character that just so happens to be romanticized because of looks (as is seen so far). So watch for that if that interests you. Post in Question

But to tie this off, Daniel Sharman is a fantastic actor and I hope we get more of him next season. 

And, no, it’s not just because he is visually pleasing to the eye (but god bless guy liner)

 I feel like the writers have suspended his meeting with Nimue to the point were we are all shipping the pair of them together, when it’s possible that they may have a different bond, closer to that of Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake in classic lore

But if they hook up I will still be very pleased ngl

Other things I really loved in this show:

-Pym (her time in the viking ship as a healer was prime humor) but I’m pissed she doesn’t end up with the hot viking because unlike our main couple of the show, these two had chemistry for the short scenes they shared together. 

-Merlin (The moment I saw Gustaf Skarsgård in the trailer, I started the first ep. I loved him as Floki in Vikings and wanted to see him in other things) I was pissed that the writers made him seem... boring. 

-I was happy with how Merlin opened up to us as a father to Nimue. Nimue just needs to get her shit together and learn from him because we all know she’s powerful, she just needs to work on it. 

Watch the writers get lazy and just magically having her cast all sorts of powerful magic just because once upon a time she manipulated an apple tree

-SQUIRELL (I loved him from his first scene)

-the Widow! She was the perfect middle ground for a character and her voice was strangely motherly (and I LOVED IT!) While I know Morgana becoming the widow was a great power play and all that, I miss the original widow. 

-Morgana’s general storyline was great considering what happens in the lore. I expected her to go evil the moment her sweet love (that poor nun!) came from the dead with burn marks and talked about being powerful. I’m glad they didn’t push that on her so quickly. They should let that storyline fester a bit more. She’s too great a character to turn to the dark yet (unless they pull a complete 180 of the Weeping Monk)

-Awesome baddies- And by that I mean Iris and the head monk that came to a very satisfactory end in ep 10. Also, props to the show for making the Pope a quick to anger tyrant and his second in command being a literal weasel. 10/10  villain act right there. With these villains in play, it’s easy for Weeping Monk fans to see the light in him, thus driving his character arch. 

-The Christian themes. This may be surprising to some, especially if you are like me, a christian (I’m catholic). But honestly, I loved how they took snippets of Christian history and flipped it to create a complicated power in this show. By this I mean, the red monks act a lot like the holy orders in Catholicism back during the Crusades and the nuns act as healers and helpers to those that ask for sanctuary (the Abbess kept her mouth shut about Nimue, even when she was at risk) - thats what the core of Christianity is supposed to be, and I’m glad they made religion complicated through the monks and nuns. 

-Red Spear/ vikings- cool concept to add vikings to the story and the red spear is a bad ass. I hope we dive further into her storyline next season (I expect so given the rumors I’m hearing about how she is supposedly Gwenevere)- If that’s true, I’m worried the writers are going to ruin the relationship G is supposed to have with Lancelot, solely because both characters are more Alpha energy than Beta, and we all know how that goes...

Maybe that’s why Red Spear’s interaction with Arthur was so great. He screams beta and I’m all for it. 

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NEW from @entertainmentweekly: Skars-guide to the Skarsgårds: From Cursed child to It boy

By Nick Romano May 07, 2020 at 04:10 PM EDT

Picture your favorite Skarsgård with that Swedish complexion and towering frame. Are you thinking of Alexander Skarsgård? He's the most recognizable nowadays. Are you thinking of Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander's father who's been making movies since the early 1970s? Are you thinking of one of the more underrated Skarsgårds? Chances are, no matter which Skarsgård you're thinking of, it's probably not the one your friends are thinking of. 'Cause there's a lot more Skarsgårds where they came from.

With EW's first look at Netflix's Cursed series, based on Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller's illustrated novel of the same name, comes a glimpse of Gustaf Skarsgård as Merlin in this Arthurian drama starring Katherine Langford. Yes, that's another Skarsgård from the Skarsgård family dynasty. Let's play a quick game of Know Your Skarsgårds in the entertainment world. No shade to siblings Sam (a doctor), Eija (a model), and mom My.

GUSTAF SKARSGÅRD (NEW photo!)

Affiliation: Skar-bro.

Where you've seen him: Delos' captain of the Skars-guard in season 2 of HBO's Westworld and boat-builder Floki in History's Vikings.

Soon to be seen: As Skars-guardian of Excalibur Merlin in Netflix's Cursed. Unlike past cinematic iterations of the wizard, this one looks a bit more Jedi-Master-meets-Indiana-Jones.

ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD

Affiliation: Skar-bro.

Where you've seen him: Leaving a trail of emotional and physical Skars in HBO's Big Little Lies and True Blood, playing Canadian hunk-Minister in the Charlize Theron-Seth Rogen comedy Long Shot, pew-pew-ing assassins alongside Florence Pugh in AMC's The Little Drummer Girl, and not quite Becoming a God in Central Florida with Kirsten Dunst.

Soon to be seen: Planting a (Randall) Flagg in CBS All Access' The Stand series, stomping the Skars-yard with Godzilla vs. Kong, and bro-ing out with brother Bill Skarsgård in The Witch director Robert Eggers' The Northman. (No, it's not a movie about Eric Northman, his True Blood character.)

BILL SKARSGÅRD

Affiliation: Skar-bro.

Where you've seen him: Looking Skar-y-eyed in Netflix's Hemlock Grove, chasing Skars-cars (and kids) as Pennywise the alien demon clown in It and It Chapter Two, and Skar-ing the living days lights out of us in a different kind of Stephen King-based entertainment, Hulu's Castle Rock.

Soon to be seen: Not in Skar-borough, Maine. That's for sure. No, he'll be opposite Tom Holland in The Devil All the Time and opposite his aforementioned Skar-bro Alexander in The Northman.

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

Affiliation: Skar-dad.

Where you've seen him: Pretty much everywhere. It's a Skars-Skars world out there, from Good Will Hunting to Mamma Mia to the Thormovies to HBO's Chernobyl.

Soon to be seen: Skar-ving out his place in the Dune universe with director Denis Villeneuve's movie (out this December) and in the Star Wars universe in the planned Rogue One prequel series.

VALTER SKARSGÅRD

Affiliation: The youngest Skar-bro.

Where (Scandinavian bingers have) seen him: Skar-venging the Black Lake in the Scandinavian thriller series.

Soon to be seen: Another Scandinavian thriller. This one is calledDon't Click.

https://ew.com/tv/skarsgard-family-guide/

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Some Vikings x TVD crossover gifs.

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A Floki x Katherine mood board

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Netflix's Cursed releases today! You can binge all 10 episodes of Netflix's adaptation of the New York Times Best Selling book by Tom Wheeler & Frank Miller.

Thanks to Netflix, we got an early look at the first 5 episodes.

The series follows Nimue (played by 13 Reason's Why star Katherine Langford), a Fey girl with a mysterious power through a reimagined take of the Arthurian legend.

The first 5 episodes has me DYING to see where the story goes, despite some little problems. The show is very bingable and will have you intrigued and slightly uncomfortable, it gets dark and twisty in the best ways, as the mystery Nimue finds herself in continues to unravel in the midsts of a war against the Fey and a war amongst human Kings.

The story starts a little slow and its magic system is little confusing, but once we meet Arthur (Devon Terrell) the story picks up and you will keep hitting next episode.

Arthur is wonderfully rakish and charming. Merlin (Viking's Gustaf Skarsgard) is perfection! Skarsgard brings his Floki mannerisms and his ability to tell a story as much through his eyes as he does speaking the words from the script. And the rest of the cast is perfection and brings the story the edge that kept me watching.

I love the illustrated title sequence and the illustrations that act as transitions between scenes. They harken back the the illustrations that are scattered throughout the book. They bring a unique voice to the we sorry telling.

My issues so far are pretty minor other than being a little confused as to the Fey world and how it functions. Five episodes in and I'm still not sure of the basic structure. But as the action picks up, this concern takes a back seat to the story.

Some other little things include my wish that the sword fighting was stronger. Arthur has a couple we'll crafted sword handling moments, but the real action scenes could use a bit more polish. And at points it falls hard into the fantasy genre tropes. But overall, this is a show I think will get several play throughs from me.

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so what do you think about the episode?

I was afraid someone would ask me that bc I have some controversial opinions on the last episode of Vikings… So, let’s see…

First of all: WHERE THE FUCK IS FLOKI? 

I really want to believe they wanted to leave us with the suspense. It is too stupid for me to believe Floki died that idiot way. Such a huge character, such a big person, dying that way was too stupid, even for me. Like Lagertha - who was supposed to be dead LONG AGO and has NO FUCKING AGE to be dressed to battle as she was in the fucking trailer for season 6 - he’s part of the old cast and I really wish to see Floki in season 6, having a better ending than buried in a mountain tricked by the Christian God.

Now… One by one, and the shorters first:

Ubbe Ragnarsson

The meeting with Hvitserk, in the end, was TERRIBLE. I was waiting for any kind of talk, even an angry one, anything. But they didn’t exchange more than glares and Hvitserk’s eyes were pretty confused, not letting me understand if he was sad because of Ubbe’s clear rejection or if he was mad for seeing his older brother there. A weak presence, strangely punctual, with no introduction and bad worked for something we wait through this entire season. I love Jordan’s acting, but in this episode, the script swallowed him.

Lagertha

What in the actual fuck is she still doing in this show? She’s old, tired and has no purpose but spoiling Björn by being alive.

For someone who started this war with a selfish behavior, for a crown that wasn’t hers anymore, placing brother against brother because of her impossibility to accept Ragnar’s current wife - and queen of Kattegat - wasn’t her, killing dozens of people for cowardly refusing a single combat against a crippled sixteen years old boy, and fucking with an entire lineage because of her need to be queen for a couple of months, Lagertha seems to be receiving too much attention and too much care from the writers.

Please, someone send this woman to Valhalla SOON. Love Katherine, but Lagertha was over THOUSANDS of years ago…

Magnus

Do I have to say something about this pitiful attempt to reintroduce the religious conflict into this series? This shit was presented with Athelstan (perfectly, btw), then with Ragnar (ok… good), then with Ubbe (fine, we got it, enough?), then with Hvitserk (what the fuck? Buddhism? And how in the actual fuck you just throw something you liked so bad away like he did with the little Buddha???), and Magnus…

Magnus was a TOTAL throw-away character, a total loss of time, with no real plot, no real participation, who did nothing but confuse the spectator and died without solving the mystery we all wanted to know: Was Ragnar telling the truth about sleeping with Kwenthrith or not? Think we’ll never know…

Amma

I thought she would be with Magnus and give him some plot. Now, idk what to think about her. She seems to be a strong character loyal to Björn, but also, a character who came just for this season finale. Let us see… I hope to see another strong woman in this show, at least.

Gunnhild

FUCK ME, WOMAN! I WANNA MARRY THIS GIRL! She’s amazing! Her battle skills were amazing! Her scene shooting straight to Ivar when everyone was shooting around was amazing! The way she fought EVERYONE to take Björn outta that place was amazing! I will fucking dry my stock of “amazing” with this woman. My favorite woman FOR SURE.

Harald

I have to say I was reticent with Harald since the beginning. I think Peter is a huge actor and gorgeous man and stuff, but Harald always got me with a foot behind… However, this episode showed me he’s trully a loyal man, who sticks to his word even knowing he could be a son of a bitch and warrant his crown by letting Björn die. He was intense in this last episode and I hope to see good things from him in the next season.

Now… The polemic ones…

Let us start with Björn…

I grew in hate for Alexander’s character since he started to act as Björn was when he was a child, showing himself an arrogant person, cheating on Torvi like fuck and doing things he reprehended his father for doing - for the ones who don’t remember, he was the one who reprehended Ragnar saying it was disgusting to know his father was fucking another woman that wasn’t his mother (when ubbe was made, btw).

However, I must admit in this last episode he was strong and intense. I would even be fallen for him if it wasn’t my analytic eyes who noticed since the beginning the enormous curve this season made to break Ivar and build Björn under the eyes of the public. So, I’m sorry Alexander - for his actuation is absolutely perfect and he’s good as fuck making Björn - but I still think Björn does not deserve the crown he’s wearing now and if it was to make Björn the king of Kattegat, Lagertha could only have waited until he came back from the Mediterranean bc Aslaug wasn’t denying his birthright and since Ragnar fell ill, she was collaborating with Björn to raise Kattegat into the great market center it became under their hands. So, no war would have been necessary and Björn would have ascended to King of Kattegat anyway. It was a stupid end, tbh. Sorry, sad, but true.

My baby, Hvitserk…

I love to see him fighting, but I’m tired to see Marco’s character being beaten in this show. This episode was a real beat down to his character who was beaten from the beginning to the end. From discovering his beloved Thora was dead burned alive by Ivar, to having his flank defeated in the war, passing by not being able to kill or even reach Ivar and going under his brother Björn’s shadow once again after all he did to prevail by himself, Hvitserk was knocked out in this episode and the last hit was Ubbe’s arrival, embracing Björn and twitching lips to him that disgusting way, causing me chills of anger for seeing such a bad ending for this relationship.

Hvitserk deserves better than live under his brothers’ shadow until the end of this series and the trailer for season 6 really made me have chills about this possibility, since we clearly can see Ivar is proposing Hvitserk to join him again - or forcing a dagger against his throat for a positive answer, which is just worse than just propose.

Hvitserk has been being treated as a game by the writers, being beaten from side to side, failing in finding his destiny whenever he jumps sides and extending a conflict that could have been already solved in his plotline. Every brother has its own side. It is passed time from Hvitserk to grown into an independent character.

Passing it by, the battle scenes with Marco’s growls and marvelous acting are amazing and I can’t wait to see more of his acting - which is actually the only reason why I’m still seeing Vikings.

I gonna be beaten for this, but… Freydis.

Everyone hated her from the beginning because of the bad acting Alicia gave for her. Fine.

Now let us take off Alicia from this show. Put anyone there, idk, anyone you like. Forget the actress. Let us look at the plot story that was presented to us and what it was really supposed to be.

Freydis was a slave girl from Viking people (not Christian origins), a woman who believed in the Gods and, more than anything, who believed deformities were a sign of the Gods’ favor. Period.

When she’s brought to talk to Ivar for the first time, she already knows who he is and she seems pretty fascinated for him - Alicia’s inexpressive face at this point kinda killed this fascination, but when Freydis says “I would do anything you ask me to do” she was supposed to sound fascinated, looking to someone she sees as a God. Ok? - and she says what she really believes about him: that he’s fated to great things since she knows he’s the son of Ragnar, from Odin’s lineage, a God, a man marked by what she believes is the sign of the Gods’ huge favor - since Ivar’s deformity is huge.

Forward, she’s seen looking at Ivar from the other side of his room entrance… As a free woman, she didn’t need to be there to serve him, which means she was there to see him. It gives us the impression that she was observing him, looking at him from some distance - what is proved if you remember the party scene when she’s also looking at him from far away. So, she was a woman with a crush on the new king of Kattegat, who was seeing her crush become everything she thought he would become. Freydis was a fascinated woman, who was noticing some interest from the man she was fascinated with over her.

Their interaction was supposed to be an innocent love starting. She was supposed to be shown as a woman who really was doing everything for the man she loved and believed was a god. Even fucking another man, giving up her own dignity to create an illusion for him to have the child he wanted so bad, just to warrant his dream. Killing to warrant his dream wouldn’t be broken. In her mind, she was really doing a huge sacrifice for Ivar. She was going down and far for him, for his love, for her beliefs. In her mind, when Baldur was born deformed, she received a HUGE gift from the Gods, for her son was marked by their favor and deformed like his foster father. In her mind, the gods were giving her their connivance, marking her child with a deformity so Ivar would never doubt the child was his and her illusion would give him his dreams forever.

She was a woman, in love, deluded and with a mind broken by her beliefs - someone recognizes it?

A man, wanting love, deluded about himself and broken by his legs’ deformity and disease???

That’s what I’m talking about!

Freydis was supposed to be a pair for Ivar, for real! We were supposed to have suspicious she could be manipulating him, but the acting of Alicia in this character gave us the total opposite, causing us to doubt there was any love in her actions when Freydis was completely in love for Ivar and deluded by his false divinity.

She really believed he was a god! And it all breaks when he kills Baldur for his deformity, showing her he never believed the same she does, her son was never favored by the gods, her sacrifice was nothing for him, and the illusion she fought so hard to create for him was shattered, for he didn’t want to be a merciful and loved god, but he decided to be feared and cruel against his people instead of following her advice.

Baldur’s death killed Freydis heart, her love for Ivar but more than that, her illusions and beliefs. She lost her faith, she realized all she believed about deformities and the Gods’ favor was a lie, and it brought her the realization that all she believed about Ivar was a lie. He was no god, he was just a monster in her vision, a monster who killed her little child and destroyed everything she created for them. She became a broken woman who was supposed to have shown in the end that the love of a mother surpasses everything, by betraying her “beloved” Ivar in order to avenge what he did to her son.

I’m sorry for Alicia’s fans, I have nothing against her, but her acting destroyed Freydis’ plot and she had a REAL GOOD plot in here! She was supposed to be loved, not hated. We were supposed to be mourning for Ivar’s way to kill her love. But here we are, hating and celebrating…

The poor woman deserved better and she really loved Ivar for good. The bad actress’ choice, in this case, swallowed a good plot after all. And I’m sorry for seeing this. With fewer scenes and less interaction, Eve Connolly was able to make us love Thora more than Alicia did for Freydis in an entire season… Sad, again, but true.

And, in the end, but not less important, Ivar

A complete deface. That’s what I saw in this season.

Ivar was built to be a dual character, Alex made a HUGE job to show us his duality and, in order to promote Björn as Ragnar’s little favorite, Hirst defaced Ivar’s duality, feeding his ego, causing him to become a huge motherfucking asshole to make us hate him and open our hearts to sweet Björn’s cause.

Let us put things right here: Ivar was RIGHT. His mother was killed in cold blood by a bitter selfish ex-wife, coward enough to not to accept a single combat against him, coward enough to put brother against brother and kill dozens in a war that could have been solved simply fighting him when his ego wasn’t that swollen and all he wanted was avenging his mother.

Now, the initial purpose completely vanished in the battle of egos this season became and a character who had a real valuable reason to make war is now just being a spoiled little boy crying because his toys do not want to play his game the way he wants.

Sad and ridiculous to see the exact opposite we saw with Freydis: in her case, a good plot destroyed by bad acting. In his case, a huge actor being swallowed into a vortex of bad writing and bad plotting.

Like Jordan and Marco, Alex is being swallowed by the bad writing of the series and even then, he still shows his huge talent, carrying Ivar in his back as a heavy burden, showing us emotions in his eyes, feelings, sensations, breaking the bad plot with his intense actuation and causing us chills whenever he raises his fierce blues towards the camera.

Defaced or not, Ivar is still one of the best interpreted characters of this series and I am sad to see in the trailers that Hirst will go for madness to finish the defacing of Ivar, putting him totally sunk in the role of a villain when he was clearly a dubious character that could have been saved by a better use for Alex’s heavy talent.

Hallucinating with Freydis, forcing Hvitserk to join him as if his brother was nothing but a dog, Ivar is going down and down with the only purpose to allow Björn to glow in the eyes of the public since in season 4B and 5A, Ivar started to carry the series in his back and it was never the intention of Hirst that Björn could lose the position of, in Horik’s words, “Baldur” among the sons of Ragnar.

A sad plot for such a marvelous actor and a huge struggle from Alex to deliver us a phenomenal work from the beginning to the end of this season. Applauses for him and someone please stab the writers or come to fandom for some more ideas.

As Alex said himself: Some theories and stories from fans are “better than what is written”, but he didn’t say that… “Obviously.”

That’s what I think, dear anon! I hope you enjoy!

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I will say this I was disappointed with her writing in season 4. Especially because I loved Lagertha and Aslaug with my whole fucking heart. But yea I love Katherine Winnick or Kateryna Vinitska the Ukrainian beauty.

I’m not surprised, because there’s a point in the show where every single character has pissed me off so I’m sure my goddess will too 🥺 like, I love him to death but I stay pissed at floki lmfaoo although I hate aslaug and I always have yiiiikkkeeesss I couldn’t get down with her

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Vikings fans surprised to see star Gustaf Skarsgard pop up in Cursed as Merlin

Vikings fans surprised to see star Gustaf Skarsgard pop up in Cursed as Merlin

Floki apparently gave up ship-building and moved to Camelot? (Picture: History Channel)

Netflix’s new spin on the King Arthur mythos, Cursed, landed over the weekend and many fans of historical epic series Vikings were surprised to see a cast-member had jumped ship to Camelot.

Starring 13 Reasons Why’s Katherine Langford as Nimue, Cursed seeks to put a revisionist spin on the founding of the…