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Vikings: Eye for an Eye (2014)
Anti-Christian, anti-historical.
All I can say is this is clearly anti-Christian in the way they portray Christianity. Not only does this episode follow through on the historically ludicrous idea that Christian crucified apostates in the 8th and 9th centuries, but they have a bishop overseeing the crucifixion and putting a crown of thorns on the apostate's head.
Anyone vaguely familiar with Christianity realizes that this is a mockery of Christianity and Christ from a Christian point of view. No Christian would execute someone in mockery of the crucifixion. In fact, Christian tradition says that St. Peter, an apostle of Christ was crucified upside down by Romans at his own request, since he did not see himself to be worthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.
The only reason I can see Christian being portrayed this way is to try to make them out to be hypocrites and vicious. While some Christian surely did evil things, no even nominal Christian, especially in that era, would execute an apostate or anyone else via crucifixion. This series is on the verge of losing me, because it has lost any resemblance of history, mocks my Christian beliefs, and frankly, had been mostly boring since the last couple episodes of season 1.
Vikings: Treachery (2014)
Not historical...
There a numerous elements in this series that aren't historically accurate, which I think is sad since it's on the "History Channel." A little license of course is inevitable, especially to make it entertaining, but I was particularly irked when a Christian bishop threatens to crucify an apostate. I don't think there is historical record of Christians ever crucifying people, let alone other Christians. Not to mention Constantine banned crucifixion hundreds of years before. It's just lazy.
There's a fair bit of action in this episode, but it really feels like the story isn't moving forward very quickly. As interesting as some of the Viking characters are, and the battles being fun to watch, dwelling on them raiding, pillaging, and murdering and torturing Christians gets pretty old.
The Christian priest opting to join the Vikings, or even lapsing in his faith I can perhaps buy, but him killing a bishop? Even if out of "mercy?" It really feels like the writers don't understand the period, or Christianity in general.
Overall not a terrible episode, but the series doesn't feel like it's really going anywhere either...I'm not sure how they got to 5 seasons at this rate.
Vikings: All Change (2013)
Very weak ending to the season...
The only real redeeming part of this episode is the conversation toward the beginning between Ragnar and Rollo. It's interesting from an acting and character standpoint, but other than that nothing interesting happens, and certainly nothing important that won't be summarized at the beginning of the next episode. The last two episodes of season 1 are skippable episodes that feel like the writers thought they only needed to write seven episodes for the season instead of nine.
If season two isn't better I'm going to have to forget about this series which had so much promise for most of season 1...
Vikings: Sacrifice (2013)
The episode where nothing happens...
Not really spoilers? They have a festival...there's shrooms, and sex...and that's about it. Okay, they meet one important character for latter, but if you skip to the next episode it's all in the "previously" segment. You won't miss anything. It's kind of like the writers had enough material for seven episodes or so and then realized they needed to fill time til the end of the season. Boring. Utterly boring with no story development to speak of.