yyarin

Well the first 20 minutes of the first episode are absolutely terrible. The story just doesn't make sense and the characters are one sided caricatures. The Vikings: simplistic savages. The Christians: desperate fanatics defending their faith. There is a father-son story in which the father gives him a task but the son is an idiot and doesn't do it right. We have no idea why and obviously everything goes wrong as a result. Once this totally un-engaging story the storyline shifts to the King's other son who is kidnapped by the vikings. It becomes more interesting, but still utterly un-engaging.