*bangs axe on shield* horsey cat to me!

How the dragon prow looms through the mist!!

such a great image isn't it? you can really imagine how scary that would be if you had no knowledge of sailing or other lands etc

Second phone call! *sighs and resumes watching*

horsey cat you can stop ringing up Twass now

Well that was fabulous I feel like I've had a fix now! More tomorrow Hopefully tk will have managed to watch....is she watching via the internets? Not DVDs?

it's great isn't it? i found watching it again very interesting seeing details little looks and things that make so much sense when you know what happens. I love it when people make things that don't diminish on multiple watches, but improves. love it!

Yes, foreknowledge is a wonderful thing....watching this time like you I saw nuances, behaviours, etc that I missed the first time around.

i think one of the things i really like is how three dimensional everyone is, different facets to their character, bits you like, bits you don't, much like real life! very well written in that regard.

i forgot to add i'm not sure how tk is watching .

That's very true! They are very human, very real. You can entirely believe in them as characters. Of them all Floki is the most complex and interesting only seconded by Ragnar himself. The brainiest pair of the Vikings

Well. Son, when setting up his house last year needed a cable and I foolishly told him to take ours (I hadn't watched a DVD in a couple of years) and forgot all about it until today. And the disc drive in the pc is knackered.

So I watched Beowulf (bit confused) then googled watch Vikings and success! I have now seen s1 ep 1 !!!! and I am going to love it every bit as much as you two. It's got everything hasn't it, with added Gabriel Byrne.

Yippee! But I'm not surprised. Who could not love it!! Planets and I watched episode 2 as well...but we will wait for you to catch up

Flipping heck, haven't watched so much in years; a new drama about the 1916 rebellion started tonight and it's not bad. One of my favourite books is Rebels by Peter de Rosa, now bed is calling. Night all

YAY!!! i hoped you'd love it!!! it's such great quality isn't it? writing, production values, performance....glad we've lured you in tk!!!

Did anyone watch War and Peace?

my friend's great grandfather is in that book.

I did, they spent a very great deal of money on it.....sumptuous to look at...I remember the old TV series which I watched aged about 11 and then read the book.

sumptuous is the word!! apparently they even got to shoot in the winter palace (at great cost) for a few days! t looked gorgeous. I have a very vague memory of the old one, it was very cardboardy i can't remember the acting though, so it might have been like I Claudius where the sets were cardboard but the acting was superb so you didn't care!

It was done very well as I recall and the acting was superb. I'm surprised they were allowed access to film, but the whole thing looks amazing. Worth watching for the spectacle alone. The battle scenes were brilliant!

LOOK what i have found!!

just started watching it and in the first shot i had to laugh as they appear to have borrowed my mum's cutlery

CRIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't look half bad for something that ancient does it

Ich habe "alle deutschen Spion" für das neue Jahr gegangen!

Er... without Google translating is that "I have all German spies for the the new year ....went???? It's a long time since I did O level German

bloody phone went so i only got as far as someone being at the door and the husband offering to get her some eau de cologne
but i'm hooked already

der Hubschrauber in der Bratpfanne


WITH google translate (which is probably less accurate ) i get
"I have gone " all German spy " for the New Year !"

The helicopter is in the frying pan??