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hypersleep posted:This blog post is yet more proof that men look 110% more badass if they have a well-kept beard. I don't understand the trend of Western men looking increasingly effeminate this past decade. I'm sure teen girls are into effeminate boys, but all of the women I know, 25 and over, don't find effeminate men (even celebrities) attractive. Maybe it's a regional thing. I dunno. Body hair rules (except on the back)
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doctor 7 posted:(except on the back)  Why am I cursed so.
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hypersleep posted:This blog post is yet more proof that men look 110% more badass if they have a well-kept beard. I don't understand the trend of Western men looking increasingly effeminate this past decade. I'm sure teen girls are into effeminate boys, but all of the women I know, 25 and over, don't find effeminate men (even celebrities) attractive. Maybe it's a regional thing. I dunno.  I can see how this episode might be unsatisfying as a finale for some, but viewed as its own installment, in no way was it disappointing or boring. As much as I love when the show takes the opportunity to weave Viking culture into the narrative, it is most beautiful to me when it gets experimental with editing and music, and the last third of the episode (as in Uppsala) transcends what I expect from a historical drama. And I liked the parallels of the sacrificial blood drawn down the face, both Lagertha drawing the line down her right cheek and Ragnar down his left.
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Admiral Bosch posted:That said, the woman that plays Aslaug is easily one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Agreeing with this post. Kind of liked the finale myself, what a plague isn't hardcore enough for people? Ragnar lost a daughter and nearly a slave and servant. I admit the series would have been better paced overall if they had resolved some plot threads at the finale instead of starting whole new ones though, but it remains to be seen how quickly they follow through on this next season. doctor 7 posted:Body hair rules (except on the back) So long as it's only not on the back, even pelt-like coverage is okay? 
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Deadpool posted:http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/04/the-cast-of-historys-vikings-all-cleaned-up/ I like how Vladimir Kulich somehow manages to look more badass in the 'cleaned up' pic.
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HenessyHero posted:So long as it's only not on the back, even pelt-like coverage is okay? I also get my grooming advice from a bunch of dudes on the internet who are into vikings
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You and me both, buddy  HenessyHero posted:So long as it's only not on the back, even pelt-like coverage is okay? Sadly no. As someone mentioned beauty is subjective. Some women/men like hairy chests, some don't. I think hairless/shaved chests look odd but then again I'm hairy so I'm biased. That said even women who like hairy chests and hairy men usually draw the line at hairy backs I'm afraid. I'm sure there are people out there who like them but they're definitely in a minority, not goatse fetish minority but small nonetheless. doctor 7 fucked around with this message at 00:10 on May 2, 2013 |
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doctor 7 posted:That said even women who like hairy chests and hairy men usually draw the line at hairy backs Anecdotal evidence suggests this to be true in every case except one And that girl was a loving freak.
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I'm sure there's a sizeable percentage of people who don't give a flying gently caress (including yours truly) because well you don't need to like it to not be put off by it or anything?Gyges posted:I like how Vladimir Kulich somehow manages to look more badass in the 'cleaned up' pic. I'm freaked out by how much younger everybody except Vlad looks. Seriously that Knut guy is like 15 
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Sash! posted:Floki looks like some nerd that designs furniture for Ikea and lives in a house where everything is white and angular. That, or someone that would gladly murder you and make lampshades out of your tanned hide. There's something... off... about that picture and his little half smile.
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Admiral Bosch posted:That said, the woman that plays Aslaug is easily one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen. 
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DS at Night posted:I'm freaked out by how much younger everybody except Vlad looks. Seriously that Knut guy is like 15 Their makeup emphasizes the creases and hollows around the eyes in the show; in the professional photos and interviews the actors are no doubt wearing makeup that hides exactly that. Their real-life faces probably look somewhere in between in terms of age.
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TheRealGunde posted:Then you should track down the international cut of this episode. She's nude in it Full frontal? I download the episodes from iTunes and it showed her naked from the back, but no visible butt.
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Sash! posted:everything is white and angular. That's a pretty good description of Sweden really.  Was also wondering about the international version. Surely there's some non-pg cut out there for the non-history channel audiences?
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In the international version (I watched it on HBO Nordic) she shows breasts and butt in the bathing scene.
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Between this and the GoT thread, I guess we can only make it to Thursday before its rear end and titty time. Except this Sunday we don't get any new rear end and titties  I believe the only appropriate course of action is to pillage the GoT thread next week 
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It would be cool if Gustaf Skarsgård managed to convince his dad Stellan to do an episode since he looked pretty drat in King Arthur  .
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Lord Tywin posted:It would be cool if Gustaf Skarsgård managed to convince his dad Stellan to do an episode since he looked pretty drat Oh, they are related. I was half beginning to think that Skarsgård was like the Swedish version of Jones.
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ChickenMedium posted:Oh, they are related. I was half beginning to think that Skarsgård was like the Swedish version of Jones. Gustaf and Alex Skarsgard (True Blood, Generation Kill) are Stellan's sons. They have another brother who's an actor but he hasn't been in much. Alex looks pretty good as a Viking as well: 
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The third brother, Bill Skarsgård, is the lead in Hemlock Grove. He's a really loving weird/creepy looking dude.
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ChickenMedium posted:Oh, they are related. I was half beginning to think that Skarsgård was like the Swedish version of Jones. Nah, pretty much all the most common names in Scandinavia are Patronymic ending with sen in Denmark and Norway and sson in Sweden. Stellan also have seven sons of which Four are working as actors.
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I feel like we haven't spent enough time talking about how pretty Athelstan is   I loved the way they used his hair to mark the passing of time, up to and including   (The actor actually did quite a sweet interview about this; quote:STV: So episode 8, you get a great new haircut.
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That bit in the last episode about 'arrive dressed, yet not dressed'... I swear I heard it in some fairytale or legend or something, which was most definitely not Nordic. Mythos experts?
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machinegunmessiah posted:That bit in the last episode about 'arrive dressed, yet not dressed'... I swear I heard it in some fairytale or legend or something, which was most definitely not Nordic. Mythos experts? That is how those two characters met in Norse myth.
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machinegunmessiah posted:That bit in the last episode about 'arrive dressed, yet not dressed'... I swear I heard it in some fairytale or legend or something, which was most definitely not Nordic. Mythos experts? Yeah, that's why I commented on it. It's exactly the same as it was in the Ragnar myth.
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machinegunmessiah posted:That bit in the last episode about 'arrive dressed, yet not dressed'... I swear I heard it in some fairytale or legend or something, which was most definitely not Nordic. Mythos experts? It reminds me of a bunch of old Slavic fables where hero/ine is tested by a fay or someone else with great power, and he has to fulfill three contradictory requests, but that specific one with dressed/not dressed doesn't pop to mind There's a fable "Maiden outwits the Tsar" where a tsar asks a peasant girl to do three impossible things (eg empty the sea using a cup) and, when she outwits him, he ends up marrying her
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Found this series earlier this week, after watching a couple of episodes I starded to like it. Great battle scenes and quite a good story. I know it's not trying to be completely historically accurate but the episode where they go to Uppsala, I just couldn't take it seriously. First they walk from Norway to Uppsala (thats a really long walk through forest, mountains and nothing else), then when they arrive, the camera shows the most non-uppsala looking place in scandinavia... It's called the Uppsala plains for a reason. 
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people want to see trees and waterfalls and somewhere special looking. Not a mile after mile of the flattest place in the world. It looked gorgeous and it made me want to be a Viking.... sold me.
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notsowelp posted:I feel like we haven't spent enough time talking about how pretty Athelstan is I remember that and I'm like - it's more of Bladgen's forehead, no big, deal he's still a pretty twinky lad - I like dudes with miles of forehead space :3 His twitter is also the embodiment of Word is that they will be commencing filming season 2, out 2014 very soon/have started all ready if the feverish weirdos on tumblr are to be believed.
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The show is casting for extras here in Dublin tomorrow. Look out for an extremely goon looking Viking in season 2. Unless I fail
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Rocksicles posted:people want to see trees and waterfalls and somewhere special looking. Not a mile after mile of the flattest place in the world. Yeah I get that it's more about cool settings than the actual historical place. Just annoyed me since a live 15 minutes away from the temple site, the old kings burialmounds and runestones. I had kind of hoped that they would take the real place and make it like it was during the viking age.
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A touch late, but that dog is either a Giant Alaskan Malamute or a Finnish Lapphund mixed with Chow. Slight possibility it's just a derpy-looking purebred Malamute that they just did a crazy blow-out on as well, but Mally / Chow mix is the safe bet.
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Fader Movitz posted:Yeah I get that it's more about cool settings than the actual historical place. Just annoyed me since a live 15 minutes away from the temple site, the old kings burialmounds and runestones. I had kind of hoped that they would take the real place and make it like it was during the viking age. take some photos for us goons? I drove past it once in a truck with my da, but i didnt know it was there till years later when he told me...
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I don't want to wait till 2014... Anyways I loved vikings and I don't watch TV much at all. But I made an exception when I heard vikings in the name alone. Wish they would of played some amon amarth but the traditional folk is great to.
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I would have liked to hear some Amon Amarth as well. But since the show is a drama it wouldn't be very fitting.
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Well when the saxans attacked when they where checking the chests for payments might of been good. But ya the context might be out of place.
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Dagnabbit DON'T watch the comicon trailer for season 2, it's a loving huge spoiler. Just watched it thinking it was a short lead in to an interview. fucks sake.
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Rocksicles posted:Dagnabbit DON'T watch the comicon trailer for season 2, it's a loving huge spoiler. Just watched it thinking it was a short lead in to an interview. The first thing I did was watch the trailer after seeing this and holy poo poo it's no lie. Stay away from it. In the meantime here's a comic con interview with Katheryn Winnick and that Travis dude. The hosts don't deserve to be in the same room as her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmsk6X54Scg
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Erghh posted:The first thing I did was watch the trailer after seeing this and holy poo poo it's no lie. Stay away from it. Ugh, you weren't kidding about those hosts. Total dipshits and awful interviewers, too. The trailer is totally badass despite being spoilery.
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