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Vikings [History Channel - US] [** Spoilers **]

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    #92
    Mech1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭Mech1


    I was involved in a small way, in the making of this series and have some great "on set" photos if anyone is interested.


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    #93
    Headshot
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    Mech1 wrote: »
    I was involved in a small way, in the making of this series and have some great "on set" photos if anyone is interested.

    You should post them up here. :)


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    #94
    Mech1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭Mech1


    What do you think?

    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/slideshow/Vikings


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    #95
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Mech1 wrote: »
    What do you think?

    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/slideshow/Vikings

    Can i post this link to SpoilerTV?....so as others can see your BTS photos??


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    #96
    Mech1
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    I would rather you didnt, I will do so myself if I decide to.
    Thanks anyway.


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    #97
    Mech1
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    anyone that wants to see the photos can pm me for the password, I would prefer it that way.
    Thanks.


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    #98
    Mech1
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    pm sent


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    #99
    Artful_Badger
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    Great pics, must have been cool to be involved.


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    #100
    expectationlost
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    You're looking at it wrong, to us sacrifice is bad but to them it would be an honor. A sacrifice to the gods would have been just as beneficial as having the priest with him during raids in Ragnars head.

    It's not surprising one of the best Vikings stepped forward, it would be the bravest warriors that accept death.

    I don't see how they can, it's just the way things were back then, it took weeks and months to arrange things because you had to walk most places.

    It's a dramatised version of historical events, if you want fantasy based on myths I think you'll continue to be disappointed.

    This is what I like most about the show though, we get to see a simulation of what life was like in viking times, we can learn something and it's not just another action show that uses viking props.


    stop making sense!

    the thing is while watching you think he's not going to kill that character and of course they don't


    why are they so insistent in him having another son they already have one ...


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    #101
    W.Shakes-Beer
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    Loving this series at the moment, myself and my OH are glued to it! Currently about 6 episodes in.

    My Dad worked on the set of this series (construction) when it was filmed last year! He has tonnes of on set photos back at home.

    Looking forward to series 2!


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    #102
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    expectationlost wrote: »
    why are they so insistent in him having another son they already have one ...
    Like Spartacus, this show is based on historic events and characters:
    LINKED ARTICLE LIKELY CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok


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    #103
    expectationlost
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    Rovi wrote: »
    Like Spartacus, this show is based on historic events and characters:
    LINKED ARTICLE LIKELY CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Lodbrok


    because he did isn't an answer for within this tv show


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    #104
    Mech1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,099 ✭✭✭Mech1


    today pics go public password removed


    http://s962.photobucket.com/user/mech1111/slideshow/Vikings


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    #105
    Mech1
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    Richard Dower wrote: »
    Can i post this link to SpoilerTV?....so as others can see your BTS photos??

    yes now you can.


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    #106
    PhiloCypher
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    ScumLord wrote: »
    You're looking at it wrong, to us sacrifice is bad but to them it would be an honor. A sacrifice to the gods would have been just as beneficial as having the priest with him during raids in Ragnars head.
    It makes no odds that Ragnar and vikings in general think it's an honour , the very fact that Ragnar didn't tell him what he was in for suggests he knew Athelston wouldn't look at it that way which makes it a sneaky and scummy thing to do anyways you look at it.
    ScumLord wrote: »
    It's not surprising one of the best Vikings stepped forward, it would be the bravest warriors that accept death.
    You're looking at it from a historically accurate perspective I'm looking at it from a whats most beneficial to the show and for my money the show would have been better served by not killing off your most recognizable viking outside of Ragnar and Rollo this early , you couldn't even make the argument that they chose him as sacrificing a nobody wouldn't have elicited any sympathy from the audience as at this early stage we didn't know anything about him other then the fact that after Erik(Vladimir Kulich) he was the most Viking looking of the bunch.
    ScumLord wrote: »
    I don't see how they can, it's just the way things were back then, it took weeks and months to arrange things because you had to walk most places.

    Obviously some time jumps are necessary I don't expect them to show them getting from a to b in realtime but how about compressing events so that the time jumps aren't so dramatic , or at the very least have the time jumps take place between episodes so that individual episodes take place over a span of day/days rather then weeks as is the case in some episodes this season. At times its like they filmed the entire show in one go and played a game of pin the tail on the donkey to decide where they transition from one episode to the next . Take the funeral for Earl Haraldson they spent 3/4 of the episode on the funeral then jumped forward weeks to show us Ragnar Sailing up some English River , why not have that as the opening of the next episode, rather then shoehorning in at the end of the funeral episode , sure you could say it served as a teaser for what is to come but a post credits next time on vikings would have served that purpose equally well.


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    #107
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Do they just leave the sets up when they're filming? Like if you went down to Glendalough on a Sunday would all the houses be there?


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    #108
    Alun
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Do they just leave the sets up when they're filming? Like if you went down to Glendalough on a Sunday would all the houses be there?
    It wasn't actually filmed in Glendalough, but on the shores of Lough Tay which is in the grounds of the Guinness Estate. They did a lot of filming for Camelot around that area too.

    http://goo.gl/maps/VCK2x


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    #109
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Alun wrote: »
    It wasn't actually filmed in Glendalough, but on the shores of Lough Tay which is in the grounds of the Guinness Estate. They did a lot of filming for Camelot around that area too.

    http://goo.gl/maps/VCK2x

    Really? There were some parts looked exactly like the view from the upper lake at Glendalough, but maybe they just CGI'd the background in.


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    #110
    Alun
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    Yes, absolutely certain. See here http://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/our-viking-history-recreated-at-the-sally-gap-27653964.html

    I haven't really watched it in detail yet, but there's a mountain/hill called Luggala behind the lake which you can see if you drive over the Sally Gap and stop overlooking the lake, which would maybe look a bit like the Spinc at Glendalough I'd imagine.


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    #111
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I'm hearing good things.....:)


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    #112
    Richard Dower
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    Mech1 wrote: »
    yes now you can.

    They never posted them....dunno why :confused:


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    #113
    Tayla
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    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Amazing show. My new favorite even above Game of Thrones.

    I wasn't a fan of game of thrones at all, too miserable, love Vikings though, watched it all over the last few days.

    It really reminds me of a viking Sons of anarchy plus Ragnor looks so like Jax especially when he smiles, it's uncanny!


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    #114
    JP Liz V1
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    Linus Roache and Alexander Ludwig will be on board for the drama’s second season.
    Roache will play Ecbert, King of Wessex, “a man full of strength, knowledge and undisguised ambition,” History announced Tuesday.
    Meanwhile, Ludwig’s Bjorn is the smart, brave warrior son of Ragnar Lothbrok
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #115
    Mech1
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    Filming going well at location, luggalla Wicklow. lots of new actors, link to present Director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320987/


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    #116
    Richard Dower
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    Mech1 wrote: »
    Filming going well at location, luggalla Wicklow. lots of new actors, link to present Director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0320987/

    Did they get a budget increase?


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    #117
    ixoy
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Meanwhile, Ludwig’s Bjorn is the smart, brave warrior son of Ragnar Lothbrok
    So Season 2 is going to take a big jump in the time line of about 10 years?!


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    #118
    feargale
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    Is this a. fairly accurate history, b. history-based or c. fiction?


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    #119
    Artful_Badger
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    feargale wrote: »
    Is this a. fairly accurate history, b. history-based or c. fiction?

    B. Its based on historical events and people. Namely a viking named Ragnar who led the vikings first raids on Britain.


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    #120
    Dermighty
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    Saw Travis Fimmel in Cork this morning, I left him to it.


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    #121
    Cork boy 55
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    Caught up with there , its not bad show, not bad at all.

    When is season 2 starting?


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