Vikings Episode 4x01 "A Good Treason" February 18, 2016 (Season 4 Premiere)

Vikings - A Good Treason
Episode 4x01 (Season 4 Premiere)
Premiere Date: Thu February 18 2016, 10:00 PM @ History Channel  
 
Entry to Valhalla eludes Ragnar but as he lies in his sick bed in Kattegat events unfold beyond his control. Bjorn orders the arrest of Floki for Athelstan's murder while in Paris, Rollo betrays the last of his Viking supporters to strengthen his position in the French Court. Meanwhile, in Hedeby, Kalf announces joint Earldom with Lagertha, but is power-sharing Kalf's true intention and is Lagertha actually willing to share what once was hers?

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Well kinda flat and to me just lame writing.
They make Rollo hard to like now, that was out of character, and made no sense.

Bjorn arrests floki ????????? that was stupid, he wasnt in charge, and if Ragnar
doesnt wake up then what is he in charge ??
I doubt floki would survive chained up in the open like that.
Not a good direction to go on that either. they have now ruined the
character of floki and rollo and some others, and killed off some good ones !

lagertha cutting off the guys dick, wow was that necessary?

So first ep was disappointing, nothing on england, the vikings just ignore
that??

I didn't think it was the bad, overall not a great opener, but I will still watch this season, I do think Rollo screwed himself by killing all of his people

T5000 wrote:

Well kinda flat and to me just lame writing.
They make Rollo hard to like now, that was out of character, and made no sense.

Bjorn arrests floki ????????? that was stupid, he wasnt in charge, and if Ragnar
doesnt wake up then what is he in charge ??
I doubt floki would survive chained up in the open like that.
Not a good direction to go on that either. they have now ruined the
character of floki and rollo and some others, and killed off some good ones !

lagertha cutting off the guys dick, wow was that necessary?

So first ep was disappointing, nothing on england, the vikings just ignore
that??

Haven't seen it yet. And after the rather weak last season it's not that high up my priority list.
Currently some new shows are growing on me ... Colony or Second Chance ... and btw, Agent Carter 2x06 and 2x07 were excellent and absolutely entertaining!
But speaking of Vikings, did you see that? Imho simply better than Vikings!

The Last Kingdom (BBC America 2015)

ok tscc i looked at the trailer of LK, and I will give it a try.

It is english made though lol so that might be a negative.

I looked up the other 2 and will try those too, the colony looked most interesting so
will try that 1st.

I blame the show runner for the decline of vikings.

I would have not followed history and would have kept ragnar healthy and the king
for the run of the series.

I just watched the 58 movie the vikings with kirk douglas and tony curtis !
it was dated but still good, and the king was ragnar, kirk was ivan I think,
and tony was erik.
They had their version of athelstan, and ragnar did die in the wolf pit.
The clothing in the movie was better than in the show, and the whole tattoo thing
in the show bothers me.

O and no sheild maidens in the movie lol back then women were just women.

Ok, the season premiere was quite ok. Even better than expected.
As long as they keep all that visionary and northern religion crap in the background, it might stay watchable enough.
As for Rollo, well, it surely was not a noble action to slaughter his vikings, but from a pure logical viewpoint it was kind of consequent.
Either he fully is with the Franconians or not at all. There is no middle way here. And he and the Franconians took their chance to weaken the man power of the Vikings significantly without losing a single soldier. When I look at it just from the Franconians' view, I can't even blame them. They just destroyed (collateral damage like children included) the occupant army, who before had attacked, plundered and murdered their citizens ... why should they just wait until the full Viking force is back and get looted againg and again? To be honest, during season 2 and 3 I always was rooting for the English and the Franconians and couldn't hide some satisfaction the rare times, when the Vikings got their asses kicked (just not often enough, because the Vikings' opponents mostly acted terribly dumb).

T5000 wrote:

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They make Rollo hard to like now, that was out of character, and made no sense.
....

Well, why do you think Rollo or the Vikings have to be liked?
They never were the good guys at all. They are murderers and looters to say it simply. I for one mostly am rooting for their attacked opponents and just hope they will act a bit cleverer against the Vikings this season, like the Franconians last season, when they actually managed to beat the Vikings at the Paris walls first, which was an awesome, if not the best Vikings ep ever. Sadly then they fell for Ragnar's "Trojan horse" trick, which storywise fealt kind of ridiculous for me though ...