The Last Kingdom

I love this show. Final season looks great. It surprises me the show isn't in 4k though.

Reminder the last season came out today.

Love the show, but forgot who half the characters are. Might just watch from the beginning and skip most of the witch episodes.

Fucking Brida is intolerable.

Whaaaaat? Strong badass woman just in time for lady history month. She's badass and her motives as a single mother are very relatable.

Yeah, I forgot everything...will need to rewatch first.

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Ah, please tell me they didn't gay this up.

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Not in the first new episode. So not yet, at least. Just some of the usual women are as strong as men in battle trope. She's very scorned though, so I'm a bit nervous they'll turn her into a harpy.

Only into the second episode but I'm not sure I'm digging this season as much as the others. Not terrible so far but doesn't seem up to the standard of the others. Will keep watching for now.

I fucking hate Brida - i am so sick and tired of woman or girls playing any role in combat or medieval films. Just fuck off. She would have gotten annihilated in seconds back in the days. Same with the new Valhalla expansion - seriously a black woman as a jarl? Keep diversity where it belongs but keep it out of historic series / films.

It started slow but it picked up. I actually enjoyed how they ended it. Brida was managed for those who hated her character.

The show overdid the strength of woman during this time. Alfred's queen was perhaps the best representation but far to many of the females had combat skills that just did not exist in that time period. That being said, the show was a very good watch. I liked many of the characters and enjoyed the combat scenes. It certainly could have kept going but I think it ended at a very good spot.

Honestly, I get really annoyed at historical shows that throw in ridiculous anachronistic bullshit just to try and check boxes and broaden their fan base. I love historical fiction but I'll turn a show off really fast if it starts getting way more fiction than history- especially if it feels like it's pushing an agenda.

That said, I haven't felt that way about Last Kingdom to this point (still on ep 2 of the most recent season). I was worried it was going that route when they made Æthelflæd ruler of Mercia, because I thought something like that would have been extremely unlikely for the time.

I looked it up and apparently it actually happened pretty much the way it was portrayed. Yes, it WAS an extremely rare and unusual event, but it actually happened.

From what I'm gathering, it wasn't completely unknown for "Viking" cultures to have "women warriors" like Brida. Rare? Yes. But not unheard of.

So I don't think it's really that unreasonable to imagine that someone like she could have existed. A little stretch that she would be that "badass"? Maybe, but definitely not enough for me to ditch the whole series.

Just finished this and I thought they did a good job of tying up Uhtred's story. The season as a whole is probably not as strong as earlier seasons but still pretty good. As far as the 'overdone female aspect', a lot of the show is actually based on history so I don't think they went too overboard with it. Overall one of the best shows on Netflix.