Yea Tommy, everything you wrote is 100% to a tee of what I thought. I can't believe they didn't include his daughter, Hilda, and Alfred's widow (she didn't die in the series). Edward's widow threw me off being a different actress too. I was trying to be nice above, but IMO, the movie just sucked big time. I was hoping I was wrong and just watched it on a bad day....and was waiting for @blm to come in and tell me I was just being too harsh (LOL!!!), but with your analysis, i'm just going all in now and saying it was really sucky! lol.Hey BMJ, I agree with you. The series was amazing, but the movie didn't match the series. It was pretty hard to follow at times, every scene was very dark, making it hard to make out who was who. And the gay thing...
I really don't know the history of it, but it still pissed me off.
Hilda should have been included in the movie. And what about Uhtred's daughter? She just disappeared. And the mother of King Edward who was married to King Alfred, did she die in the last season? I don't remember that, and it would have been nice to have here in there.
I was bummed none of these women played a role in the movie. And the widow of King Edward was a different person than the person who played the role in the series. That kinda sucked.
I made it halfway and lost interest. I plan on going back and starting it over. But up to that point, I was disappointed. I can't argue with anything aforementioned.Yea Tommy, everything you wrote is 100% to a tee of what I thought. I can't believe they didn't include his daughter, Hilda, and Alfred's widow (she didn't die in the series). Edward's widow threw me off being a different actress too. I was trying to be nice above, but IMO, the movie just sucked big time. I was hoping I was wrong and just watched it on a bad day....and was waiting for @blm to come in and tell me I was just being too harsh (LOL!!!), but with your analysis, i'm just going all in now and saying it was really sucky! lol.
If they didn't want to do a whole season, at least give them slots to have like a 2-3 expanded movie season, so that it makes sense with some character build-up of the newer people.
It sucks with the Valhalla scene at the end because they pretty much are completely done with everything, but it was maybe the best scene in the movie....that and the jokes around when he lost his sword and got a new one, lol.
I'm just disappointed with it because they had all this time and I just feel that if this was as good as they could do, then it's pathetic. It's how i felt about the last season of Vikings too.....but that is a whole different topic and rant, heh heh heh