Anybody else really dislike Brida?
Constantly, yelling, screaming, sulking.
No Thanks.
I don't but I agree she's not making anyone happy. It's not a happy time either.
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if you dont like her now, just wait a few seasons, see how you like her then
shareif you dont like her now, just wait a few seasons, see how you like her then
That's the kind of annoying comment people had to put up with for four seasons of Game of Thrones before the series finally passed the books. People are talking about the TV show here, they didn't ask you to offer vague spoilers and act like a wizened elder because you read the books. share
I never really cared for her in the books and I like her only marginally better in the show.
shareShe's a female who doesn't want to be bound by societal mores. She's more at ease with the Danes, but even with them she has a "place." Without Uhtred, who she can give herself willingly, another Dane will bend her forcibly.
It's hard for us to empathize with strong willed people who should have free will but cannot peaceably exercise it, and who should have rights but no one who respects them. She's not a learned person who can assert herself diplomatically; she's a wild woman enslaved at a young age and given only enough freedom to squawk. We're not going to like Brita but her story is so well written and portrayed that we can understand her.
There's a difference between being "strong willed" and rude, and the childlike sulking and throwing stuff at people. lol
shareWhere did she learn Saxon social graces?
sharePeople don't mind the skull-splitting Danes, they find them lively, strong, free, maybe even honest (they're not) and in any case better than those boring and morally tight Christians, but they will nearly unanimously sneer at the "selfish" girl whose main fault is not to be polite and follow the hero.
High time she stops sulking and starts splitting skulls.
there better be coffee
I find it almost laughable that the Danes are presented as somehow more 'rational' than the Saxons for quetioning stories about Saints- when thier mythology and religion taught that the earth was created from the corpse of a Giant, that it surrounded by a huge snake with its tail its mouth and would end it it ever let go, and that the fates of humanity was determined by women weaving under the ground.
That is pretty far fatched and irrational methinks. Compared to the Danes, I would say the 'morally tight Christian' Saxons who wrote about a spherical earth and the moon effecting the tides were pretty far ahead of the Danes in terms in Science and cosmology.
Who knows what learning was destroyed by the 'fun' Vikings destroying monastries?
I love the image you paint... All those Saxons writing scientifically about the earth and the moon.
"Now, who has the key?"
Bernard Cornwell isn't a fan of the early christians. The middle book in the Warlord Chronicles is called Enemy of God and he favors the pagans throughout that series as well as this one. I suggest you read the books and learn some history about the christian church other than what you were taught in sunday school.
shareBernard Cornwell isn't a fan of Christians, period. It has nothing to do with what real, historical early Christians were like.
More accurately: he loathes fanaticism, whatever religious or political belief system it follows. True, in the Warlord Chronicles, the Christians come off mostly as hateful. But there are also a couple of extremely likable Christians. Conversely, there are many likable pagans, but also many truly horrible ones. The characters are not good or bad based on their religion, but on their humanity: that thing which the most fanatical characters, be they Christian or not, lose in single-minded pursuit of their goals.
"Occasionally I'm callous and strange."
Its funny how I read exactly what you wrote and understood it just as you intended but it never fails a couple people have to see it different....JSMH.
shareYou dont know many women do you? They are always like that
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IMHO Brida is basically the 'love interest'- and as Bernard Cornwell female leads go, she's fairly typical. Basically just there to be sparredwith, provide some conflict, give a but of sass, but ultimately to be sh**ged by the hero.
Basically, most of the leading women in his stories seem to be glorified sex objects with little character. Oh, they have to look sassy and tough to avoid typecasting, but ultimately you can be pretty certain they're just gonna hook up with the hero.
The only woman in the Book series that was really noteworth was Ethelflead of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, who was a brillant leader. Sadly, on a romantic level, even she is reduced to another of Uhtred's lovers, and despised wife stuck with horrid old husband. Such a cliche.
The real Ethelflead did not need some smart-ass half Viking lover, she was smart enough to take the reigns of power in her own right.
The only woman in the Book series that was really noteworth was Ethelflead of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, who was a brillant leader. Sadly, on a romantic level, even she is reduced to another of Uhtred's lovers,
Oh geez, I had forgotten about that.
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The only woman in the Book series that was really noteworth was Ethelflead of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, who was a brillant leader. Sadly, on a romantic level, even she is reduced to another of Uhtred's lovers, and despised wife stuck with horrid old husband. Such a cliche.
oh cmon. Uhtred is shoehorned into the history of early medieval Brittain and complaining about his role in the life of Ethelflead is silly. His presence or role in the books isnt reducing Ethelflead any worse then it did Alfred.
Uhtred is fictional and still isnt only present in many historical batles but generally tends to be the keyfactor in winning them. Ethelfled is competent and firce in the books. she deals with Uthred (handles him) in ways noone else does and he even loves her for it. Yes he is also shoehorned into some key moments of Ethelfleads life but if you percieve that as a cliche then the entire premise of the books is one giant cliche. share
I can't *beep* stand her. I hope she dies having contracted some disease and falls to her death by tumbling over the galleon rail.
shareThat is the character, as written by Corbwell. She and Uthred grew up together but were never going to marry. She is fiercely loyal to the "Danes," and in the future- after this particular book being adapted- she becomes a thorn in Uthreds side as he chooses to live among the English.
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she becomes a thorn in Uthreds side as he chooses to live among the English.
Than she's playing role well. lol
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She's the only character I like in this show so far.
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