bignickel
Mad Mod Poet God
I've watched 3 episodes so far; haven't seen the original Barbarian series (although they're repeating some of them).
1. I enjoy watching the shows because I find the history to be so fascination. My memories of history classes back in HS were: we had Roman Empire, it collapses, Dark Ages followed (where nothing happened), and then boom: Medieval Age (with swords & castles & knights). The programs really show all the other kingdoms that were settling Europe, setting up the beginnings of nations to follow. Very fascinating to me; I had no knowledge about this period of time, and the groups involved.
2. There's an unfortunate tendency for the show to build up some king ('he became the hope of his people, and gave them courage to...') as the Next Big Thing, and then... '4 years later, he died of natural causes.' ? This has happened a few times in the eps I've seen so far. They've told us about this great king, who everyone believes in, and then he just dies, and they move on to the next one. Why was so important? What did he do, to deserve such a buildup? I have no idea.
3. When the show comes back from commercial, they ALWAYS spend 10-15 seconds showing scenes and narrating what happened before the commercial. That gets old after awhile. Maybe they're trying to grab channel surfers who zip in right after the commercial, and keep them. Did I mention that the 10-15 seconds fo scenes are always battle scenes? Thank goodness for Tivo.
4. I thought that the series is being done by the same guys who did "Crusades: Crescent & the Cross", but I can't find this new series on IMDB to confirm it. I'll have to check the credits at the end of the next ep.
1. I enjoy watching the shows because I find the history to be so fascination. My memories of history classes back in HS were: we had Roman Empire, it collapses, Dark Ages followed (where nothing happened), and then boom: Medieval Age (with swords & castles & knights). The programs really show all the other kingdoms that were settling Europe, setting up the beginnings of nations to follow. Very fascinating to me; I had no knowledge about this period of time, and the groups involved.
2. There's an unfortunate tendency for the show to build up some king ('he became the hope of his people, and gave them courage to...') as the Next Big Thing, and then... '4 years later, he died of natural causes.' ? This has happened a few times in the eps I've seen so far. They've told us about this great king, who everyone believes in, and then he just dies, and they move on to the next one. Why was so important? What did he do, to deserve such a buildup? I have no idea.
3. When the show comes back from commercial, they ALWAYS spend 10-15 seconds showing scenes and narrating what happened before the commercial. That gets old after awhile. Maybe they're trying to grab channel surfers who zip in right after the commercial, and keep them. Did I mention that the 10-15 seconds fo scenes are always battle scenes? Thank goodness for Tivo.
4. I thought that the series is being done by the same guys who did "Crusades: Crescent & the Cross", but I can't find this new series on IMDB to confirm it. I'll have to check the credits at the end of the next ep.