Well, since they're not crass colonials like HBO, BBCAmerican can hardly have a CEO of Tits. Perhaps a Lord Mayor of Bums and Jumblies or something appropriately restrained and tasteful.

Is there already a "Black Scorpion" superhero? Because Helena is just off her rocker enough to be costumed crime fighter with a heavy undercurrent of Dyler Durden/talking scorpion.

Loved the hat tip to Blade Runner's Voight-Kampff test. Don't ask Seth about his mother, Paul. Actually, on second thought, go right ahead and ask him…

Loved Qyburn's "Come up to the lab…and see what's on the slab" moment. If Dan and David can work in a Frau Blucher or Igor hat tip I will just plotz.

OK, is anyone else kinda weirded out by Sidrick? I'm having a hard time picturing Ragnar or anyone else thinking: "Why, yes, dazed-looking. polyglot drag queen, I will totally risk my life and the lives of my best friends sailing into uncharted waters toward a place lots of people aren't even sure exists based solely…

Agreed. I think the only thing that will make up for Ragnar's eventual departure will be Bjorn, Ivar and whatever other brothers crushing every Saxon in site with the Great Heathen Army. And that fat f**k Aella getting killed in a particularly gruesome fashion. Long live the Danelaw!

Sure, he's a Bargain Bin King Joffrey, but— yes, supremely punchable.

Except that they've muddle up the timeline a bit for entertainment's sake, which I have no problem with — it's not a documentary. This siege of Paris was 845. The Rollo granted lands at the mouth of the Seine (sometimes called Rolf the Walker) to forestall further Viking incursions happened in 911. And he's fairly…

"Hey, girl…"

Depending on which legend they follow you're likely to get your wish eventually. In one telling, it's Ragnar being eclipsed by Bjorn that leads him to his ill-fated raid back into Northumbria.

Who did that music!?

Yeah, so the Franks were a Germanic tribe that conquered Roman Gaul in the 6th century. Now I'll happily defer to anyone who has studied linguistics on the details, but you basically have Old French (as spoken in the show) evolving out of a fusion of the Gallo-Roman romance root language with a steady influx of…

Bjorn's gesture was very "Ragnar" and I liked it a lot — it was understated, no shouting close-up with sword stereotypically up-raised, no 'inspiring' monologue. His body language just said "OK we've done the brain work—go get 'em, you maniacs."

I'll say this in 'defense' of a simpering and incompetent Charles — it's not *too* far off the historical mark. His grandfather Charlemagne united France/Gaul, most of Germany and Northern Italy into the Holy Roman Empire and brought authority and stability that the continent hadn't seen since the fall of Rome. Three…

Actually I give Bjorn major props for being ecstatic to have a daughter in a male-centric warrior culture. I thought his unfeigned joy at being a dad to a child of any gender was quite touching. And that he named her after the woman who saved his half-brothers (who, in all honesty could prove to be serious rivals…

Actually, there's an example later in history from the Viking's descendants—the Normans. The story goes that as they pillaged their way through southern Italy in the late 11th century one group of wily Normans dressed as monks and carried a coffin on their shoulder in order to bluff their way into a particularly rich…

The night is dark and full of drunken Irish puking on your front stoop.

The first rule of Stereotypical Native American Acid Trip is you do not talk about…oh, fuck it, I'm just going to slit some dude's throat.

I'm really puzzled how they're going to sort out the attack on the Boltons. So we're collapsing the "northern clans" (Flint, Norry, etc.) story line into Stannis using the Wildlings to retake the North — OK. I can totally see that. But I really want to know how they're going to get a spy into Winterfell without…

The could get Seth MacFarlane to write a musical number for them. While Seth can grate when out of his element and/or beating a dead horse as is his wont, the "Road to Rhode Island" Hope & Crosby bit with Stewie and Brian was freakin' brilliant.