Did anyone catch the name of Major Hewitt`s horse? It was Bucephalus which was also the name of the Baron Munchausen`s horse. Pretty weird, eh?

If he was a Filipino pirate he would have had two swords, not one wimpy one. And he would`ve kicked more ass! Take it from a from a Filipino-Chinese guy with MMA experience.

I thought that this episode was a bit of a letdown. This show gets a lot of things right such as the mood, casting, character chemistry, and some plot twists. Like many of you, I was hoping for Horik to have more up his sleeve than waiting for Floki to prove his allegiance and then making his move based on that. …

Spoilers ahead. As entertaining as this episode was, I don't understand why the game plan of this next raid wasn't featured more prominently. It seems to me like a glaring omission. I guess that's so that Ragnar can pull a power move and contact King Ecbert first. Even though King Horik is back on top by…

I wish the show would do a better job explaining his status. It's strange that it was finally this episode when the Viking characters noticed that Horik is actually a king who has his own agenda. And this was after he drove a big wedge between Borg and Ragnar.

Yeah, but that slave girl can dance up a storm.

I hope we see some consequences from Ragnar's decision to betray Borg to give this show some consistency. One thing's for sure, Ragnar has less honor than a Klingon.

Judging by the teasers, it looks like Jarl Borg will be back in the next episode as an ally. If the show wasn't good at rationalizing these shifting allegiances, it would be a comedy.

Yes this show is getting darker. When I saw the title of this episode, I instantly thought of the Tower Tarot card. Marrying Tarot and this show together would really be something terrifying.

I had fun watching this one, and yet I yearn for more. The bath scene reminded me of an anecdote I read about LBJ, that he liked to get other heads of state to skinny dip with him so that he can intimidate them with his more powerful physique and probable larger unit. I wonder if that's why Ragnar undressed with his…

I think Flint's orders to fire on the Man O' War was the last straw that gave credence to the rumors swirling among the crew about the Captain's possible hidden agenda. Remember Team Flint has not netted a big score for a long time and they have been getting small returns for risking their lives on different raids.

What happened to the writing in this show? The whole premise of Lizzie being nutty enough to think that the zombies as wanting to be friends should have been enough for the adults to confine her to the house. I stopped the DVR when Mika and Lizzie were on the railroad tracks because I knew they were playing for some…

One thing that's been percolating in my mind is that on some level(maybe a primal one) Flint enjoys being a pirate! In a way his enjoyment is kind of like a gambler's high in how all his hunches and calculated guesses seemed to keep panning out. Remember when they were looking for the Andromache and how he was…

I enjoyed the volatile ingredients boiling to make an interesting story. I wasn't surprised with how the Vane story line unfolded, but the outcome of Gate's "mutiny management" was enjoyably unpredictable.

I think it's great that Bear McCreary has put together some pirate-like music in the prelude to the great hunt near the end of this episode. It somehow adds an air of realism to the scenes in that you believe that this is how the politics and intrigue brewing among the crew is exactly what should be happening on the…

Actually I was thinking that it would be expensive in that they would have to account for powder, injury payments, repairs, etc. for a second ship.

I think watching it with the captions on helps a lot. There are as many varieties of English spoken on this show as you would find at a Canadian resort town that without captions I have trouble understanding what's going on.

No, they are on the Walrus. Considering how this show is really conscious about the bean counting aspects of piracy, I think a second ship would have been more expensive to pay for.

I re-watched the segment again. Bryson does say that Mr. Scott violated his duty for siding with Eleanor against her father (just before pointing his gun pointblank at someone else head), which just sounds like a BS reason for putting him in the hold. I guess you could say that this was an early form of the black…

How Mr Scott wound up in the hold is what that I'm pretty mystified about. Last episode I thought Bryson accused him of betraying Richard. In this episode, he admits trying to save Eleanor. If its the latter, what is he doing in the hold? Or is it both? Somewhere hidden in Scott's predicament there's some joke…