Fuckin' KOOGLER, man! FUCK YEAH

Brad was better, for sure, but he's just such an entertaining actor that he lifts this show, too.

SCHMAWN, you dick! It's obviously Schmawn!

Most stuff that I like, to be honest.

It would never happen. Community, when not just being funny, has a kind of Peanuts melancholy vibe to it. Sunny is much, much darker than that. More Coen Brothers level of despair.

No problem. Having degrees in theology has shockingly little outlet in ordinary life; I like to take the chances I get.

Didn't say Christians never hurt anybody, but great use of the tu quoque fallacy.

And he had a safeword kind of thing…? That was all kinds of weird. And I definitely didn't need any of it.

Body and blood, technically (or at least that would be the consensus in a few centuries). Roman Catholicism holds (or at least held during the high medieval period) that both elements in the sacrament convey the essence of both body and blood. Which was much of the justification for not letting the laity have any of…

The Viking funeral dirge was the coolest thing (possibly) in the entire season.

Definitely. I have a very few rudiments of Latin and high school German under my belt, and it was way more Latinesque than Old German would have been.

The Saxons carried the germinal form of it right out of Germany. English didn't get more seriously Latinate until the Norman conquest.

Yeah, from what I recall Old French was Charlemagne's court language (and I believe he had a direct hand in the Latinization of the Frankish German his people spoke). Still, there are recognizably Germanic bits: I caught Odo saying "Wo est?" which is the (modern) German for "where" and the Latin for "he is."

One bit that the show could do with emphasizing some more, however, is the distraction and instability among the Franks. The Viking raids of that rough time period occurred during Frankish infighting, leading to a great deal of difficulty assembling an effective army to repel them. Vikings generally liked to avoid…

So, like, hooray for the murder of unarmed civilians, then?

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He's also collapsing the first Viking siege of Paris into the conquests leading to the Norman county (technically speaking, as Rollo was created count). I was hoping they'd at least delay this plotline until next season, but. Oh well, I guess.

The Samson story involves both a donkey and a lion, and of course his own hair being long. I'm pretty sure it's just a combination of those attributes: ass's ears, lion's paws, long hair.

That sure is, um, a job, there, Internet.

Hardly. I didn't mean the phrase "born again" in itself, I meant the response of thinking, "You mean like a baby?"