Did anybody else notice the Monkey Magic moment when Ragnar was playing with the kids? Travis Fimmel's about the same age as me, and growing up in Australia the Japanese TV show "Monkey" (AKA "Saiyuki", or Journey Into the West) was the inspiration for a lot of kids to twirl brooms around their heads and play-act a…

Interesting that the writer assumed Stanley Tucci would ordinarily have been the main character (rather than the town itself). Is that an American viewpoint, I wonder? Don't get me wrong, I think Stanley Tucci's great, but the cast is loaded with heavyweight talent: Michael Gambon, Christopher Eccleston, Sofie Grabol,…