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Dave Lister
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I am NOT still mad about the cancellation of RED DWARF!

A pretty reasonable post. What seems really unfortunate to me that all criticism of a movie or any other other pop culture thingie, gets lumped together into camps, as in the most recent example of: "all critics of the Ghost Busters reboot are sexists". I understand that's not exactly what you're saying in this

Since the show is based on a traditional Norse Saga

The fact that Horik brought his entire family with him was what bothered me most about this episode and to my mind, the only big mistake. I assumed (and I still haven't researched this) that it must have been in the original saga and they were just being loyal to the source material. Otherwise, it was pure lazy.

IMO it's Floki's near religious fanaticism and unstable personality that makes it believable that he would betray Rangar. We know how upset just the presenece of Athelstan makes Floki and he doesn't like it that Ragnar is so close to the former monk. If, say if Floki were to see something like Ragnar reciting The