Lungs aren't entirely impossible to get from your better butchers. And he is European, so he may be more into eating animal organs than Yanks. (At least that's how I was reading that scene, otherwise it seemed a little too on the nose.)

I'd like to think there are street gangs out there who came together over their shared enthusiasm for lawn sports. The Wickets, the Bocces, the Jarts.

C'mon, we all have a little boy inside of us.

I liked the subtlety of the suggestion that Lecter killed Marissa. They have the ginger-haired guy's blood and tissue on Marissa's teeth, but it looks like Lecter got that off the rock Marissa bounced off the ginger's dome. They never come out and completely verify that this is the case, but there's just enough hints…

How about that Billy Squier in the bar.

Funny, I have a fantasy of having theory sex.

There are so many shows I watch that I know are clearly not good, and very often very bad… yet I still watch each week, and each week I say out loud to myself, a few times, why the hell am I watching this? What is wrong with me? One day, I'm going to find that answer in an episode of The Following, or Lost Girl.

I wish it was a polar bear that popped out of the locker.

Salt's a little too spicy for Norman.

To be fair, there's not much else to do in Sheboygan.

I hope someone texts you that every day. Or at least every week.

DIIIIIIIIVE!

Brutal efficiency in the battle scenes; nailed it. They're shot with a cinematic eye to compress the action in a way that suggests more is going on than you actually see.

They're not entirely accurate, at least with the Anglo-Saxons. They didn't wear splint mail like that — they were foremost in chain mail technology. They also didn't use bows in battle until much later. They would have used spears, but at that point, they primarily used bows for hunting.

What Renaissance Fair do you work at?

Which is weird, because the Anglo-Saxons wore chain mail. Splint mail was pretty old tech by that point.

TPS report — check. Battle ax — check.

@Tiako, don't forget that the sagas were written down after Christianity had taken root, and recorded by Christian scribes. So something like a visceral hatred toward anything Christian could also be Christian propaganda worked into the text. (That happened with many Anglo-Saxon texts, Beowulf's a pagan story, but…

To @Murray—Present: That's a good question about how they believed, because it was probably very different from how modern audiences assume how belief works. Today, belief is seen as more binary — you either take it or you don't (although very few people buy into a belief system all the way). It's quite possible…

It's comments like this that renews my faith in the general commentariat for this show.