Vinland Saga Early Access Episodes 2-1 and 2-2
Added 2023-03-20 12:48:06 +0000 UTCYeah, let's clear these thousand trees ... BY HAND.
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Maybe he's overcompensating later on because he froze when his family died. But I agree that I like it when character use their heads and bide their time rather than be all aggro in the first moment.
Dexter Goad
2023-03-21 14:27:52 +0000 UTCThat all makes sense so thanks for the clarification
Dexter Goad
2023-03-21 14:25:42 +0000 UTCA different animation studio took over (I think it's the same one that took over for attack on titan). Some people disliked the greater use of CG animation, but i think it looks fine. I tend to prefer passive characters - i know this is an unusual stance , but i wonder how rare it really is? Characters acting in ways that they should know will likely make things worse annoy me a lot more than them doing nothing - Einar briefly trying to fight back against armed and trained soldiers annoyed me far more than his passivity here, he is lucky his attempt to fight didn't end the way his sister's attempt did. Even if the writer has someone's rash actions work out well, it usually pisses me off because i feel like "in real life this would've ended badly for them, they should've done nothing if they didn't know what to do, or worse, knew doing stuff was a bad idea!" Einar was paralyzed by emotion here, but i suspect if he rationally thought through the best course of action he could take in this situation, doing nothing would've been the right call (he was too out of breath to run, especially with arrows flying at him, and was too weak to fight a tree let alone a soldier) so even if it was just an emotional 'freeze response' I can't hate on it. I do find him annoying, but because he's "too active" in the rest of these episodes (talking back to the slavers and retainers, trying to flee, etc) which are more likely to make his situation worse than they are to improve it.
paul cook
2023-03-20 20:54:19 +0000 UTCI think it’s mentioned/made clearer in further episodes, but I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that these episodes take place in 1015, so it’s maybe a year to a year and a half time jump. Like with Attack on Titan’s final season, Mappa studio took over the animation from Wit studio, so that’s the difference there. They are in Denmark now with Ketil, but Einar was originally living in England (though he is Danish, I believe his father must have been killed in 1002, when we were shown that the English decided to kill the Danes that were living there). His mother and sister were killed by Danes, but it wasn’t Thorfinn’s specific group.
Ariel Causey
2023-03-20 16:33:22 +0000 UTC
