Vikings (TV Series) The Prophet (2019) User Reviews

The Power of The Prophet

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 29 December 2019]

Blorn decides to help King Harald and forces Kjetill to go with him. Oleg travels to the kingdom of his brother Askoid that is poisoned by him. His other brother Dir arrives abd arrest Oleg but he shows his power to Dir.

"The Prophet" is another great episode of "Vikings" mainly show the power of Oleg. His "prophetic power" scares his brother. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "The Prophet"

Why do people want historical accuracy from a fictional TV show!

[danwareuk · 8/10 · 9 December 2019]

There is sometimes a demand from critics for shows like Vikings to be historically accurate. It is an illogical demand, given that the same people criticising the show just listened to the dialogue in English rather than the language of the region and the period in history it represents. It was spoken by actors from many parts of the world, who may or may not be Ukrainian/Norwegian and no doubt the scenes were filmed somewhere far from the place these events may or may not have taken place all those years ago, like Ireland.

Before some scenes, actors may have swigged Coca Cola or bottled spring water from a Welsh Valley, which means the contents of their stomachs were not historically accurate. The clothes they wore were made in a factory, and some, if not all of the weapons they wielded were not actually real weapons from the era. I'm sure some actors even wore CK boxers.

If historical accuracy is your thing, you will need to watch documentaries. If you want to watch the continuing saga of some people who may or may not have existed acting out a script written to entertain you, enjoy another super season of Vikings. Skol!

The devil is in the details

[felix-35958 · 6/10 · 16 January 2021]

Overall this series is good, but in this season they introduced the Rus. Such a disappointment. Prince Oleg looks like a contemporary arrogant dude in designers clothes. The Rus at that time and for centuries had long beards. If not long beards than big mustaches. Their hair was of light color a thousand years ago and now. The biggest disappointment was to see his warriors. They look like Turks in Mongolian outfit. The Rus warriors had European armor and helmets, and did not wear black clothes. Seeing this was laughable. Costume and makeup designers did not do a proper research. One more thing. When Oleg poisoned his brother, Askold screamed "Polovtsy", not "Help!" as it was shown in subtitles. Polovtsy were a big tribe of nomads I believe of Turkish origins who ravaged territories of Kievan Rus, Khazars, or whatever they saw in front of them. Many times they were employed by the Rus for protection. Askold was calling them in this episode. That means that all killed warriors in front of the house were Polovets mercenaries.

I'm not a stickler for historic accuracy, but how hard could it be to be roughly accurate?

[random-70778 · 6 December 2019]

Firstly, Vikings is good fun to watch. Plenty of great action, generally good production values etc. I've watched every episode, and I am not going to stop. Sure we have seen frontal cavalry charges against heavy infantry (not done by anyone), women "shield maiden" fighters in shock combat (there is literally not an iota of evidence that ever took place). Even if the girl power stuff is fiction I get that, it is done to attract a female audience.

But the depictions in Kievan Rus are not just a bitin season six are not a bit off the mark, but thousands of miles and a 100 years off the mark. But unlike female warriors, or fighting without helmets (done so audience recognize characters), one has to ask what is the purpose of the grossly wrong depictions in Kievan Rus? why are the warriors there wearing Mongol style clothes??? The populations there in Ukraine, Belorus and certainly western Russia, would have been a predominant population of Slavs, and a ruling class of of Nordics, specifically vikings, who had come down the rivers with advanced fighting skills, river capable long boats, and become the ruling elite class. Ok the trader from Samarkand maybe, but Oelg's fighters and population? No.

and why is Oleg calling Ivar an "Varangian", the byzantine Greek name for riparian (river) vikings inhabiting area of Ukraine, when Oleg, Dir and and Askold were themselves were definitive Varangians??

Also what is with the litter Ivar is in and the road travel? those areas the transport was by river and the viking long ships where a key part of the trade, which was predominately north south along the Dniester, Dniester, Don and Volga.

Again the anachronisms and major and minor history errors in seasons of the past have explanations/excuses/valid reasons -- what we are seeing in season six has no reason to be so inaccurate.

This just keeps getting better

[bjorn_ironside · 9/10 · 4 December 2019]

Bjorn (Alexander Ludwig) contemplates with his brothers Ubbe (Jordan Patrick Smith) and Hvitserk (Marco Ilso) whether he should help rescue king Harald (Peter Franzen). Kjetill (Adam Copeland) returns to Kattegat looking for new settlers to return to Iceland with him. Whereas in Kiev, Oleg (Danila Kozlovsky), Ganbaatar (Andrei Claude) and Ivar (Alex Høgh Andersen ) are traveling to Novgorod to settle some unfinished business with Askold (Blake Kubena) who is Oleg's brother.

Amazing

[adikhoury · 10/10 · 6 December 2019]

Like honestly who cares if it's historically accurate its a tv show just enjoy it , its amazing the characters are intriguing , the cinematography is out of this world and the story is captivating

The prophet of russ

[lyes-metta · 7/10 · 5 December 2019]

What is a episode... I like king Bjorn and his final decision to help king Harold Hvitsek personally, I hate him..

The best ever

[zayedm-91315 · 10/10 · 5 December 2019]

What a wonderful episode it was very exciting, it contains a lot of great scenes, i love it

Lazy writing

[katypnzvsky-44252 · 2/10 · 1 April 2020]

Who designed the costumes for Rus? Why did they took the costumes from Ivan the Terrible? Do they invented a time machine together with balloons? They had a typical European dresses, virtually indistinguishable from Norse or Saxons. They were in confrontation with Khazars. And they were related to some kings in the North (modern Sweden). Anyway, it is all getting more and more ridiculous.

Infantilizing the viewer continues

[sahinvictor · 4/10 · 8 December 2019]

Although slightly better than the first episode with shallowness concerned, this episode still has similar issues with lazy writing and blatantly missed opportunities due to what I now understand to be the underlying treatment of the viewers like infants.

This just made me more angry from episode 1

[Rebel_Soldier88 · 1/10 · 5 December 2019]

Keeping to my review of episode 1 Rus:

WTF is this "history"? since when do Kievan Rus people look like Arab man, wearing Mongolian armour? It seems that creators had no interest in actual historical accuracy, Kievan Rus was Slavic, European tsardom. Generally, a man had blond or light brown hair with green or blue eyes. NOT DARK ARAB!!! The Mongolian armour that they wear did not come to Rus land for 300 years or so. And even when it did, it was not used by Slavs, who preferred chainmail.

Language? Old Slavic is not a modern-day mix of modern Serbian/Bulgarian. I know it is hard to find how people talked in this era, since but having a Ukrainian speaker would be closer to the origin.

Oleg the prophet is Christian? Kievan Rus is Christian? Oleg was a Slavic pagan, the wife of Igor, Olga converted to Christianity but her son Svyatoslav turned it all back. The conversion happened in 955 and Oleg died in 912, so you are about 50 years off from the first conversion, and about 100 from serious conversion.

So you had no interest in somewhat historic accuracy, I think the creators just made a list of what they associate with Rus with 0 research and made it into a thing. Kyiv for example is and was on the river, in the shot where Oleg and Ivar fly over it you can only see fields, where did River Dnepr disappear?

Errors

[arman-40194 · 1/10 · 9 December 2019]

Until the 6th season - it was my favorite series, but due to catastrophic errors, historical disinformation is no longer such. at the time of Prophetic Oleg in Russia there was paganism and polytheism and Christianity was not. Why do Russian clothes look like Mongolian? I did not understand this either. as well as Russ, from the word blond. most of the actors playing Rusov are not at all like these people. the next moment. why when the sun and heat shine in the Kattegat, then in Kiev everything is covered with snow. although in fact it should be warmer in Kiev. Kiev did not stand in an empty field - it is a city on the river.

The Fall of the Vikings

[neadsd · 1/10 · 5 February 2024]

I watched the previous seasons with great interest, thanks to the charismatic actors, well-choreographed fights and, finally, not perfect, but at least some resemblance to reality. But now there is nothing here, a primitive and stupid to the point of absurdity scenario, Kievan Rus began to resemble Moskovia in the time of the Horde, and even Christianity came from somewhere 50-100 years before it was in reality... It's scary to imagine what happens in spinoff if the main series has slipped into such crap at the end.

I'll watch it purely out of respect for previous seasons, but for me, the Vikings ended in season 5...