Vinland Saga 1x14 REACTION!!
Added 2020-05-14 01:08:06 +0000 UTC
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Other than the philosophical/theological questions being asked in this episode I think it is also a way to center the viewer in reality. The audience has witnessed how amazing these warriors are and have been entertained by their exploits. The reality, however, was that the Danes\ Vikings were a brutal people. There’s a reason they were feared and no adventuring or amazing deeds should erase their barbarity at a human level. They massacred people with impunity.
Zonum
2020-05-15 23:43:40 +0000 UTCi live in the urals in russia. believe me none of those people is making it through the winter without food...
Tizzpas
2020-05-14 06:04:50 +0000 UTCThis is just a bad translation. I don't know why they didn't use the line from the manga. It reads, "I suppose you didn't want me. After all my heart went racing when everyone was murdered." She is feeling survivors guilt. Her family was just murdered and she feels super guilty about being happy to be alive. Conflating the survivors guilt with the guilt of stealing she feels that she isn't worthy of entering god's kingdom because she felt the same racing heart when she was stealing.
Foxfire
2020-05-14 05:06:54 +0000 UTCAlso, now that the anime has reached the chapter of the manga this was included with, it feels like the right time to share this afterword: https://i.imgur.com/Eib0ef7.png
Collin Lysford
2020-05-14 03:48:30 +0000 UTCMy interpretation is somewhere between the two. I think the reason she's "elated" is not that she's okay, but also not that she thinks God was the reason for the punishment. It's that she spent her life being terrified about the devil existing - but that must not be true, because if the devil was going to punish anyone, he would have punished the Danes. I agree with Eric's assessment that she thinks God has judged her unworthy of heaven, but not the idea that the deaths of her families were God taking them home. The Dane's slaughtered her family simply because they knew no one would stop them, and she think she's not going to heaven because she's relived to learn that there's no earthly punishment for being evil, which a "good person" wouldn't feel. (Which is of course a tragedy all its own.)
Collin Lysford
2020-05-14 03:44:21 +0000 UTCThat wasn't my read. My impression was that it was confirmation that God actually existed to her. She thought of herself as undeserving of heaven. When her family was slaughtered, that was God choosing to bring them home, whereas she was undeserving. She was acknowledging that she was in hell, but was happy that her family, who she loved, didn't have to live in that world anymore. Then she fell in the snow, ready to accept God's punishment for taking the ring. The fact that she survived the night and looks up at the sun (in the same spot she talked to God in the moon) further confirms to her the existence of God, and that he's not done punishing her yet. I could be wrong though.
Eric H
2020-05-14 03:03:41 +0000 UTCi agree, it would be much more humane to not kill them and just let them starve to death
eric
2020-05-14 02:46:54 +0000 UTCI really appreciate people who appreciate art! You two are jewels.
Teyon Alexander
2020-05-14 02:34:24 +0000 UTCThis episode is why Vinland Saga was my anime of the year.
Lochlan Phipps
2020-05-14 02:05:03 +0000 UTClol! And wow yes that would be awesome!
Imon_Snow
2020-05-14 01:48:48 +0000 UTCLast two minute of your review had me cracking up laughing, honestly such well-done episode I wish Wit did Berserk imagine the potential 😭😭
AniCrunch
2020-05-14 01:42:51 +0000 UTCThe girls whole thing of "feeling elated" is basically her realizing that if she's so concerned about whether or not she can get to heaven over stealing a ring, and there's monsters out there who just massacre villages, then she's doing pretty damn okay. Pretty fucking heart-wrenching
George Kalin
2020-05-14 01:38:44 +0000 UTC
