bedlamsbard | I am suddenly and for no good reason craving this (Reply)

Where is the amazing HBO series about Alfred the Great and the Viking invasion, y'all? It could be awesome. They could base it off Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles! Or do it Rome style, and have, like, a warrior from Wessex team up with a monk or something, and then have PERSONAL DRAMA. There can be dramatic landscapes of the coast of England and Viking longships, and tense moments of paganism vs. Christianity, and THEN THEY CAN DO THE SCENE WHERE ALFRED BURNS THE CAKES. They could burn a monastery! Or ten! THERE COULD BE AETHELFLAED.

*pets* Someone go make this happen. RIGHT NOW. (Er, you know, not that I'm advocating burning monasteries or anything, just MAKING TELEVISION.)