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ronearc t1_ix4anc2 wrote

Respect for them choosing to stick to their plans and actually use the real names of known nobility, rulers, and clergy of the era.

Mostly I respect that because every third person is named Æthel_____. Any sane production would have subbed 90% of those names out. But they had a roadmap and stuck to it, and it actually worked.

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DarkMatterLuigi OP t1_ix4ay11 wrote

The only Aethel names character I hate so much is Aethelred I hope he dies.

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ronearc t1_ix4bddw wrote

I lost it when I learned that they title their children who are designated heirs, Ætheling.

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JuzoItami t1_ix4d0bd wrote

Aethelred does some decent things over the course of the show : that's one of the things I like about The Last Kingdom - very few characters are either wholly good or wholly bad.

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eadhbhardsaoirse t1_ix4nkif wrote

Yeah, he's a major cunt but at times in battle he's fairly valiant and leads well.

It's not hard to see why he was selected as a potential match for Aethelflaed, he's just a cruel wanker with a seriously fragile ego.

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