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ariadnethedragon · 1 year

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THE LAST KINGDOM: SEVEN KINGS MUST DIE (2023)

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bookofbonbon · 1 year

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The most iconic line in The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

#and they gave it to my boy aldhelm #I love him so much #the last kingdom #seven kings must die #aldhelm #aldhelm tlk #james northcote #tlk #tlk edit #the last kingdom edit #the last kingdom: seven kings must die #uhtred of bebbanburg

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henrycavillary · 1 year

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ALEXANDER DREYMON as UHTRED The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023) dir. Edward Bazalgette

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sennqu · 1 year

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i love that the TLK movie kinda implies that england becomes the christian majority country it will be in small (but significant) part because aethelstan — considered by modern historians as its first king — was a gay man who believed that his piousness would absolve him of his sin. even believing in the movie that spreading christianity would balance out his sin of sodomy... inspired by a pagan man (masquerading as a christian — as a holy man at that—) he was so besotted with he was willing to choose said man over his country. the concept of it all... incredible creative vision.

apart from the tragedy both political and personal in the actual movie, there is something so strikingly meta-tragic about the story's implication of generations upon generations of future queer suffering happening because a powerful gay man believed he was powerless under the chrisitian god. obviously i don't know if this was intentional because the movie ends after uhtred pledges northumbria to the king so we don't know for sure what TLK aethelstan would have done afterwards. but the historical and fictional implications are still there and boy are they juicy

#like the more i think of it the more i truly am like. damn i'm so glad he was a self-hating gay man in the movie #because as fun as it would be to have him gay but not agonized over it #that wouldn't have been as interesting personally. maybe in a different‚ more modern story but not here #like i get that TLK aethelstan had more of a chance to not be high-stakes gayngsting due to having uhtred #but bringing in the aspect that he was known for being pious and a promoter of christianity in history #was a better addition vs. not acknowledging that facet #like showing him as a girlbossing (gaybossing?) king whose sexuality didn't define him and his story #(had the writers chosen to still write him as gay) would have made a much weaker character to me personally #if ever anybody in fiction had the rights to a gayngst story it's the first king of england #because of again. the implications!!#man it's so fun to write about TV shows again #ku blarghs #the last kingdom: seven kings must die #sorry for tagging if this isn't welcome

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stalinthestripper · 1 year

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out of all the things i expected from seven kings must die, an explicitly queer relationship between the king of england and his most trusted adviser was not one of them

#when i tell you i screamed #i was watching them and said “do you think they ever explored each other’s bodies?”#and almost immediately after they started going at it #incredible #the last kingdom: seven kings must die #seven kings must die #the last kingdom #seven kings must die spoilers #i guess

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dontforgetoctober3rd · 1 year

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I love how they showed how much Æthelstan still needed Uhtred, even though Æthelstan is literally The King™️. He still needed guidance from his Dane dad. And I love how Uhtred clearly tries to drill into Æthelstan that his greatest strengths would be in how he treats and respects others instead of grand accomplishments that will be chronicled or whatever. I love them

#seven kings must die #tlk #the last kingdom #the last kingdom: seven kings must die #uhtred ragnarson #king aethelstan

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emerald-valkyrie · 3 months

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Just finished watching The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die and I am a Mess™️. I was not at all prepared for that ending even though I knew it was coming to some degree. Honestly, I do wish and feel that this would have been better as a season so that all of these plot lines could have been properly fleshed out, but I’m still fairly happy with how this turned out, everything came to a pretty satisfying ending even though I wish it didn’t have to end like it did. Overall, yeah, I’m a Mess™️, but I’m happy.

#the last kingdom: seven kings must die #the last kingdom #seven kings must die #tlk: skmd #text

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trinijanjan · 1 year

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Coming in April...

Happy viewing!

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iamnotathornbird · 1 year

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thoughts on seven kings must die... spoilers below the cut.

okay, so obviously the gif isn't from seven kings must die, but idgaf. this isn't like, a well thought out essay, these are random thoughts after i ~finally~ had a chance to watch the movie last night.

uhtred looked like he had gray hair when we first saw him for like, a minute, and then once the sides were shaved and it was put up, he just looked like regular ol' (as in, not old) uhtred. i was a little bit disappointed that they didn't make a little bit more effort to make the character look like, what... 15 years older? 20? if edmund was a teenager/young adult. his hair didn't look gray again until the last five minutes.

i really missed lady aeslwith. and also, in no particular order, hild, eadith, stiorra, uhtred uhtredson, and the OG actress that played queen eadgifu.

did not like how they teased osbert's character at the end of season five/the series finale, and then the character was on screen for like, idk, two minutes. i want to know wtf happened, why he was with hild, and why uhtred decided to take him back!

again, missed hild.

season five was my least favorite, and this movie felt a lot like season five, where... it almost felt like a music video, but instead of a clip after clip, it's a two minute scene with one line of dialogue, then on to the next scene with another line, and so on and so on.

like, i did not give AF that ingrith died. and i like finan! but why would i care that he lost his wife when the character was on screen for like 30 seconds, and when she died, they didn't even show the actress dead. like, finan could have been carrying a dummy out of the cave.

i DID give a fuck that aldhelm was hung. did not like that.

there's never enough finan or sihtric, but it's always been like that.

i realized why i liked the earlier seasons so much, and not so much the later ones, and it's because once king alfred died, the whole dynamic of the show changed, and there wasn't like, a love/hate relationship between alfred and uhtred anymore. and finan's (cheesy) voice over at the end reminded me of all the times alfred would threaten uhtred or tell him that his victories wouldn't be recorded in history, that they would be known as victories under alfred...

also the ending was cheesy AF. like, he had a mortal wound? but suddenly felt okay enough to get up and swear his loyalty to king aethelstan? but then he turns around and he's hallucinating? or dying and seeing valhalla? without a sword in his hands? and even though he was struck down on the battlefield with his sword, his friends would put him in bed and take the sword away from him? knowing HOW important that would have been to uhtred? da fuq?

#the last kingdom #seven kings must die #the last kingdom: seven kings must die #uhtred #uhtred ragnarsson #lady aelswith #king alfred #finan #sihtric #aldhelm #stiorra #uhtred uhtredson #ingrith #eadith #eadgifu #aethelstan #osbert

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renaissancecat · 1 year

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i need someone to write fanfic to explain where hild/eadith/stiorra/ealswith/sidgeflaed etc were in the last kingdom: seven kings must die. i get they died/were written off/did not exist in the books but i like to imagine they were all just away on a girls' holiday and came back to find everything going to shit as ever

#the last kingdom: seven kings must die #the last kingdom spoilers #the last kingdom #tlk: skmd spoilers #tlk spoilers #i loved the film but let's be real #it was pretty rushed #and i was gutted that a lot of the characters weren't even mentioned

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somosorigen · 1 year

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