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Before we get into the title's sticky naming question, let's look at a working example of this issue: Back in July 1997 CE, Details Magazine featured a retrospective entitled The Gloom Generation on the Gothic genre of music, using quotes from all the formative goth band heavy hitters and names: Robert Smith of The Cure, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Peter Murphy & Daniel Ash of Bauhaus, Ian Astbury of The Cult, and Rozz Williams of Christian Death. It was an amazing survey of dark creative luminaries responsible for post-punk teens homebrewing black nail polish, Rit dying all their clothes black, and adopting an undeath aesthetic that will endure forever as their legacy. Except the article reveals that none of these artists ever considered themselves or their music Gothic. They rejected the title, claiming in this comprehensive survey that they never encouraged that label, and that they didn't want responsibility for it. But that didn't matter. It ...

From Vikings on History Channel to Vikings: Valhalla on Netflix and now to Amazon Prime for another offering, Bloodaxe ! Note, however, that Bloodaxe is being announced not as a continuation of the previous series, despite being made by the same producer. Yet given this, NorsePlay suspects it may as well unofficially be a third series and was very likely desired by Amazon as such to obtain the pre-existing fanbase, and we predict will likely be marketed as closely as such in all but name without crossing the line of actually saying that's exactly what it is. Executive producer & writer Michael Hirst of the previous shows adds his son Horatio Hirst to the creator credits. Focusing on the legendary eponymous Eric Bloodaxe (ON: Eiríkr Blóðøx) and his queen Gunnhild's sanguine rise to the throne of Norway, this show in its early 2027 pre-release has already secured a second season, which should say something about the studio confidence behind it. [There's no stills yet ...

Just only having this single preview still, NorsePlay feels hesitant about a live-action God Of War TV series adaptation , but to say anything without giving this a chance would be unfair. And honestly, I want more NorsePlay , not less, and Sony's franchise shift to re-nest Kratos within a Norse Mythology context really got the lore alot of attention, which we appreciate. Since this photo was taken Ryan Hurst in the picture above suffered an unfortunate bicep tearing stunt injury, but the upshot is that the role got handed to Dave Bautista, which feels more of an angry/gruff/strong-silent emotive fit for Kratos, plus he's actually half-Greek. Sight unseen the show has already been commissioned for a second season, which feels promising given the series' intent to cover both GoW & GoW: Ragnarok , since it would be crushingly disappointing if they didn't get to the second more dynamic installment and finale. [compare/contrast to the above photo.] Looking at cherub c...