"I'm not going through this saga if you're going just to go," the father said.
Living through the saga has given me a new appreciation for the complexity of the choice between the birth parent versus the non-birth one.
A murder-virgin when we first meet him, Genny keeps his serpentine, cueball-headed, consigliere Ciro close and their bumpy bromance snakes through the saga.
All this is recorded history, one of the best recorders being Donovan, whose 1964 book "Strangers on a Bridge" guides us through the saga with a dry and courtly wisdom.
Even the opening credits, in which the actor René Navarre morphs into the multiple guises of the title archfiend, suggest the deceptive realities and shifting perceptions that run through this saga of scintillating crime and elusive punishment.
There was a brief period, midway through the saga, when it actually reported useful information instead, but this was soon corrected.
You might not though because you probably aren't a 60 something bloke in a pringle sweater and slacks, leafing through the Saga cruise brochure.
Filmmakers David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller, for example, recently began work on "Behind the Hedgerow: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport", which will look at high society through the saga of the resort's last grande dame, Eileen Gillespie Slocum.
Basically, the film is a fun ride through the saga of trying to get a movie financed at Cannes, as the two pitch a film inspired by Bertolucci's steamy Last Tango in Paris.
"Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga," through Jan . 21
