Sad ending of the mid season finale
What a poor ending... really rushed. So much preparation for this moment and it was over for 2 seconds. What the hell?! I am super disapointed. Nothing in this season is making sense now. Please delete this episode and re-do it...
This midseason crap is annoying. I expected this to be the end of the series but it's apparently not.
On one hand I'm pleased it is not as there's still more room for Vikings but on the other hand we lost a couple of key-characters that will, once again, leave the rest of the series in a sort of vaccuum.
I agree the historical inaccuracies in this episode were very large, which is unfortunate especially for a channel that claims to e about true History. Then again this show has had many historical flaws and it survived despite of it. The logistics of flanking over the mountains and returning to the beach to deal a final blow don't add up for me at all. It seemed a too plot related decision to do it like this even though thye could have easily kept it in the realm of the "supernatural" with the intimate beach scene. Or maybe that's just what happened... I'm not quite sure.
It seems that it's slowly falling into the Game of Thrones trap of ending things on a nonsensical note and having things happen that seem out of place. Let's hope it doesn't not happen.
Cripple who can barely crawl without a crutch makes it into the heart of the battle and stabs almighty warrior heir of Ragnar. Come on “History” Channel, be merciful and spare us the second half of this season.
Just when I thought I was done with this show I learn there’s still another 10 episodes...
Damn, I always loved Harald, he's always been the unlucky guy with big ambitions that never quite work, always taken as an ally in battles to very little benefits to him, while still a great warrior and clearly loved by his people. So what ? His jealousy of Bjorn broke him so much that he behaved like a common criminal and just rape his rival's wife ?
The timeline is totally fucked up in this episode anyway. Nobody noticed her ? She seems to come out while the battle is already started. But Harald is fighting on the beach with Bjorn. So when does that happen exactly ? Conveniently the night before the battle ? Because how would he have justified that afterwards otherwise ? The whole think makes no sense.
The battles themselves are kinda ok. I very much doubt the engineering involved is historically accurate, but the action is fun.
Nice touch: Ivar and Bjorn talking on the beach, as a metaphor of generals discussing through their strategies.
But then, it's hard to follow and a lot of nonsense.
The Rus basically have a ship for every warrior on the Viking side, so do they even need any strategy ?
They keep the little prince exposed, on the spearheading ship, really ?
The strategy flashbacks in the middle make it look like the battle takes place in several steps which is apparently not the case. The attempt at having an original narrative structure really fails there.
So they manage to put a whole army in the back of the defenders, through an apparently inaccessible path. OK. Sure. But then how come the defenders had specific siege defenses on this side ? And if they were expecting it, why not attack on the mountainside instead, that would have been a pretty easy win.
And then, Ivar, manages to go through all that, pass through this line of defense, go through the whole battlefield and the wole viking army, and stab Bjorn by surprise ??? I really hope that was a metaphor for his strategic victory because it makes no sense at all.
You can skip the first 30 mins. It’s filler. And last 30 mins is just pure nonsense. Time to end this show...
Omg that last scene was so fucking dumb, hopefully this was just a metaphor
The Kievan Rus conquered Norway without going through Sweden, Finland or any other Baltic countries, apparently. Forget History, what about Geography? :joy:
I kinda wish Bjorn is dead so I can be properly mesmerized by a show having the bad guys winning so consistently. :laughing:
Legendary king of Sweden dies without achieving a single thing. Oh wait he managed to marry a second woman. Nice joke Michael Hirst.
OK, so you want to tell me that the Russians went to invade Norway by using a giant armada consisting of hundreds of ships that are driven by bucket wheels for some reason. They also have landing crafs D-Day-style.. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???
Please, History Channel, it's time do delete that "History" part from your brand name.
I have always had a weakness for Harald. Mostly pity because things always seem to go wrong for him while he keeps dreaming about becoming King of Norway and finding love. So he achieved the first but he is still envious of Bjorn and all that Bjorn has and he'll never have. Though this episode made me question my own feelings for Harald because what he did to Ingrid made me so angry. It was rather touching to see her fall broken down into the arms of Olaf, proving once again that Olaf isn't as evil or bad as Harald would like him to be.
This was a good episode, I always love how they film the battles and how they bring new moves into it. Flashbacks, flashforwards, dialogue between characters that happen in their own minds. It's not just smashing in heads or ramming shields and swords against each other. It's the creative choices that they make whilst filming it that make each battle different from the previous. I'm so curious to see how this unfolds in the final half of the season and series. I'm hoping for a big bang and my expectations are high.
Seriously? That’s the end ? WTF
Sooo many things that were just off about this episode but it's as pointless to list them as it was to watch them happen. I've watched other series use the final season as a farewell tour of characters, but the majority of them were done well and gave credit to the characters. This season has just been a never-ending monotony of grand-standing monologs with no plot development or character consistency executed more as a poorly done play than the excellent television series this first was.
I knew that they wouldn't resist doing the d-day bs.
But they managed to lose my respect on an even greater level than I imagined.
I guess they had to throw in some triggers into the last episode. I just had to get it over with somehow.
The "We will meet again, husband" probably broke me for tonight lol. But that's my probably more thanks to my personal history :upside_down:
Not that easy to see which is reality and which is imagination anymore, with Bjorn. We'll have to wait until part 2 to figure that one out.
Wait ! What ?! Why ?! No. This is so disappointing.
Love the whole series straight action
What is this ending ? Feels so brutal and frustrating...
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People are dissapointed now? This show should have ended when Ragnar died.