User Reviews

This episode is fine and everything. But i'm really sure i wasn't drunk when bjorn's wife died in episode 19 and now she's all of a sudden back in the finale?

For all the People WHO are claiming false never happened Sigurd was not killed by Ivar.

This show has never been 100% accurate because that's just simply impossible to do so.

they picked pieces and parts of several saga,s and tried to make a line from fact to a nice story to tell on a show ..in the end a lot of those sagas are open for several (interpretations) I know in the last couple of years everybody supposedly read the sagas and knows what really happened (lol)well there is not just one saga you have the Icelandic sagas Danish sagas Anglo Saxon sagas and all tell the story in a different way time-lines are different names some times are different ages are different Also a lot is unknown so they had to make up dialogues because again WHO really knows what was said and done ! In my opinion they did one hell of a good job they used everything historians said happened from little sayings to how the little piggy's will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered and the stuff that was unclear or not certain they filled up with good dialogues Sigurd death was a little disappointing since he became king in OTHER versions of the saga,s..but again a lot is unknown even the way the battle went down in England is debated on because in the Anglo Saxon chronicles (king Alle dies in battle not by blood eagle) also Sigurd marries king ale,s daughter in that version ivar makes a deal with him tricking ale in to believing that they have a agreement (then he lets his brothers go back to England to form a army to come back later by surprise ! there is a lot unknown and open for interpretation just as how a Lot from that time-line is unknown For season 5 I hope they take their time and don't rush everything or save everything for the season final to happen according to most sagas and historians Ivar was the one who declared the Dane-law on England and ruled (York) for a pretty long time so I hope to see him ruling plus I hope they show more of bjorns battles on sea because according to several sagas he had big battles with other kingdoms and also had to endure a lot of losses before becoming a rich man and discovering Sweden

Great episode, but now is the third time this series does it again: show us one of the main caracthers 100% dead in the battlefield and in the next they are totally fine. One time with Rollo, one with Bjorn and now Torvi. Come on guys, you can do better than this. Except for that great episode with bloody and violent battle (viking style) and some good mlitary strategies. They were right to send some of the weakest carachters (and actors) away, keeping the strongest, again, viking style. But for the next one I sincearly expect to them to fix the ''immortal issue''. May god Odin be with them all.

Well, finally the last episode of this very long season of Vikings. All in all I have to say that the second half of this season started to annoy me for several reasons now.

As for characters: I really loved Lagertha since the first episode, but in this season's half it seems the writers didn't know what to do with her character. She looked way too fancy clothes-wise, (and what's that GoT-throne with the pointy ends?) ran around with that owl, probably to make her look cool but without explanation (which made is look a little ridiculous to me), she had this thing with Astrid, where nobody knows why she is there and what it's all about and she made some really non-Lagertha move by storming and attacking her own Kattegat, slaughtering her own people for 10 minutes, only to blow some horn then to stop the attack and stupidly say "enough, these are my people" - what?? She was not seen as an enemy in Kattegat, she could simply have walked into the great hall, and simply kill Aslaugh. So what the heck happened to the formerly great script-writing and character we had? Another thing that is really annoying me now is that the women in the show do not age! The men age, Ragnar, Floki, Björn, (who must by now be in his late 20s or even 30s) but Lagtertha still looks like 28? Why? Her character should look end 40 at least, same goes for Helga, Torvi etc? Worst is Judith, she looking like the young spring touching 22, while her "husband" King Ecbert is a doter. So please, writers, for women to be seen as strong, beautiful and paragons, they don't need to be ridiculously forever young!

But now for this episode: yes, the deaths of Helga and also of King Ecbert were touching,(although also Helga's character acted out of character for the past episodes. What made Helga wonderful was her soft, empathetic and intuitive character, and now she suddenly kidnapped a strange girl and doesn't see what she's doing to her?) but this episode, as well as most of the last episodes was way too much of the brothers stooge fighting all the time. Björn only has this one angry face in every shot (why?) and his character, which was way more multifaceted over all the seasons before, seems pretty angry, dumb and one-dimensional now. What did he do in this second half of the season? Looking angry, screaming at his brothers, having intercourse with his his mother's girlfriend, and being nasty to his wife, giving a darn (again) about his children. Not happy with that. And also funny how he goes on and on about being the "son of Ragnar" trying to make a point about how important parents/children things are, and he himself couldn't care less about his own children (he didn't even care about the death of his first daughter actually)

As for the end of this episode: I'm meanwhile just annoyed of Ivar, yeah, he's oh so crazy and all that, but it makes the Vikings look pretty dumb if everyone just watches him killing Sigurd and no reaction really? And I'm of different opinion to the other reviewer here: I understand quite well why Sigurd treated Ivar the way he did, because he understood from a very young age what a psychotic mental case he was. And, truly, his mother neglected him and favoured this disturbed kid, so why shouldn't he be angry? And also about all the brothers, the sons of Ragnar: their characters are so flat? Ragnar himself was a great character because he has different sides, bad sides as well as soft and likable ones. But what is to like about any of the brothers really?

There is a really annoying and stupid tendency in several TV shows (see TWD - Negan e.g.) that total nutcase murderer characters get ever more screen time because the more simple part of the audience simply wants to see crazy lunatics in the screen and even idolize them. If this happens to this formerly great and sophisticated (in the way of demanding intelligence of the viewer) show, I will be off next season, I'm so having enough of this lunatic porn that gets hyped ever more and for really questionable reasons. It's nothing else than what public torture was in the real middle ages, speaking the the lowest of human nature. And don't get me wrong, this show is brutal and rightly so because it shows the culture and way of the Vikings and they definitely were brutal people.But this Ivar idolize focus is a different thing, and I'm sure the writers know that very well! I also wasn't happy about that last scene with that bishop, and the actor who was chosen for it? Sorry, how unfitting could it be? And what kind of story line is this supposed to introduce in such clumsy and cheap matter, showing a sex scene (oh how shocking! - not!) with people nobody knows or cares about? That is the teaser for next season? That's not a good sign!

So please, for the next season, get back to that fantastic writing and scripts you had before, (and good casting!), get back to solid story lines and character development, and please, let the women age as they would. Don't feed the stupid Hollywood idea of "only young, hyper-perfect women are impressive" - it's the opposite! A partly white haired Lagertha with some lines on her face is way more impressive and believable than this way too fancy dressed, owl carrying blah you are showing now.

First of all, I must say that one most painful moments of this show was watching Helga die. The most genuine and warm-hearted character in the series, who died trying to help.

The death of Ecbert didn't feel at all vengeful for me, as Ragnar wanted it. He looked like he was already a dying man who got the most out of the situation by tricking the brothers into accepting a false agreement. Not one piece of his hair was misplaced before he died. He got a better death than Ragnar.

And now by far the most ridiculous scene was the end. I don't mind Ivar killing one of his brothers in his uncontrollable rage, but why was Sigurd made up so badly all along? Even before his birth with all that build-up of Aslaug and the legend of her father and how her son is going to be the famous "snake-in-the-eye"... There was no scene where as an adult we could see his unique eye. He looked like any other guy, even weaker than his brothers, nothing special. Only taking his last breath we could see his sign. They killed him like he were nothing. What was all that about? Such disappointing writing.