I didn't like this season as much as the first three either, and hope the 2nd half will be much better. This season was a missed opportunity IMO. They had too much useless crap going to clog up space. Judith's excessive storyline early about painting and what not, too many Paris scenes, too many Wessex scenes, and of course.....Yidu
The worst decision on the show as Yidu. We could've had Ragnar just losing desire to travel and raid by the stuff that has happened to him. The injuries in Paris, murder of Athelstan, betrayal of FLoki, etc.
But they could've told these 10 episodes in 7 really strong ones.
That being said, I don't know why the negative reactions are here for this episode. I thought it was real good, and the time jump was just what the show needed. The ending with Ragnar coming back wasn't him telling people to just put him out of his misery, it was to show that regardless of what's happened, no one can step up to him in Kattegat. And it showed perfectly that Ragnar isn't drug crazy like he was half of this season, he's back to that confident crazy if you know what I mean.
The only thing I disliked about the battle was the extended punching between Ragnar and Rollo, should've just had a much more epic sword fight, instead of punching each other for 90% of the fight, but I digress. The battle was pretty good. I know they didn't kill anyone big, but I felt like they were, it seemed like no one was safe.
And the time jump introduced new directions for the show to go. It's time to see what happens with Ragnar's sons. Though I still think Rangar is by far the most dynamic and interesting character on the show, then Floki and Ecbert. So I hope he's still around next year but I doubt it. But I think it'll be great to see Ragnar interacting with his now older sons. And it looks like we'll be seeing Lagertha and Aslaug going at it, and Ivar looks like a crazy psycho monster.
I thought A GOOD TREASON, YOL, PROMISED, THE PROFIT AND THE LOSS, THE LAST SHIP were all good, solid, or great episodes. Problem was that MERCY and DEATH ALL 'ROUND were the weakest episodes ever. And KILL THE QUEEN, PORTAGE, WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN were mixed bags of episodes. This season lacked the swift pace of the first three, because they meandered too much in Wessex and Paris, and with Yidu.
They just need to stay with the main focus on the Vikings again, like the first three seasons were. Sure, they had Wessex scenes, and they had Paris scenes near the end of last year. But it was never excessive, like this year was.
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