Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
There's something profoundly sweet and alluring about Ragnar's decision to get baptized (or to force a baptism) just so he might have a chance of seeing Athelstan once again in the afterlife. Will it create chaos among his horde? Most definitely, though he hadn't intended for them to see it happen. On the other hand though, he just might be dying. So what does he ultimately care?
As weird as it feels to know that Ragnar may have purposefully tanked the first assault on Paris, costing many men and women their lives (Norsemen casualties numbered over a thousand after the second assault this week), there's a satisfying perverseness to the fact that Ragnar's mind hasn't been fully on the ball since Athelstan died. And now he's also having to deal with both his injuries and a new plague that's decided to sweep over the area in the wake of all the fighting. So he's even loopier than usual. And he's sort of letting the ghost of Athelstan take the reins. His big secret's been that he's been doing all of this, essentially, for Athelstan.
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There's something profoundly sweet and alluring about Ragnar's decision to get baptized (or to force a baptism) just so he might have a chance of seeing Athelstan once again in the afterlife. Will it create chaos among his horde? Most definitely, though he hadn't intended for them to see it happen. On the other hand though, he just might be dying. So what does he ultimately care?
As weird as it feels to know that Ragnar may have purposefully tanked the first assault on Paris, costing many men and women their lives (Norsemen casualties numbered over a thousand after the second assault this week), there's a satisfying perverseness to the fact that Ragnar's mind hasn't been fully on the ball since Athelstan died. And now he's also having to deal with both his injuries and a new plague that's decided to sweep over the area in the wake of all the fighting. So he's even loopier than usual. And he's sort of letting the ghost of Athelstan take the reins. His big secret's been that he's been doing all of this, essentially, for Athelstan.
Continue reading…
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