I think if anything we won't have to deal with temporal shenanigans to get us to Vikings: The Next Generation until well into the 3rd season. Or even season 4 if the gods truly smile upon us. There's still a huge chunk of the Ragnar story to tell (SPOILER: sacking Paris) before we get into his eclipse and jealousy…

Dan Brown, please call your office.

Or the old joke: Why don't Puritans have sex standing up? It might lead to dancing.

I have to disagree. I think as this story progresses Horick is showing himself to
be less and less a strategic thinker…or at the very least a pretty poor
decision maker. It’s been largely downhill since he (smartly) agrees to raid
west with Ragnar. He does a 180 on trusting Borg — but Ragnar, Rollo and
Kattegat are the…

I'm glad they're finally clarifying some of Floki's motivations, but I'm having a hard time seeing Horick as the answer. I never get the impression that Horick is anywhere near as in tune with the supernatural as Floki is. His leading the sacrifices in S1Ep8 struck me as what you do because he's King of the Danes, not…

"Yessirree, this here is my last raid. Gonna sell off these plundered icons and melt down these solid gold crosses. Buy myself a little boat, maybe a coastal farm and just fish and watch the Northern Lights." Cue the over-the-shoulder camera from the Saxon archer's perspective…

Well played, Archer.

Didn't they set some guy on fire and string him up from a lamp post in the middle of town not too long ago? But, to your point, it didn't *continue* to spill over and threaten "un-involved" civilians in an ongoing way. Which strikes me as odd, even for the "that's how things just are" types of White Pine Bay.

I have to admit that the first couple of times Auslag was talking about her second son with Ragnar I thought she was pronouncing it "Yitzhak" and I'm thinking — "Wait, one of Ragnar son's is Jewish?" So is Hivsek the Icelandic version of the name and Halfdan what he was called in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles maybe?

That is an interesting theory! And probably a very good catch.
Of course as an example of just how much pain the human body can endure, that scene probably doesn't hold up to medical scrutiny (Any actual doctors or internists on the board? At what point would he have actually passed out?), but as a piece of (visual)…

That's a good question but logistically I wonder how it will play out. Borg is from Sweden (Gotaland) and we don't have a really good idea just how far away from the Kattegat region he is. (Keep in mind that the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Scania, was Danish until the mid 1600s) Given the land dispute he…

The concept of a "king" of the Danes is pretty old, but as many have pointed out, it's nothing like the absolute monarchies of post gun powder Europe we're accustomed to seeing. He's more of a first among (relative) equals, although he'd have a very large, profitable and well populated chunk of central Denmark at his…

Borg was conniving back-stabber and a liar…and apparently mentally unhinged by his first wife's poisoning. But he went out with more grit and dignity than I thought possible. That was a man who, in the end, earned his place in Valhalla.
And props to the show runners for not doing the cheap & obvious "torture porn"…

Sorry, Mr. Shatner, that's supposed to say: Khaaaan! Must be a typo in the script…

And also, all other revenants on the show have been brought back as themselves. Kyle gets the added complication of not only being almost accidentally revived by young witches clearly in over their heads but also being cobbled together from the Dead Frat Boy Jumble Sale. Which he recognizes for some added pathos and…

Holy sh1t! Abbie is Nightwing!

She also totally failed to unnecessarily disrobe in order to investigate a strange noise!

OK, everyone's over-thinking the "Black Guy Dies First" thing — which I argue: it's not. The Hired Muscle Dies First. He just happened to be black. So what? Riding security for spoiled billionaires is pretty much the definition of a "Red Shirt" career move in a genre like this.

You had One Job! OK, four jobs, but as Zoe observed, they used to sleep witches 8 to a room in freakin' bunk beds back in great grandma's day.

"Witch up" — maybe it doesn't quite fall as trippingly from the tongue as "cowboy up" but I love seeing Zoe start to take charge. As others have said, she's not the best strategic thinker yet but she's definitely the adult in the room since Fiona and Cordelia are sidelined.