"Maybe this is just my cross to bear for not being a teenage girl, but…" 
Having been a teenage girl, let me tell you that it is not a whole lot of fun to watch other teenage girls die for the sake of some dude's manpain.

coughAndreacough

I'm going to miss that creepy little bastard

I don't think that's what people are criticizing. At least that's not what I'm criticizing. The Jarl can be a straight up monster as far as I'm concerned, so long as his motivations make sense. If they characterized him as more grief stricken or mentally disturbed, he could keep doing random terrible things and it…

Yeah, if that's the direction they're thinking of taking this then they need to make it more clear. Aside from maybe making him more of an asshole, I really don't see how the death of his sons motivates him all that much. He doesn't seem like he's constantly thinking of revenge, and he doesn't seem mad with grief…

Like the sentiment of Rick and co. taking in all of Woodbury's children and old folks, but this is not going to work in practice. They are just going to be fodder for the next season, and I doubt any of them besides Karen are going to be characterized enough that we will care when they die.

Not exactly the same, since the women are actually given dialogue and characterization.

I feel like the scenes with Ragnar and co. are so compelling they make up for the dullness of the Jarl's scenes. I was really confused as to what was up with him and Rollo this ep. I just don't get half of the Jarl's motivations. I just seems like he does things and they don't make sense.

That's very true. Aside from the sagas, most information we have on the vikings comes from their enemies, or in the cases of people like Ibn Fadlan, foreigners. I do feel confident enough in saying that the rates of sexual assault in Norse culture (and that time period in general) were higher than what is depicted on…

In response to me and the chimp, I would definitely think people would be more bothered by Ragnar raping women and still being encouraged to identify with him as the protagonist. I know I would.

I'm all for Ragnar's character becoming more morally ambiguous, but I really think having him rape someone, and then still try to make him the protagonist, would be too much. First of all, it seems irresponsible, because there would definitely be fans of the show who would defend his actions or make excuses on his…

Actually, in the first ep I'm pretty sure they did date the show as 793.

I love that one of the History Channel's most historically accurate shows is a fictional drama.

Definitely interested in further coverage of this show!