Ragnar and Kwenthrith aren't really equivalent to Lagertha/Ecbert, the show goes out of it's way to make their encounter as awkward as possible and has no impact on either character. But Lagertha's affair with Ecbert is meant to be a big deal, it's taken most of her screentime and most of the screentime of the…

that would diminish Aslaug being responsible for leaving her kids to bone some hobo, also that bit about Siggy going to Valhalla implying she fought to keep the kids safe.

Superb, M'lady

I think ammonia is used to sanitize meat at meat packing plants

perhaps it's for the ammonia content

Not Greek, it's gonna be some time until Aristotle gets popular in northern Europe

That was just a throwaway line, and a fairly weak one at that, "you only care for yourself" I was half expecting Ecbert to reply with "yes, that's true but (…)"

Athelstan knows Latin and can translate the scrolls in Ecbert's library, also he's got a comically accomplished education, he's already been on France and can speak at least 3 languages. Taken at face value Athelstan should be one of the most learned men in the world at this time.

they were spellbound

also the rape, she made a whole point of it in the speech

I dunno, I always got the vibe Ragnar treated her as damaged goods because she acts like a head case whenever she's around him

I thought the show would make him reject Thorunn now that she's disfigured (great make up artistry right there) in order to build him up as vain, but they didn't.

c'mon man it's Loki, literally the god of mischief. He made the kids wander around the frozen fjord so he could fuck the queen (kind of a Zeus/Io affair parallel there too)

"the reviewer keeps calling them smart, but I don't know why. Only Lagertha has been a truly exceptional female on the show"

was he the mute one from last season?

yeah, it's evident they don't trust each other, but that they enjoy each other's company in a competitive way. Ragnar just blurting out "I don't like you" to Athelwulf just a couple of minutes before made it even better.

Kalf was fully justified as I see it. Nobody had any assurances Lagertha would be back and she took most of the young able bodied men with her, the power vacuum is naturally huge and on top of that had Ecbert had his way, the rightful Jarl to Kalf's village may have never made it back to Denmark/Norway/Sweden.

I'm mildly amused out of all things the reviewer ended up following the whole "adultery is actually following your heart" route here. It's not even clear whether it's Harbard who brings the children out of the freezing water, the episode sure wants to make us think that instead it was Aslaug's negligence that put the…

Yeah I agree, to get more in detail would definitely be overthinking the TV show. There are things that make sense on their own and others that I think you just have to trust the writers with because they're unlikely to have thought out the fact that this or that character would react in a certain way or that it would…

was this sarcasm?