"Ragnar is going to use his knowledge of Christianity to pose as a priest in Paris, in order to get inside the city."

I just saw the past 2 episodes, they were not bad but kind of a slip in writing quality that marred the episodes as a whole. The acting, with Fimmel, later Roache and the bright spots from the rest of the cast has always been some of the best features of the show and that keeps it going, and I've gotta say that while…

"comes off as both condescending to Lagertha and clearly full of admiration as well."
well, there's a paradox if I've ever seen one. Just commit to a single opinion if it's disjunctive.

I honestly thought for a moment that the mystery ally was Harbard and not a rehash from last season. It was really disappointing.

Urea is pretty easy to synthesize so they don't need to harvest it from pee. I think it messes with the joints if you build up too much in your blood.

interesting

ok fair enough, that's one reason, but it's not the main reason or an important reason or perhaps even a relevant reason why Kalf threw a coup. In the situation her earldom is in, anybody, male or female would have been overthrown because the territory lacks leadership while Lagertha's colonizing her settlement with…

It's not the same in the sense that Ragnar's claim was supposedly better protected, meaning it took an even bigger incentive from a competing Jarl to take up arms against him. On the other hand Kalf's coup makes total sense, that's not to say that he won't be defeated in humiliating fashion or that he's the legitimate…

yeah but that was a pretty bad character beat. His reaction to the news of Siggy's death on the other hand will likely be interesting.

Kwenthrith's like 7 kinds of crazy, so even if Ragnar put her up to it, I don't think he expected neither her histrionic speech as her brother was choking up, or the fact that she was going to kill him right there to begin with. The reaction Ecbert and Ella get is more akin to an unpleasant surprise rather than…

If this is true I hope all Viking lore is true and Aslaug is in fact Sigfried's daughter, even if the timeline is ridiculous. I also hope Ragnar finds a six legged horse and Rollo uses a belt to become superhumanly strong

"Why did she take her shoes off?"
to feel where the ice was cracking, also if they weren't flats, to increase her surface area to the ground

he always plays assholes, he was the Blob in that Wolverine origins movie and also was the former boxer/bookie/cowboy(?!) that beat up Wolverine in Real Steel

I'm also hazy about this, but I think that by this time he would have only read the Bible from the Vulgata latin translation

One reason may be to get "street cred", another is that with a single ruler, the chances of Ecbert assassinating her drop because he'd basically have to shop around for a new suitable puppet ruler

"The sad truth is that this would have never happened if she were a male."
What?! it happened to Ragnar just last season. In a bloodier fashion might I add.

"Does Lagertha even care about this place (where she spends little to no time governing)?"

to be completely honest, I like Athelwulf, even though I'm supposed to hate him. He just tries so fucking hard to please his father and live up to his title and nothing goes his way…

probably Fimmel just screwing around the set

I get that is what the writers are going for, but more often than not it comes across as "plotarmor" instead.