I don't think we know that yet.

Interesting. I took it that Ragnar got really frightened when Bjorn went down. He saw his son dying and it scared him, so he lashed out with the "You have a lot to learn" comment. But you could be right about the jealousy thing. He did admit to the possibility of that when he was talking to his dead daughter Gyda.

I swear I'm not trying to be argumentative, I swear! Just a different viewpoint. Aslaug might be an opportunist, she might be calculating, she might not give a crap about anybody but herself, all of that is true. I don't like her. But I don't see her as equally guilty with Ragnar, because she never made promises to…

I know, right? That's what I've been thinking ever since this episode. "What are Ragnar's people going to eat this winter?" :-D

I don't consider Aslaug a homewrecker: I see Ragnar as that. Ragnar was the one with the responsibility to not impregnate a princess when he was married. I'm not saying I like Aslaug though, I don't. But I don't like Ragnar either, so what the hell in my opinion. They can have each other. I tune in for Rollo, Siggy,…

Well said!

Very glad to hear that.

No. I didn't miss it. And I think you're right about the already happened stuff according to the writers. I was speaking to all the viewer comments I've seen and continue to see. So many don't seem to want to accept it.

I've read elsewhere that Ragnar and Aslaug "fall in love" in this season, so I'm betting Lagertha has a storyline that doesn't particularly include Ragnar. I think they had her choose to leave in this episode deliberately, as a subtle way of telling viewers to "get over it" and it's going to be a Ragnar-Aslaug…

I'm anxious to see where that goes. I'm projecting that Ragnar is wanting to punish her for leaving (and making him cry, wah) by putting on a show that he doesn't give a crap. That said, I would have liked for him to acknowledge that she just turned the tide and made it possible for him to kill that madr strodinn with…

Lagertha's Berserker button. :-D

I think he wanted to see what Athelston would do. He is a very curious man.

Well you guys are just removing all my complaints with all your logic and stuff.

You must be one of the writers, eh? ;-)

Ah, ok!

That makes sense to me too. Yeah, I got that Ragnar has different priorities. Ok, dilemma solved. That one, at least.

My concern is that the writers are deliberately manipulating us to sympathize with their 2 main characters by having them act in unrealistic ways, if that makes sense. I'm torn on this because, if they didn't, the show would probably be cancelled for lack of viewers. They don't have much of a choice on the matter.

Your reply makes sense to me. Yeah.

That's another thing I've noticed the writers of this show doing. (Not judging here, just observing.) They take Ragnar OUT of the scenario where there's the chance that he'll no longer be liked by viewers, and they have him do things that will endear him to viewers. (Hiding the child during the sack of Westminster.)…

I also wondered how Lagertha and her men found Ragnar et al so easily, when Jarl Borg is apparently fruitlessly having to continue searching?