The actor who plays Ragnar is actually shooting a romantic comedy in NYC this off-season, with the beard.
Lucky for him, Ragnar can easily pass as a Brookyln hipster.

The writer/creator says he has a consultant of Icelandic Viking history, some other Ivy League professors of Scandanavian history, and has researched a lot of this stuff himself— but he concedes that he does take creative license with a lot of it. It's a scripted drama, not a documentary after all.
The lead actor who…

It was touch and go for a while.

Why was Lagertha looking like a female Wanderer at Porunn's delivery —as if SHE shouldn't have been where Aslaug was sitting in that moment.
And the fact we probably won't get an explanation for where she's been for the past 7 months will irritate me.

Ragnar usually has a plan, and he probably did with England —not sure what will come of it now that the settlement was attacked.

**SPOILER** I think Lagertha goes to Paris with Ragnar. At least it appears that way in the season trailer. She is at his side on the boat.

I don't get the concern about the supernatural pre-ordained events when the whole story is written up in sagas already. Does that not serve as an enormous spoiler?

You think Ragnar would risk the slaughter of men, women and children for the larger picture?

I think they were stunned by the entire situation. Siggy was just a part of it.
The man had been living amongst them for, days i guess, and they are fairly certain he sacrificed those other two kids and tried to sacrifice Ragnar's. Siggy's death is somewhere in the middle of those two phenomenons.

I would say so too. But Lagertha and now Ragnar are being written not to care.
Ragnar even teased Athelstan about it at the party.

The creator of the series says Paris was located in an altogether different place. It's further east and it's an island city surrounded by walls.

Aethelwulf approached Ragnar just after he'd learned his love slept with Ecbert. He was in no mood to pull punches, I think.

Or did he?
I thought maybe she'd had a supernatural vision. Ragnar gets them all the time.

And to that I would throw my tv.
It's not that isn't true, but Ragnar should not hesitate to do what Lagertha wants for all the times she's saved his arse.

Or rule it himself, more like.
Either way, Kwen is doomed.

I've had it with the US edits.
As amusing as Rag and Lag's conversation at the party was, I found it hard to believe that all they wanted to do was boast about their respective sex lives.

"Since Ragnar has stated his belief that he is descended from Odin, the fact that Harbard no doubt has impregnated Aslaug brings up some thorny questions."

I think Kwen fears Ragnar as much as she is fascinated by him. Maybe she's decided to play Ecbert's puppet but has actually yielded herself as Ragnar's puppet — now as she's seen that he has the stuff to outfox Ecbert. I guess killing her own beloved brother is the extent to which he has impressed her.

Yes, but she is a pawn too and she knows it.
What's the point in getting rid of her brother to protect a position they don't truly have?

I think Ragnar's fate— having all these sons and achieving greatness— has been both a blessing and a huge burden.
He loves the capabilities his status affords him; the exploring etc. But he doesn't care for the leadership part.
And now that he can cross "lots of sons" off of his fate check list, I don't think he…