That's silly, this is no Lost nonsense and if that's hard for you to understand that doesn't mean it's 'reading too much into it' - failure of understanding on your part. The most obvious connections are found between Ragnar/Odin and Floki/Loki, but I'd like to hear some intelligent discussion about the other…

why not talk about how each character so well portrays the nordic god they tangentially represent? Floki portraying the trickster nature of Loki and his betrayal of the 'old gods', the giants, in favor of the young gods, Odin, Baldr, etc. This is a scripted show, but for me the emotional and logical strength is…