Except that the second he wasn't Ragnar's anymore, he was literally thrown to the wolves. Ragnar knows his sons are coming for revenge - that kid would be far safer on a boat with Ivar (which Ecbert probably would have agreed to) than he was cast out into the wild where the elements or the eventual heathen army can…

Well, now if nothing like that happens, I'm going to be super disappointed. But I honestly can't imagine that they're not going to touch on where Ragnar ends up in the afterlife, it's been such a major thing the entire show.

I definitely don't see any reason to believe Ragnar was lying about Magnus not being his. I've seen some people throwing around that maybe Ragnar lied about that to protect him, but he's far safer being claimed by Ragnar - and probably put on a boat with Ivar to safety and away from England altogether, or at the very…

I'm secretly hoping that when Ragnar does die, there's something hinting towards Athelstan's "presence" there, mostly because I want to see where Ragnar ends up after his baptism.

And honestly, even if Magnus IS Ragnar's son, Ragnar disavowed him right in front of Ecbert. Magnus holds no worth to anyone now regardless of who his biological father is. I wouldn't be surprised if he showed back up as an adult and wrecks some things, but I also kind of feel like he was pretty irrelevant as a whole.…

It's been years and those two are still obsessed with Athelstan. I'm not complaining, but damn. This show is going to be so diminished with Ragnar gone and this episode proved that. There's not many shows that can get by with two of their main characters just talking for huge chunks of it. Ecbert is also a very…

They've had a lot of episodes now to try and establish Ragnar's kids as compelling and worth watching for, and I'm just…not personally feeling it. I like a couple of them enough that I'm happy to see them on my screen, but the others are easily forgettable. And even together, none of them is enough to keep me watching…

This show needs to join "Heroes" on the list of shows that had amazing first seasons and then completely destroyed themselves from S2 onward.

Eddie's plots remain the worst parts of episodes, but I found the rest of the episode pretty charming in a way I wouldn't have expected to looking at the storylines on paper.

I'm mostly interested in this cause of Magneto - I wanna see what power-ups he got, and what awful costume he's gonna wear.

It's probably the fact that these guys are putting a million dollars into it that tips the scale, among the fact that it's apparently featuring a lot of Star Trek alumni. That's a far cry from what goes into most of the other fanmade stuff imo.

Can we get a Thor movie that stays the hell away from Earth for once? I'd assume not since Jane is still a thing and we have to get Hulk involved but man do I want a Thor movie that stays only in realms that are not Earth.

Are you me? I didn't hate AoU as much as some parts of the internet but it's easily one of the weakest entries into the MCU, and I STILL have not rewatched The Dark World (and I'm very nervous about how Thor 3 is going to go). But I've watched XMFC and XMDOFP multiple times, the same as I have the first two X-Men…

Seriously. I don't think people should hate the episode or anything but they literally killed off a main male character's love interest JUST to motivate him. It was even - bonus - done by the male villain specifically to torment said dude. That is the textbook definition of fridging, and just because this show show…

Exactly. There are arguments to be made about quality of story for sure, but there's no guarantee that the characters being back at Marvel would give people the movies (and quality) that they want. With things spread out as they are now, we're seeing more superheroes than we would have otherwise, there's more 'slots'…

Yeah, I never understood why I was supposed to have a problem with it if Han shot first. At BEST what was gonna happen is that Greedo was gonna force him to Jabba's place at gunpoint and he probably would have ended up dead either trying to escape that or because Jabba would do it. And for all we know, Greedo was just…

This. I don't have a problem talking about how poorly it was written because I do think it was a disaster, but you can tell that by the end of it, between their interviews and the last bits, we were supposed to see it as another step Cyclops was taking off the rails. IMO that's what is really important because it…

But it doesn't matter what actually happened in the book when it comes to things like this. All that matters is how Marvel treats it going forward, and they are absolutely treating it like the X-Men fucked up. These are the same guys who for the longest time kept insisting that the pro-registration side in Civil War…

Or at least take a long break from it. A lot of the groaning about the recent storylines - not that it isn't deserved - has been basically "but we just DID this! Come on!"

The interesting thing about this is what we're going to be seeing the effects of it years down the line, too. I grew up in the 1990s, and the superheroes I was exposed to? I only saw them in the cartoons. X-Men and Batman were my two main ones, and I devoured those shows and didn't even realize they were from comics.…