r/vikingstv

So, I'm watching the original series, n I'm almost at the end of season 4.. I think it's actually ridiculous that background characters die immediately upon being stabbed/shot with an arrow or whatever ... yet the protagonists endure beating upon beating, being stabbed, burned, smashing against a cliff face to suffer broken ribs and internal bleeding, almost drowning etc etc. I get it that it's for the story etc... but it is rather ridiculous what the 'hero' suffered time and time again, before finally coming to an end.

>!Side note, did anyone else notice an issue with s4 ep6, at 43 minutes 7 seconds!<

1. Props to the continuity Departement. They actually remembered that Björn send most of his ships away when he went to sicily. They said he had only three ships and when he returned to Kattegat he had 3 boats. I mean this could have been easily forgotten and they could have given him dozens of ships but they remembered

2. Why on earth has Guthrum black/dark brown hair? Torvi is blond like really really blond and Jarl Borg was Ginger. Something doesn't add up...

I also think its great that Lagertha went grey in like an hour or sth. I get it Stress, killing Astrid and fighting/loosing a battle but still. They should have changed her hair colour an episode later when there is at least a small time skip

Just small random thoughts

He has got to be the THIRSTIEST man in Norway. Perhaps the only man in the entire show who is fixated on being with women for what he assumes to be love though it's really just obsession... if he had forgotten his need for "love" after killing the girl he wanted to be king for in the first place, he may actually been the king of Norway when he first went on that quest.

First of all, I don’t justify what Floki did to Athelstan. Killing him was wrong. But I also think the punishment Floki received was extremely severe, almost mythic rather than simply judicial.

What I keep wondering is if Bjorn had not acted first and tried to deliver justice while Ragnar was ill, what would Ragnar himself have done once he woke up?

Ragnar seemed angry at Bjorn, not necessarily because Floki was innocent, but because Bjorn made the punishment public and forced Ragnar to maintain it as king. It felt like Ragnar lost control over how justice for Athelstan would be handled.

My interpretation is that Ragnar may not have wanted Floki executed, but he did want him to suffer. Maybe he wanted Floki alive, ashamed, terrified, and fully aware of what he had taken from Ragnar. Athelstan was not just another person to Ragnar; he was probably one of the only people who truly understood his divided self.

So what do you think Ragnar originally had in mind for Floki? Would he have killed him? Exiled him? Punished him privately? Or was the actual punishment close to what Ragnar wanted anyway?