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Been rewatching the show After 10+ years, the season After the First are Just so dumb and painful to Watch.

The writing Is completely idiotic, with a bunch of scenes totally illogic (all of king horic, battles, the Attack over the River, siggys death)

I dont know of i'll proceed further, there are Just so much embarassing moments

[no spoilers] I just finished Vikings and honestly, I feel kind of empty now. 😭 I absolutely loved this show and got really attached to the characters and the whole world.

I've heard mixed things about Vikings: Valhalla, and I'm honestly scared I'll be disappointed if I start it.

For those of you who watched both: is Valhalla worth watching? Does it still feel connected to the original series? Do we get references to Ragnar and his sons, Floki, Rollo, familiar places, their legacy, etc.?

I don't expect it to be exactly like Vikings, but I'd love to hear your honest opinions. Should I give it a chance, or should I just let Vikings be what it was and move on? 😭

The ending felt really disappointed to me, it honestly felt like the writers were tired and just wanted to end the show, not a proper conclusion of ketegat and many other things felt insolved, i watched this 6 season in a month so maybe i didnt attached to it like who waited for all seasons but this end like a ep end.

Season 3-4 they ruined the show, made Ragnar a dope head who let some random Chinese slave manipulate him with opium. Make him a pos and a failure, who forgets all of his tactical strategic prowess. Have Rollo betray him for some 3/10 cross dressed man looking ass game stop employee looking ass French princes, like some hypocrite after getting all mad at Ragnars converted Christian act, he played everyone with, goes ahead fully converts himself and betrays his whole family. Whole time Ragnars lizard looking hoe ass second wife is fucking Hubbard, while he’s killing all the children and she just lets Bjorns kid die of hunger. The writer really just got lazy and time jumped to his sons, blaming it on “historical accuracy” when no part of the show is historically accurate at all. During his return and 10 years Bjorn just totally forgets how Aslaug killed his kid and does nothing about it, while his father is gone, should’ve killed her. Then they just kill off Ragnar who made the show and make dumbass cripple the prime character, that gains power somehow being an evil tyrant. Only satisfying part is Aslaugs death. Kill off Bjorn the last good character, who actually became king of Sweden in real life. Etc etc. creators just got lazy and forced/rushed the rest of the show with a time jumped to dumbass Ivar taking the lead, nerfing Bjorn and while it was a good scene, giving him a dumb death. They also feminize the series, add bunch of subtitle lgbt and libtard acts like Lagithas full women army, and bunch of unrealistic historically inaccurate sexuality values. Make it seem like Ragnar is a homosexual for Athelstan when he barely spends much time with him in show besides Ragnar needing info on England/france and a few social gatherings, where Ragnar jokes with him. A lot of the acts of individual characters would literally of had them executed or blood eagled in real life dark age Northern Europe.

Yesterday I ended the series and it was a thrill experience, even after Ragnar's death I still enjoyed it. But there were many moments watching it that I had the thought "That doesn't make any sense" or "Why would this character act this way".

For example in season 6, Hvitserk after becoming exiled for killing Lagertha and Ivar finds him, his whole bloodthirsty mindset for killing his brother get scrapped. We went from a drunk, drug addicted user whos only purpose is to find and kills his brother for the griefs he made him endure (killing his love, using him, humiliating him etc.), to the two of them chilling in Kiev, with Hivtserk bolstering how he killed the bitch Lagertha. For sure the drug addiction played a major role, but his intends were crystal clear before their abuse.

Another example from the same season, at the start of it King Olaf subdues King Harald's kingdom, enslave him, humiliate him, even considering killing him, for Bjorn at the end to come to his "liberation", something he shouldn't even consider, since King Harald throughout all seasons was a backstabbing, power thirsty ruler and always took the chance to oppose Ragnar's lineage and take what they have, specially from Bjorn, a fact that is solid stated, trying to persuade Gunnhild to abandon him and side with him, becoming king of all Norway through conspiracies with the other Jarls and Kings, ruling Kattegat, try to marry both of his wives, even him stating it that he wants everything Bjorn had.

Even if we get past that, that their bromance is so strong to bypass those difficulties, how the three kings Olaf, Bjorn and Harald end up chilling after their dispute, Harald got humiliated and enslaved, probably many of his warriors died in battle with Olaf's army, same wise with Bjorn he lost many warriors in the fire water battle against him, only for them to accept the voting of a King for all of Norway. Sure after the election of King Harald, his makes King Olaf his prisoner, but we can't compare the way he got treated with Harald's imprisonment, roaming free, no chains, good cloths, bathing, eating good etc.

I am mostly referring to season 6 because I didn't binge-watch the series in a single week, so I just recall the most fresh moments in my mind that made me question the actions of the characters. Nonetheless I had a blast watching Vikings and I am looking forward for Valhalla.

I feel like there was a whole episode between episodes 9 and 10 that I missed. How did rollo know Ragnar moved the ships over land? How did Ragnar know to put platforms in the front of his ships? How did the French king go from making Roland a count (and sleeping with him) to assassinating him?

This episode makes such little sense, am I missing something?