Vikings Season 5 Discussion

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The trailer is here! 

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A civil war with a bunch of action! Not bad, but I hope Lagertha survives or it could be the end of the series. I read over this article about Lagertha's potential death:

https://moviepilot.com/p/vikings-lagertha-death/4173948

If she does die, the ratings might sink so low the show gets the axe.

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Shes going to die unfortunately. I follow Katheryn Winnick on facebook. Her career has been catapulted by Vikings and shes most likely looking to move on. Shes in the Dark Tower and voicing a part in COD:WWII. I can see season 5 ending with the civil war battle. They still have to develop Bjorn's Mediterranean campaign, and Ivar's conquest in Britain. I think that will be the focal point of this season, and the civil war is being over hyped... they brought in that Templar character to be a major rival for Ivar and I see that taking up a good part of the season. Season 6 will probably be the final season with Winnick dying somewhere in it, and then History will focus more on Knightfall.

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This season has been amazing. Its actually one of the best. I didn't think they'd beable to stay so strong without Ragnar, but they managed to do it. Ivar is a really strong character. Everyone despises him, and they all say he is tearing Rangar's legacy apart, but they don't know Rangar encouraged him to be like this.

Its looking bad for Lagertha. Shes lost Astrid now, and I don't trust Heahmund. I'm starting to think his capture was a calculated risk. The preview for the second half of the season makes it seem that she's going to die, but it may be for shock value because we don't really see her. I can see Rollo still holding that grudge that she never loved him instead of Ragnar. With the mid-season finale roster purge, it looks like there will still be more culling of the cast.

I was sad to see Halfdan die, especially in such a lame way. I really liked his character especially after his journey with Bjorn to the Mediterranean. Astrid's death was sad too. They really screwed her character over. She knew that the kid was probably from when she got gang raped. She rather would have died by Lagertha's blade than Harald's wrath. 

And going back to Heahmund, I really like his character. He brings a lot to this season. He's clearly a corrupt christian that indulges in sin. Only using his religious position to his advantage.

Aethelwulf dying like Macaulay Culkin in My Girl was so lame too. C'mon. Then we get a gratuitous shot of Judith's Mic Foley ear for no reason. They could have not spent the money on the CGI and kept her hair over it like they have. Clearly Athelred despises Alfred for being king at his mothers request. It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out because at this point History has pretty much gone from slight deviations from History, to completely throwing it off track. 

Floki's camp is a disaster too. I don't get his character anymore. After he killed Aethelstan he's been incredibly inconsistent. He's always been ultra loyal to the gods, but then gets miffed by the Muslims, and then after he loses everything and almost dies from an hand cut infection, he's all about the gods again and tries to make a camp where this dude is trying to be an ass, and they swap son deaths with the other guy after Floki offers him the position of Lawgiver under the condition of no revenge killings. Then he offer's himself as a sacrifice. I don't think he'll die, but at this point I don't really care about his character anymore. He was one of my favorites, but this whole side story doesn't really interest me. I wish he would have just had that whole family killed and be done with them. 

Ivar, Bjorn, Lagertha, and Heahmund are my favorite characters still around. Ubbe seems important, but I feel they've established Ivar as the dominant brother. Now that Bjorn's love interest is dead, and Ubbe has seduced Torvi. I expect some awkwardness between the two... but also a common interest since Ubbe loves Torvi, he must protect Bjorn's children from crazy ass Margrethe. I hope Torvi puts a hatchet through her head.

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It's good to see Legertha isn't going to die... at the beginning at least. I guess picking Alfred for king will give her and Rangar's kids some refuge at a price.

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This seasons flaw is that I still don't give two shits about Floki's community, and I want half of them to die. I'm glad they don't spend much time on it as it is. I feel like Alfred is going to use Lagertha's group to overthrow the church, although Heahmund got a head start on it. Everyone is sleeping with everyone. Bjorn is worse than Ragnar... and finally Margrethe is gone. The first two eps were pretty solid.

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I got caught up last night. Its a good thing this show isn't made on HBO or it'd be 50% softcore porn this season.  I don't think Floki even had enough people there to begin with to start a sustainable population and now theres only a handful left. If everyone ends up dying then the entire Floki community arc seems pointless unless this eventually leads to something other than character development for Floki. They couldn't really go back because they disassembled their boats for housing, but with so few left they could probably make a boat again and leave now. Its a shame Heahmund died already. I liked his character and his personal conflict. That and he murdered the hell out of people which was cool. Ivar is a bits nuts with his god talk. And a few eps back when Rollo said Bjorn was his kid.. it felt like a Jerry Springer moment.  And Judith.. shes brutal.. poison her own son like that. wtf, shes almost as nuts as Ivar.

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Season 6 will be the final season. Which is about the sweet spot for most great series.

https://tvline.com/2019/01/04/vikings-cancelled-final-season-6-ending-history/