The closing run of episodes is at turns thrilling, stirring, chilling, harrowing, heart-breaking, savage, sensual and ethereal, and is capped off with a mesmerizing, mytho-philosophical finale that retroactively elevates everything that came before it, all the way back to the moment when Ragnar first asked Floki to help him sail west. How will it be remembered now that it is gone? In a word: fondly.Ĭreator Michael Hirst has left us a show for the ages, one that transcends the war, blood, and murder that first drew audiences to its story. Bound up in this spider’s web of myth and mayhem, too, is the fate and legacy of the show itself. It’s clear from the show’s coda – Ubbe and Floki side by side on a distant beach, contemplating existence as the sun glows down upon the endless stretch of ocean before them – that the two ultimately are inseparable. Vikings has always been concerned with legacy: that of the Vikings themselves, and of Ragnar and his sons. The following contains spoilers for Vikings season 6 part two.
