A typical episode ofVikingsis often fatal for minor or major characters.
That’s a guaranteed bloodbath.
We saw Ecbert die, by his own hand, in this episode.
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Their stories were interweaved.
They were very different, but they found that they had so much in common.
The process of discovery, of finding out what they had in common, was organic.
It never occurred to me in the beginning.
Ecbert was a cultured, sophisticated mirror image of Ragnar’s authenticity.
He, as a character, grew on me.
I was blessed to have Linus Roache to develop him with.
Linus and I share a deep love for T.S.
What is going through Ecbert’s mind after he gets captured?
And, in theory, his ambition was probably that he would unite them underhim.
But it was certainly his intention that they would be united under Wessex domination, by a Wessex ruler.
He had a long-term strategic plan for that.
In many ways, his dreams are actually shattered.
Ragnar never gave in.
Ecbert’s [death] is much lower-key.
It reflects his knowledge and his learning.
Nevertheless, it’s not grand in the same way.
It was out with the old, in a sense, and in with the new.
“This too shall pass,” as it says in the Bible.
