Vikings (TV Series) Eye for an Eye (2014) User Reviews

Intense and One of the Best Episodes

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 30 September 2017]

Rollo seeks shelter from the winter that is coming for Auslag, her sons and Siggy and they find a farm. Jarl Borg informs to the survivors that he is the new ruler of Kattegat. King Ecbert delivers his own son Aethelwulf to meet Ragnar in Wesse and they discuss a deal between their people. When Ragnar returns to the camp, he discloses Ecbert's proposal to King Horit. However Ragnar learns the invasion of Kattegat and that his family is missing and he decides to return to Scandinavia with four ships leaving Athelston with King Horit to be his translator with King Ecbert. Will Ragnar meet his beloved family?

"Eye for an Eye" is an intense and one of the best episodes of Vikings. There is the participation of all the important characters and it is great to see Lagherta back to the show. Oe of the greatest question is about the fate of Athelston and how Ragnar and King Horit will hold their enemies with their forces weakened. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Eye for an Eye"

A War on Two Fronts

[amongpixels · 10/10 · 9 January 2021]

"Eye for an Eye" is another fantastic episode for this season, combining its various plot lines in moments that are both tense and dreadful, as well as exciting and enjoyable. King Ecbert continues to be an interesting antagonist, having an engaging plan to engage in dialogue with Ragnar, while Athelstan is thrust into his own nightmare. Meanwhile, I totally ship Rollo and Siggy (finally), and it was a satisfying development seeing Rollo now advising Ragnar caution, rather than the other way around. The episode also concludes on a truly beautiful reunion between Ragnar, Lagertha and Bjorn, the latter having seemingly grown into a strong and thoughtful man (still carrying the memory of Gyda). The build up to fighting Jarl Borg is exciting!

Anti-Christian, anti-historical.

[elvenwarrior-63550 · 1/10 · 21 March 2017]

All I can say is this is clearly anti-Christian in the way they portray Christianity. Not only does this episode follow through on the historically ludicrous idea that Christian crucified apostates in the 8th and 9th centuries, but they have a bishop overseeing the crucifixion and putting a crown of thorns on the apostate's head.

Anyone vaguely familiar with Christianity realizes that this is a mockery of Christianity and Christ from a Christian point of view. No Christian would execute someone in mockery of the crucifixion. In fact, Christian tradition says that St. Peter, an apostle of Christ was crucified upside down by Romans at his own request, since he did not see himself to be worthy to die in the same manner as Jesus.

The only reason I can see Christian being portrayed this way is to try to make them out to be hypocrites and vicious. While some Christian surely did evil things, no even nominal Christian, especially in that era, would execute an apostate or anyone else via crucifixion. This series is on the verge of losing me, because it has lost any resemblance of history, mocks my Christian beliefs, and frankly, had been mostly boring since the last couple episodes of season 1.