Lagertha in the last season. (SPOILER!)

The whole subplot leading up to her death felt a bit hamfisted to me. None of it felt natural or as if it was being done for the sake of bettering the story. It seemed as if they moved her out to a farm and gave her some stupid conflict with some irrelevant bandits all as an excuse to kill off a beloved character. Period. Like, that was the entire point of it all. Just because... that's what you're supposed to do in a final season: Kill off major characters. And kill them off in a cliche heroic way (by shoehorning her into some weird, out-of-nowhere situation where she's forced to lead and save a group of women, kids, and old people). It came off as kinda cheap and gimmicky to me.

As far as the funeral goes, I agree that it looked good and was well made. But it seemed like something this extravagant should've been reserved for some other, more important character lol. Like Ragnar or Bjorn, for instance (I thought Bjorn's character was worse than Largethas, but in the story and in real life he was meant to be extremely legendary). That being said, she was a Queen in the show. So I suppose I can make myself buy it.

However, I almost pulled an ocular muscle at the all-women archers and the fact that it was all women pulling the boat into the water (with, of course, a woman singing during the entire procession). I mean, I get that women looked up to Lagertha in the series, but they treat her like she was a champion of some 9th-century women's lib movement. It just felt a bit silly. Too much of a projection of our current values foisted onto a historical culture. Granted, the series has always liked to highly exaggerate the number of female warriors and females in power in Vikingville, but this was nevertheless just way over-the-top, in my opinion. I mean, it's Norway, not Themyscira lol.