Honestly the idea of the ending in itself is not a bad thing… it’s just that the story was CLEARLY never heading in that direction. This decision was obviously a last minute ending to a show that either ran out of budget or was on the verge of being axed. When observing the effects, visual quality, fights, world building, and multi-character perspectives from season 1 and 2, you can tell something clearly went wrong in season 3.
Sorry but no lol. You don’t gather more haters than Adolf H just because you gotta cut the crap asap. He could make a rushy finale easily without this brain farting insult
I'm sorry, but I at the very least expect you to take your story seriously enough not to just say "it never happened" Like yeah, I know it's not a real story, but now your telling me it's just a fake story within a fake story? Now I REALLY REALLY don't care.
Hats off to the actors pretending to like season 3, best acting I've seen in a while. Seriously though the writers fucked up here, the actors got screwed and so did we
We hated the ending. But you all are excellent actors. I loved the hilarious scenes with the counselor. He was one of my favorite characters in Lilyhammer.
After watching the final episode I had a strong feeling of emptiness resulting from the fact that all of those epic events took place only in mind of Magne 😢 Ending like this makes all 3 seasons irrelevant, but it is only my subjective opinion.
I've decided to start Ragnarok this morning and watched all the way through the ending. It had some great/creative plots but for an ending like this, I'm sad for others who waited a year inbetween the seasons.
I really don't think the ending makes the all 3 seasons irrelevant simply because Magna didn't decide that fighting wasn't the answer. until that moment. The epic battles that took place only in his head proved that he made the right choice. But my opinion is subjective as well.
I'll choose to believe that it was all real and that what Magne saw was actually what could have happened if they had chosen the war. The schizophrenia part is for me just Magne remembering how they diagnosed him with that when he told them everything. I simply refuse to believe that this was all in Magne's head😅because it's an awful ending
It also doesn't make sense, unless he got contact lenses and his delusions made him forget getting them prescribed but also forget putting them in and taking them out each day. My chosen interpretation is similar to yours. The theme of putting away childish things and becoming an adult is putting away the childish idea that violent conflict was the only possible path forward. Magne chose the adult path when the put his hammer down in the confrontation and both sides walked away.
Indeed, honestly the ending was completely atrocious. But I agree with the others - amazing acting, everyone did such a fantastic job, these are characters I will remember as powerful symbols of these forces of the mind and spirit.
I'll do you one better. Just pretend that the ending is Magne picturing what would happen if he chose to fight the giants instead of choosing peace. That the vision he had is him thinking up a scenario of the war based on the comic he just read🤔
Herman seems to be have the same feelings we do, just he has to word it in the most professional way so that he doesn’t get in trouble. Actually such a lackluster and aggravating ending.
I've just finished watching the final episode and I have to say I am really saddened by it. Something about this show touched me from the very first episode of series one, so I'm sad that it ended in such an incoherent way and with a such wasted opportunity. Don't get me wrong I'd have loved a storyline that saw Magne suffer a psychotic break as a result of the trauma of moving back to Edda and the death of Isolde - withdrawing into a fantasy inspired by his childhood comics - and I would have been incredibly moved by the final ending reveal, but only if the entire show had been written in such a way than on rewatching with the hindsight of the ending, it would have been clear what the truth had been all along, which would make any rewatch very poignant and moving now really understanding what was going on and making sense of things. But that was absolutely not the case in the writing of this show and all I'm left with is confusion as to what bits were real and what bits were his delusions, and so it renders the entire programme empty. In addition as someone who has known two people whose lives have been devastated by schizophrenia the ending in which Magne seems to just choose to get better, symbolically shown by his throwing away the comics, leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. If only it were that easy! My disappointment and sadness aside, I'm grateful to this show for introducing me to a bunch of wonderful actors and the loveliness of the Norwegian language. I don't fault them at all and they did fantastically well in the final episodes with the scripts they were given. I hope to see them in lots more programmes in the future and will not hesitate to watch anything they are in.
This is exactly how I feel too. I can only alleviate the emptiness by believing he actually made up that it was all in his head so that he could move on in the human world. Would be an interesting story to come back to if this were the case; would be fun to see his friends trying to convince him that it was all real after all. I would have loved the ending had they had clues hidden from the start but that's not what happened. What happened with all the murders and deaths? Not even an explanation, and to attribute that purely to imagination is simply not enough. How would that be possible when so much happened when Magne wasn't even around? Had it been intended from the start; I think it would have been great. If they later come out and say it was planned all along, it's either a lie or they didn't understand how to make this work. I've seen it pulled off before in other tv shows and movies where it was executed in a way that made sense, this does not. Perhaps they had 3 seasons in mind, just not the ending until it was too late. One of the actors even mentions it gives you a different way to watch, but it doesn't, the events depicted and set up don't match. There are no signs throughout the series on what's real and what's not so what's the point? The therapy sessions with the Psychologist that didn't include Magne were all in his mind then, why? That means we can't trust anything from beginning to end, the entire show is an instant plot hole with this ending. There was nothing that promoted mental health awareness either, if anything, it makes a joke out of it.
Agree with you on everything..they never hinted that the events might be due to his mental illness and the ending was shocking and we as the viewers feel bertrayed.. also knew someone with schizophrenia and this ending felt wrong
This is so well said. There are films that can make this sort of situation work brilliantly. 🚨SPOILER ALERT: the film “The Others” is a great example. 🚨 This series doesn’t pull off this ending well at all. Yet we just have to accept it, be left with confusion and try to draw our own conclusions. Seeing the Jutulheim house change structure after Magne threw away the comics is just … I actually rewatched season 1 & 2 before watching season 3. After finishing the finale I was disappointed. I even went back to the very first episode to quickly see a timeline of things that happened with/to Magne before Isolde’s death. I appreciate a lot about this series. The ending is not on the list. Thanks for sharing your opinions. They are comforting. Be blessed everyone.
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants to have a magical solution to their problem but everyone refuses to believe in magic.” You shouldn’t have taken the magic away from us in the last episode, I think we needed this in this time we live in. Still, great acting from everyone and great episode up until 5.
Your words are so wise my friend😞 I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing but I couldn't express it in words I watched the ending 1-2 hours ago and since then im feeling so down. I don't know what to do...
Replace the word "magic" with "peace" - this is Magne's struggle in the end and he finally believes in the peace he's been fighting for. As it was, the magic wasn't magical at all - it was used as simply as any gun or sword, ultimately. A true era of peace, just like magic, evokes feelings of disbelief because we never see it. Just like Magne, most viewers wanted a fight because they thought it would give them closure to this story, but brokering peace with his destined villain is as magical as it gets - they did not take the magic away, they're finally giving it to us in the end. (And let's not forget the heavy environmental themes this whole show started with, what Isolde died for - in this time we live in, *more* destruction is *not* the answer, the show is telling us to hit the brakes *now* or we'll be fighting over the ashes.)
The writers sure jumped the shark with this season and especially the ending. I really hope to see some of these actors again. They made the show. Gísli Örn aka Vidar and Theresa aka Saxa were my favorites.
Some are comparing this to the ending of Lost. But it's very different. Lost explicitly made clear that all events actually happened as the viewer saw it. None of it was a fiction except for the alternate side story in Season 6, which was a sort of purgatory they created together AFTER all of the events of the story. Ragnarok just slapped us in the face and said, "Gotcha! It was all in Magne's head."
Good point, my initial reaction was that it was all in magnes head too. They sure made it seem like that. As others have pointed out though, there are scenes where supernatural things happen without him present. All in all, I now understand what they were trying to do, it just felt oddly paced and ultimately forced onto us. They could have conveyed it in such a better way, instead of leaving long-time fans of the show with a WTF does it all mean moment.
@@ScubaStephen not so sure on that. The ending just seems to throw all that out. They even went as far to try to have the cast defend that horse shit. I honestly don’t think the writer is that smart. It makes me wonder if they got a new one and didn’t tell us. That would make more sense then just going I was pulling your leg the whole time. Even Disney is not this stupid to say none of the plot mattered because it didn’t exist at all.
The interpretation isn't necessarily that none of what went on was real, remember, several scenes depicting the supernatural behavior of the gods and giants took place in Magne's absence, but once Magne opted for a peaceful resolution to the age old conflict, perhaps the spirits of the ancient gods and giants left their mortal hosts, after all, the characters of those myths are only as powerful as our imagination allows, and although history often repeats itself, it doesn't have to. Scripts don't have to be followed, and people can change.
@@blakebarnes2304 What a bummer. Most directors don't reveal their intent because it spoils it for the audience if the director gives the official interpretation. Now, no other take is valid, but that's fundamentally not how art works, once a work of art is shared it doesn't belong strictly to the creator. I think both a literal and a metaphorical take on the show hold water. What's interesting is that if it's all in Magne's head, then basically the message of the show is that things on earth are so bad that it's "as if" the world is ruled by an ancient race of megalomaniacal giants who are hellbent on destroying the environment and wiping out the entire human race.
The ending wasn't meant for people to wonder if Magne was delusional. It was to portray that Magne was clearly delusional, and because of lazy writing the message wasn't clear, that's why the director has to confirm it.
@@samyakchhajedYeah, no doubt the script was incompetently written, it’s a colossal betrayal of the audience. I’ll just have to imagine that my own interpretation is valid, otherwise this was a complete waste of time.
I don't think it was all in magne's head, they chose to lay down their weapons and live in peace. So I believe magne was just seeing Ragnarok play out in his head as what would've happened. He discovered his powers before isolde died and had to look online about mythology so obviously forgot about his comics till the end.
Yes!!! This was exactly my interpretation when I first saw the ending.... and I will still see it like that, no matter what the director himself says on his instagram. Making any "official" interpretation of any piece of art is dumb anyway, we all perceive things differently.
Truly a mark of excellence from the actors that they continue to act at this level even in this video saying they like the ending XD 99% of people that watched the series think this was the absolute worst way the show could have ended. Stop saying there are mixed reactions lol. "Then Harry woke from his dream of wizards and magic in his bed under the stairs"
I was so excited for season 3 and the ragnarok battle that, out of excitement, I re-watched seasons 1 & 2 when 3 came out only to get the most disappointed I've ever been after that ending.
This show took me through a journey which felt almost dream like. Had it not been for the actors, the cinematograhy, the music, I would have never realised how beautiful Norway is. The ending made me feel sad only because I knew we won't get more seasons. One of the best non english language show that I have seen so far. Can't wait to see all the cast members to be recasted in other shows as well Netflix !
You clearly haven’t seen a lot of good foreign language shows if you think this disaster was one of the best. It was on its way to be great, but tanked all in one season.
@@lilianeoster982Hook us up with some good foreign shows to watch! My favorite off the top is money heist, the first season is gold, season two, well, I think they just wanted to heist more of our money, haha. I still enjoyed it, but none of those events should have happened.
The ending for Ragnarok also makes no sense plot wise. We basically didn't know the characters at all because the situations they were put in m made they're character development and if the events never happened who are the characters we've been watching this whole time?
Well the actors probably saw how the industry treated the actors from Game Of Thrones after expressing their dislike of the final season and ending. So of course they'll all say good things. The first two actors Danu and Herman (Iman and Fjor) at least say fans will be surprised. And Herman says fans will be split. Cause he knows the ending will not be received positively by most.
I feel ya I pulled an all nighter to binge the series. I got hooked on episode 1 Then I had to work feeling like a zombie all day and I didn't even have the satisfaction of watching a decent ending. I felt cheated and incomplete the whole day. Needless to say it wasn't a fun time.
There were no strings left unsung. The final episode kills EVERYTHING. It turns the show into a fantasy of Magne's, one the he came up with to combat the PTSD of Isolds death, one upon which he delved into the comic 'Young Thor" and applies the fantasy to his own life as a coping mechanism. It was a cheap, and lame way to quickly wrap up what could have, and should have been an epic series with at least 6 seasons
The main problem with this ending is that the narrative has too many events that can't be explained if it was all in magnes head. The hammer in the car at the very beginning, Magne never was at Jutul's house. Gris finding a photo of the family literally dating 100 years ago. Vidar's death not being a police case. Magne killing jutul dog without a weapon. The list just goes on and on. Volva's death and the corpse disappearing , Magne's mother was show asking about her at the shop and people say ahe just vanished. There are so much that can't be explained with that ending that it made me slightly upset.
Absolutely agree. And the list goes on: Are we really to believe that Magne had spent all his youth devouring comic books in a foreign language (the comics were in English) despite the show telling us multiple times he's essentially unable to read at all? What about his eye glasses, in the end we see him without them even though he let go of his fantasies? What about him showing powers before the death of Isolde? If the whole story was just Magne making things up and escaping into a fantasy world where he's special and can protect his loved ones why would he portray himself as such as an arrogant b*stard? And why oh why would a show that otherwise tried to portray Norse mythology in its original context choose to base Magne's visions and fantasies on American superhero comics (not nearly as popular in Europe as in the US) instead of, for example, Peter Madsen's Valhalla series (Danish comics) which at least is much closer to the actual mythology? It's beyond obvious that this wasn't the original roadmap for how the series would progress, or if it was the writers did an awful job at it. And to make it worse, with the "all in his head" interpretation there's not a single scene in the series that I can be sure actually happened, which in turn renders the whole thing meaningless. In the last scene we see the kids along with Wotan and others share a table, but if we're robbed of the story we were shown we're left with absolutely no explanation as to why they're all there together. We no longer know any of the characters at all. And that makes me very, very disappointed with an otherwise interesting show.
Maybe it’s not just in Magne’s head. He was imagining how the future would have been if he wouldn’t have stopped the war between Gods and Giants. He has altered the future and all have become friends and are co-exisiting. I chose to interpret it this way.
The ending honestly disappointed us. We (my boyfriend and I) have Norwegian origin so norse mythology is a big part of what we connect over. We loved seeing norse mythology brought to life in present day. To find out it was all in his head, based off comics, was a major let down. We were hoping for the true mythology ending. I wish the ending could be re-done. The actors were amazing and I want to thank them for giving us three amazing seasons. But the writers are the ones that left us with the heartache.
This is one of the greatest casts of all time. I am so frustrated netflix continues to cut their best shows budgets and episode counts and end them like this. With the exception of their mega hits they don't give quality content like this a chance to find its audience and really be successful. Ultimately i think it will be their undoing as a studio.
They planned 3 seasons form the start. Where did this rumor about Netflix cancelling it even come from? Creator from the start said 3 seasons and that's it.
@mysticDchimp interesting. The rumour probably started because netflix doesn't have a good track record with this. Did they always plan to have this number of episodes?
but he is imagining the counselor too, none of that ever happened. I know, sounds crazy, but he is imagining all the scenes he is not in. @@forthewingaming1828
@@OfficerPulaski-w3u It was obvious that they were doing a Norse mythology based show, but then somehow somewhere it got mucked up and made about mental health smh
I quite liked the ending. I went through the same shock as most loyal viewers but I just sat back and let it settle in, thought about the whole series in retrospect and realized that it was quite powerful. Suddenly everything became symbolic and I saw how a teen could weave in real life people into their imagination to deal with trauma. It also made sense why the mother was always excluded from his "secret" life. For instance no matter how grave the matter was in his imagination whenever the mom would walk in the "world" would come to a halt and everything become about her and the moment she was gone, the war among the giants and gods was back on. I believe that was intentional as the mom was a doze of unavoidable reality which made his wild imagination take a break because he would feel safe around her with no need to escape into the comfort of his imagination. Just like a child would. A very unexpected and mature ending in my opinion.
Yeah they clearly never planned this. If they did the shows perspetive should have been always from Magne. That way it would be very believeble that it was all in his head. But we had entire character developments withough Magne even being there and a lot of scenes that Magne doesnt even come to know... so exactly what happened? Was it all him imagining? If so nothing really happened. The things that made us like the characters were all a lie. You cant even understand how the characters reached where they are in that last lunch scene, since if all that magic thing and battles were fake, then the storie didnt even move as we saw it. Indeed I agree it has a strong message, but it was not planned until last minute for sure. The budget maybe ended or something and I can say their choice was knda good ideia, but not flawless and came at the cost of destroying the whole foundation of the series 😅
I was fine with the ending too.. i actually teared up when all the friends were together at the end with the foreigner cover song playing.. But i was happy with how GOT ended too..😂😉
@@DD-ic1bd except all that friendship migh as well be fake because we have no ideia how that reached that point... since all we saw could have been in Magni head. And as soon as you say you liked GOT your opinion doesnt matter ahahah (joking of course)
Im reading the comment section and probably I am the only one here that liked that ending. I struggled with similar problems then magne, so i probably can connect more to the ending then other people do, the ending was really unexpected and i liked it, i think the idea was to show how real these kind of fantasies can be to a person by letting the viewers go through the same trip, reminded me on Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice , the video game. However i can fully understand that most viewers just wanted to see cool fights gods vs giants and are disappointed now.
Yeah it was terrible! I felt mind-f#%@ed by the writers, in a bad way. Made no sense, put this entire fun series in a sad, melancholic light, changed the entire character of Magna and the rest too.
Really cant believe it ended like that, even tho it was bad still love the show, the way they bring the mythology to the modern times was amazing dont think other show did that till now, if u watched something like this one before pls share it, will be good to marathon it, thanks for everything.
Man I wish we got more seasons than just 3 this could've been so much more such a missed opportunity and netflix is just abunch of idiots they just give us these amazing gems and than cancel them im sick of them and I hate the people who have that authority they need to be replaced
Loved the show, but the ending made me feel like I wasted so much time as none of the seasons mattered at all because, well, none of it actually happened. Whoever wrote this ending should never be allowed to write a show again. Same with whoever green-lighted the episode. I mean, what were you even thinking? Historically, this kind of twist only works on psychological thrillers and you guys should know that ...
The ending to me was the equivalent of getting through the entire Harry Potter storyline, all the way to when he defeats Voldemort, and then having Harry Potter wake up still living under the stairs with his aunt and uncle, and everything turning out to be in his head as a way of dealing with his life. So in other words. F-ck the Ragnarök Season 3 writers and director. Absolute trash way to end it. Had they choses to make his call for peace the last episode, a instead had him see visions of Ragnarök beforehand and how everyone would die as is the cycle (so everyone got to see that final battle without it actually having to happen), then showed the graduation and him letting go of the past. THAT would have been a great ending. But making it all in his head? Seriously!!!! That was not the style of this show for 2 seasons, and that is not they kind of show fans were watching for. It was a slap in the face to every fan, especially after all the delays with each season. It's like the writers couldn't think of a way to end it, so they went with the cheapest cop out they could find. Straight B/S.
Netflix should be ashamed of the ending of this show, from my point of view it appears that Netflix used the laziest possible way to end a series, the "writers union strike" aka "it was all in their imagination...
The ending was a little ??? but it didn't take away the pleasure of watching the whole show. Grateful to know so many new talented actors are on the horizon.
Good point of view but unfortunately I can't see it that way (at least right now) :(( I watched the ending 1-2 hours ago and since then im down + im feeling so sad and empty inside of me... It destroyed literally everything in the series for me. I probably can't rewatch it ever again. The magic gave me hopes that there could be smth similar in our world. You know they showed us how our modern world and magic could look like....
Honestly the worst ending they could have possibly made. S1+2 was so good and then they botch it and made it a show not worth watching. Dont waste your time
If they wanted to end it with them coming into themselves as people, they should have just made it so that the "spirits/essence" of the gods that inhabited them were the ones actually bound by fate. but since the characters chose against it, there was a schism. Have Magne see the "Ragnarok" that MUST take place, only its in the spirit realm, just as he does in the show. but as the gods/giants die, have the "person" no longer bound to the spirit/giant genealogy, so that they become fully human. When we see thor die, we see magne rise. showing that hes grown beyond Thor, coming into the man he wants to be. That way, none of it is delusion. It happened. They were "gods". Its just that the human characters have all moved on, by transcending the mythos. The cycle will continue again through others, and Ragnarok will be an event that has happened, and hasnt happened, like it always is. The gods/giants forever bound to repeat Ragnarok over and over.
Now ill say this as a viewer thats been with you guys and gals since season 1 ep 1 release on Netflix I waited years for multiple seasons to release and it was a roller coaster of emotions while waiting for the new seasons I remember rewatching season 1 like 20 times while waiting for season 2 release and I feel like I learned something new each rewatch of season 1 when season 2 finally released I was very happy and stayed up all night to watch it, even though it was a Saturday when it released like season 3, I loved watching it all and seeing how the characters grew and how Magne got his hammer and met new gods to help him in the upcoming Ragnarök it was really sad though for me when it ended season 2 and I had to wait another year to see season 3 and honestly it wasnt the worst thing in the world to wait but when it finally came out in August I obviously stayed up that night to watch it all and im sad to say I dont remember a-lot from that season it was just coasting along and you could feel the ending was rushed I was very let down at the fact that it was all in Magne's head because it made me feel as I couldnt believe what was really happening or I couldnt tell the difference for what was real and what wasnt like is that really how Isolde died or was she set off in her sleep and that was in Magne's head or was Laurits really Vidars son or was that in Magne's head to, it made me question a lot of things now I understand the casts opinion on being able to rewatch this in a different light but I dont think I could ever rewatch this again as of knowing this itd lose all its worth or its meaning of keeping me there as in season 1 I was like oh Norse mythology and reborn as Magne but that was all fake and the real parts where Magne at school or Isoldes death or even that scene where Magne throws things at fences. But all in all I was really sad with that ending I couldnt tell what really happened or what really went down how he made friends like how he met them or even how Magne was able to talk with them in the first place like what really happened with Gry cause I though she moved from Odda because the giants and the drama with Fjor but now I dont know I just feel as it would be really disrespectful to the past me and to the cast of the show to rewatch Ragnarök as it wouldnt have the same feeling or the same meaning it did on my first or second or third watch just season 3 to me ended the rewatch-ability and the meaning to the show. Thats just my heart felt opinion as a viewer over the years, really let down with this last season.
The ending sucked, worse than learning that season 3 was going to be the last season. This show was awesome and I enjoyed it immensely, until the last episode of season 3. Such a lame end to a great story, of course only getting 3 seasons was lame as well
I agree, the ending felt..rushed. kinda spoiled it for me...but other than that, superb series, the actors were brilliant, i loved all of it, apart from the ladt 10ish minutes 🤯
I just watched from 12am till 6am and i 100% regret my decision because of this ending, i would have prefered that he was imagining what would have happened if he made the wrong choice, seeing what could of been, instead we got this, which makes me feel like my time was wasted, i was invested in a story that didnt exist..... great. But the actors i really hope to see in more stuff because up until that last episode i was honestly enjoying myself
The casting and acting in Ragnarok was very well done. I enjoyed the story. The ending was not really what I expected but it tied the show up neatly and brought everything back down to Earth . Good job to everyone who worked on this project. It was very enjoyable for me to watch. Honestly I'd like to see more but it just wouldn't make any sense at this point in the timeline.
I've just started watching from season 1 again with my daughter, she has not seen it before but I have watched since season 1 came out. I must admit, the ending was a bitter pill to swallow. Now I've had time to reflect, though, I am happy with the ending. Thank you to the writers and the actors ❤
Most amazing series I’ve ever seen. With having a family member with schizophrenia. This made me understand the mental illness more than I ever could living with a family member with this disease. I cried for days after watching the end of this series. It made me feel like I lived in that mental illness. The deception everyone’s feeling is how someone who suffers a mental illness feels on a daily basis. What a brilliant director and writer.
Screw the ending. He wouldn't be able to imagine all of that situations. For example when the lady from the shop told his mother that he would meet a god on the bridge and to tell him these, she really told him about it and there's more situations like these so #westandfirmlybehindMagne don't let the directors say that Magne was a psycho
I loved the actors and I realize they are doing a job. You can't tell me however this was all planned. At no point during the show before the final episode was his sanity with other characters called into question. Also take the whole premise away there is no reason for Magne to interact with the Jotul's whatsoever. You're going to tell me that a delusional kid is going to threaten and make people step down from jobs etc. and think it would be believable? Now they'd be like who is this kid making demands out of nowhere? He needs to be a mental health intuition. Even if you just say it was all in his head everything. Nothing even makes sense what he just imagined people dyeing and his graduation is all in his head? So, what is real from the first episode to the very end? I also don't think I am alone in wondering this. Also, you just took fans that say this as the modern-day war between Giants and Gods. Then you go just kidding it was all smoke and mirrors the whole time. Like you see the problem, don't you? You have these snippets of the mythology and now you're telling us it didn't matter the whole time? Like what the hell did we just watch? So, we only need episode one of the shows. Then fast forward to him throwing out his comics. Which pretty sure we haven't seen them till now. There is just so many holes and things to go over wrong about this. Like them sitting at the table all of them just makes no sense. If it's all in his head and he didn't have much interaction with the people, there then how can they be sitting like they are friends? I just don't get how you got to where you got. It's like you just gave up towards the end of the story. Like you forgot how nuances work.
Guys they’re contractural actors getting paid by this production, they can’t blatantly state that they know this season’s ending was SHIT. I wouldn’t be surprised if their lines were scripted.
This is where Netflix falls short, giving creative freedom to writers to create their own shows is how we end up with so many beautiful productions. But when you give someone such important and valuable characters who inspire so many people it’s so important that you don’t deviate to fulfill your creation. You need to deliver on what you promise and with such important characters you have a duty to bring it home correctly. The Ragnarok writers and directors failed to do this. Whatever they intended from day 1 the fans where led in a different direction. They should have respected the fan direction and gave us what we wanted. Shame on Netflix and shame on the writers for allowing this
They ruin all with final episode, very sad for the show, I loved the first season, it was perfect. The second and third season less, but they were good too. I hope to see these actors again soon.
What hurts is that this show was never about a guy dealing with a troubled past or him dealing with some stuff.....it was about the norse mythology story that made this show brilliant..all the bulid up of battle between giants and the gods only to realize that its all in his head was just utterly rubbish......i think that is the problem with tv shows today ...if the show becomes a hit the writers don't have any idea about how they will complete the story...and leave things for the audience to take as they like
I think the producers went this way bc they didn’t want Ragnarok to repeat itself bc I’m pretty sure everyone knows what went down in the timeline of “Ragnarok,” so they made Magne put everyone’s weapon down to prevent the death of everyone and prevent “Ragnarok” from happening! Then his hallucinations is what would’ve happen if he didn’t choose peace between the giants and gods, so therefore, he lead everyone to put their weapons down to stop “Ragnarok” from repeating itself! It’s confusing but the ending where his mom said you’ll have to take steps and whatever so don’t be scare of fear, I think that’s what made him chose that path as he’s imagining what would really happened but he changed everything! Overall, if it did went down, we all knew the gods will win so I’m glad the ending went this way imo! I’m js
Because this wasn't the way they were going. You don't have whole side plots that he never witnessed. They failed stunningly. That's why it sucked so bad. Wasn't planned
Lazy and crap writing. Worst way to end the show. And it creates a few holes and issues. So Magne is imaging the principal going to counselling and talking about how she tried to kill her daughter when he didn’t even know that happened?
It’s like the show said - we would love to do a cool final battle but we have no money for that. So we will do this very simple battle posturing scene in the warehouse and then a couple of glimpses of what a cool battle would actually look like. But since we can’t afford to actually film that we will just pretend it happened in the main character’s head.
I loved the show, but hated the ending. Too many plot holes & lazy writing. The actors did a fantastic job with what they were given. I feel like the writers of this show met with the writers of Game of Thrones, then said, "Hold my beer!" Ugh, so disappointed.
This interview honestly seems like the actors were forced into saying those things. I get it that it has in his root a good message, but you can't just look at all the building that was done and think "yeah this all goes in the garbage, but at least it has a good message, totally worth it". It doesnt even make many sense since there is a lot of buiding outside of Magni. If it was only in his perspetive I could see it being pulled of as only his imagination. But how about the World Serpent? And all that Loki, Saxa and Bjorn story line? Was that all fake? If so we basically dont know any character... It raises too many questions. Im sorry but can't fadom the actors reaching the last episode and being satisfied
I am going to go against the grain here, but I liked how it ended. I cried when Magne overcame his internal battle. I felt it gave the entire series a deeper meaning.
I love the actors but I’m just hella post at whoever thought this was a good idea like literally 10 minutes me and my brother was screaming at the Tv on how dumb it was episode 5 would have been fine to end off with maybe narration of the battle while credits role or something no this Brain stuff man fr
I absolutely LOVED this show, I rewatched S1 + S2 like 3-4 times and I was EAGER for S3…. I have mixed feelings. Yes I loved S3 because it shows how Magna truly became more of what Thor would ever acted and seen the world as. Also the fact that it was all in his head both sad and just amazing. Like its crazy how he was able to interpret his everyday life in the path of Thor. On the other hand though, from the first 2 seasons, it really sucked how they wrote the ended. Like for one, it made me feel like there would be 4-5 seasons out at least and that the writers could’ve made this show into a long one with different outcomes. Also the fact that they ended it in like that, kinda cutting off the characters in his head unexpectedly in the eyes of the viewer. But over all, I feel like they couldve made the season last if they changed the line in S3 to a open ending, for more seasons, and that the actual ending made me disappointed that everything rhat happened was a imaginary life of a mentally ill student. LOVED the Actors though!
I just finished this show. I can easily say I think season 1 was peak. The characters were all likable in their own way and the story was very coherent. I think when Fjor went pure evil in season 2, after “trying to be better” in season 1, it started going downhill because it truly didn’t make sense. He wasn’t THAT cold in the first season and I don’t understand how someone could loose all empathy for others the way he did. Still, I was enjoying the show. The ending though, had me very confused. It felt like they were trying to gaslight me into thinking it was all in Magne’s head, which obviously it wasn’t because there were too many moving parts. Too many scenes that didn’t involve him where supernatural things were happening. I absolutely LOVED the actors in this show. Magne and Fjor in particular, really shined in their range of acting. I didn’t even recognize Magne when he stepped into his Thor character. The way he carried himself (beard and hair aside) was truly unrecognizable to who he was before. I’m glad I watched this series, though I wasn’t crazy about the ending. I want to watch these actors in more shows!
I get that the actors and actresses were pleased with the ending you can never criticize the director unless you want to get black balled in the industry
I like how they said there would be spoilers, then there were only the vaguest possible spoilers I would guess because when they were describing what happened it sounded awful so they just cut them from the video.
Still one my most fav Netflix series. But the ending could had been better. Because the way the story has been taken forward since the first season, it really doesn’t make sense to end it this way and that too in the very end just revealing his comic books and it’s just a safe way I feel. Cuz the other scenes in the series won’t make Sense. And will leave a loop Hole. The ending would’ve suited more for a movie than a 3 seasoned episodic. After all it’s just my general opinion. Films are subjective
I have mixed opinions about the ending. from a literary and academic standpoint it’s so amazing and we’ll written and directed but as a viewer? that’s not what a lot of people wanna see especially with the build up and tension established.
Magne didn't need glasses anymore even in the finale. He was reading that Thor comic without his glasses. I didn't take the ending of season three to mean it was all in Magne's head at all. I don't think that's what the creators intended. THat would be stupid. But the pull of fate was still there to be dealt with. They should have just shown all the gods and such dealing with it, instead of just Magne, Obviously everything was real. Need a Laurits spin off. If anything it was Magne handling everything by deciding the needs of the gods, of the myths, to be lived out, didn't have to control his life anymore, and his tendency to get lost in fantasy was making it harder for him than for the others. But he wouldn't even have met most of those people if not for magic and such. SO obviously it was all real.
Honestly the idea of the ending in itself is not a bad thing… it’s just that the story was CLEARLY never heading in that direction. This decision was obviously a last minute ending to a show that either ran out of budget or was on the verge of being axed. When observing the effects, visual quality, fights, world building, and multi-character perspectives from season 1 and 2, you can tell something clearly went wrong in season 3.
Exactly
Sorry but no lol. You don’t gather more haters than Adolf H just because you gotta cut the crap asap. He could make a rushy finale easily without this brain farting insult
I'm sorry, but I at the very least expect you to take your story seriously enough not to just say "it never happened"
Like yeah, I know it's not a real story, but now your telling me it's just a fake story within a fake story? Now I REALLY REALLY don't care.
It would have been a great ending if the story was going is that direction from the start.
I feel like I just got blue balled by a series, how odd 😂😂😂
Hats off to the actors pretending to like season 3, best acting I've seen in a while. Seriously though the writers fucked up here, the actors got screwed and so did we
That's what I was thinking
The actors aka PROFESSIONAL LIARS, are in the ILLUMINATI. Netflix is OWNED by the ILLUMINATI. They ALL screwed us!
We hated the ending. But you all are excellent actors. I loved the hilarious scenes with the counselor. He was one of my favorite characters in Lilyhammer.
Agreed, I loved when she started vaping and he just grabs it and starts vaping himself. So funny.
@@ScubaStephenLMFAOOOO that was in the last season, so yeah 1&2 were good. But 3 was literally the worst writing I have ever seen.
Whoever came up with this ending should be banned from ever writing again.
Right... Was so hype after S1 and 2, just for the most boring finale ive ever watched. Netflix never fails to disappoint me.
I think they found out this was the last season and they didn’t know how to end it. So they did this bullshit
I thought I was buggin. I got blue balled waitin for a big fight to happen
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After watching the final episode I had a strong feeling of emptiness resulting from the fact that all of those epic events took place only in mind of Magne 😢 Ending like this makes all 3 seasons irrelevant, but it is only my subjective opinion.
I've decided to start Ragnarok this morning and watched all the way through the ending. It had some great/creative plots but for an ending like this, I'm sad for others who waited a year inbetween the seasons.
They pulled a Lost on us.
I really don't think the ending makes the all 3 seasons irrelevant simply because Magna didn't decide that fighting wasn't the answer. until that moment. The epic battles that took place only in his head proved that he made the right choice. But my opinion is subjective as well.
@@alexanderdoran2862😂g.❤
@@MaatjuhhhI DIDNT SLEEP TONIGHT TO FINISH IT AND NOW IM KINDA MAD/SAD/UPSET
I'll choose to believe that it was all real and that what Magne saw was actually what could have happened if they had chosen the war. The schizophrenia part is for me just Magne remembering how they diagnosed him with that when he told them everything. I simply refuse to believe that this was all in Magne's head😅because it's an awful ending
Same
I guess the director confirmed that it was all in magnes head. Just learned that from another comment. Pretty dumb.
Agree
Thats what I thought too, I mean, Isolde is dead right? If she was alive then it makes sense that its in his head
It also doesn't make sense, unless he got contact lenses and his delusions made him forget getting them prescribed but also forget putting them in and taking them out each day.
My chosen interpretation is similar to yours. The theme of putting away childish things and becoming an adult is putting away the childish idea that violent conflict was the only possible path forward. Magne chose the adult path when the put his hammer down in the confrontation and both sides walked away.
Indeed, honestly the ending was completely atrocious. But I agree with the others - amazing acting, everyone did such a fantastic job, these are characters I will remember as powerful symbols of these forces of the mind and spirit.
the ending makes zero sense but i’ll just pretend it ended with the episode before lmaooo
I'll do you one better.
Just pretend that the ending is Magne picturing what would happen if he chose to fight the giants instead of choosing peace.
That the vision he had is him thinking up a scenario of the war based on the comic he just read🤔
@@callmeruki7565Yeah, I like this one. Now this is my head canon
Herman seems to be have the same feelings we do, just he has to word it in the most professional way so that he doesn’t get in trouble. Actually such a lackluster and aggravating ending.
I've just finished watching the final episode and I have to say I am really saddened by it. Something about this show touched me from the very first episode of series one, so I'm sad that it ended in such an incoherent way and with a such wasted opportunity. Don't get me wrong I'd have loved a storyline that saw Magne suffer a psychotic break as a result of the trauma of moving back to Edda and the death of Isolde - withdrawing into a fantasy inspired by his childhood comics - and I would have been incredibly moved by the final ending reveal, but only if the entire show had been written in such a way than on rewatching with the hindsight of the ending, it would have been clear what the truth had been all along, which would make any rewatch very poignant and moving now really understanding what was going on and making sense of things. But that was absolutely not the case in the writing of this show and all I'm left with is confusion as to what bits were real and what bits were his delusions, and so it renders the entire programme empty.
In addition as someone who has known two people whose lives have been devastated by schizophrenia the ending in which Magne seems to just choose to get better, symbolically shown by his throwing away the comics, leaves a very bad taste in the mouth. If only it were that easy!
My disappointment and sadness aside, I'm grateful to this show for introducing me to a bunch of wonderful actors and the loveliness of the Norwegian language. I don't fault them at all and they did fantastically well in the final episodes with the scripts they were given. I hope to see them in lots more programmes in the future and will not hesitate to watch anything they are in.
This is exactly how I feel too. I can only alleviate the emptiness by believing he actually made up that it was all in his head so that he could move on in the human world. Would be an interesting story to come back to if this were the case; would be fun to see his friends trying to convince him that it was all real after all. I would have loved the ending had they had clues hidden from the start but that's not what happened. What happened with all the murders and deaths? Not even an explanation, and to attribute that purely to imagination is simply not enough. How would that be possible when so much happened when Magne wasn't even around? Had it been intended from the start; I think it would have been great. If they later come out and say it was planned all along, it's either a lie or they didn't understand how to make this work. I've seen it pulled off before in other tv shows and movies where it was executed in a way that made sense, this does not.
Perhaps they had 3 seasons in mind, just not the ending until it was too late. One of the actors even mentions it gives you a different way to watch, but it doesn't, the events depicted and set up don't match. There are no signs throughout the series on what's real and what's not so what's the point? The therapy sessions with the Psychologist that didn't include Magne were all in his mind then, why? That means we can't trust anything from beginning to end, the entire show is an instant plot hole with this ending. There was nothing that promoted mental health awareness either, if anything, it makes a joke out of it.
OMG 100 % how i feel 🫠👏👏👏♥️
Agree with you on everything..they never hinted that the events might be due to his mental illness and the ending was shocking and we as the viewers feel bertrayed.. also knew someone with schizophrenia and this ending felt wrong
This is so well said. There are films that can make this sort of situation work brilliantly.
🚨SPOILER ALERT: the film “The Others” is a great example. 🚨
This series doesn’t pull off this ending well at all. Yet we just have to accept it, be left with confusion and try to draw our own conclusions. Seeing the Jutulheim house change structure after Magne threw away the comics is just …
I actually rewatched season 1 & 2 before watching season 3. After finishing the finale I was disappointed. I even went back to the very first episode to quickly see a timeline of things that happened with/to Magne before Isolde’s death.
I appreciate a lot about this series. The ending is not on the list.
Thanks for sharing your opinions. They are comforting. Be blessed everyone.
@@Emidoki so true. well said.
Screw that ending. They could’ve pulled off all the metaphors and stuff without making it his schizophrenic epsiode
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants to have a magical solution to their problem but everyone refuses to believe in magic.” You shouldn’t have taken the magic away from us in the last episode, I think we needed this in this time we live in. Still, great acting from everyone and great episode up until 5.
Your words are so wise my friend😞
I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing but I couldn't express it in words
I watched the ending 1-2 hours ago and since then im feeling so down. I don't know what to do...
Very Well Written I totaly Agree
Replace the word "magic" with "peace" - this is Magne's struggle in the end and he finally believes in the peace he's been fighting for. As it was, the magic wasn't magical at all - it was used as simply as any gun or sword, ultimately. A true era of peace, just like magic, evokes feelings of disbelief because we never see it. Just like Magne, most viewers wanted a fight because they thought it would give them closure to this story, but brokering peace with his destined villain is as magical as it gets - they did not take the magic away, they're finally giving it to us in the end. (And let's not forget the heavy environmental themes this whole show started with, what Isolde died for - in this time we live in, *more* destruction is *not* the answer, the show is telling us to hit the brakes *now* or we'll be fighting over the ashes.)
The writers sure jumped the shark with this season and especially the ending. I really hope to see some of these actors again. They made the show. Gísli Örn aka Vidar and Theresa aka Saxa were my favorites.
Saxa was the real Loki.
Theresa also has a music career. I don't know if she plans to do more acting. I hope so.
@@ndteegarden Cool fun fact, I will have to check it out! Is she part of a group or solo?
@@ScubaStephensolo. And they used a lot of her songs in the series which is pretty cool.
Some are comparing this to the ending of Lost. But it's very different. Lost explicitly made clear that all events actually happened as the viewer saw it. None of it was a fiction except for the alternate side story in Season 6, which was a sort of purgatory they created together AFTER all of the events of the story. Ragnarok just slapped us in the face and said, "Gotcha! It was all in Magne's head."
Right, I put it in my own comment. It's like they forgot what nuance is.
Bro first thing I said after the last episode was “the losted us”!!!!
Good point, my initial reaction was that it was all in magnes head too. They sure made it seem like that. As others have pointed out though, there are scenes where supernatural things happen without him present. All in all, I now understand what they were trying to do, it just felt oddly paced and ultimately forced onto us. They could have conveyed it in such a better way, instead of leaving long-time fans of the show with a WTF does it all mean moment.
@@ScubaStephen not so sure on that. The ending just seems to throw all that out. They even went as far to try to have the cast defend that horse shit. I honestly don’t think the writer is that smart. It makes me wonder if they got a new one and didn’t tell us. That would make more sense then just going I was pulling your leg the whole time. Even Disney is not this stupid to say none of the plot mattered because it didn’t exist at all.
You can CLEARLY see that even the actors are disappointed with the ending
The interpretation isn't necessarily that none of what went on was real, remember, several scenes depicting the supernatural behavior of the gods and giants took place in Magne's absence, but once Magne opted for a peaceful resolution to the age old conflict, perhaps the spirits of the ancient gods and giants left their mortal hosts, after all, the characters of those myths are only as powerful as our imagination allows, and although history often repeats itself, it doesn't have to. Scripts don't have to be followed, and people can change.
@@blakebarnes2304 What a bummer. Most directors don't reveal their intent because it spoils it for the audience if the director gives the official interpretation. Now, no other take is valid, but that's fundamentally not how art works, once a work of art is shared it doesn't belong strictly to the creator. I think both a literal and a metaphorical take on the show hold water. What's interesting is that if it's all in Magne's head, then basically the message of the show is that things on earth are so bad that it's "as if" the world is ruled by an ancient race of megalomaniacal giants who are hellbent on destroying the environment and wiping out the entire human race.
@@blakebarnes2304Thanks for sharing that, here I am trying to make sense of it all and now it all makes sense. So stupid.
The ending wasn't meant for people to wonder if Magne was delusional. It was to portray that Magne was clearly delusional, and because of lazy writing the message wasn't clear, that's why the director has to confirm it.
@@samyakchhajedYeah, no doubt the script was incompetently written, it’s a colossal betrayal of the audience. I’ll just have to imagine that my own interpretation is valid, otherwise this was a complete waste of time.
@@jtatsiueI wonder how the Barrels where put next to the Police Station. Or was the whole part of the contamined water also just in his head?
LET IT BE KNOWN, we all think this was the worst and most terrible ending to a great story line!!! and should be continued!
I don't think it was all in magne's head, they chose to lay down their weapons and live in peace. So I believe magne was just seeing Ragnarok play out in his head as what would've happened. He discovered his powers before isolde died and had to look online about mythology so obviously forgot about his comics till the end.
Yes!!! This was exactly my interpretation when I first saw the ending.... and I will still see it like that, no matter what the director himself says on his instagram. Making any "official" interpretation of any piece of art is dumb anyway, we all perceive things differently.
what did the director say and on which post i really want to see exactly what was said
Wow the cope is strong with this one
I like this theory.
Nah, too many visual nods confirming it was all in his head. One of the strongest of which is seeing the Jutuls home "changed" to its IRL version
Truly a mark of excellence from the actors that they continue to act at this level even in this video saying they like the ending XD 99% of people that watched the series think this was the absolute worst way the show could have ended. Stop saying there are mixed reactions lol. "Then Harry woke from his dream of wizards and magic in his bed under the stairs"
I was so excited for season 3 and the ragnarok battle that, out of excitement, I re-watched seasons 1 & 2 when 3 came out only to get the most disappointed I've ever been after that ending.
This show took me through a journey which felt almost dream like. Had it not been for the actors, the cinematograhy, the music, I would have never realised how beautiful Norway is. The ending made me feel sad only because I knew we won't get more seasons. One of the best non english language show that I have seen so far. Can't wait to see all the cast members to be recasted in other shows as well Netflix !
You clearly haven’t seen a lot of good foreign language shows if you think this disaster was one of the best. It was on its way to be great, but tanked all in one season.
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@@lilianeoster982Hook us up with some good foreign shows to watch! My favorite off the top is money heist, the first season is gold, season two, well, I think they just wanted to heist more of our money, haha. I still enjoyed it, but none of those events should have happened.
The ending for Ragnarok also makes no sense plot wise. We basically didn't know the characters at all because the situations they were put in m made they're character development and if the events never happened who are the characters we've been watching this whole time?
You can’t justify the terrible ending you just can’t.
it's very clear who's at fault here and it's the writers.
i noticed the actors got screwed over because of the writed and their messed up ending
Unfortunately waaaaay to many people ate attempting to.
Sad
@@mariammostafa4873bros stole Odin's weed
They got so baked they make a half-baked ending
Well the actors probably saw how the industry treated the actors from Game Of Thrones after expressing their dislike of the final season and ending. So of course they'll all say good things. The first two actors Danu and Herman (Iman and Fjor) at least say fans will be surprised. And Herman says fans will be split. Cause he knows the ending will not be received positively by most.
I literally watched all the seasons under 20 hours only to see that the last episode changes the whole story way too much.
I felt deceived. I watched it all in 2 days. To boot, the song playing in the end is "I Wanna Know What Love Is". WTF
I feel ya
I pulled an all nighter to binge the series.
I got hooked on episode 1
Then I had to work feeling like a zombie all day and I didn't even have the satisfaction of watching a decent ending.
I felt cheated and incomplete the whole day.
Needless to say it wasn't a fun time.
I wish it never ended like 😢 I really loved this show
First 2 seasons were excellent, unfortunately the ending in season 3 ruined all the good work. A lazy ending leaving so many loose ends.
There were no strings left unsung. The final episode kills EVERYTHING. It turns the show into a fantasy of Magne's, one the he came up with to combat the PTSD of Isolds death, one upon which he delved into the comic 'Young Thor" and applies the fantasy to his own life as a coping mechanism.
It was a cheap, and lame way to quickly wrap up what could have, and should have been an epic series with at least 6 seasons
The main problem with this ending is that the narrative has too many events that can't be explained if it was all in magnes head.
The hammer in the car at the very beginning, Magne never was at Jutul's house.
Gris finding a photo of the family literally dating 100 years ago.
Vidar's death not being a police case.
Magne killing jutul dog without a weapon.
The list just goes on and on.
Volva's death and the corpse disappearing , Magne's mother was show asking about her at the shop and people say ahe just vanished.
There are so much that can't be explained with that ending that it made me slightly upset.
Absolutely agree.
And the list goes on:
Are we really to believe that Magne had spent all his youth devouring comic books in a foreign language (the comics were in English) despite the show telling us multiple times he's essentially unable to read at all?
What about his eye glasses, in the end we see him without them even though he let go of his fantasies?
What about him showing powers before the death of Isolde?
If the whole story was just Magne making things up and escaping into a fantasy world where he's special and can protect his loved ones why would he portray himself as such as an arrogant b*stard?
And why oh why would a show that otherwise tried to portray Norse mythology in its original context choose to base Magne's visions and fantasies on American superhero comics (not nearly as popular in Europe as in the US) instead of, for example, Peter Madsen's Valhalla series (Danish comics) which at least is much closer to the actual mythology?
It's beyond obvious that this wasn't the original roadmap for how the series would progress, or if it was the writers did an awful job at it.
And to make it worse, with the "all in his head" interpretation there's not a single scene in the series that I can be sure actually happened, which in turn renders the whole thing meaningless.
In the last scene we see the kids along with Wotan and others share a table, but if we're robbed of the story we were shown we're left with absolutely no explanation as to why they're all there together. We no longer know any of the characters at all.
And that makes me very, very disappointed with an otherwise interesting show.
Maybe it’s not just in Magne’s head. He was imagining how the future would have been if he wouldn’t have stopped the war between Gods and Giants. He has altered the future and all have become friends and are co-exisiting. I chose to interpret it this way.
The ending honestly disappointed us. We (my boyfriend and I) have Norwegian origin so norse mythology is a big part of what we connect over. We loved seeing norse mythology brought to life in present day. To find out it was all in his head, based off comics, was a major let down. We were hoping for the true mythology ending. I wish the ending could be re-done. The actors were amazing and I want to thank them for giving us three amazing seasons. But the writers are the ones that left us with the heartache.
I can't believe I wasted 3 days straight to get to an end like this
Same but just think that the last episode never happened - because without it its really a good series
This is one of the greatest casts of all time. I am so frustrated netflix continues to cut their best shows budgets and episode counts and end them like this. With the exception of their mega hits they don't give quality content like this a chance to find its audience and really be successful. Ultimately i think it will be their undoing as a studio.
They planned 3 seasons form the start. Where did this rumor about Netflix cancelling it even come from? Creator from the start said 3 seasons and that's it.
@mysticDchimp interesting. The rumour probably started because netflix doesn't have a good track record with this. Did they always plan to have this number of episodes?
So you're telling me magne killed the owner of the 5th richest firm in norway, and he just goes on with no consequences... because he is a skitso?
He didn't. Vidar died of heart attack. As we were told
@@cGingerzThere is a scene in which the “mother” giant tells her counselor that Magne killed Vidar
but he is imagining the counselor too, none of that ever happened. I know, sounds crazy, but he is imagining all the scenes he is not in. @@forthewingaming1828
@@forthewingaming1828Exactly, there are still plenty of plot holes.
@@OfficerPulaski-w3u It was obvious that they were doing a Norse mythology based show, but then somehow somewhere it got mucked up and made about mental health smh
I quite liked the ending. I went through the same shock as most loyal viewers but I just sat back and let it settle in, thought about the whole series in retrospect and realized that it was quite powerful. Suddenly everything became symbolic and I saw how a teen could weave in real life people into their imagination to deal with trauma. It also made sense why the mother was always excluded from his "secret" life. For instance no matter how grave the matter was in his imagination whenever the mom would walk in the "world" would come to a halt and everything become about her and the moment she was gone, the war among the giants and gods was back on. I believe that was intentional as the mom was a doze of unavoidable reality which made his wild imagination take a break because he would feel safe around her with no need to escape into the comfort of his imagination. Just like a child would.
A very unexpected and mature ending in my opinion.
omg yes! and it really makes sense when you add in the speech she gave before their graduation and how she mentioned this stuff was basically escapism
Yeah they clearly never planned this. If they did the shows perspetive should have been always from Magne. That way it would be very believeble that it was all in his head.
But we had entire character developments withough Magne even being there and a lot of scenes that Magne doesnt even come to know... so exactly what happened? Was it all him imagining? If so nothing really happened. The things that made us like the characters were all a lie. You cant even understand how the characters reached where they are in that last lunch scene, since if all that magic thing and battles were fake, then the storie didnt even move as we saw it.
Indeed I agree it has a strong message, but it was not planned until last minute for sure. The budget maybe ended or something and I can say their choice was knda good ideia, but not flawless and came at the cost of destroying the whole foundation of the series 😅
I was fine with the ending too.. i actually teared up when all the friends were together at the end with the foreigner cover song playing..
But i was happy with how GOT ended too..😂😉
@@DD-ic1bd except all that friendship migh as well be fake because we have no ideia how that reached that point... since all we saw could have been in Magni head.
And as soon as you say you liked GOT your opinion doesnt matter ahahah (joking of course)
@@dudu-fo7hz 😂🤣 and I didn't have to reveal that, but thought it was funny to relate to this, lol;)
Im reading the comment section and probably I am the only one here that liked that ending.
I struggled with similar problems then magne, so i probably can connect more to the ending then other people do, the ending was really unexpected and i liked it, i think the idea was to show how real these kind of fantasies can be to a person by letting the viewers go through the same trip, reminded me on Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice , the video game.
However i can fully understand that most viewers just wanted to see cool fights gods vs giants and are disappointed now.
I wonder one thing tho, how did Magne's eyesight got better if this was all a delusion of his?
Nice catch!
And how did he get so buff
...and in the end Harry woke up in his cupboard under the stairs.
I am glad that the ending was hated by everyone else as much as it was by me.
Yeah it was terrible!
I felt mind-f#%@ed by the writers, in a bad way.
Made no sense, put this entire fun series in a sad, melancholic light, changed the entire character of Magna and the rest too.
I see why most shows in Netflix don’t last more than 2 seasons
Really cant believe it ended like that, even tho it was bad still love the show, the way they bring the mythology to the modern times was amazing dont think other show did that till now, if u watched something like this one before pls share it, will be good to marathon it, thanks for everything.
Man I wish we got more seasons than just 3 this could've been so much more such a missed opportunity and netflix is just abunch of idiots they just give us these amazing gems and than cancel them im sick of them and I hate the people who have that authority they need to be replaced
Loved the show, but the ending made me feel like I wasted so much time as none of the seasons mattered at all because, well, none of it actually happened. Whoever wrote this ending should never be allowed to write a show again. Same with whoever green-lighted the episode. I mean, what were you even thinking? Historically, this kind of twist only works on psychological thrillers and you guys should know that ...
The ending to me was the equivalent of getting through the entire Harry Potter storyline, all the way to when he defeats Voldemort, and then having Harry Potter wake up still living under the stairs with his aunt and uncle, and everything turning out to be in his head as a way of dealing with his life. So in other words. F-ck the Ragnarök Season 3 writers and director. Absolute trash way to end it. Had they choses to make his call for peace the last episode, a instead had him see visions of Ragnarök beforehand and how everyone would die as is the cycle (so everyone got to see that final battle without it actually having to happen), then showed the graduation and him letting go of the past. THAT would have been a great ending. But making it all in his head? Seriously!!!! That was not the style of this show for 2 seasons, and that is not they kind of show fans were watching for. It was a slap in the face to every fan, especially after all the delays with each season. It's like the writers couldn't think of a way to end it, so they went with the cheapest cop out they could find. Straight B/S.
Netflix should be ashamed of the ending of this show, from my point of view it appears that Netflix used the laziest possible way to end a series, the "writers union strike" aka "it was all in their imagination...
All of them sitting there knowing the 3rd season was a slap in the face to the fans.
The ending was a little ??? but it didn't take away the pleasure of watching the whole show. Grateful to know so many new talented actors are on the horizon.
I loved the show
Good point of view but unfortunately I can't see it that way (at least right now) :((
I watched the ending 1-2 hours ago and since then im down + im feeling so sad and empty inside of me...
It destroyed literally everything in the series for me. I probably can't rewatch it ever again.
The magic gave me hopes that there could be smth similar in our world. You know they showed us how our modern world and magic could look like....
I hope a season 4 comes out and episode 6 was all a dream.
"Mixed reaction" is putting it mildly. But it wasn't the actors' fault.
Honestly the worst ending they could have possibly made. S1+2 was so good and then they botch it and made it a show not worth watching. Dont waste your time
If they wanted to end it with them coming into themselves as people, they should have just made it so that the "spirits/essence" of the gods that inhabited them were the ones actually bound by fate. but since the characters chose against it, there was a schism. Have Magne see the "Ragnarok" that MUST take place, only its in the spirit realm, just as he does in the show. but as the gods/giants die, have the "person" no longer bound to the spirit/giant genealogy, so that they become fully human. When we see thor die, we see magne rise. showing that hes grown beyond Thor, coming into the man he wants to be. That way, none of it is delusion. It happened. They were "gods". Its just that the human characters have all moved on, by transcending the mythos. The cycle will continue again through others, and Ragnarok will be an event that has happened, and hasnt happened, like it always is. The gods/giants forever bound to repeat Ragnarok over and over.
Really well said!
Writing 101. Don’t abruptly switch genre on the audience. It isn’t subverting expectations. It’s incompetence.
100%
Now ill say this as a viewer thats been with you guys and gals since season 1 ep 1 release on Netflix I waited years for multiple seasons to release and it was a roller coaster of emotions while waiting for the new seasons I remember rewatching season 1 like 20 times while waiting for season 2 release and I feel like I learned something new each rewatch of season 1 when season 2 finally released I was very happy and stayed up all night to watch it, even though it was a Saturday when it released like season 3, I loved watching it all and seeing how the characters grew and how Magne got his hammer and met new gods to help him in the upcoming Ragnarök it was really sad though for me when it ended season 2 and I had to wait another year to see season 3 and honestly it wasnt the worst thing in the world to wait but when it finally came out in August I obviously stayed up that night to watch it all and im sad to say I dont remember a-lot from that season it was just coasting along and you could feel the ending was rushed I was very let down at the fact that it was all in Magne's head because it made me feel as I couldnt believe what was really happening or I couldnt tell the difference for what was real and what wasnt like is that really how Isolde died or was she set off in her sleep and that was in Magne's head or was Laurits really Vidars son or was that in Magne's head to, it made me question a lot of things now I understand the casts opinion on being able to rewatch this in a different light but I dont think I could ever rewatch this again as of knowing this itd lose all its worth or its meaning of keeping me there as in season 1 I was like oh Norse mythology and reborn as Magne but that was all fake and the real parts where Magne at school or Isoldes death or even that scene where Magne throws things at fences. But all in all I was really sad with that ending I couldnt tell what really happened or what really went down how he made friends like how he met them or even how Magne was able to talk with them in the first place like what really happened with Gry cause I though she moved from Odda because the giants and the drama with Fjor but now I dont know I just feel as it would be really disrespectful to the past me and to the cast of the show to rewatch Ragnarök as it wouldnt have the same feeling or the same meaning it did on my first or second or third watch just season 3 to me ended the rewatch-ability and the meaning to the show. Thats just my heart felt opinion as a viewer over the years, really let down with this last season.
The ending sucked, worse than learning that season 3 was going to be the last season. This show was awesome and I enjoyed it immensely, until the last episode of season 3.
Such a lame end to a great story, of course only getting 3 seasons was lame as well
I agree, the ending felt..rushed. kinda spoiled it for me...but other than that, superb series, the actors were brilliant, i loved all of it, apart from the ladt 10ish minutes 🤯
I just watched from 12am till 6am and i 100% regret my decision because of this ending, i would have prefered that he was imagining what would have happened if he made the wrong choice, seeing what could of been, instead we got this, which makes me feel like my time was wasted, i was invested in a story that didnt exist..... great. But the actors i really hope to see in more stuff because up until that last episode i was honestly enjoying myself
Yep Netflix is always emotional harvesting!
The casting and acting in Ragnarok was very well done. I enjoyed the story. The ending was not really what I expected but it tied the show up neatly and brought everything back down to Earth . Good job to everyone who worked on this project. It was very enjoyable for me to watch. Honestly I'd like to see more but it just wouldn't make any sense at this point in the timeline.
I've just started watching from season 1 again with my daughter, she has not seen it before but I have watched since season 1 came out.
I must admit, the ending was a bitter pill to swallow. Now I've had time to reflect, though, I am happy with the ending. Thank you to the writers and the actors ❤
Netflix: you hurt and insulted us with that last episode. Be very, very ashamed.
everytime herman tømmeraas appears i just start giggling bc that man is gorgeous
I'm surprised..
His face is dis-harmonic and also asymmetrical.
You are beautiful though :)
I hope they continue the show and undo the ending.
Most amazing series I’ve ever seen. With having a family member with schizophrenia. This made me understand the mental illness more than I ever could living with a family member with this disease. I cried for days after watching the end of this series. It made me feel like I lived in that mental illness. The deception everyone’s feeling is how someone who suffers a mental illness feels on a daily basis. What a brilliant director and writer.
Screw the ending. He wouldn't be able to imagine all of that situations. For example when the lady from the shop told his mother that he would meet a god on the bridge and to tell him these, she really told him about it and there's more situations like these so #westandfirmlybehindMagne
don't let the directors say that Magne was a psycho
W man
I loved the actors and I realize they are doing a job. You can't tell me however this was all planned. At no point during the show before the final episode was his sanity with other characters called into question. Also take the whole premise away there is no reason for Magne to interact with the Jotul's whatsoever. You're going to tell me that a delusional kid is going to threaten and make people step down from jobs etc. and think it would be believable? Now they'd be like who is this kid making demands out of nowhere? He needs to be a mental health intuition. Even if you just say it was all in his head everything. Nothing even makes sense what he just imagined people dyeing and his graduation is all in his head? So, what is real from the first episode to the very end? I also don't think I am alone in wondering this. Also, you just took fans that say this as the modern-day war between Giants and Gods. Then you go just kidding it was all smoke and mirrors the whole time. Like you see the problem, don't you? You have these snippets of the mythology and now you're telling us it didn't matter the whole time? Like what the hell did we just watch? So, we only need episode one of the shows. Then fast forward to him throwing out his comics. Which pretty sure we haven't seen them till now. There is just so many holes and things to go over wrong about this. Like them sitting at the table all of them just makes no sense. If it's all in his head and he didn't have much interaction with the people, there then how can they be sitting like they are friends? I just don't get how you got to where you got. It's like you just gave up towards the end of the story. Like you forgot how nuances work.
Writer screwed up. That's all. Period. But it was enjoyable ride of 15 episodes
For the first time I wanted to smash my TV in.!!!!!
I loved the character but was very disappointed with Season 3, especially the final. The actors did a wonderful job with what they had to work with.
why did they confirm it dangit, Now its ruined
Not even the actors knew about this bruh 💀
Guys they’re contractural actors getting paid by this production, they can’t blatantly state that they know this season’s ending was SHIT. I wouldn’t be surprised if their lines were scripted.
They had no idea how to end it. Without people dying.
This is where Netflix falls short, giving creative freedom to writers to create their own shows is how we end up with so many beautiful productions. But when you give someone such important and valuable characters who inspire so many people it’s so important that you don’t deviate to fulfill your creation. You need to deliver on what you promise and with such important characters you have a duty to bring it home correctly. The Ragnarok writers and directors failed to do this. Whatever they intended from day 1 the fans where led in a different direction. They should have respected the fan direction and gave us what we wanted. Shame on Netflix and shame on the writers for allowing this
They ruin all with final episode, very sad for the show, I loved the first season, it was perfect.
The second and third season less, but they were good too.
I hope to see these actors again soon.
What hurts is that this show was never about a guy dealing with a troubled past or him dealing with some stuff.....it was about the norse mythology story that made this show brilliant..all the bulid up of battle between giants and the gods only to realize that its all in his head was just utterly rubbish......i think that is the problem with tv shows today ...if the show becomes a hit the writers don't have any idea about how they will complete the story...and leave things for the audience to take as they like
This is the "petition to rewrite the last episode" button
I think the producers went this way bc they didn’t want Ragnarok to repeat itself bc I’m pretty sure everyone knows what went down in the timeline of “Ragnarok,” so they made Magne put everyone’s weapon down to prevent the death of everyone and prevent “Ragnarok” from happening! Then his hallucinations is what would’ve happen if he didn’t choose peace between the giants and gods, so therefore, he lead everyone to put their weapons down to stop “Ragnarok” from repeating itself! It’s confusing but the ending where his mom said you’ll have to take steps and whatever so don’t be scare of fear, I think that’s what made him chose that path as he’s imagining what would really happened but he changed everything! Overall, if it did went down, we all knew the gods will win so I’m glad the ending went this way imo! I’m js
That's how I feel about this, he chose peace instead of war. So he was able to see what would've happened if he would've chosen war.
The writer(s) epically failed at their jobs but succeeded in trolling their fans like legends.
Ok, so if this was all in Magne’s mind, how did Isolde and Vidar die?
Isolde by a climbing accident and Vidar by a heart attack
@@jenniebackmanRan Told the school counselor Magne killed Vidar.
Because this wasn't the way they were going. You don't have whole side plots that he never witnessed. They failed stunningly. That's why it sucked so bad. Wasn't planned
@@jeffreytroublefield4265Exactly! That's why it was more believable as the actual mythology story and in episode 18 it just crumbled.
Lazy and crap writing. Worst way to end the show.
And it creates a few holes and issues.
So Magne is imaging the principal going to counselling and talking about how she tried to kill her daughter when he didn’t even know that happened?
Atleast one more season 😂😢 Show is too good to end it that soon. 6 more episodes wont hurt. And the actor for thor did amazing!!
He woke up and it was all a dream 😅
Did the writers of Season 8 of Game Of Thrones write the ending of this?
No I hate to say this but season 8 writers were even better than this pile.
It’s like the show said - we would love to do a cool final battle but we have no money for that. So we will do this very simple battle posturing scene in the warehouse and then a couple of glimpses of what a cool battle would actually look like. But since we can’t afford to actually film that we will just pretend it happened in the main character’s head.
I loved the show, but hated the ending. Too many plot holes & lazy writing. The actors did a fantastic job with what they were given. I feel like the writers of this show met with the writers of Game of Thrones, then said, "Hold my beer!" Ugh, so disappointed.
This interview honestly seems like the actors were forced into saying those things. I get it that it has in his root a good message, but you can't just look at all the building that was done and think "yeah this all goes in the garbage, but at least it has a good message, totally worth it".
It doesnt even make many sense since there is a lot of buiding outside of Magni. If it was only in his perspetive I could see it being pulled of as only his imagination. But how about the World Serpent? And all that Loki, Saxa and Bjorn story line? Was that all fake? If so we basically dont know any character...
It raises too many questions.
Im sorry but can't fadom the actors reaching the last episode and being satisfied
I am going to go against the grain here, but I liked how it ended. I cried when Magne overcame his internal battle. I felt it gave the entire series a deeper meaning.
I love the actors but I’m just hella post at whoever thought this was a good idea like literally 10 minutes me and my brother was screaming at the Tv on how dumb it was episode 5 would have been fine to end off with maybe narration of the battle while credits role or something no this Brain stuff man fr
I absolutely LOVED this show, I rewatched S1 + S2 like 3-4 times and I was EAGER for S3…. I have mixed feelings. Yes I loved S3 because it shows how Magna truly became more of what Thor would ever acted and seen the world as. Also the fact that it was all in his head both sad and just amazing. Like its crazy how he was able to interpret his everyday life in the path of Thor. On the other hand though, from the first 2 seasons, it really sucked how they wrote the ended. Like for one, it made me feel like there would be 4-5 seasons out at least and that the writers could’ve made this show into a long one with different outcomes. Also the fact that they ended it in like that, kinda cutting off the characters in his head unexpectedly in the eyes of the viewer. But over all, I feel like they couldve made the season last if they changed the line in S3 to a open ending, for more seasons, and that the actual ending made me disappointed that everything rhat happened was a imaginary life of a mentally ill student. LOVED the Actors though!
Saxa fine as hell. 🔥🔥🔥
Sorry but whoever had this idea should have just sticked with ragnarok what fans wanted to see
Just make a faithful Norse mythology adaption damnit!
I actually thought the season 3 was kind of boring. I enjoyed the first two seasons though
Worst ending ive ever had the misfortune to experience
I just finished this show. I can easily say I think season 1 was peak. The characters were all likable in their own way and the story was very coherent. I think when Fjor went pure evil in season 2, after “trying to be better” in season 1, it started going downhill because it truly didn’t make sense. He wasn’t THAT cold in the first season and I don’t understand how someone could loose all empathy for others the way he did. Still, I was enjoying the show. The ending though, had me very confused. It felt like they were trying to gaslight me into thinking it was all in Magne’s head, which obviously it wasn’t because there were too many moving parts. Too many scenes that didn’t involve him where supernatural things were happening. I absolutely LOVED the actors in this show. Magne and Fjor in particular, really shined in their range of acting. I didn’t even recognize Magne when he stepped into his Thor character. The way he carried himself (beard and hair aside) was truly unrecognizable to who he was before. I’m glad I watched this series, though I wasn’t crazy about the ending. I want to watch these actors in more shows!
I am so in love with the actress that played Saxa. Goodness! So beautiful!
It's truly the worst ending I have ever seen for a show!
I get that the actors and actresses were pleased with the ending you can never criticize the director unless you want to get black balled in the industry
I like how they said there would be spoilers, then there were only the vaguest possible spoilers I would guess because when they were describing what happened it sounded awful so they just cut them from the video.
Still one my most fav Netflix series. But the ending could had been better. Because the way the story has been taken forward since the first season, it really doesn’t make sense to end it this way and that too in the very end just revealing his comic books and it’s just a safe way I feel. Cuz the other scenes in the series won’t make Sense. And will leave a loop Hole. The ending would’ve suited more for a movie than a 3 seasoned episodic. After all it’s just my general opinion. Films are subjective
I have mixed opinions about the ending. from a literary and academic standpoint it’s so amazing and we’ll written and directed but as a viewer? that’s not what a lot of people wanna see especially with the build up and tension established.
It is not original, not new = not really outstanding. Jacob's ladder, Sucker Punch just two out of my head.
Magne didn't need glasses anymore even in the finale. He was reading that Thor comic without his glasses.
I didn't take the ending of season three to mean it was all in Magne's head at all. I don't think that's what the creators intended. THat would be stupid. But the pull of fate was still there to be dealt with. They should have just shown all the gods and such dealing with it, instead of just Magne, Obviously everything was real. Need a Laurits spin off. If anything it was Magne handling everything by deciding the needs of the gods, of the myths, to be lived out, didn't have to control his life anymore, and his tendency to get lost in fantasy was making it harder for him than for the others. But he wouldn't even have met most of those people if not for magic and such. SO obviously it was all real.
put me in mond of dallas where it was all a dream
Oh Bobby. Careful your age is showing. 😅