'Ragnarok' Season 1 leaves plenty of room for more chapters to follow after ending with unanswered questions
You know that feeling when a story ends, but you know deep down inside that there's more to it than what meets the eyes? Netflix's 'Ragnarok' makes us feel just that.
Truthfully, it took us quite some time to process how the story eventually panned out, why it ended the way it ended and what it means for us. We went over the plot and the significance of the Norse mythological references and we think that the series deserves more chapters to be told. Here's why.
Let's back up a little, and talk about what 'Ragnarok' is trying to narrate. The name, derived from the Norse concept, translates to the ultimate battle. Tales would tell you about the Great War between the gods and the giants, where eventually everything was annihilated and the world started anew.
However, the battle also marks the beginning of a new cycle — ending a phase of life and starting another, across the nine worlds (according to Norse mythology).
So, when the season finale showed Magne Seier (David Stakston) and Vidar Jutul (Gísli Örn Garðarsson ) fighting, it not only meant the end of an evil oppressor but also a fresh start for Edda. Also, here are a few minor things that are worth mentioning.
As Magne uses all his force and causes the lightning to strike and knock out Vidar, he also drops dead to the ground, making us wonder if both died. But then his fingers move, giving up hope that we didn’t lose our hero after all.
But what happened to Vidar? Did he die? What if like most other super villains, he comes back from the dead and exacts revenge on Magne, his family and friends?
With that, there are more questions that come to mind when we mull over the finale. For instance, we saw Laurits throwing shade at Ran Jutul (Synnøve Macody Lund) publicly, in front of the entire town.
Although couched as "caricature", such humiliation would have thrown Ran off and brought her down from the pedestal of the most influential woman of the town she ruled.
In such a scenario, will she step down as the principal of the high school and leave the town? Or will she try to carry on being a giant with or without her kids?
Talking about the Jutul kids, how will Saxa (Theresa Frostad Eggesbø) take this big fall on her family? And now that Fjor (Herman Tømmeraas) has come out in his true form to his love, Gry (Emma Bones), will she accept him as he is?
Most importantly, if Magne has now identified his superpower, will he carry on and help the world become a better place and become a real superhero that the dying planet needs today?
So, as you can clearly see, there are a lot of questions that were left unanswered at the end of six episodes and we cannot wait to hear more. From a narrative point, the series did leave a lot of open-ended angles that make room for another season.
And we would love to see it take off from exactly where they left. Even if there is a high possibility of a new season, it will not be anytime sooner than next year. Meanwhile, let’s keep talking about what we saw and the possibilities of what could come.
'Ragnarok' is currently on Netflix.
