Ragnarok Season 3 Ending Explained: Netflix’s Norwegian fantasy series has finally come to an end, but it’s important to have a clear understanding of the ending. Despite being a fantasy drama, the show does offer a grounded story that is sewn seamlessly with Norse mythology. The cast includes David Stakston, Jonas Strand Gravli, Herman Tommeraas, Theresa Frostad Eggesboo, Synnove Macody Lund, Emma Bones, Odd Magnus Williamson, Danu Sunth, Bjorn Sundquist, Benjamin Helstad and Vebjorn Enger. The show has been created by Adam Price.
I found the series very appealing in the way it handled Nordic folklore; not too much and not too little. The cohesive nature of the story and the screenplay helps a lot in establishing its fantasy vibe in a way that seemed truly possible. This in turn made the show convincing and likeable.
Ragnarok Season 3 Ending Explained
Did the War Take Place?
Well, it did but inside Magne’s head. While the chances of the war were very high especially since it had been prophesied, Magne aka Thor, after being suggested by Jens aka Balder, dropped his hammer at the last moment followed by which all the other Gods did the same. The Jutuls aka giants too realised that they couldn’t win the war because the Mjolnir could never be overpowered and dropped their weapons as well. A truce follows and gods and giants decide to live together in peace.
But the war did take place in Magne’s mind after he came across a bunch of old Thor comics from his childhood in his room. From one of the comics, Magne imagined the war and its repercussions. And I have to hand it to the makers for merging the happenings of the war with those at the Graduation Day ceremony.
Magne saw that if the war had occurred, everyone including him would be dead. And who knows what would have followed it? Only Loki (Laurits) would survive, and filled with revenge for his beloved Balder’s death that was what sparked the Ragnarok war in the first place, he would certainly have rained down hellfire on everything. Destruction of Edda would probably follow.
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Where is Little O?
Laurits told his pet serpent Little O to leave Edda and go live deep in the ocean. He didn’t want it to harm anyone. This came after he found out that Fjor had been feeding it humans so that it could grow and become capable of killing Magne/Thor. Laurits never wanted this and did what he could to make sure that the people of Edda would be safe and so would his child for whom he was “mommy”.
I wish the makers had given a couple more conversations between the two as it would have helped establish their relationship better. However, a single shot towards the beginning of Episode 6 of Season 3 seemed to tell that Little O is still there in the fjord. Maybe it didn’t want to leave its mother or maybe it had developed an appetite for humans.
What Happened to the Jutuls?
Saxa took over as the new CEO of Jutuls Industries while Fjor found love in a lady who worked under him when he was the boss. The part of the factory that was leading to the pollution in Edda was shut down permanently. The last shot of the Season Finale shows the gods and the giants having a get-together and everyone is happy with the outcome, mainly because no one had to die.
However, it would have been nice if we had a discussion between the gods and the giants about the future of their arrangement or deal, whatever you may call it. The only regret is neither Vidar nor Isolde was there to see it.
Ragnarok Season 3 is now available on Netflix.
You didn’t understand the ending then because it’s revealed to us that it was all in his head. Everything from day one. He was on psychotic meds and imagining the whole thing after his friend had died.
It’s ambiguous. It certainly is possible that it was all imagined, but the final scene makes no sense if it was because the events of the show are all that tie the group of people together. I think they just cut the final episode very oddly. His vision of the final battle should have been chronologically before declaring peace. Still a really weak finale, but I don’t think it’s so cut and dry that it was all a hallucination.
Correct. The ending shows that the mythological Gods and their “events” are actually blended with human subconscious realities. Not invented, but Real. My read is that the prior events DID HAPPEN, but that they subsumed the myth into a more human reality in the present, when they shifted to the Truce. The realities of the Gods are ever present. The stories about the Gods are our real stories, though seemig reality cannot always see it. In my view it was the correct ending, not Hollywood’s constant unimaginative need to always show triumph as a brawl.