Twilight of the Gods – Episode 8 Recap, Review & Ending Explained

Song of Sigrid

Episode 8 of Twilight of the Gods picks up right in the midst of the war that started in the previous chapter, with Thor flexing his skills, and Sigrid launching her revenge. Our trickster God Loki continues to scheme in the background, pulling the strings and using these guys as puppets to do his bidding.

What happens during the fight?

The fighting, of course, occurs because Freya helped Sigrid into Thor’s camp but unfortunately her attempt at assassinating him leads to a rift between Sigrid and Leif. t the end of the previous chapter, she chose revenge over her love, stabbing Leif and siding with Loki. With the war beginning, she demands Loki fight alongside them. Naturally, the big battle ensues, and with typical Synder gusto, plenty of slow motion, super slow motion and uber super slow motion ensues.

There are several different phases to this big fight, which play out across the episode as the two sides swing back and forth with momentum, culminating in Loki and Thor both getting involved. Apparently Loki is  here as he’s seen a prophecy involving one of his children killed by Odin. He’s apparently just protecting his family and that’s why he got Sigrid involved. He did this to break their bonds and intentionally wanted a mortal to kill a God so they could remake the world with madness.

Thor dispatches Tiwaz with ease, but as more forces show from Valhalla, the attention urns to our Seid-Kona, Aile, who arrives before the Gods. With the battle raging below, she speaks to Odin, who claims that she has power inside her. Odin retorts his ties with the Hanged Tree and shows just how obsessed with prophecy he is.

What vision does Odin see?

In fact, the original conflict between the Aesir and Vanir was apparently initiated by Odin himself. He desired to steal their Seidr magic and gift of foresight. This also explains why he took Freya as his bride too. However, the gift of prophecy comes at a cost.

Aile uses a crow to show off several different visions, each involving Thor meeting his demise. And then there’s one of Jesus Christ on a cross because yes, we need some Christianity in our Norse mythology apparently? Jesus comes down and touches Odin’s cheek.

Aile claims that what he’s seen will end with Odin unworshipped and unloved, at least according to our Seid-Kona. Odin is not happy and kills her outright.

Is Aile dead?

As Aile bleeds out, Egill works his way up the podium and eventually hold her in his arms, weeping. She ascends to a higher plane though, as Egill is shocked. Egill brings her to Freya, who points out that this is a union of Vanir and Aesir. Egill is happy to start again and hopefully get back his beloved.

Back on the ground, both Loki and Sigrid square off against Thor. Leif also jumps in too, deciding that Sigrid is right after all and she needs to get her revenge. Hervor is killed protecting Sigrid from a killer blow. However, the Valkyrie refuse to take her, despite being battle-slain. It seems there’s no room in Valhalla for her. She’ll instead have to go to Hell.

How does Twilight of the Gods end?

Sigrid speaks to Thor and tells him that she wants a better future. She gives an impassioned speech about how she’s going to gain revenge. She doesn’t fear the Gods, launching herself into battle.

Sigrid ends up killing Baldr with a spear, and that angers Thor as he launches into battle. Freya steps up to try and fight him back, as Thor breaks down into tears. He grieves so, as Loki watches on with glee. Freya takes him to Valhalla… which is exactly where Sigrid is going too.

Loki stabs Sigrid with a blade, living up to his legacy as a trickster God. As the light leaves her, she passes over to Valhalla.

When Sigrid awakens, she’s in the great hall and Thor, just like earlier in the season, retorts the same words to her that she’s wet. He points out that they haunt the same hearth and as such, the song of Sigrid is about to begin.

The Episode Review

Twilight of the Gods ends with a fitting bloodthirsty finale, chock full of war, action and deaths along the way. It was clear that not everybody was going to make it out of this in one piece, but it does appear that a second season will look more closely at this Song of Sigrid and what it means for the fight against the Gods.

The imagery of Jesus Christ is a bit on the nose and I genuinely don’t understand why that’s put into this series. Beyond that, there’s enough to enjoy here but it definitely pales by comparison to other media tackling the Nordic Gods. God of War and Blood of Zeus both come to mind here as much tighter options in this field.

It’s not a bad finale, all things considered, but the cliffhanger ending doesn’t help, nor does Synder’s incessant need to throw slow motion into everything. And of course, we get the grain Goddess here too, another nod toward Synder’s weird obsession with grain (which was basically Rebel Moon’s entire motif, let’s be honest).

In the end, an enjoyable ending paves over the cracks of this series and teases at a possible second season to come.

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