Given the meaning of the title, it was always going to be fascinating to see how this was going to be concluded. The solution seemed to cause a lot of angst amongst critics - professional and self-appointed both – but I think that, really, this was the only practical one, short of going full MCM – which would not have made any true dramatic sense.
I can understand, to a degree, some of the outrage as the solution (all in the mind) a variant of the ultimate cliché ‘…and then they woke up and found it was all a dream’. But what would have been the alternative? The absolutely central dramatic arc of the idea of Ragnarok/Gotterdamerung is ‘everything ends’.
But the scenes of the final, traditional legendary apocalypse were very impressive. Overall, an original ‘take’ on the idea.