The Last Kingdom Season 5: Uhtred's Montage Omitted This Key Character
Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Last Kingdom season 5!
In the final moments of The Last Kingdom, Uhtred stands upon the ramparts of Bebbanburg, having finally reclaimed his birthright, and reflects on those he’s lost in a montage that has one key character strangely missing. Based on the book series by Bernard Cornwell entitled The Saxon Stories, Netflix’s The Last Kingdom season 5 adapts Cornwell’s 9th and 10th books, Warriors of the Storm and The Flame Bearer, and includes the deaths of many of Uhtred’s friends and loved ones, not the least of which was this omitted character. Now, with Cornwell’s final three books being adapted into a movie to end The Last Kingdom, fans are left to wonder why such an important figure, both to Uhtred and to history, was passed over at the series’ end.
Uhtred’s conflicted loyalties have been the basis of the story throughout The Last Kingdom with his love for both the Danes and the Saxons creating allies and enemies on both sides. Taken by the Danes at a young age, the first books and seasons of the series show the strength of Uhtred’s loyalties to what he considers his family, the Danes. When Uhtred begins his quest to reclaim Bebbanburg, however, he finds his loyalties challenged as he builds bonds and discovers allies and friends among the Saxons as well.
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By the time Uhtred reclaims Bebbanburg in The Last Kingdom season 5, he has suffered many losses, his pain felt keenly no matter the label of Dane or Saxon. In the series finale’s last moments, Uhtred is seen reflecting on those he has lost, allowing the viewer a moment of closure as well, as he remembers his childhood friend, turned lover, turned enemy Brida, the Saxon King
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