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Topic: American Gods (2017) (Read 48174 times)
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Threash
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Yup, that was pretty neat. Ending a season by
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Samwise
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Yup, that was pretty neat. Ending a season by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMPAH67f4oI also enjoyed all the Jesuses. The whole party/mansion was fantastic -- I loved the touches like the stigmata cookies, really sold the idea of what a mismash of concepts she had come to represent. |
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Abagadro
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I want Wednesday's suit from that ep.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Goldenmean
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"One of them's got a baby dinosaur" almost got me to spit-take.
Shadow continues to be far and away the worst thing about this show, but whatever, the rest has generally been good enough to make up for it, though treating Wednesday's name as if it was any sort of reveal sort of annoyed me, but there's enough decent halfway subtle nods to folklore in the show that I guess it averages out.
Solid B+ from me for the first season. Wasn't the vision I had in my head about what a Bryan Fuller American Gods would look like, and it's got its rough spots, but I'll miss it now that it's on inter-season hiatus.
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Phildo
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The reveal of Wednesday's name might not have been a surprise to you, but lost of folks wouldn't figured it out on their own. My lad made me tell her who he was a few episodes ago, otherwise it would've caught her completely by surprise.
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Threash
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A few episodes ago Mr World offered to nuke north korea with a weapon system called Odin as his rebranding effort for him, it wasn't even subtle.
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Goldenmean
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Exactly. They made it orders of magnitude more blatant in the show than they did in the book (and it was still pretty obvious in the book if you had any interest in mythology). Ever since Lemon Scented You, it didn't even seem like it was intended to be a secret, which made the tone of the "reveal" in the last episode jarring.
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Ironwood
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Nope.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Phildo
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We watched that episode together and it still went over her head. Shortly after that is when it bothered her too much and she made me tell her who he is.
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Chimpy
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Just watched the whole first season over a few days through the free 7day trial of Starz through Amazon Prime.
Not sure I like a lot of the divergent directions they have gone from the source material, the pieces close to the book have all been pretty outstanding though. And while the plot stuff that Mad Sweeney is doing in the show are pretty wildly divergent I find him to be my favorite performance in the show to date.
The divergence from the book really hurts Shadow's character development as the "Wisconsin" trip was kinda the point at which he really starts to realize there might be some supernatural shit going on and that happens very early in the book. He has met pretty much everyone already in the tv show and they haven't even made it north of Illinois.
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« Last Edit: July 07, 2017, 06:46:15 PM by Chimpy »
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Abagadro
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Well crud, Fuller and Green leave as show-runners over budget/schedule issues. Likely to be a pale imitation in S2.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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satael
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Well crud, Fuller and Green leave as show-runners over budget/schedule issues. Likely to be a pale imitation in S2.
Well according to this article the budget is already $10 million per episode so I can see why the producers might feel less than enthusiastic about increasing it. |
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Samwise
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Has Bryan Fuller ever stuck it out past the first season of a show?
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Goldenmean
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Has Bryan Fuller ever stuck it out past the first season of a show?
Pretty sure the only other thing he left early was Dead Like Me, which was reputedly thanks to network fuckery, unless you're including things like Wonderfalls which only ever had one season to begin with (again, thanks to network fuckery) |
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jgsugden
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Has Bryan Fuller ever stuck it out past the first season of a show?
Pretty sure the only other thing he left early was Dead Like Me, which was reputedly thanks to network fuckery, unless you're including things like Wonderfalls which only ever had one season to begin with (again, thanks to network fuckery) Star Trek: Discovery, Heroes |
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Goldenmean
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Star Trek: Discovery, Heroes
Enh, fair I guess, but ST:D he left before it began, and he wasn't the showrunner on Heroes, which helps explain why it's so much worse than everything else he's worked on. |
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Reg
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That may not be the ray of joy that you think it is.
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jgsugden
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While I'll give Seson 2 a shot, I'm not optimistic given the budget and casting issues.
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2020 will be the year I gave up all hope.
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Threash
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Not so much a trailer as a random scene |
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Father mike
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New season started Sunday. I'm ambivalent. It had good momnets, but somehow it feels less than the sum of its parts.
Also, they were unsubtle with their references to Chenowith and Anderson not renewing; I'm sure somebody thought it was clever, but it felt forced.
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I would like to thank Vladimir Putin for ensuring that every member of the NPR news staff has had to say "Pussy Riot" on the air multiple times.
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