American Gods
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Zindan
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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That would be sexist and pandering to the Patriarchy, so sorry, no chance of that happening.
Chris
Potato del Grande
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Er... what am I missing this show is really, really bad. I'm not watching episode 3.
I get it, gods exist if you worship them, new gods are rising as we worship tv and internet. Why is that still big treated like a mystery when it's the fucking title of the show? Get on with it.
Who the fuck worshipped old world pagan gods in USA? I can buy Odin and spiderguy, but Irish and Russian ones... Really? There should be a huge Jesus fighting the personification of money.
2 hours in and main character has only attended a funeral and gotten a job...
I get it, gods exist if you worship them, new gods are rising as we worship tv and internet. Why is that still big treated like a mystery when it's the fucking title of the show? Get on with it.
Who the fuck worshipped old world pagan gods in USA? I can buy Odin and spiderguy, but Irish and Russian ones... Really? There should be a huge Jesus fighting the personification of money.
2 hours in and main character has only attended a funeral and gotten a job...
Zindan
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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That is one thing I am curious about. Why isn't there a personification of the Judea/Christian/Muslim God? If numbers = influence/strength, none of the old gods or new gods could even come close. Is that ever dealt with in the books?
Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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This about the fading pantheons fighting against the emerging gods for scant real estate. Yahweh and Buddah don't need to get involved in any of this pussy ass shit.
Cybsled
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It sums it up: immigrants brought the old gods and even if it wasn't 100% worship, you still probably had a decent enough core that at least acknowledged their existence and paid heed to them in one way or the other.
Cantatus
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Enzee
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The fact that Gods exist, and the characters are Gods, isn't supposed to be a 'mystery' to the viewer. They are just easing us into that world through the point of view of Shadow Moon. You don't see the crazy shit on day one, only glimpses. Though, the introductions to the two 'new' gods was pretty crazy, imo. It's only the old gods that are playing coy about their powers so far.
Lenas
Trump's Staff
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Well yeah I assumed that much. Shadow's obviously some kind of important dude since Wednesday was jocking him so hard.
This is what I was wondering.
Homsar
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Which is going to suck, I want to see more of Technical Boy, Mad Sweeney, Czernobog, Media ect and they are all probably going to get little time
Drakurii
Golden Baron of the Realm
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Lets pray it's not going to be another Penny Dreadful where we get all these characters that never go no where.
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Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
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I read the first 3 chapters of the book, watched the first episode and then finally just said fuck it, went online and read the entire plot on Wikipedia.
What am i missing? I don't see the appeal of this storyline or premise at all. Is there some amazing dialogue or characterization that happens later, because given the first 3 chapters i would find that hard to believe. How did this book manage to win any awards, and for what?
What am i missing? I don't see the appeal of this storyline or premise at all. Is there some amazing dialogue or characterization that happens later, because given the first 3 chapters i would find that hard to believe. How did this book manage to win any awards, and for what?
Xevy
Log Wizard
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It was a good book. I think it had potential to be a series, but it wasn't really. Just a one-off book. The plot is really the driving point. I think a lot of people that read it just liked Mythology and wanted to see all these Gods in modern day and especially interacting with each other. I'm not sure why it's multiple seasons unless they're freeballing it hard after season 1.
Chris
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I also read the wiki synopsis and I'm not sure how they have enough for a season 2 unless they go off book?