smokeandmirrors
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Peter Stormare plays a great slimy character
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American Gods |OT| You Had Me At Bryan Fuller - Sundays on Starz
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Herr Schwarz
Banned
Man half of that episode felt like "look at this sexy shot" filler
I honestly wasn't too hot on the opening. Semi-book spoilers (unspoilers?):
The transition from "Shadow being lynched -> Shadow is alive -> Shadow is patched up -> Shadow is back with Wednesday" was also WAY too abrupt for me. Like, how did he get out of the situation?
Otherwise though, fantastic. Stormare and Czernobog was so perfect. His dinner rambling was beautiful to watch. The whole apartment, the "family" dynamic, was very well realized.
I'm mostly shocked at how quick it went by, though! I thought it was like, halfway over when the credits started rolling. At this rate they'll be able to stretch the hell out of the book.
Anansi having specific knowledge of the future, wearing a zoot suit in a slave ship, really raises a lot of questions about the nature of gods in this show that the book never touches on. Like, there's always a sort of odd relationship with the past and future, but this felt like a whole new step out of the established rules. Unless I'm forgetting something from the book.
The transition from "Shadow being lynched -> Shadow is alive -> Shadow is patched up -> Shadow is back with Wednesday" was also WAY too abrupt for me. Like, how did he get out of the situation?
Otherwise though, fantastic. Stormare and Czernobog was so perfect. His dinner rambling was beautiful to watch. The whole apartment, the "family" dynamic, was very well realized.
I'm mostly shocked at how quick it went by, though! I thought it was like, halfway over when the credits started rolling. At this rate they'll be able to stretch the hell out of the book.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
This better become a t-shirt https://twitter.com/BryanFuller/status/861400260924424192?s=09
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
that was great. I thought the pilot rushed a little bit over scenes, but this episode pumped the brakes and took its time.
Father_Brain
Banned
Good episode, but man, did that checkers scene drag on.
More_Badass
Member
We already saw him saved last episode. He didn't see who saved him or else that would have been shown/touched on. Do we need to see him staggering, confused and bloody, to the nearest hospital?
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
We saw him getting stitched up in the second one.
More_Badass
Member
Pilot: He's beat, lynched, then saved
Ep2: He's being patched up from his wounds at a clinic/hospital
By him being patched up after being saved at the end of the pilot, it's understood what happened in between.
Yeah I guess he's just saying he'd have liked to see who saved Shadow. I assume that'll be revealed at some point soon though.
I think it was Sweeney.
Honestly, yeah. In a world with gods and unreality and all sorts of crazy shit, that's the one thing that broke my suspension of disbelief. A guy barely alive, after getting the shit beaten out of him and having the life choked out of him, crawls out of a ditch by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Then he manages to make it to a hospital, alone, on foot, in the middle of the night?
Like, he's in suburban Indiana! It'd be like an hour walk, minimum. A quick shot of him staggering a bit, passing out, and a good samaritan dragging his ass to a hospital would have solved that problem for me.
Maybe there's more to be revealed in those cuts, but I doubt it. I think they just wanted to have an impactful climax to the first episode and wanted to sweep it all up as quickly as possible for episode two.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Yeah seriously. I'm reminded of the jokes during a Rifftrax, specifically the Birdemic one.
"but how will we know you are driving the car if we don't see you get in the car, turn it on, leave the parking lot!"
Was there any doubt what happened? And if answers weren't given on
who did it
It really does look just like the CG in Spartacus. It's not bad, but it's a really specific look
God, it is so great to see an slimy, unfiltered Ian McShane back on tv again. Makes me want to re-watch Deadwood so bad.
Heh, I was actually thinking the exact same Birdemic/Rifftrax reply to this.
Heh, I was actually thinking the exact same Birdemic/Rifftrax reply to this.
TheNatureBoy
Member
Great opening for Anansi.
I thought Mr. Wednesday might have been the one to have saved Shadow Moon last episode, but from their hotel conversation it doesn't look like that is the case.
Didn't recognize Gillian Anderson as Media.
I'm tapping out on any game of checkers where the outcome is death.
I thought Mr. Wednesday might have been the one to have saved Shadow Moon last episode, but from their hotel conversation it doesn't look like that is the case.
Didn't recognize Gillian Anderson as Media.
I'm tapping out on any game of checkers where the outcome is death.
KraftyKrankins
Member
Finishing the episode now. Peter Stormrare's pronunciation of Zorya Vechernaya is fucking terrible. So is everyone else's.
They are? The scene in the museum established that she was regaining her powers.
Hope we get Crispin Glover soon. Gillian Anderson/Orlando Jones were both brilliant but Crispin is the fourth lead. Would be a shame if he's in less than half the season.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I think the Anansi scene is great. The fact that he comes in
is fucking awesome because it implies if not outright confirms that Gods
This opens up some plot holes if you REALLY want to get into it such as
but for the sake of this scene I'm willing to give it a pass and hope the show answers it effectively.
with knowledge of the future and with modern clothing
aren't tethered by time, they have knowledge of every time period
This opens up some plot holes if you REALLY want to get into it such as
'don't they know if they will win?'
More_Badass
Member
I particularly liked it because I was imagining just how...otherworldly Anansi would seem to them in that kind of clothing and speaking of such future things they can't completely comprehend
Admiral Woofington
Member
I hope the show has the 'nevermore' scene. That was my favorite line in the entire book
Maintenance
Member
During the Anansi monologue I shouted "damn" so loud I woke up everyone. That shit was fire, pure fire.
You know that pissed off a number of white viewers. I can just imagine some white people screaming at their TV while watching that scene.
Just going all the way in. I was wondering how much of the stuff in episode 1 was intentionally done to bring up racism in America and turns out, all of it was.
Maintenance
Member
I know, I had a huge smile during the whole scene.
Admiral Woofington
Member
with that fucking name how could you NOT change your avatar.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
I like the change. Like what they did with Technical Boy they've made it more relevant to today than what a completely faithful adaptation would achieve. Also it's more accurate to actual Anansi lore where he's a symbol of resistance and uses his cunning and trickery against his oppressors, not so much his followers.
It needs to be perfect. And I have no Photoshop skills lol. One of the black and white scenes, her with a great expression. I might have to beg in the avatar thread
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Admiral Woofington
Member
Honestly Mr Nancy stole the show from the Old Gods. The rest will be great, but I always felt the new Gods stole the show in the novel. And in the first episode Technical Boy was amazing. Media in here was only a short introduction, but I'm sure she will also be great.
But Mr. Nancy. My god. If they can keep that up with the character the rest of the show, oof.
But Mr. Nancy. My god. If they can keep that up with the character the rest of the show, oof.
I don't think the cross-section of "American Gods Viewers" and "'Non-woke' White American Gods Viewers" is super-huge. As delicious as it might seem, we've seen that B-rye Fuller fans are a pretty niche and progressive group. And your meema ain't flippin' through Starz on a Sunday night.
Admiral Woofington
Member
The mental image of 90 year old mee maw going though
"ooh sonny now that grandpa has gone to sleep I can't wait to switch to starz and watch me one of my many shows with hardcore Rome sex and hard ding dongs, now let's see here, American gods? Sounds educational not exactly what I was l- oof I'm uncomfortable"
Head of Vengarl
Banned
So glad to hear the show is good (so far). I "read" the audiobook last year and really liked it. I don't have cable so sadly I can't watch this, but maybe when the season is over (and if it retains its quality) I'll buy/rent it on Amazon or something.
Curt Baboon
Member
Is good, though.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I thought the second episode was great, and a big step up from the first. It was a lot more coherent and did a better job of fleshing out the characters and the world. Got a nice kick out of seeing Peter Stormare chew the scenery as an old cow murdering Slavic god.
Random thoughts:
Gillian Anderson as Lucille Ball
was everything~
I think this episode set the record for most erections seen in a single episode of a scripted American series...?
Question to book readers (spoiler tag your response, but don't make it too spoilery!):
A big focus so far has been placed on foreign gods that eventually made their way over to the US (Odin, Bilquis, Anansi, Czernobog), but do we ever get to see any of the indigenous North American gods?
I was confused by that as well. Sort of threw my (perhaps incorrect, non book reader) assumptions about the nature of the gods out the window.
Random thoughts:
Gillian Anderson as Lucille Ball
Media
I think this episode set the record for most erections seen in a single episode of a scripted American series...?
Question to book readers (spoiler tag your response, but don't make it too spoilery!):
A big focus so far has been placed on foreign gods that eventually made their way over to the US (Odin, Bilquis, Anansi, Czernobog), but do we ever get to see any of the indigenous North American gods?
I was confused by that as well. Sort of threw my (perhaps incorrect, non book reader) assumptions about the nature of the gods out the window.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
A thing I need some clarification.
Was Mr. Nancy jumping back and forth being a colorful spider and human being and the people saw it?
dead souls
Member
My thoughts exactly.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Damn, that Anansi opening was a hell of a thing
Beren the Empty-Handed
Member
Is good.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Is good.
I'd wear it.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I am extremely arachnophobic, and the first two seconds of Episode 2 has cost me a nights sleep. Can someone tell me if this is gonna be a problem throughout the episode, and if so, exactly what point should I skip to?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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