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Cojawfee posted:I think he is the personification of all the tinfoil hat people who think the government is watching their every move. They all believe this one thing is happening and they ended up spawning the thing they fear in Mr World. The way he talked about things interconnecting and products made me think he's the God of corporatism/capitalism at first glance.
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jfood posted:I got the feeling that Mr. World is actual omnipotence, a constructed being that knows and sees everything. His power is letting what he wants of that knowledge be sent out through his pantheon of subordinates, Media and Meme-a-tron. He's definitely the head of the pantheon. To me Mr World isn't the god of conspiracy theories, he's the god of globalization. The interconnection of all systems both real and imagined. He's society and community and everything that makes those things up. He's the city-hall you can't fight against. He's Chinatown. He's The Man. He's the "They" when you say "You know what they say."
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GonSmithe posted:Also saying Fuller released something so it's not a spoiler is not true, Fuller spoils every single one of his shows on Twitter all the time, he doesn't give a gently caress. And bless him for it.
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vermin posted:He's definitely the head of the pantheon. To me Mr World isn't the god of conspiracy theories, he's the god of globalization. The interconnection of all systems both real and imagined. He's society and community and everything that makes those things up. He's the city-hall you can't fight against. He's Chinatown. He's The Man. He's the "They" when you say "You know what they say." Yeup, and he reminds me of Network. The main character's a newsman who cracks on-air and turns into a shouty eccentric with a populist message and national influence. The World's Greatest Salesman gives him this shouty pro-globalization speech to turn him around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5hrcwU7Dk Accretionist fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jun 3, 2017 |
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vermin posted:He's The Man. I dunno... I took him to be a god absent faith and followers. Maybe the old gods were always there, maybe we brought them into being, but Mr. World is one we built with our own hands and the most powerful one at that, but no one actually worships him. If he was something people believed in, feared, loved, revered or what have you, he wouldn't need Wednesday and Wednesday wouldn't need to war with him. That's not to say people don't devote their lives and attention to his subordinates, but to Mr. World himself? Just think it'd be neat if there actually was an all-powerful, all-knowing deity and nobody gives a gently caress.
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I quite enjoyed episode 6. Ian McShane gets a huge gently caress off sword, and we get the road trip of our dreams.
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Episode 6: It feels weird that Wednesday could kill Vulcan so easily, as he was set up as a stronger deity with his newfound religion of militarism. Can you even kill a god by just chopping his head off like that?
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double nine posted:... that episode felt a bit ... disjointed? So the same as every other episode then
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Monglo posted:Episode 6: It feels weird that Wednesday could kill Vulcan so easily, as he was set up as a stronger deity with his newfound religion of militarism. Can you even kill a god by just chopping his head off like that? I mean, Vulcan kind of gave him the perfect weapon to do it with.  Also, if there's one thing I've learned from the bible, it's to never let other gods enter your temple. It's bad news.
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Monglo posted:Episode 6: It feels weird that Wednesday could kill Vulcan so easily, as he was set up as a stronger deity with his newfound religion of militarism. Can you even kill a god by just chopping his head off like that? Ep 6: I'm guessing Wednesday would have had a much harder time of it without that sword. Presumably if a God still has believers they can come back; which I guess was the point of Wednesday putting a curse on the factory, to try and gently caress up Vulcan's worshippers.
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Hidingo Kojimba posted:Ep 6: I'm guessing Wednesday would have had a much harder time of it without that sword. Presumably if a God still has believers they can come back; which I guess was the point of Wednesday putting a curse on the factory, to try and gently caress up Vulcan's worshippers. Still Ep 6: Yeah, I'd imagine the concept of Vulcan is still essentially intact, and no doubt sooner or later a new god will arise to more or less take his spot. Hell, it might just be a new Vulcan who's fairly similar to the old one, for that matter. Also, Wednesday himself comes from a pantheon where gods were explicitly sort-of-mortal and all died eventually, so that might just give him a certain knack when it comes to godslaying. Alternatively, it might be a result of Vulcan re-imagining himself as the god of guns. After all, a significant chunk of deaths via firearms comes from negligence and suicide. And what else would you call the act of handing Wednesday a sword fit for a god right after betraying him? Honestly, I'd still watch this show even if it had no central storyline at all, just for all the little vignettes of the gods finding their place in the modern world. 
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Perestroika posted:Honestly, I'd still watch this show even if it had no central storyline at all, just for all the little vignettes of the gods finding their place in the modern world. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the road movie side story on its own. The adventures of leprechaun, dead wife and gay muslim cab driver (who banged a genie) are pretty excellent.
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episode 6 ending spoilers: was there anything different visually in the second metal -> bullets montage that wasn't there in the first one? The whole cursed + bullets + repeat montage aspect made me think there'd be something different in the second scene or whatever but it looked like a copy-paste from the first scene? Was the only point then that Vulcan was being disposed of in the same way his human sacrifices had been?
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And More posted:Yeah, I'm really enjoying the road movie side story on its own. The adventures of leprechaun, dead wife and gay muslim cab driver (who banged a genie) are pretty excellent. It is a good roadtrip.
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double nine posted:episode 6 ending spoilers: was there anything different visually in the second metal -> bullets montage that wasn't there in the first one? The whole cursed + bullets + repeat montage aspect made me think there'd be something different in the second scene or whatever but it looked like a copy-paste from the first scene? Was the only point then that Vulcan was being disposed of in the same way his human sacrifices had been? I just watched through both and although all the shots are the same, the color in all of the seconds shots has been tinted darker / redder, and the music is different.
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Really enjoying the Dead Wife roadtrip. They should swing back and pick up Audrey, though.
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Salim is too freaking adorable, and I can't wait until he meets the super-hung Djinn again.
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16 new posts, most of them spoilers. It's on Amazon prime here in the UK but the ep won't release till tomorrow. The suspense is killing me.
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I just started watching the new episode: Holy poo poo! Mexican Jesus! And eh, he isn't a dying god so he is probably gonna come back to life by the third day. I'm surprised they haven't mentioned the Lady of Guadalupe, she also has a very strong following (The Holy Death as well)
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TV dog Wishbone of PBS posted:Did you get a genie in your bottle? Did anyone else think his accent made bottle sound like butthole? Just me? Also, Salim... "Please stop stealing my cab." He is far too kind for this world.
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TV dog Wishbone of PBS posted:Did you get a genie in your bottle? April posted:Did anyone else think his accent made bottle sound like butthole? Just me? That was some god tier word play. And yeah, that was totally intentional.
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mallratcal posted:Really enjoying the Dead Wife roadtrip. They should swing back and pick up Audrey, though. She's run off to become a wrestler. (She's in GLOW).
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For fucks sake don't go on Reddit. The Trump supporters have shown up and are now "done" with the show. They were totes cool with all the gay stuff and dongs though.
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It seemed to me like the militia that showed up to kill Jesus might have actually been sent by American Jesus. As in Jesus is at war with himself in America, which would be on point. None of this is in the book so I'm not fake speculating or anything.
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Seems pretty likely to me that Wednesday's curse is going to be relevant to the ongoing plot. Sometime, probably before the end of the season, someone is going to fire a gun at our protagonists, and the bullet is going to be a dud. edit \/ Makes sense, thanks. Bobulus fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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precision posted:It seemed to me like the militia that showed up to kill Jesus might have actually been sent by American Jesus. As in Jesus is at war with himself in America, which would be on point. None of this is in the book so I'm not fake speculating or anything. Yeah, the writing on the gun made it seem like some kind church paramilitary group
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precision posted:It seemed to me like the militia that showed up to kill Jesus might have actually been sent by American Jesus. As in Jesus is at war with himself in America, which would be on point. None of this is in the book so I'm not fake speculating or anything. That was how I read it too. Manifest Destiny White Jesus. But coulda just been Vulcan, hard to say. The Glumslinger posted:Yeah, the writing on the gun made it seem like some kind church paramilitary group Yeah but later we see that Vulcan has church paramilitary groups, so it seems to tie into that.
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Pleases stop stealing my cab.
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Conservative white Jesus going to be strange.... when they announced Jeremy Davies I assumed that would mean he was going to be a liberal white hippie Jesus
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I think the point of the religious writing on the gun was that both groups were religious, but worshipping different versions of Jesus. So the border jumpers get Mexican Jesus and the shitheel oath keeper types are also Christian and probabky have get the backing of White Jesus. Or at least, Southern Shitheel Texas Jesus. I think the point was to show they are both ostensibly Christians, albeit wildly different Christians. Hopefully the curse gets played out on them and Mexican Jesus can go old Testament on their asses. Also I'd love to see Jesus Malverde pop up at some point, especially if we get more Mexican Jesus
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