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Yeah I feel like they should have just stuck all her scenes in one episode and have that be that, because spacing them out across the season served zero purpose. Every other vignette had a clear message (and in most cases characters like Anansi ended up interacting with the main cast if only briefly), all we know about Bilquis is that she likes unbirthing people and she is going to some place that is apparently meaningful but not at all if you haven't read the book. All it did was make me loathe that awful character.
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I hope Odin goes all Shao Kahn on the new gods asses and Media joins them. Also i dont know what was so SHOCKING about the series. They gay scene was really gratious and Vulcano people were charicatures and not DRUMPF DRUMF DRUNF! Charles Manson Jesus, best Jesus.
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Jun 23, 2017 13:13
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The Vulcan stuff is what I thought you might hate
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Soothing Vapors posted:The Vulcan stuff is what I thought you might hate Nah the only part i hated was Bilquis , what a waste. We needed more Czernobog
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Jun 23, 2017 14:10
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I like Bilquis, and would happily worship the disco version in particular.
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Jun 23, 2017 14:17
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DoctorGonzo posted:Nah the only part i hated was Bilquis , what a waste. We needed more Czernobog More Zorya Sr. Too, Cloris Leachman is a treasure
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Soothing Vapors posted:More Zorya Sr. Too, Cloris Leachman is a treasure I really liked young star sister. VERY ESOTERIC! I hope my friend Shadow meets her again and Laura doesnt gently caress up Wotan plans!
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Jun 23, 2017 14:20
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If anyone's interested in costume design, Tom and Lorenzo have some write-ups about the show's style here. They can read a little too much into things, but their Mad Men style posts were overall great, so I'm glad they're giving this show the same treatment
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Jun 23, 2017 14:29
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Crow Jane posted:I like Bilquis, and would happily worship the disco version in particular. Nu uh sorry, you get goofy CGI baby-man-devourer Bilquis of episode 1 & 2 fame.
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Jun 23, 2017 14:32
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Why Bilquis, it could have been Aprodite or something.
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Because to some degree these choices were clearly made to be as edgy has humanly possible.
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Aphrodite's been done, imo, and would probably be depicted as a boring blonde lady or something. I find Bilquis much more interesting. Though it would've been neat if they'd included Aphrodite as Vulcan's hot, bored wife
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MiddleOne posted:Because to some degree these choices were clearly made to be as edgy has humanly possible. To me this is the fatal flaw of the show. Just tell good stories, god dammit! I will watch to know what happens to Shadow and the god wars. I dont give a gently caress about the show runners political stances if they cant do a good job with that. River Jesus= Awesome Gay muslim djinn= interesting Vulcano= Charicatures and DRUMPF wankery Black bisexual nympho what edgy thing we could add to her? Get the gently caress out with that crap
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My main problem with Bilquis is that she is horribly, horribly underdrawn. Like, we got her first two story beats (starving god! vagine vortex!) and then every subsequent appearance was just rehashing those same beats while adding very little else. Fuller's not an idiot so I imagine he has something planned for her, but if she's not going to factor into season 1 at all then she's only really being included because he really wanted to show folks getting eaten by a vagina What I'm saying here is just give us what the people want: an hour a week of Mad Sweeney and Laura dunking on each other, with occasional grandiose Ian McShane speeches
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Soothing Vapors posted:My main problem with Bilquis is that she is horribly, horribly underdrawn. Like, we got her first two story beats (starving god! vagine vortex!) and then every subsequent appearance was just rehashing those same beats while adding very little else. Fuller's not an idiot so I imagine he has something planned for her, but if she's not going to factor into season 1 at all then she's only really being included because he really wanted to show folks getting eaten by a vagina Add Easter and Gillian and we have a deal!
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Perestroika posted:Fake edit: Come to think of it, she might also be kind of a hybrid between old and new gods in terms of her nature. On the one hand, she still does the whole personal worship thing via the vaginebula. But at the same time whatever the new gods did to make her relevant again also linked her into that whole passive distributed worship thing that they've got going on. The new gods basically gave her the same deal as Vulcan/Saint Nick and made Bilquis the god of Tinder. BexGu fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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Jun 23, 2017 15:20
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How is being black or bisexual "edgy"?
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BexGu posted:The new gods basically gave her the same deal as Vulcan/Saint Nick and made Bilquis the god of Tinder. Well someone also gave her a museum exhibit.
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Jun 23, 2017 15:37
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Snak posted:Well someone also gave her a museum exhibit. That'd make anyone feel old
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Snak posted:Well someone also gave her a museum exhibit. Kinda had too the original templates where getting destroyed by ISIS.
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Jun 23, 2017 15:42
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Snak posted:Well someone also gave her a museum exhibit. It was toad guy
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Crow Jane posted:How is being black or bisexual "edgy"? Nobody said that?
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DoctorGonzo posted:Nobody said that? DoctorGonzo posted:Black bisexual nympho what edgy thing we could add to her? Get the gently caress out with that crap
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DoctorGonzo posted:Black bisexual nympho what edgy thing we could add to her? Get the gently caress out with that crap You did?
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The edgy part was her eating people with her vagina obviously
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Jun 23, 2017 15:55
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The edgy part is a one note character
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I just want to take a moment to point out again how incredibly good and full of detail the credits sequence is. The camera in the eye of the cherub; the microphone in the ninefold candle; the drugs for the Buddha and the mixed prayer wheel / needles, all resolving ultimately into a totem pole. It's really loving good is what I'm saying.
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Jun 23, 2017 16:07
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DoctorGonzo posted:Why Bilquis, it could have been Aprodite or something.
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Toplowtech posted:"Too white" despite missing both arms thanks to a famous statue. Ableism wins. This series needs walkiries. They could be muslim strippers or something
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Beefeater1980 posted:I just want to take a moment to point out again how incredibly good and full of detail the credits sequence is. The camera in the eye of the cherub; the microphone in the ninefold candle; the drugs for the Buddha and the mixed prayer wheel / needles, all resolving ultimately into a totem pole. I agree, I noticed something new every time. Must've been hella fun to make and film.
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Beefeater1980 posted:I just want to take a moment to point out again how incredibly good and full of detail the credits sequence is. The camera in the eye of the cherub; the microphone in the ninefold candle; the drugs for the Buddha and the mixed prayer wheel / needles, all resolving ultimately into a totem pole. It looks pretty cool but it takes too long so I end up skipping through it.
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DoctorGonzo posted:Why Bilquis, it could have been Aprodite or something. Because Bilquis was in the book? Gaiman's all about obscure folklore characters in everything he writes and the Greek pantheon's had its dick sucked for 2,000 years.
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Also no one has forgotten about Aphrodite. So it wouldn't even be the same story.
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Also lmao of course some gods are one note, they're gods of SPECIFIC THINGS. "Fuckin Ares, always talking about war and always shown fighting, what a dumb one-note character."
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Also just catching up - Are we supposed to think that the widow Richardson murdered her nice husband John (seeing as she "swore she heard the Banshee cry the week before he died"), possibly by poisoning an apple?
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Beefeater1980 posted:Also just catching up - Are we supposed to think that the widow Richardson murdered her nice husband John (seeing as she "swore she heard the Banshee cry the week before he died"), possibly by poisoning an apple? Nah, that's just how banshees work. Hear 'em howling, you know someone's gonna die soon. Technically they're exclusively tied to noble Irish families, but maybe Essie qualified and by extent so did her husband
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Beefeater1980 posted:I just want to take a moment to point out again how incredibly good and full of detail the credits sequence is. The camera in the eye of the cherub;[...] I don't think they are cherubs: quote:In Greek mythology the Graeae (/ˈɡraɪi/; English translation: "old women", "grey ones", or "grey witches"; alternatively spelled Graiai (Γραῖαι) and Graiae), also called the Grey Sisters, and the Phorcides ("daughters of Phorcys"),[1] were three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth among them. Their names were Deino (or Dino), Enyo, and Pemphredo (or Pephredo).
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Honestly I'm trying to think what other Greco-Roman deities might show up as old gods and the only one I can think right now is probably Athena/Minerva
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achillesforever6 posted:Honestly I'm trying to think what other Greco-Roman deities might show up as old gods and the only one I can think right now is probably Athena/Minerva Zeus as a Glenn Beck, Alex Jones kind of guy
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