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I enjoyed it but I also disliked how slow-paced it seemed to be, it gave me a sour taste because even before reading you folks talk about the reviewers' opinions to avoid spoilers, the episode felt like a setup for a slow, slow season.
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The book is a slow paced mess so I'm not really let down here
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Just rewatched the final scenes of the premiere to get the name of the song played over it and I love Mad Sweeney’s change of luck when the sniper laser blinds him, he slips on the blood, and Laura takes the hit instead. Song is “Everybody Walkin’ This Land” by Paul Cauthen, in case anyone else liked it too.
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I did like it, yeah. Guy sounds extremely Cash. I was sitting there thinking "I've never heard this one before"
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Mierenneuker posted:I like the music as well. For reference, from the last page.
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kinda hoping that Mr Nancy making references to his son is a setup for Anansi Boys but i doubt it's even happening
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I thought at one point they said this series actually would include stuff from Anansi Boys?
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Yeah as season 4 and 5. But with the first season going 30 million over budget and this season getting close with all the production issues and reshoots, getting renewed might be a shoot the moon scenario.
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Late to the party but I thought it was a good episode, and I hope there is more of Anansi, this season.
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The episode was perfectly fine yeah and even had moments of greatness. Fuller gone so what
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https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/american-gods-renewed-season-3-new-showrunner-1203164650/ Time for renewal & a new showrunner!
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So the show will be canceled once Starz finds a showrunner they like?
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bigE posted:https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/american-gods-renewed-season-3-new-showrunner-1203164650/ *Yakkety Sax plays in background*
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It’s a metaphor for how deities endure and evolve over time. Like how prehistoric Dis Phater became Zeus and Jupiter and Dyaus Pitar and Tiwaz and so on Nice reference show
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Did the critics get to see more than the first episode? Because while it wasn't the best it was still pretty good.
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Chernabog posted:Did the critics get to see more than the first episode? Because while it wasn't the best it was still pretty good. First 3 by most I saw.
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I'm beginning to think maybe it wasn't Fuller.
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bigE posted:https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/american-gods-renewed-season-3-new-showrunner-1203164650/ The new showrunner's credits include The Walking Dead and Dexter  Can't wait till season 4, helmed by Scott Buck.
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So that was a fuckin great episode
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“It’d be a shame to split the two of you up” Showrunners have been reading the thread, I see. Laura and Mad Sweeney road trip shenanigans are the best.
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https://twitter.com/TheOrlandoJones/status/1107294109356695552 It doesn't look like Mr Nancy blames Fuller or Green at all.
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Fwiw, this is what THR had to sayquote:"There are a lot of people who had a lot of different visions for what the book would look like on air," says one source with extensive knowledge of the show's history. There was conflict in the first season — much of it documented when Green and Fuller were fired in November 2017 — and if anything, things got worse in season two, multiple sources note. Starz largely let Fremantle run the show, but Fremantle's stable of programs are mostly in the reality realm, which made the stakes surrounding Gods — one of the studio's rare scripted programs — all the higher. Insiders say Fremantle meddled, and not in ways that helped the show sustain a coherent creative vision or keep the production on track.
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Based on that article, as well as a few others I've read, it sounds like the problem is that Gaiman isn't playing nice with the showrunners and Fremantle is deferring to him
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Gum posted:Based on that article, as well as a few others I've read, it sounds like the problem is that Gaiman isn't playing nice with the showrunners and Fremantle is deferring to him It both would and wouldn't surprise me if Gaiman is actually a massive knob to work with. A girl I know is friends with him and by all accounts he's super nice in that passive aggressively humble British way which could be hard to work with.
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Shadow's mom is finer than a motherfucker.
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Dennis Duffy, Beeper King of New York!
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Vogon Poetry Slam posted:“It’d be a shame to split the two of you up” So long as this continues I'll be happy.
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Roadkill Rhonda and her pet Leprechaun steal the gosh darn show. And I buy Shadow originally being a big "dumb" follower to smaller feisty Laura, after all she calls him her puppy. He's basically all the gods chief acolyte now, yes? He believes, he spreads the word, others linked to him believe, and so it ripples outwards
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Gum posted:Based on that article, as well as a few others I've read, it sounds like the problem is that Gaiman isn't playing nice with the showrunners and Fremantle is deferring to him That’s pretty much the general consensus, Fremantle’s Company is also making Good Omens and had a first look contract with Gaiman at the time. So Fremantle had a lot to lose if he upset Gaiman and from what I understand, after everything with Mike Carey and the Lucifer tv show, Gaiman has become a lot more protective of his work.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:That’s pretty much the general consensus, Fremantle’s Company is also making Good Omens and had a first look contract with Gaiman at the time. So Fremantle had a lot to lose if he upset Gaiman and from what I understand, after everything with Mike Carey and the Lucifer tv show, Gaiman has become a lot more protective of his work. Wait, the Lucifer cop procedural is based on Gaiman's Lucifer? ...yikes
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I don't know about the comic; but the show's pretty great.
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Yeah the show's actually not bad, but as adaptations go it's pretty far afield from its (apparent) source material.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:That’s pretty much the general consensus, Fremantle’s Company is also making Good Omens and had a first look contract with Gaiman at the time. So Fremantle had a lot to lose if he upset Gaiman and from what I understand, after everything with Mike Carey and the Lucifer tv show, Gaiman has become a lot more protective of his work.
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McSpanky posted:Wait, the Lucifer cop procedural is based on Gaiman's Lucifer? Yeah, when it comes down to cop procedurals it's not the worst thing in the world but it's as far from the original content as humanly possible.
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McSpanky posted:Wait, the Lucifer cop procedural is based on Gaiman's Lucifer? Gaiman had nothing to do with the Lucifer comic. That comic was just using the Sandman Lucifer, I guess to hook more people into reading it
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The flashback stuff was a little much but I gotta say they absolutely nailed the casting for the younger Shadow. Also Dead Wife and Unlucky Leprechaun remain a great double act, and I love how revolted Anansi is by Wednesday. I thought they were gonna go with the obvious (and terrible) payoff to the chicken joke and was so glad that they went a different way.
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Chicken joke was good. That was by far the most boring episode in both seasons so far. This thing is going at a snail's pace. I'll keep watching cause I dug season one (except Vulcan episode), but I can see why reviewers weren't necessarily on board this go-round.
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You'd think that if Gaiman didn't like Lucifer he'd not guest star in an episode, yeah?
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I hope that they have a long term contract with Ian McShane because he really is the glue holding the entire show together, I cannot imagine it working without him.
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