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Open Source Idiom posted:Just read that the show's also fired the Djinn and the Taxi Driver, so the poo poo storm only continues to swirl. Wow. So the people who have been fired are all brown and/or queer. gently caress this show, it's now under boycott in my home.
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Where'd all this "Neil Gaiman is a nightmare to work with" come from? All of his adaptations have had significant changes to them from their source material, so that has never seemed to be an issue with them. As I recall, he had a fairly hands-off approach with this show owing to the production of Good Omens. Though honestly this is probably the worst book to adapt to a TV series, and then they went and tried to stretch less than half a book for two seasons? Season 3 is looking at the part of the book where literally nothing happens to Shadow. So, on top of Anansi getting axed, there's absolutely nothing going for this.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1206336143731707905?s=19 Did anyone actually think that he was? It's good PR to let him be involved in the production, especially since he has some passionate fans. But it would be pretty astonishing for any creators to have a real say in a tv/movie production of their work.
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After the shambles of last season and now all this poo poo I think it's time to write this show off. I've never been one to do that lightly, but this is the second show I've had to do it to this year.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Just read that the show's also fired the Djinn and the Taxi Driver, so the poo poo storm only continues to swirl. I don’t doubt it but do you have a link?
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Malpais Legate posted:Where'd all this "Neil Gaiman is a nightmare to work with" come from? All of his adaptations have had significant changes to them from their source material, so that has never seemed to be an issue with them. As I recall, he had a fairly hands-off approach with this show owing to the production of Good Omens. IIRC one of the conflicts between him and Fuller was that the latter wanted to excise the Samantha Crow storyline completely (because it would make for boring TV) and Gaiman didn't. Busket Posket posted:I don’t doubt it but do you have a link? https://twitter.com/MousaKraish/status/1206395874814726144?s=19 The backlash is getting pretty serious, I don't know how the show continues after alienating so many fans. It's not like it was hugely successful anyway. Reminds me of how Sleepy Hollow went down the drain. Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Oasx posted:Did anyone actually think that he was? It's good PR to let him be involved in the production, especially since he has some passionate fans. But it would be pretty astonishing for any creators to have a real say in a tv/movie production of their work. He has a very heavy hand in the production of Good Omens. I think I quoted the Variety article earlier in the thread but the production company that's making both shows had a first first look contract with Gaimen that was set to expire last June. The studio was desperate to extend and so have a lot of concessions to Gain an both before and after the contracts original end.
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I wonder if Anubis was also disappeared at the going rate...would explain his pretty well total absence outside a throwaway line at the funeral parlor last season despite that absolutely making no sense in terms of his role. They are getting close to a season 3 cold open that is just a title card stating all the black gods perished on the way back to their home planet in a tragic spaceship accident.
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mycomancy posted:Wow. So the people who have been fired are all brown and/or queer. Neither the Djinn nor the cab driver were actually gay. Edit: The actors, I mean.
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precision posted:Neither the Djinn nor the cab driver were actually gay. Edit: The actors, I mean. I think they were referring to Fuller. His firing had nothing to do with him being queer, though.
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Whatever's actually going on, I can't muster up any fucks to give. The second season was a dud that barely moved the story--and isn't there still around half of the book's content to pare down to 10 episodes? Originally I was conflicted over the show version of Anansi, but it ended up working fine as the show changed so much other material. Shame to see another scene-stealer walk... but at this point I'm over it. Maybe I'll re-read Anasi Boys, which I read before American Gods by at least a decade.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think they were referring to Fuller. His firing had nothing to do with him being queer, though. I believe the official, on-record reason for why he was fired was to specifically make me, Jerusalem, personally upset. They succeeded 
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ExiledTinkerer posted:They are getting close to a season 3 cold open that is just a title card stating all the black gods perished on the way back to their home planet in a tragic spaceship accident. Look, I mean, they did hire a black trans actress to play Ms World. But, like, I don't think that's going to make the show better all of a sudden.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think they were referring to Fuller. His firing had nothing to do with him being queer, though. No, I swore that the Cab Driver was played by a gay man, but I appear to be wrong. The brown part still holds up though.
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Has any show ever had such a good first season and just go completely haywire immediately after? It's as if the first season came down from space and nobody wants to talk about the rest anymore.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Has any show ever had such a good first season and just go completely haywire immediately after? It's as if the first season came down from space and nobody wants to talk about the rest anymore. Heroes?
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Prison Break had a massive quality gap between the first season and the rest. Not that it was much of masterpiece but those later seasons.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Has any show ever had such a good first season and just go completely haywire immediately after? It's as if the first season came down from space and nobody wants to talk about the rest anymore. Sleepy Hollow is a pretty good example although it made it most of the way through the second season before it happened.
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The second season of American Gods may not have had much plot movement but it was way loving better than poo poo like Heroes season 2 and doesn't really deserve to be part of that category. It doesn't come together as well as season 1 did, but the production and performances were still top notch. The Sweeney episode alone has more artistic merit than the entirety of Heroes.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Prison Break had a massive quality gap between the first season and the rest. Not that it was much of masterpiece but those later seasons. I never found the non-prison stuff interesting, so for me Prison Break is a perfect example of a show you only need to watch the first season of.
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If Orlando Jones is making your show better by being a bit of a jerk, let him be a jerk I can't even imagine he was actually doing anything worth getting fired anyway
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Heroes? Heroes at least had a writer's strike as an excuse
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I'll keep up with the thread because I kinda want to see how this plays out, but there's no point watching it anymore.
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I'll definitely still watch but I ain't paying dollars for this.
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What a goddamn clusterfuck this is. RIP to the good characters who were murdered by a 55 year old hot topic manager
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Now that they got rid of Counterpart this was literally the only thing to watch in Starz. I think I’m going to cancel it and pick up Disney+ for my kid.
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beanieson posted:Now that they got rid of Counterpart this was literally the only thing to watch in Starz. I think I’m going to cancel it and pick up Disney+ for my kid. no but what about the new season of weeds new season of weeds
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Open Source Idiom posted:no but what about the new season of weeds What the gently caress? That show jumped the shark two seasons before it ended.
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beanieson posted:Now that they got rid of Counterpart this was literally the only thing to watch in Starz. I think I’m going to cancel it and pick up Disney+ for my kid. I heard Power was good 🤷🏾♀️
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https://twitter.com/The_GWW/status/1207053372202913797 Whoever asked for an hour of McShane reading dialogue, looks like you're gonna get your wish. I know they're bringing in other (cheaper) actors to play various incarnations of Mr. World but it really feels like the principal cast is just abandoning ship at this point.
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Mat Cauthon posted:https://twitter.com/The_GWW/status/1207053372202913797 Lol yup this thing is dead.
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