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"This book that has to do with Gods has a guy named Low Key Liesmith that's such a regular name, I'm sure it doesn't mean anything!" Like, I can't tell if you guys are joking about not picking up on it or not.
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1stGear posted:Even smart people have real dumb ideas frequently. The important part is that they listened to someone else and realized their idea was dumb. Yeah. Go look up Vince Gilligan's original plan for Season 1 of Breaking Bad and realize that even smart people need to be reigned in and be told "that's really loving dumb, dude" sometimes.
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ymgve posted:I found it on https://www.primevideo.com which seems to be a separate Amazon thing for the non-US market. Costs much less than Amazon Prime Video for some reason, bills in Euros, also got a trial there even though I already used one for Amazon Prime. Only the fire was CGI, they covered their bodies in charcoal.
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GonSmithe posted:Only the fire was CGI, they covered their bodies in charcoal. Just to reiterate I wasn't kidding here, they actually did this.
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May 15, 2017 20:57
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Vintersorg posted:Why was Anubis there? His scene ruled but I guess he's just another forgotten god? In the preview for next week, Anubis is talking with Laura about being dead, so they probably wanted to introduce him before that Interestingly, Fuller said that that scene was the original cold open of the entire show, not the Odin beach scene. They changed it because the network wanted them to start with something more masculine that still describes what's going on in the world. I think it was a good change, awesome as the Anubis scene was.
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May 16, 2017 15:59
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the_american_dream posted:So where did death come from the 2nd time? The dog die or did I miss Audrey dying somehow How can you be this bad at watching TV?
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May 22, 2017 12:35
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DentD posted:To be fair. The first time Anubis showed up the woman wasn't shown falling off her stool. Until he pointed out the body we, the audience, weren't aware that she was dead. What's your point here? We didn't know she was dead yet, yeah, but then he takes her to the afterlife.
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May 22, 2017 16:53
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Anubis literally threatens to drag her into the darkness by putting her into the hot tub with bug spray how are you people so loving bad at watching tv?
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stereobreadsticks posted:I just want to say that making the incarnation of the internet into a bratty privileged white kid who wears corn rows and can't understand why it looks bad to lynch a black guy is disturbingly timely and accurate. Yeah I know a bunch of people were upset that he wasn't a pimply trench-coat wearing loser, but this Technical Boy is such an absolutely perfect personification of what the worst parts of the internet are now. Everybody is just giving it their all for this show and it elevates the already fantastic visuals and atmosphere into something else. I love it.
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May 29, 2017 15:05
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When Shadow had his visions in the first episode the tree was reaching for him, so I'm sure it has something to do with that.
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May 30, 2017 02:29
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The CGI was definitely done the way it was on purpose. It's meant to look like a storybook, the death of a god. Someone mentioned to me it reminded them of the Deathly Hallows animation in the Harry Potter movies.
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May 31, 2017 16:50
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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.
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Jun 3, 2017 18:00
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He was saying that he needed power and gave up his wood for something more practical that could help him survive
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stereobreadsticks posted:Anyone else find it a little odd, possibly lazy, that at least one of the anti-immigrant militia members was holding a rosary? I mean, I get the point that both groups were Christians but anti-immigrant extremism in the US has almost always had anti-Catholic sentiments as a major part of their ideology. Of course, I'm not saying Catholics can't be anti-immigrant but the kind of people who would organize an actual death squad don't seem like they'd be too happy to allow Catholics into their club. It just seems like the writers wanted to make the point that both groups were Christians and used the rosary as a convenient symbol of that, either without realizing that it's a specifically Catholic symbol or without realizing the history of anti-Catholic bigotry in American nativist groups from the Know-Nothings to the KKK. No, I think crazy Christian idiots in Texas are absolutely forming death squads to kill the Mexican rapists coming into our country illegally.
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Sickening posted:Who is odin? This more book poo poo? Just because you didn't pick up on the glaringly obvious, explicitly stated things that are happening in the show doesn't mean it's "book poo poo."
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Jun 5, 2017 23:20
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SpookyLizard posted:I think it's supposed to be less racial tension and more of a reflection of how insular Vulcan's America is (and how it's necessary to support him) and how Shadow doesn't 'fit' (more ideologically, less ethnically) into that version of America. Wednesday just doesn't give a gently caress and/or is above it, but because Shadow is super on edge, everyone else is on edge around him as a defense mechanism. Shadow is rejecting of Vulcan's America, so Vulcan fucks with Shadow. Technical Boy alt account spotted
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Jun 6, 2017 03:02
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Well it wasn't just the fact that they were neo-Nazis, it's the fact that the show explicitly said to gun-worshippers "gently caress you, your fetishes are what's ruining America and you are literally Nazis demanding human sacrifice by your hand." I mean I agree with it but it makes sense they got upset.
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COOL CORN posted:"Listen I love a gay muslim dick as much as the next guy, but then they started makin' fun of our second amendment!..." Someone pointed out to me that they were probably okay with this scene because it confirms their beliefs that Muslim men are all gay cucks
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Jun 11, 2017 14:49
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spudsbuckley posted:As an Irish guy, the accents bugged the gently caress out of me in this one. It's because it's an American show and Americans can't even tell the difference between an English accent and an Australian accent. Not that that makes it better for native speakers, but that's the reason.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:08
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Coohoolin posted:this show was way bad except for individual acting being good for wednesday, czernobog, nancy, and jacquel. everything else was bad and dumb and unnecessary changes from the source material that made the show a lot less interesting than it could have been. I read half the book (right where this season ends, actually) and stopped because it was boring poo poo. This show completely improved on the source material in every way and actually made it interesting.
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Jun 21, 2017 04:47
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Vorgen posted:I can't get over how enamored Easter is of Odin's sword. He whips it out and she doesn't dismiss it, instead she cradles it and caresses it during their conversation, looking closely at the details of the blade and pommel. She can't even keep her hands off it when she's the one talking. It's his dick
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Jun 21, 2017 13:12
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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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Jun 23, 2017 16:38
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Wow, that was a giant pile of poo poo.
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If you want more Sweeney watch a good show, The Wire, instead.
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Jun 27, 2017 16:22
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It was explained in literally the next episode
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gently caress. gently caress. Well, there goes a great show.
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achillesforever6 posted:I mean it can still probably be a good show I mean yeah, it COULD, but Fuller's style is so unique, and the first season was exploding with it. It'll be hard to emulate.
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Dog Kisser posted:So, does his absence really affect next season? Surely a lot of this is planned out and/or shot already. Apparently they wrote half of the scripts for the season. No shooting had started. So yes, with a new showrunner it is going to be completely different.
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I don’t have a link to the tweet but he said on Twitter he is absolutely not going to run two shows at once, but he’s going to be very close to the new showrunner like he did with Fuller.
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New showrunner announced, he worked with Fuller on Hannibal and Star Trek: Discovery https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/american-gods-hires-new-showrunner-season-2-1080813 Some interesting quotes in the article quote:Fuller and Green had already written the first six episodes of season two, with sources noting Fremantle planned to toss those scripts and start from scratch with Alexander. In addition to budget concerns, sources note Gaiman was also unhappy with the direction Fuller and Green planned to take season two as their vision was not a straight adaptation of his source material. Gaiman is said to have wanted a showrunner to come in and produce a straight take on his novel (which would include ignoring the cliffhanger from season one). I’d uh, really not be very happy if it starts to follow the book more because all the changed stuff in season 1 was much better than the book stuff, especially everything with Laura.
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Doesn’t surprise me, lmao Knew I should have went to Twitter first to see if he had said anything.
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