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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > American Gods: "You're a fucking asshole, Dead Wife!"
 
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ButteryNoodles
Jul 18, 2006
Deliciously satisfactory.
I'm a dummy. What was with all of the arrows? Just another god keeping those drat Vikings away?

Also, the last arrow that landed a beat late into the dead man's foot made me chuckle.

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ButteryNoodles
Jul 18, 2006
Deliciously satisfactory.

Zaphod42 posted:

Yeah just seemed like the Natives were telling them to gently caress off, this is our land and we'll defend it.

I did think it was super awkward though that the Vikings were all "our god is a war god, so lets go to war against each other!"
Like... why not try going to war with the Natives?

I guess they (probably correctly) figured they were massively outnumbered and had no chance?

Reading it as a Native American / First Peoples god keeping them away is kinda fun though, I hadn't considered that. Its entirely plausible.

I know right? It could've just been for comedic effect, but the accuracy and volume just stuck out to me. I guess it's more plausible that in a show/story about mythology and gods, a little exaggeration is to be expected.

I've read that there are more "coming to America" scenes in the other episodes. I'm kind of curious to see if that same level of overblown bullshit is in all of them.

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