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Steve Yun posted:I'd like to think they were related. The mom was played by the same actress as Old Essie, which suggested some sort of lineage of similar looking women. Alternate take: in reality Essie actually looks nothing like Laura, but is played by Emily Browning because Laura reminds Sweeney of Essie, and maybe these scenes are from his point of view and his memories. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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Toast Museum posted:They straight-up admit it in chapter 18. Wow, I can't not read that in Ian McShane's voice.
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Steve Yun posted:Alternate take: in reality Essie actually looks nothing like Laura, but is played by Emily Browning because Laura reminds Sweeney of Essie, and maybe these scenes are from his point of view and his memories. That's what I tend to think. I really liked the episode!
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Yeah, they said in the after the episode that they wanted to draw parallels between Essie and Laura's stories. Sweeney says himself that it's his way to be a fickle creature that brings good turns and bad to people. But for Laura he's been nothing but terrible and the guilt is destroying him. That's why he has been so outwardly hostile to her the entire time, in order to get his coin back he has to face his greatest sin and by the end of the episode he knows he has to make right what he did in order to deserve to have it back. The whole story serves to better draw the line between the old gods and the new, Sweeney won't let himself cross the line and only take, he has to give back a little something. Note that so far we've only seen Odin take and take. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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ZorajitZorajit posted:The episode felt like filler so close to the finale, I was at least hoping for Laura to meet a Jesus. But I'm glad that they did tell all of the Essie story, one of my favorite segments of the book. They mentioned Essie in the book? I don't remember that part at all.
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Shooting Blanks posted:They mentioned Essie in the book? I don't remember that part at all. I'm the book her name is Tregowan instead of MacGowan, she's Cornish instead of Irish, and she brings an otherwise unnamed Cornish fairy (I think a pixie? Can't remember) instead of Mad Sweeney. Otherwise the story's identical.
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Medullah posted:Oh I thought we were talking about the car accident with Laura and Sweeney, which I don't actually remember being in the book accident. Oh yeah, definitely the accident that killed Laura was him. Missed this post. My guess for the accident in this episode is Eostre. She's the namesake of Easter and while rabbits have nothing to do with her traditionally, it's pointed out in the book that modern American Easter has little to do with her original formation. Rabbits are important in modern Easter, which is still worshiped, however. What her motivation is, I have zero idea. On a side note - did I miss something where we're spoilering things in this thread? It's a spoiler thread for book readers - I thought anything that's already aired, speculation, and in this case anything in the book would be fair game. Are future book events not fair game or something?
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Shooting Blanks posted:Missed this post. My guess for the accident in this episode is Eostre. She's the namesake of Easter and while rabbits have nothing to do with her traditionally, it's pointed out in the book that modern American Easter has little to do with her original formation. Rabbits are important in modern Easter, which is still worshiped, however. What her motivation is, I have zero idea. People are spoiling the episode that airs Sunday night if they watch it on Starz on demand earlier in the day.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Missed this post. My guess for the accident in this episode is Eostre. She's the namesake of Easter and while rabbits have nothing to do with her traditionally, it's pointed out in the book that modern American Easter has little to do with her original formation. Rabbits are important in modern Easter, which is still worshiped, however. What her motivation is, I have zero idea. I tend to try and spoiler my comments if I've seen the episode just after it gets released.
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I read the rabbit more in a rabbit foot=good luck kinda way (in an episode in which luck was a central concept), but I like it maybe having something to do with Easter as well
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stereobreadsticks posted:I'm the book her name is Tregowan instead of MacGowan, she's Cornish instead of Irish, and she brings an otherwise unnamed Cornish fairy (I think a pixie? Can't remember) instead of Mad Sweeney. Otherwise the story's identical. Cousin Jack is either the faeries name or type in the book, I'm not that up on cornish mythology.
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SiKboy posted:Cousin Jack is either the faeries name or type in the book, I'm not that up on cornish mythology. It's a term for Cornish people.
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SiKboy posted:Cousin Jack is either the faeries name or type in the book, I'm not that up on cornish mythology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker_(folklore) quote:In the 1820s, immigrant Welsh miners brought tales of the knockers and their theft of unwatched items and warning knocks to western Pennsylvania, when they gravitated there to work in the mines. Cornish miners, much sought after in the years following the gold and silver rushes, brought them to California and Nevada.[1] When asked if they had relatives who would come to work the mines, the Cornish miners always said something along the lines of "Well, me cousin Jack over in Cornwall wouldst come, could ye pay ’is boat ride", and so came to be called Cousin Jacks.[2] The Cousin Jacks, as notorious for losing tools as they were for diving out of shafts just before they collapsed, attributed this to their diminutive friends and refused to enter new mines until assured by the management that the knockers were already on duty. Even non-Cornish miners, who worked deep in the earth where the noisy support timbers creaked and groaned, came to believe in the Tommyknockers.[3] The American interpretation of knockers seemed to be more ghostly than elvish This is cool stuff.
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Jason Boyega and Donald Glover as Fat Charlie and Spider from Anansi Boys
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I'd argue that quite possibly Mr. Nancy could be present if we see rabbits doing tricky business...Brer Rabbit is believed by many to be an Americanized Anansi...
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i hope thye just cut out all of the lovely boring stuff about shadow's winter vacation with the troll or whatever. Fast forward to anansi boys.
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Nah it's a good section. It might go on a little long but it's good. They've already shown they're willing to devote time to side stuff too so it will probably be fine.
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Choco1980 posted:Nah it's a good section. It might go on a little long but it's good. They've already shown they're willing to devote time to side stuff too so it will probably be fine. Hell, it could be really good for Shadow's character development to just have him be in a (seemingly) normal environment for a while
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So is Anansi boys going to get spliced into the Shadow/wednesday plot or is the plan to finish american gods and then have 2 (?) seasons of Anansi boys?
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I think the rabbit is just supposed to be more of Mad Sweeneys hosed up luck.
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The rabbit's gotta be easter right? Heavily advertised and no mention of her in the show so far.
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Mad Sweeny dumped some gold onto the road right before the bunny showed up. The fix was in, but he chickened out at the last minute and gave her back the coin.
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double nine posted:So is Anansi boys going to get spliced into the Shadow/wednesday plot or is the plan to finish american gods and then have 2 (?) seasons of Anansi boys? Not positive, but from what I was reading about the show it sounded more like the former.
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Lakeside is a great little story, but it almost feels like a separate short story dropped into AG*. I really like it, and it's climax, but I don't know what would actually change without it being in. *I thought I remembered that being the exact case, but I don't know if it's true or not.
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Lakeside was my favorite part of the book. The early stuff that the show's covering right now honestly bored me to tears, I had to power through. It was worth it, but good on you, show, for making it all interesting.
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I have to admit that I am another goon that found Lakeside to be my absolute favorite part of the book. I know that's weird, but it's true. It's hard to even explain why. I think maybe it taps into a fantasy of stepping into another life with a new name, no debts, a stack of hundred dollar bills, and no responsibility. I like that Shadow just meets the townsfolk and buys boring old books and reads them because he has literally nothing better to do. He eats pasties and practices his coin tricks in a barren almost totally unfurnished apartment in a Fargo/Twin Peaks kinda town. Reading the Lakeside section fills me with the same cozy feeling as playing Stardew Valley. Or beginning any other kind of sandbox-style RPG where there's no sense of impending doom. In video games, and even media in general, that's kind of rare. There's always some loving crisis lighting a fire under my rear end, so by comparison, it's this relaxing sinking-into-a-bath feeling to be totally free to be bored if you want to be, with no negative consequences.
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Here come the minor spoiler youtubes There were more Jesuses than we were led to believe Media as Judy Garland Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jun 16, 2017 |
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Steve Yun posted:Here come the minor spoiler youtubes That first one is amazing 
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Steve Yun posted:Here come the minor spoiler youtubes Soooo many Jesuses (Jesii?)
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I could be wrong but it looks like there's another White Jesus, and he wears polos and khakis
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Steve Yun posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker_(folklore)
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Steve Yun posted:Here come the minor spoiler youtubes Tomorrow is too far away.
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Steve Yun posted:I could be wrong but it looks like there's another White Jesus, and he wears polos and khakis I'm thinking that's Mormon Jesus
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Steve Yun posted:Here come the minor spoiler youtubes Steve Yun posted:I could be wrong but it looks like there's another White Jesus, and he wears polos and khakis
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coyo7e posted:every one of those guys was Jesus yes but I was under the assumption that there would only be one Jesus per race because of the casting that we found out a couple weeks ago, and now it looks like maybe we're getting two white Jesuses
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gently caress Kristen Chenowith is perfect.
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Escape Addict posted:I have to admit that I am another goon that found Lakeside to be my absolute favorite part of the book. I know that's weird, but it's true. It's hard to even explain why. I also really loved the Lakeside part of the story. I do really relate to you saying it has the same feelings as a sandboxy game/Stardew Valley (a game I really love) save. I think a part of it is...up until the Lakeside part, Shadow's only interacting with gods, in their world. Then he has to figure out how to be human, among humans. It's his coming out of prison moment. Up until he gets to Lakeside, he doesn't have to sort out his life as a free man. And then suddenly, he does. I think it's my favorite part of the book just because it really gave more character to Shadow, who really loving needed it. Also I totally dig the 'idyllic town with a dark secret' thing.
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