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DentD posted:^^ oh yes. Connecting lynching to Odin's sacrifice of himself to himself is, if nothing else, the kind of thing that would piss Nazi neo-pagans off so much I'm willing to wait and see where they go with it.
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Crow Jane posted:Meet Czernobog: Tuxedo Catfish posted:I don't know how Bryan Fuller convinced someone to give him a truckload of money to make more of the stuff that got Hannibal canceled, but I'm so happy he did.
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That dude's a little testy about it but no, Neil Gaiman's just not a very good writer, especially outside of the comic medium.
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Normal Adult Human posted:Neil Gaiman is such an exceptional Urban Fantasy author that he has actually broken the barrier and become a lovely fiction writer. 
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I knew who he was as soon as they said "Mr. Wednesday" because "it's my day" but I had a lot of exposure to Norse myth growing up. Of course I was also completely blindsided by the Loki reveal so who knows. 
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precision posted:One wonders if Freya gets some power from Friday being worshiped by everyone with an office job Freya suffered a fate worse than death
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May 29, 2017 21:57
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It's funny because you're expecting something scandalous but nah, guy just likes horses.
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King Vidiot posted:It must suck to be somebody who has to pour over a book for errors and analyze it on a technical level instead of just digging the setting, narrative and characters. Not really. It leads you to a richer enjoyment of things that are actually good. Zaphod42 posted:Also there's no way its worse written than anything pre-20th century. Old school writing, with the sole exception of Shakespeare (because he was writing plays, not books) is so loving painfully dry. also it gives you the privilege of not being this guy lmao
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Shooting Blanks posted:What would you consider "actually good" I mean, I love all kinds of trash media, it's not like I set the bar all that high. But even if we're just talking about Neil Gaiman in particular then Sandman and his short stories are much better than any of his full-length novels. e: sandman's kind of apples to oranges of course but then again that's also why it works Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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Jun 4, 2017 05:26
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Shooting Blanks posted:That doesn't answer my question. Sure it does.
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April posted:I think that Taliesin was Merlin's teacher, in the King Arthur stories. He was a real historical person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliesin
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Jun 6, 2017 22:44
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I mean, he's probably also a character in Arthurian legend, the two aren't exactly exclusive. King Arthur is like one big fanfiction shared universe for Medieval writers.
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Jun 6, 2017 23:26
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BrianWilly posted:But that's such a...contemporary notion of very non-contemporary gods. It's not actually godly. It's not actually mythological. In actual mythology -- which is a bit of an oxymoron, I know -- the idea of gods being reliant on humans for anything is incredibly rare to the point of being anathematic to what godhood is. I absolutely agree, but basically by watching a show like this you're agreeing to suspend disbelief and indulge in the sort of New Age woo, mind-over-matter, power of belief that Gaiman and now Fuller are drawing on, at least for the sake of the story. That's the mythology the show is actually about, not Norse or Greek or Hawaiian or whatever. That stuff's just window dressing. (As it is in most fiction, unfortunately.) e: Or perhaps it would be more accurate not to call it window dressing, but to say that American Gods has a totalizing lens through which it views all other mythology. Which, to be fair, is very American.
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Hannibal didn't "lose" those things so much as it has its own and doesn't care what the book did. Like, Hannibal Lecter in the books is a cold, rational predator. He's like a shark, or a murderous android; he's not that interesting, honestly, but doesn't need to be since he's more of a plot device than anything else. In the TV series though he's a main character and so by necessity Fuller makes him into this larger than life Dracula / Lucifer character instead, and it owns.
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