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Max posted:I mean, realizing how dumb you are about Loki in the book is a plot point, since even Shadow smacks his head when he makes the connection. Hearing it aloud has to make a difference. I listened to the audiobook, going in with nothing more than "there are gods in this." The narrator enunciated "Low-Key" as much as possible, but my immediate reaction was still "oh okay, it's Loki." The show clearly isn't interested in keeping viewers in the dark about anyone's identity for long, but I wonder if Shadow will figure it out sooner in the show too. That reminds me, does the book explicitly identify Shadow as Baldr? I don't remember that at all if it did.
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Choco1980 posted:Or hell, just THE Railroad. Don't tell me America once upon a time didn't treat trains like a god. Someone, maybe Media, specifically mentions railroads as sort of a fad god.
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May 11, 2017 23:29
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Blackchamber posted:Wait, I thought they only fed people whos hearts were heavier than the feather to whatever god eats bad people, and hers wasnt. I thought the cat was just pushing her because she was taking too long. That's what I got from it too. If they were going to trick her at all, why not just tell her she failed the feather test?
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May 15, 2017 17:39
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Max posted:I wonder if it's because Odin was responsible for her death. Yeah, I had the same thought. I'm not sure why that would really matter, though. It's not like Wednesday expected her to come back or needed her to have any particular sort of afterlife, so I don't know what favor Wednesday would have been calling in by getting Anubis involved.
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May 22, 2017 11:37
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cptn_dr posted:And anything that gives us more Kristin Chenowith is okay in my book. To be honest, her casting kind of gave me pause. I haven't seen enough of her acting to have an opinion on that front, but when I think "fertility goddess," she's not quite what I picture. That said, everyone's been doing great so far, so I'm sure she'll kill it too.
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May 24, 2017 13:25
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double nine posted:people in the other thread are talking about how when Laura comes home, there's a cartoon about a dog & bird on. How is this significant? The dog I could somehow see as referring to Anubis, but I don't see how this fits into the larger story... The cartoon playing before she tries to kill herself is Woody Dines Out, a Woody Woodpecker short. The other character is a cat, not a dog. I dunno, I guess it could be Ibis and Isis. When Laura brings Shadow home with her, the cat is watching another Woody short called The Screwdriver, which is about Woody messing with a motorcycle cop. I don't know that there's a hidden message there. When she finds her cat dead, the TV is playing yet another short, Buccaneer Woodpecker, featuring Woody opposite Buzz Buzzard. This one's a pretty clear sign that I should have avoided caffeine earlier and need to sleep.
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May 25, 2017 07:49
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Normal Adult Human posted:I thought Loki was Mr. World's driver, and was upfront about being the guy shadow knew in prison, and Mr World is never actually seen in the book? Shadow thinks Loki is a driver for the new gods. The new gods and spookshow think Mr. World is posing as a driver to surreptitiously keep an eye on the hotel meetup.
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May 29, 2017 19:13
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The whole name is too much and dumb, but "Low-key" on its own probably would've been fine. Do any of the other old gods use a straight-up pseudonym? All the ones I can think of use their actual name (e.g. Bilquis), a word derived from their name (Wednesday), or a common corruption of their name (e.g. Nancy). I can't think of any good options from the latter two categories for Loki.
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Wizchine posted:Well, Mr. Jacquel is Anubis, and Mr. Ibis is Thoth - they just named themselves after their animal portion of their identity.  Yeah, not sure how I forgot about them.
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May 29, 2017 20:19
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Terror Sweat posted:i forgot, what happens when a powerful god is murdered. does he just come back again later in a different form or something I think what Wednesday says is that they do die, and something like them but not them turns up after a while.
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May 30, 2017 01:42
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Am I seeing things, or was Mr. World going into and slightly out of focus during his scene, especially during closeups? That's a nice subtle visual cue that something's off with him.
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May 30, 2017 03:02
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dead comedy forums posted:but the thing here is that it works for the Anglosphere/Nordic/Germanic audiences, but Latin language countries, for example, wouldn't get it since Wednesday would be Mercury's day (Miércoles/Mercredi/Mercoledi/etc) since the names come from the Roman traditions. How do translations of the book handle that?
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May 30, 2017 04:44
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I always figured she came over with the Christians and other Abrahamic traditions not from people actually worshipping her. Any worship of her as a god would died out hundreds of year before the believers had a chance to emigrate to America. The book claims a lot of forgotten ancient migration.
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May 30, 2017 23:58
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's interesting to think that in this setting, there may well be "new" gods that are already on their way out It's not quite along the lines of your suggestions, but the book does mention some new gods with short-lived popularity. I think railroads was one of them.
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May 31, 2017 19:10
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ZorajitZorajit posted:As for electricity, do people really worship it the way they worship media or guns? I could see it being a recent washed-up deity. We don't give it much thought in our daily lives anymore, but people were loving enchanted when electricity hit the scene.
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May 31, 2017 21:15
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Steve Yun posted:I know it's not going to happen, but Supply Side Jesus would have been so perfect for this show I kind of assumed White Jesus would be at least partially this.
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May 31, 2017 22:12
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:It's funny because you're expecting something scandalous but nah, guy just likes horses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_orCijfCO-c
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Jun 1, 2017 20:41
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I wonder if Shadow's experience with Vulcan will lead to him catching on to Hinzelmann faster.
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Jun 5, 2017 04:44
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Normal Adult Human posted:he wore a nazi hat when he was playing wolfenstein or company of heroes or something Also, paid two dudes to carry a sign saying "death to all Jews." Because comedy or something.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:10
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coyo7e posted:One question I've ALWAYS had about American Gods, is "what is the House on the Hill"? I mean, I have heard of a couple of weird-rear end kitschy backwater Americana places sort of like it, but I'd really love to actually figure out where Gaiman pulled his influences from, and then maybe go visit them some day. It's a place in Wisconsin. A friend of mine went four or five years ago and confirmed that it's as weird as you'd expect. The parts of season two that take place there are being filmed on location, so we'll all get to see at least some of it.
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Jun 6, 2017 21:40
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muscles like this! posted:You know, I don't think the book ever implied that Wednesday manufactured the car accident. They straight-up admit it in chapter 18. quote:
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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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