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Dromedary66 said:
Didn't enjoy the first episode of season 2 at all, very disappointing.
Couldn't agree less. 
Just finished watching S2 E1. Loved it. Takes up where series 1 left us.
Mind you maybe I'm finding it just as good based on having re-watched the whole of series 1 last week and started reading the book this week. Coincidentally much of what I just watched in S2 E1 I had read in the book just last night excepting the bar scene at the end!
It doesn't follow the book slavishly but adapts, adopts and omits as required to create the TV version.
All in all, I am totally hooked in again, so glad it's back. Just wish Mr World would speak a bit clearer, takes me a few minutes to tune my ears into his voice/whispering delivery.
Piersman2 said:
Dromedary66 said:
Didn't enjoy the first episode of season 2 at all, very disappointing.
Couldn't agree less. Just finished watching S2 E1. Loved it. Takes up where series 1 left us.
Mind you maybe I'm finding it just as good based on having re-watched the whole of series 1 last week and started reading the book this week. Coincidentally much of what I just watched in S2 E1 I had read in the book just last night excepting the bar scene at the end!
It doesn't follow the book slavishly but adapts, adopts and omits as required to create the TV version.
All in all, I am totally hooked in again, so glad it's back. Just wish Mr World would speak a bit clearer, takes me a few minutes to tune my ears into his voice/whispering delivery.
This along with Alan Partridge make two programmes actually worthwhile waiting for.
I've just started this. WAs never a McShane fan until I watched Deadwood but it's good.
and one is the devil.
I don't think I have a clue what's going on yet (S1, Ep5) and I'm assuming the storyline is that the folk like McShane, the wee tech dude, etc are "Gods" But God of what? I'm struggling to see the plot?
I think I'm getting a good vs evil "god" theme and also assuming that one is god and one is the devil but then there are the "Mr's". (Wednesday and World) - the black guy has a really good "WTF" is happening" face and his dead wife, well, powered by the Aztec coin, or doubloon?
And now Unicorns...... WTF. Reminds me of the 90's house parties.
and one is the devil.
I don't think I have a clue what's going on yet (S1, Ep5) and I'm assuming the storyline is that the folk like McShane, the wee tech dude, etc are "Gods" But God of what? I'm struggling to see the plot?
I think I'm getting a good vs evil "god" theme and also assuming that one is god and one is the devil but then there are the "Mr's". (Wednesday and World) - the black guy has a really good "WTF" is happening" face and his dead wife, well, powered by the Aztec coin, or doubloon?
And now Unicorns...... WTF. Reminds me of the 90's house parties.
AJB88 said:
Is it one episode a week? have seen them all so far but going to watch it from the start again.
Yes, looks like one a week. Davie_GLA said:
I don't think I have a clue what's going on yet (S1, Ep5) and I'm assuming the storyline is that the folk like McShane, the wee tech dude, etc are "Gods" But God of what?
There's a clue in McShane's character's name. Davie_GLA said:
Someone spoiler the Mr Wednesday think please. I'm thick.
I’m no expert on gods and mythology. Had to do some research to make sense of it. Mr Wednesday is the Norse god Odin. He is a representative of the ‘old gods’. The things people worshiped before Christianity. The new gods are representatives of globalisation, technology, the internet, and anything else ‘worshiped’ by modern American culture.
SpudLink said:
I’m no expert on gods and mythology. Had to do some research to make sense of it.
Mr Wednesday is the Norse god Odin. He is a representative of the ‘old gods’. The things people worshiped before Christianity. The new gods are representatives of globalisation, technology, the internet, and anything else ‘worshiped’ by modern American culture.
All of the 'old god' characters in American Gods are based on 'real' (well, you know what I mean...) gods or supernatural beings.Mr Wednesday is the Norse god Odin. He is a representative of the ‘old gods’. The things people worshiped before Christianity. The new gods are representatives of globalisation, technology, the internet, and anything else ‘worshiped’ by modern American culture.
Wednesday = Woden (from whom we ourselves derive the day 'Wednesday' as a corruption of 'Wodensday').
Eostre (Easter) is an Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess
Czernobog is a Slavic 'black' (evil) god
The Zorya sisters are also Slavic - goddesses of the evening, midnight and morning stars.
Mr Nansi = the African spider god, Anansi
Mr Ibis & Mr Jacquel = the Egyptian Ibis and Jackal headed gods, Thoth and Anubis
Mama Ji = the Hindu goddess of death, Khali
Low-Key Lyesmith = Loki (Norse pantheon)
Whiskey Jack = Wisakedjak, an American native Manitou
etc., etc...
The basic premis of the novel is that immigrants to America have brought their gods with them, but those gods are left struggling for belief (without which they can't exist) against modern 'gods' representing technological and financial aspirations.
Not a spoiler, I don't think, 'cos if you haven't worked that one out by now, the whole series will make no sense at all!
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