Neil Gaiman's American Gods - [Starz]

Full_Circle_81 · 30-08-2020 12:57am

I'm really shocked there is going to be a third season of this, I couldn't even make it all the way through season 2. I remember loving the book, just the show felt awful slow (even if it looked great). With all the to-ing and fro-ing behind the scenes, it must have been dreadful for the cast working on it.....

EoinMcLovin · 29-09-2020 6:55pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZGGGMXJ9s

EoinMcLovin · 10-10-2020 8:49am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DijHgOy0fg

Homelander · 11-10-2020 3:01pm

Not sure I would even watch S3. S1 was decent but S2 just staggered all over the place without a definitive sense of purpose or direction for me.

Agent Coulson · 27-10-2020 7:16pm

Season 3 starts January 10th.

EoinMcLovin · 03-12-2020 7:25pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hos0zGABQcQ

EoinMcLovin · 11-01-2021 5:45pm

Started back last night and is on Prime Video

RobbingBandit · 11-01-2021 7:26pm

Gender swap of canon characters is very strange as a book reader it makes absolutely no sense but the show has absolutely deviated from the source material with the leprecunt and Mad Sweeney escapades and the Jinn and his friend getting a big background role I'm all for it if it goes somewhere if it is just to bow to the social expectations then yuck.

12-01-2021 2:08am

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Gender swap of canon characters is very strange as a book reader it makes absolutely no sense but the show has absolutely deviated from the source material with the leprecunt and Mad Sweeney escapades and the Jinn and his friend getting a big background role I'm all for it if it goes somewhere if it is just to bow to the social expectations then yuck.

Who was swapped?

fritzelly · 12-01-2021 5:51am

Liked season 1, started to lose interest in season 2 and now season 3 is more of background noise

Weird series jumping all over the place with so many characters and stories

Don't know if I'll manage to finish the series

Unearthly · 12-01-2021 7:58am

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Who was swapped?

Mr World changed to Ms World, Crispin Glovers character

12-01-2021 1:32pm

Unearthly wrote: »

Mr World changed to Ms World, Crispin Glovers character

FFS
Was the reason inclusvity or something?

RobbingBandit · 12-01-2021 4:34pm

Hinzelmann is a man in the books too that's the one I find confusing. Mr World not so much but still very contrived to change it as it may only be a short term change Hinzelmann isn't and it ****s the story up quite a bit but so many of the changes already have.

Slydice · 31-01-2021 1:15am

Catching up..

3.1: Some really good camera work and effects in this. Storywise.. it just felt like it was laying some groundwork. That scene where the coin didn't land in Sweeneys hand.. I was like.. :eek: so now they are relying on some accident to happen.. and maybe someone else is going to drink that potion!

Slydice · 31-01-2021 6:09pm

3.2: Hmmm... the overall (war) story just moving along, then the

girl going missing story. I'm assuming it has something to do with the underwear thief.

Slydice · 01-02-2021 8:48pm

3.3: Hrmmm.. I mean.. it looks like

they're sayin Technical Boy killed Bilquis.. but I'm not sure Technical Boy ain't sittin down Shakin like that because Bilquis got him somehow and then got away.

Eduard Khil · 01-02-2021 8:53pm

Episode 4 answers some of those questions it's totally gone 9ff the rails for book readers the roaster of gods is completely crazy at this point I did love the dentist had a rubber hand.

05-02-2021 2:10am

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Hinzelmann is a man in the books too that's the one I find confusing. Mr World not so much but still very contrived to change it as it may only be a short term change Hinzelmann isn't and it ****s the story up quite a bit but so many of the changes already have.

Hes back.

Slydice · 06-02-2021 7:02pm

3.4: Aha!

I knew Bilquis couldn't be dead.. it does feel like the arc of this season is wrapping around her for some reason. I get the feeling, she'll be like some kinda bomb going off that the end.

RobbingBandit · 07-02-2021 5:00pm

No new episode this weekend back next weekend

Slydice · 14-02-2021 9:12pm

3.5: Oh hold on..

she found him.. was she nearby? I didn't get that impression.. yeah ok. Guessing the tech dude might be undergoing a change.

Slydice · 22-02-2021 11:17pm

3.6: Felt like a story

building episode.. I'm guessing Demeter will still have a bigger part later in the season.

Dufflecoat Fanny · 28-02-2021 11:01pm

Just watched episode 7 there. Whole season is underwealming so far.

fritzelly · 01-03-2021 12:55am

Dufflecoat Fanny wrote: »

Just watched episode 7 there. Whole season is underwealming so far.

Very true - persevering to the end but nothing in it really to keep me coming back each week

Slydice · 02-03-2021 1:17am

3.7: I liked that while they seem to be going on with the either-you're-already-in-on-the-whole-or-you're-not that they managed in that 5 second (or less) flash at the end convey that

yer man has been behind these set of incidents. As for the village.. the Hansel and Gretel hints

.. OK, yeah thanks.

Slydice · 08-03-2021 11:44pm

3.8: That nagging feeling that

somehow or another she's bringing wednesday the spear because wednesday wants the spear and has put some kind of plan into action to get her to bring it to him.

Slydice · 16-03-2021 8:40pm

3.9: Hrmmmmm,

I don't think he's dead

Eduard Khil · 17-03-2021 11:34am

That was a train wreck not sure I wanna see the last episode stupid stuff that wrecks the book story they should have never ended lakeside like that it was supposed to happen at the end of the series.

Slydice · 23-03-2021 11:39pm

3.10:

I knew it! I knew he was up to something! Just checked and the wiki article says a fourth season is being written:

(link)

So that's the season finale..

Eduard Khil · 24-03-2021 5:25pm

Weird twists all season very different direction without Mr Nancy the whole African Gods introduction was completed unexpected the book uses a more Carribbean ensemble of Voodoo and Shamanic Gods which seems same as Mr Nancy to be a wrong direction according to the showrunner. Pity as it screwed up the entire season Shadow us supposed to learn things during the vigal.

Mr Ibis seemed to have stood in for Mr Nancy at the end too overall very disappointed with how that went very silly changes to fill in storyline gaps they brought about by going so off mode with the story. I'm hoping Neil Gaiman does an AMA soon as I have serious questions as to how the story was ruined like this.

Neil Gaiman's American Gods - [Starz]

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