American Gods

Husbando of the year edition.

Did he do the right thing at the end of the latest episode?
Also general discussion about all the perfect (and weak) characters in the series.

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im not gay enough to watch this, or really enjoy any of neil gaymans shit

Great episode

ok

I bet you'd enjoy receiving a freckly Irish dick. In secret of course

Not everyone can stomach it we understand

What the fuck is the deal with Neil Gaiman and all his protagonists just calmly accepting everything that happens to them?

-Your wife died sucking your friends cock!
>ok

-A demon has stolen your helmet and taken it to hell.
>ok

-You will have to go to this parallel dimension and explore weird caves also everybody in this book has treated you like shit, have you noticed?
>ok

Didn't read the book but: it seems as if Shadow Moon even before the start of the shitfest experiences some intuitive premonitions about bad and strange stuff. Isn't that the point with his character? It's mentioned/suggested several times that he once believed in something or at least experienced something specific in regards to the supernatural but later felt a need to disregard it.

I agree though, he sure is slow to make the most basic conclusions and has sno measure of healthy critical thinking. I was delighted to see him ditch Laura at the hotel room tho.

That episode was boring as fuck. It wouldn't be so bad if there were more but this was the episode before the fucking finale?

Is Gaiman Irish? Where did all that fucking irish sentimentality come from?

He's pandering to the American market. It's full of plastic paddies here.

I want to have a leprechaun in my leprecunt!

I only want Mad Sweeney and Anubis to survive.

Mr gay man is a hack

I thought each country had their own god?

Why did Irish Sweeney become American Sweeney?

Did the people in Ireland get a new Sweeney?

I thought each country had their own god?
yes
>Why did Irish Sweeney become American Sweeney?
not the same leprechaun,probably just using the same actor for reasons.

>Did the people in Ireland get a new Sweeney?
nope

I want to see his pot of gold.

>not the same leprechaun,probably just using the same actor for reasons.

But he has the same memories though?

He remembers Ireland, he remembers that chick, he remembers how he'd die in battle and decided to leave

>But he has the same memories though?
humm at first i thought they were different persons completely,just the same actor.
its implicit that the original leprechaun was following that irish girl all her life.
if the sweeney of the present is the same how is that he doesnt remember he met an identical person back in those days?
i think they are two different dudes

STOP TAKING SHIT OFF THE DOCKS NICK

>if the sweeney of the present is the same how is that he doesnt remember he met an identical person back in those days?

He does.

But she's clearly not a god so it's nothing too strange and if anything they used the same actress to set up more parallels so we'd sympathize with both and see why Sweeney might.

But Sweeney definitely remembers shit unless there are two Sweeneys in America with a lucky coin.

using browning for the two characters fucked with my autism too much

I just took it as dead wife being the other chick's descendant

Ah so in the book its strictly said that there are many versions of each god.

Not Anansi, because of reasons. Has to do with some animal totems and shit, makes his actions in AG seem dickish once you see the rest of the world in his book.

>it's a Shadow Moon starts speaking episode

She'll never know he saved her life. =(

I prefer Shadow Moon.

Why did Anubis even take dead wife's soul for judgement
She literally didn't believe in anything
So far the only two other cases of people dieing they were taken by their representatives of their actual faiths, for fuck's sake she just worked in a pyramid themed cassino

I get that. For me however, I found it rather funny I don't know why. It is almost like no one wanted to take her, and so they pawned her off on Anubis because of her work at the pyramid style casino. Of course I read way to far into things.

I like Shadow when he's not in his retardo "omg whats going on????" state: the Laura flashback episode was fantastic at showing a cooler side to him. But they've been leaning on the fish-out-of-water crap heavily the past few episodes, so it's just annoying.

I didn't quite understand Sweeney saving Laura (or the small scene of him apparently being at Laura's first car crash). With Essie MacGowan being played by the same actress, is it all due to "Irish luck" (aka Sweeney giving back what's owed to Essie by saving her ancestor)?

>Ah so in the book its strictly said that there are many versions of each god.

that's.....odd. I should read the book perhaps

I thought as anubis is in cahoots with odin, it was odin that sent him to make sure dead wife was 'laid to rest' or w/e

Bump

I hope she finds out and realizes what a cunt she is

DEE LIVE ER ME
(OH LAWD)

I think the problem is these Laura and Sweeney episodes will end up pointless because, well, if you've read the book you already know what I'm not saying. They're doing it for the emotional payoff, I guess? I think they're just wasting episodes that could've been better spent on anything more story-relevant.

>an entire episode of "America is the land of freedom where your dreams come true"
>Another entire episode of "muh strong womun who does not need no man"

How can you keep drinking this diarrhea?

We Wuz Gods n Shieet is an insult to Neil Gaiman's work to be honest

It's far better.

What else is playing? Please mother fucking tell me you half wit piece of god forsaken nigger shit.

You could do stuff besides watch TV.

>calling him a nigger
How do you even know he's from Egypt?

Plz tell me. You euroniggers are the only ones awake yet the the whole yuropoor uni has failed to make anything worth watching since misfits season 1. Y is that?

Honestly I'm kind of surprised this show didn't unironically make Pepe/Kek a God empowered by hatespeech on the internet.

Is that pornstache?

>tfw I saw pablo at my gym today

Dude is really good looking. Fucking lucky cunt.

>Honestly I'm kind of surprised this show didn't unironically make Pepe/Kek a God empowered by hatespeech on the internet.
I'm unironically surprised you haven't killed yourself yet

Yes

Gaiman has a really brilliant imagination and a real knack for world-building and myth, but he's too out there to write protagonists that really connect with the reader/audience. That's fine when your protagonist *should* be unrelatable like the immortal embodiment of the concept of Dream, not so much when they're supposed to be something of an everyman dropped into a world of weirdness.

Most of the time, I find Gaiman's sidereal characters far more fascinating.

What's the last book called?

They're essentially memetic "clones." They sort of diverge upon achieving their own unique existence.

Pics or it didn't happen.

I hate Laura's character and that includes her as that irish woman. It's like she doesn't have emotions or feelings at all. Also I don't like the power fantasy where a 5 foot tall skinny girl can launch a 6'5 muscleman across the room.

ebin

It does not fit the character. All he wanted is his lucky coin. Now what,the power of friendship (even though she is treating him like shit) made him change his mind?

>pray to allah 5 times a day
>knows he will burn for an eternity for being gay

the massive amount of cognitive dissonance that takes

>character refers to jesus as jesus fucking christ and is an atheist
>respects salim's right to pray and does not mock him

what did they mean by this?

maybe its the fact that he was responsible for her dying in the first place

I don't get these people at all. I have this very religious catholic friend and he is often baffled how some gay people identify themselves as catholic. Why be religious at all when you are not following the principles of religion?

>he thinks Sweeny is dumb enough to piss off one of the more powerful old gods by mocking one of his worshipers.

THIS. the main nigger just rolls with everything supernatural and hasn't questioned shit

I was talking about Laura,why the fuck would Sweeney be an atheist?

Think of it in these terms:

Is it being done by a character that you like? Do you think you're supposed to like them? To me, she's a hypocritical, condescending cunt, so I just sort of assume that it's no accident that I hate her.

>smugly states her non-belief as outright fact
>gets eternally BTFO by the actual afterlife and resurrection
>doesn't even have the courtesy to be awed by any of it
>completely unapologetic about how wrong she was
>rationalizes her infidelity by saying "When I said I'd stay faithful, it was theoretically true," completely missing the point of what fidelity even is in the first place
>has the gall to never even really apologize

Yeah, she's a cunt, meaning I'm not supposed to like her. Not even an immortal god of death has the patience for her bullshit.

>Jesus Freaks BTFO

People tend to overuse the word bitch but Laura is a stone cold one.

wtf are you guys on about
did you miss every conversation he had with Wednesday?

YOU ARE AN UNPLEASANT CREATURE

stoic badass man
nothing you'd understand

Don't underestimate the ability to delude yourself. Also, people tend to pick and choose what they believe in no matter the religion. Which kinda makes the whole thing questionable because it's either ironclad or pointless. You know, if you're hinging your eternal soul on it and all.

Because the catholic religion changed the 10 commandments and hid NO IDOL WORSHIP, which means they worhsip a babylonian pagan goddess of wisdom which creates double standard over no standards as the basis of christendom is 1st century socialism.

the fact is homosexuality is spiritually vacuous and pure pleasure seeking and greatly contributes to the spread of disease also atheism.

they go gay and stay catholic because of the established double standards of Vatican 2

Don't know man we don't live in sheds.

"He was me, yes, but I am not him."

Neverwhere I think?

If you don't realize that this latest ep was one of the best of the series you are cinema illiterate.

It was fantastic, the soundtrack was legit 10/10

It was confusing they used the same character for both Essie's grandmother and old Essie.

It was probably one of my favourite episodes so far though.

What was more confusing is that Essie looked the same for 30 years. She spent 20 years in transportation alone.

You didn't see him talking to hugin/mugin in the tree and his angry rant when he picked it up? Some other deity was communicating with him telling him "not yet".

She identifies with Salim, thus respects him. Both of them were boring pieces of shit with the personality of a black hole until they had a semi-spiritual awakening and realised their entire life should revolve around some glowing cunt whom they now search for. Only difference is Salim seems to be a decent human being.

why did he give her back the coin? got in to an argument with my gf about this

>entire episode with dual casting
>emily browning plays dead wife
>also plays essie
>dead wife loses coin

why else would he give her the coin back without feeling like he owed essie for bringing him to america??

Because Wednesday's spy/messengers crows asked him to bring her to them.

Yes the flutes was amazing. Whis I could find the soundtrack

They weren't there when he gave her the coin back. Wednesday had him kill her the first time because he wants her out of the picture so he can keep Shadow to himself, why the fuck would his birds be telling Sweeney to keep her alive now? Sweeney was shouting his lungs out because keeping her alive is outright defying Wednesday's orders.

No she didn't.
She escaped the first time with the captain then was shipped to America some time later to be a wet nurse to Mr. Johnson, who married her when their children were about 4 years old.

>It's a Sup Forums watches a straightforward plot and is too dumb to understand it despite previous scenes explaining exactly why episode

Honestly I'm kind of upset because they aren't going to have time to get to Easter / Shadow and Mr Ibis / Anything with Mr Nancy / The death tree and the spirit world / Shadow meeting Chzernobog again. Now it seems like they're gonna just jump right into the battle and try and wrap up the whole thing in an hour which is pretty much impossible.

Should have been a 12 episode season, or stretched it into two (even though that would be shit

Maybe it was Anubis, White Jesus, God of the Trees, The Buffalo god who knows.

He was muttering and cursing at someone.

It's gonna be two seasons you fucking dummy.

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Maybe he was, or maybe he was shouting in frustration. Either way Wednesday's birds weren't there that time and there's no reason to suspect Wednesday wants her kept alive.

Oh in which case I have absolutely no problems as long as they get to the fun parts and stop with the meandering road trip

>It's a lets save money on the casting budget and reuse the same two people episode

>world is based on belief
>literally everyone who actually bothered truly believing thinks leprechaun are wee folk
>sweeny even comments on how he was once a king, then a bird then a saint
Why
is
he
not
a
manlet

really liked this episode
i wish theyd done more of those "origin" stories for older gods and somehow tie them in into the present
cool shit.
too bad theres only 8 episodes per season

that's a myth perpetuated by general mills

Because modern western society is all about hedonism. We pretend to be religious because it makes us FEEL GOOD to have a magic sky man watching over and protecting us, but we ignore the tenants of his religion that don't make us feel good, they're MEAN!

next ep is guaranteed to have mr nansi and easter, probably the house on the rock too

This was the absolute best episode yet. Chock full of feels for me too for some reason.

Stay away form Runaround Sue lads

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It takes a lot less cognitive dissonance to just be a hedonist than it does to even muster belief in an invisible sky daddy, much less one that gives enough of a shit to care what the fuck we do.

It was like Forrest Gump: Essie Macgowan edition.

I love the Ibis voiceover too, really cool voice.

And the buttpirate cabbie is gone now. So it's all good.

What was Sweeney shouting in Celtic (?) I got the gist of it, I think. He's pissed at Wednesday ordering him around like some lackey.

The line in that episode where they're talking about shame was fucking amazing

"Shame was the only thing keeping you getting thrown off a roof long enough to come to America" fucking killed me.

Yet the mythical creatures are changed based on how people now perceive them

For those that read the books, where are the actual maximum power old deities during this?
Allah, Judeo-Christian God, Shiva, Budda, whatever
Or are they just too happy with the status quo to actually bother