AMERICAN GODS SUCKS

This tv show sucks a lot. It's over rated and over exposed by their marketing strategy and it's reddit's wet dream.

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it would have been much better without emily browning. she can't act and she's reuplsive

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its breddy gud actually. Good visuals, good concept, some great performances.. And unlike most shows, it doesnt droop down after 3 episodes

why is odin this powerful? who actually believes in him other than shadow moon and the other literal who old gods?

maybe because we still believe in Wednesday?

@84214357
here's a you.

a day of the week is still named after him

I really liked the book, I've been meaning to watch the show. The visuals at least look promising.

that's cheating desu

The History Channel's Vikings show gave him a surplus recently

Maybe he's the only true god

He is still a famous old god
Also wars i guess

it's Once Upon a Time for edgelord goys who like muslim dick

That would be Media's doing, not Odin's.

regina best girl

The Alt-right pagan larpers?

Because of the MCU tbf

>Sup Forums literally so retarded they think the slave ship seen was pro-black nationalism

t. faggot

While I partially agree, I feel like American Gods suffers from a huge amount of meandering and useless site shite that is irrelevant to the main plot.

In that respect, it makes it extremely similar to the books, so I can't really hate on that.

>his favorite show is so shitty that he needs to shout Sup Forums to generate some kind of discussion

what are the others?
Wednesday - Odin's day
Thursday - Thor's day
Fryday - Free day

In the most recent episode, we learned that the appearance and personality of a god can change depending on how his believers picture him.

It is pretty on the nose explained through the multiple Jesu hanging out at Spring's estate.

So, where does Mr. Wednesday/Odin get his appearance from? He is clearly not determined by a traditional picture of Odin. A sleazy con-artist without a beard and with a glass eye instead of just a hole or an eyepatch.

Which splinter sect of slavic faith is convinced Odin is a homeless Al Pacino?

I thought Friday was named after Frigg?

>Fryday - Free day

Have you ever watched the show? Ragnar's wife begs Freya for the seed of a warrior at one point at the Allfather festival. Also, Ragnar reintroduces the concept of the Blood Eagle sacrifice to modern audiences.

idk, i'm not english, and they're named different here

The Thor capeshit movies would give him more power than the Vikings TV show would.

I think there's so many Jesus' because different countries are all shown different versions and the way he looks is an important part of their beliefs. When it comes to Odin, the way he looks doesn't really factor in with their beliefs so it doesn't matter as much.

I think because all of this is a bastardisation of their name/image in media, the gods wouldn't support it (especially those who oppose the new gods) and reject it as a form of prayer.

Interesting you'd say that since the show is about heroic individualism fighting against evil globalism. The show creators were smart to create the Vulcan character to throw the lefties a bone to gnaw at, but it is an insidious right wing Propaganda piece. You probably think think District 9 and Elysium weren't warning tales of unchecked immigration either, right?

the first season had shitload of filler and was basically a hype up for season 2

but it was ok i guess, based deadwood guy steals the show

There was too much of her.

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That nigger god whores herself for prayers. They are happy with the scraps they find.

For real guys, was the fly supposed to be Low Key or what?????????

Why wasn't he in the show apart from the pilot?

Why are there no flashback scenes in the jail?

Why did they spend so long on an efreeti gay scene?

Why is Emily Browning in more fucking episodes than Shadow himself?!?!?!?!?

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He thrives on war, and he's still a popular meme amoung scandis and whites.

I thought it was Fuck off Fridays

>american gods
>has a britbong on the poster

why even bother to watch?

Tuesday is Tyr's day

The question is why Jesus(es) are weak and only shown as comic relief.

Maybe the lack of a decisive image/name makes it possible for him to affect his own appearance.

The guy literally has a billion different names. The only constant about him is war.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin

Compare that to Jesus or Muhammad.

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The theme throughout the books and show is about people (gods) emigrating to America to appropriate their culture and shit, so it fits really.

He doesn't care about this stuff. He's so popular anyways. If some bumfuck gods want to brawl among each other he couldn't care less.

Monday Moon, Sunday Sun, Saturday Saturn, Tuesday Tyr. Friday Frigg.

Why is that strange?
What did Jesus do that implied any type of martial strength?

Because he is the American version of a god of knowledge, making him a streetwise hustling conman.

He seemed pretty powerful when he was sitting on top of the swimming pool. The Mexican Jesus who got shot in the previous episode had the power of martyrdom, one of Jesus's better known powers...

I like how Mohammed is never mentioned or shown. He should also be around here right?

I guess writer foresaw the shit storm if he put him here

I've not read the book but I don't feel the show has wasted much time at all.

I will say I thought the finale was the weakest of the eps.

>Easter didn't do a resurrection

reeee normies get out of my book reeeee ~Neil Gaiman 2017

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She's the Goddess that created and spread AIDS throughout Africa, and then America.

It's entirely too Fuller-y. All style, no substance. It doesn't feel like the book at all

Real talk, as a Europoor, how strong is the Muslim situation in America?

I mean, we obviously have a lot of Muslim communities in Europe due to our proximity to Africa and the Middle-East, but surely it would be significantly less in the Americas?

With that in mind, it's probably safe to believe that Mohammed is still a pretty strongly worshipped worldwide figure, and has no real reason to have a strong presence in America

Did I just see her dick?

>murican 'liberals' offending muslims

Won't happen.

> I don't feel the show has wasted much time at all.

>wasted TWO episodes on Laura Moon with ZERO Shadow in the entire fucking episode
>one episode dedicated to an irrelevant Irish bitch

come the fuck on. It meanders just as bad as the book, if no worse. We have had FUCK ALL development on Shadow as a character; at least the book had tons of stuff while he was in prison to build him into a likeable character for us.

I AM ODINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

What did he mean by this?

wååååååår

Odin has the gift of Wisdom, not Knowledge. That privilege is reserved to the Tree of Life, Yggdrasil.

Plus being a conman is a Charisma skill, not INT or WIS.

You think they weren't offended by the extended gay muslim sex scene?

>wasted TWO episodes on Laura Moon

both the best episodes of the SHOW

the only people bitching about "filler" are bookfags

this kinda excites me - i wanna see what they're all so impatient to see

>Good visuals

Incredibly bad visuals. What you're saying is like claiming water isn't wet. Honestly, I've never seen someone with worse taste than you.

>good concept
Nothing happens, every single scene is a cliffhanger, dangling a mystery that will obviously boil down to "thought there was something deep going, gotcha, that's exactly what we wanted you to believe, LOL". Kind of like a slightly more self-aware LOST, with the lack of self awareness being in that the show is convinced it's clever. It's really not.

>some great performances

You mean overdone performances.

>And unlike most shows, it doesnt droop down after 3 episodes

Yeah, it droops down from the get go.

I don't know how bad the book is but it clearly can't be a good book.

Bilquis and Easter best grills

Why assume the show will deliver what the readers want when it hasn't delivered fuck all thus far?

He meant he is called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. He is One-eyed. He is called Highest, and True-Guesser. He is Grimnir, and He is the Hooded One.. He is All-Father, and Gondlir, Wand-bearer. He has as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. His ravens are Huginn and Muninn: Thought and Memory; his wolves are Freki and Geri; his horse is the gallows. He is OOOOOOOOOODDDDIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

I won't disagree that the episodes kind of were the best, but that's exactly the problem. If your protagonist is the worst, most background character, then you have serious issues.

See: Final Fantasy 12.

>if the adaptation is bad then the source material is bad
Nigga u dum

he was much less of a pussy in the bible than he is portrayed as now. Didnt you hear about that temple of Satanists he fucked up?

Ian McShane is great in everything he is in, prove me wrong.

>OOOOOOOODINNNN

this shit is so awkward but ill probably watch season 2.

If there was significantly less in the way of college student tier pseudo-sociology, less forced "inclusivity" and finally, less pretentious masturbation, somebody would have said so by now.

best intro tb aitch

All the old gods cheat like that.

Like the old pagan bitch taking credit for Easter despite no one knowing her name. Dumb cunt.

Well fuck you too.

How new are you? There's virtually none of that shit in the book, retard. You think Gaiman wrote a book 15 years ago that just happened to perfectly align with Fuller's idiotic worldview and style?

>eyes too googly

Dropped!

There was that time at the Temple with the merchants where he might have kicked an ass or two....

Sort of like how Africans see Anasi as a spider, but Americans see him as a wily black man dressed like a pimp?

what inclusivity? I dont think any of the non white characters are forced.
>Less pretentious masturbation
You're on Sup Forums sweetheart

By that logic the Djinns should be superpowerfuls and not faggot cab drivers, since the Genie of the lamp is one of the most famous and oversused narrtive devices to this day.

Time travel wasn't ever in the book, If Nancy came to America with the slaves he shouldn't have any knowledge of the future. It kind of fucks up the plot because then he should know what's going to happen to Odin.

ye that stuff was probz added for the BLM crowd. Sucks how you cant have black characters anymore without bringing up muh oppression.

You're just mad because you know you fapped to Bilquis's scenes and haven't come to terms with that yet.

Why did Odin say he's never been out of America?

to be fair it's only One-Eye

Because it's a series written, directed and produced by jews.

didnt he mean since the vikings came over?

In FF12's defense, Vaan was not supposed to be the main character. Blame executive meddling for that one.

Djinns aren't gods though. Neither are Leprechauns.

They are basically treated like faries or something. You don't worship them, you just give them tokens and ask them for things. It's not 'real" prayer.

I hope you're not trying to make sense of the whole setup here. It's really stupid and only seems interesting because al pacino refuses to speak plainly about it for 8 episodes. There's nothing to it. A bunch of superheroes get power from belief, just like in Discworld. This story just makes a big deal about it to bait you into thinking it's clever. And then it's probably gonna blame you for taking the bait because it's clearly implied all gods are swindlers anyway. SO SUBVERSIVE.

Fuck yeah, I believe it. Wasn't he consulted for the show?

I don't need a muslim portrayed as a kindly praying homosexual, I don't need a strong queen black woman who eat every man, I don't need a wrongfully imprisoned black man as the main character, I don't need a BLM tier speech, even if it was a ruse to score a sacrifice, I don't need an entirely white town where everybody wears crypto-nazi armbands and worship guns - this is all completely ridiculous. It's a coloring book version of the world and has no place in what tries to be biting social commentary but in actually only bites cock.

The Odin we know is simply the being created in the new world when Odin's believers brought their belief in him with them. The "real" Odin is in Europe.

so why is laura so fucking strong?

>Fuck yeah, I believe it. Wasn't he consulted for the show?
Are you actually retarded? How the fuck would Gaiman consulting on the show retroactively make the book a Fuller wankfest?

because it's really funny when she grabs the ginger by the balls XD