American Gods

>>82822388
Appropriate, given who he is.

>>82822388
>shadow moon

was it written by a 12 years old sonic fan?

>>82822545
Was the comics any good?

Apart from his silly name I am enjoying the series sofar

>>82822545
You need to look up some hippy names.

>>82822565
Book, not comic.

And yes.

>>82822565
the book is great, it's one of my fav. but I don't like the show

>>82822625
there's an ongoing comic series, too, and it's pretty great desu

I'm thoroughly enjoying the show, I have no idea how they plan to get 3 seasons out of it though.

>>82823291
season 2 will be Lakeside, and 3 will be the rest of the book, no idea if the sequel short story will be in it or not tho

>>82823369
>lakeside

that sounds to be a really boring season desu

Anubis as a black guy lmao
WE

>>82823456
At least he has a right voice.

>>82823406
it's created by the same man as Hannibal, so maybe. But hey, at least the characters are great.

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>>82823456

Its on point.

>father is white
>son is black
makes you think..

>>82822545
Its revealed in the novella that its a nickname and his real name, the one on his birth certificate, is Baldur

>>82823406
If it's like the book it'll be comfykino.

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>young hot sister
>only one who can pronounce her name right
Funny.

>>82822545

His mother was a hippie.

>>82823868
she was very attractive, big udders too.

>>82822388
sweden would make more sense

>>82822388
Wait, does that mean his father is not Mr.Wednesday but the original verison of Odin?

I found the Jinn and the salesman story touching

>>82825322
Are you by in fact a muslim closet gay?

>>82825322
It was pretty nice if you aren't autistic, the sex scene was maybe 30 seconds longer then it needed to be though.

>>82823456

>DUDE WE LMAO

Wipe the snot off your face, junior.

>>82825412
>>82825433

The story was touching but yes the sex scene was not interesting, then again none of them have been. I get that they show nudity because they can but sometimes it just feels for the sake of it.

>>82825322
I felt for both characters and found it touching as well, but the sex was too gratuitous and the whole cumming fire after turning into metal Mario was laughable.

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This show rules

>>82825497
Exact same reason love goddess girl is annoying. The first time it served the purpose of being pretty horrifying, and then they just kept showing it because they could and wanted to fill some nudity quota.

>>82823406
doesn't he leave lakeside occasionally to meet people

if so it won't be too bad

>>82823690
>son of odin

>faggots
>niggers
>white dicks
>irish character

dropped

>>82825631

>not liking mad Sweeney

Come on lad.

>>82822388
Am I the only one that didn't like this book? It had some good world building but the plot itself felt completely undercooked. The 3 separate disconnected endings were annoying too.

>>82825725
I enjoyed it but I got really into the whole meandering road trip thing he was trying to pull off.

>>82825725
the book was pretty shit but it's easy pleb reading so it gets some praise online. it read like it was written for a TV adaptation, which i'm sure it always was.

everything by neil gaiman has that thing where you can just smell how much of a cunt the author is

>>82825725
yes, ideas great, story little messy

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>Shadow Moon was born in Japan and converted into a cyborg by Golgom.

>>82825725
I always get the impression Gaiman thinks he's a better writer than he actually is.

>>82825725
It's pretty much like the show. A lot of flash with visions and things but very barebones. I got very excited reading it when the premise was laid out that it was gonna be a battle between the old gods and the new gods, but the new gods aren't developed or elaborated upon in how they differ from the old and it was all very surface-level. I did enjoy all the cultural quirks and little anecdotes in the book though I just wish the plot came together a bit better.

>>82825322
Very excited about them supposedly being recurring characters.

>>82823456
>>82823658

as an arab I was kind of annoyed, then the Djinn was gay, not happy

>>82826720
Anubis is a black jackal though. Instead you should be upset that they made one of your deities a raging faggot. You should really go and thank them or something. You know, do what it is you do, and remind them and thank them personally for all their efforts. You know what I mean when I say thank them, yeah?

>>82825322

I think I read way too much into this, I interpreted it as the salesman wished to be with the Jinn, and he got wishmaster'ed into actually being the Jinn's new body

>>82826957
It's the opposite, he got his wish granted.

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>>82825895
I was really disappointed that the "American Gods" were just simplistic icons of consumerism - television, shopping, etc. Could have been interesting if it delved more deeply into those concepts, but it just comes off as high school freshman edginess. Plus if we're being logical, there should be some 15th century god out there that represents the printing press.

>>82827015
There probably was but had disappeared by now.

What would you have expected them to be instead, that wouldn't be high school edginess?

>>82826720
>as an arab I was kind of annoyed
ancient egyptians weren't arab either you fucking sandnigger

>>82827104
I like how burgers never miss the chance to show off just how retarded they are.

>>82827104
>Egyptians were white

/pol/ hits new heights of stupidity

>>82827015
>Could have been interesting if it delved more deeply into those concepts, but it just comes off as high school freshman edginess
Pretty much. The premise sounds cool. "Whoa, dude what if the old gods were usurped by the new gods of technology", but then there's nothing more to it. Just have "Media" show up and say a few lines and act exactly the same as the old gods. The aesthetic with the kid in the limo with the weird mask thing also looks terrible and jarring when mixed in with the old gods.

>>82823291
>>82823369
I've heard grand plans of folding in the follow-up novellas into the plot, and working in elements of the sequel Gaiman's working on- probably with the hopes of eventually adapting that as well.
In an ideal world they'd do Anansi Boys but the BBC has the rights to that as far as I know.

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>>82827145
I never said they were white, but they sure as hell weren't arab

>>82825322
I don't really understand what happend in the end. Did the Gin transfer himself into the body of the salesman? Did he just disappear? Why did he leave him his cab? Whose wallet was that?

>>82827880
They switched identities, you can see the jinn wearing the salesman's suit in episode 2.

>>82827605
They were exactly what a mentally challenged /pol/baby would call a 'sandnigger'.

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>>82825969
i understood that reference

>>82825969
Oh fuck I had this toy

Are you guys really defending the gay sex scene? Never dropped a series faster than this before.

>>82828159
See you.

>>82828159
Cheers

>>82828159
Aw, poor /pol/baby got triggered.

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I am /pol/ but I'm 3 episodes in and I have yet to see anything triggering.

Regular network shows/hollywood dramas are usually more hamfisted and political than this shit.

African god tricking his people into killing themselves by sinking their own slaveship.

2 arab faggots having sex so what, happens everyday. At least they're not trannies or pushing a narrative.

>>82828159
i loved that scene just for the fact that it will trigger mudslimes

>>82828159
>Being so upset at the sight of gays that a 2 minute clip of a sex scene means you'll never watch a show again.

>>82828383
So far it looks like only one other group was really triggered instead.

This series is approaching the "meh" point real fast
The more I know about the plot the less of a fuck i give

>>82828377
>some shows are more subversive so this show isn't
your /pol/ is weak

So Odin says he's never been out of the states. Does that mean that he's a different Odin from the one in Scandanavia, just like how there are apparently multiple Jesus's?

>>82828812
Clearly yes.

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>>82825497
>I felt for both characters and found it touching as well, but the sex was too gratuitous and the whole cumming fire after turning into metal Mario was laughable.

What exactly happened in that scene?

Did the Muslim salesman become the Jinn, or did the Jinn take over the Muslim salesman's body?

>>82825895

I liked the full cast audiobook a lot but even then there's parts where you roll your eyes just listening to it. Sandman comics were unironically 100x better than American Gods if you never checked them out. Amazing illustration.

>>82828924

In the book they basically switch roles, the jinn becomes the salesman and the salesman becomes the taxi driver.

>>82828924
I couldn't believe it when I've read elsewhere that some people had trouble understanding what was going on. Guess people this thick actually do exist.

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>>82825725
>Am I the only one that didn't like this book?

I thought it was pretty good but I have a felling that this tv series will be one of the very few instances where the tv show will be better then the book.

>>82828902
Then how does he have any power whatsoever? Who specifically worships American Odin?

>>82822388
TV Shadow reminds me too much of a big snarling cat to take him seriously.

>>82829106
Clearly he has very little power. It doesn't seem to be about worship, just belief.

>>82827015
>printing press god

Something like this is mentioned with railroad gods having died out so presumably these kinds of contemporary fad gods spring up and fade regularly

>>82828159
Don't be such a fucking fag.

>>82823868
I can't wait to see who they cast as Eostre.

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>>82829262

>>82828734
I like the parts with Shadow and Swedgin but all the random god scenes really take me out of the story. It drags the whole thing down.

>>82829330
It's the other way around for me, I really enjoy seeing how they adapted all the gods and how they show their powers. The Shadow Odin stuff seems to drag on.

>>82829330
>>82829480
I like both :)

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>>82829262
>>82829315
Eostre is described as being voluptuous and full of youthful energy (read: T H I C C) and they cast Kristin Chenoweth, the literal opposite of all those things?

>>82825532
was this animatronic?

>>82828812
isnt wednesday Votan, the mayan god?

>>82830020
Bait?

>>82826839
>A fucking Djinn
>Deity

Anon, Djinns are just another kind of people made of fire instead of earth, as there are faggots, whores, thieves and pieces of shit among humans, so there are among Djinns, they are not "deities", just regular people from another dimension.

>>82828159
I can't imagine living life being this easily triggered.

>>82828159
In this thread we find out that /pol/ is more easily triggered than tumblr, who would have thought.

>>82829585
cgi

>>82827605
What the fuck were they then

Is he fucking hispanic? Other than his skin colour he doesnt' look black at all

>chernobog never stops smoking not even when he sleeps

>>82830883
not black

Why people don't like pacing in adaptation? It was awful in book. Atmosphere in TV version is much better than in book

>>82830930
Well sure, I bet most English books would have issues if I spoke English as poorly as you.

>>82830883
His father is Jamaican and his mother is a white Brit.

>>82823690
>baldur
>black

even better

>>82831084
That really pisses me off, I'm just going to pretend he's hispanic.

>>82831054
Well, speaking and reading are different skills. You know passive/active vocabulary

>>82831108
Why? It's pretty obvious that he's half black, not hispanic. He doesn't have full black facial aesthetics because he takes after his mother, but he still has his dad's skin color.

>>82831194
Just looks like some hispanic that has really dark skin to me.

haven't seen it, but any pics of the dead wife?

>>82830868
Northern Africans, same as the Libyans, Algerians, Tunisians...they also had some blacks in their southern territories

>>82831423
so basically arabs

>>82829078
Really? You think so? I think it's the complete opposite. The overarching description of american culture and the anecdotes and explanation of the gods are completely lost in the series. The series is just 1h each week of weird imagery with paperthin plot that cannot sustain 1h on its own.

>>82831685
It's good to know that it's only a matter of time before people like you give up on watching and the threads will be free of pleb opinions like this one.

>>82831848
I guess you explaining why you don't share my opinion was expecting too much

>>82831848
He doesn't like the show and elaborated as to why. Fuck off.

>>82823690
Jesus Christ if that's a legit spoiler I'm the dumbest person on Earth

>>82823456
Ep. 3 literally says that there are different versions of gods based on people's perception, and Wednesday is specifically American Odin. WE WUZ ANUBIS is black precisely because of the WE WUZ KANGS thing that gullible americans believe.

>>82829106
Nobody, but he's also a god of war so he gets power from war in general.

Which just begs the question of how exactly the power coming from war gets split among all the war gods

>>82832141

>also a character named low-key

Surely not a god of trickery.

>>82832212
this guy gets it.

>>82822388
First episode was a mess. Had to drop this shit ep. 2 when they decided to have some dumb nigger go on a "MUH BLACK LIVES MATTER MUH SLAVERY KEEL WHITEY MUFFUGGIN BIX NOOD" rant. Still don't know what this fucking show is supposed to be about.

>>82823456
>>82823658
>>82825454
>>82826720
>>82826839
>>82832212

that wasnt anubis that was thoth scribe of the underworld

>>82832214
I'd say Ares gets at least 50%. Mars maybe 10%. Odin. Odin gets shit. Because their power is based on the belief. And nobody thinks of Odin as a war god. They think of Odin as Anthony Hopkins from MCU movies.

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>>82832378

Thoth is Mr Iblis the guy writing the book we see in first episode and second i think.

>>82832378
Shut up nerd.

>>82832381
>They think of Odin as Anthony Hopkins from MCU movies

>when you are starved from devotion and you are fed this fast food worship from American who watch capeshit

Being Odin is suffering.

>>82832381
American Ares and American Mars don't exist because when greeks came to America they didn't believe in the classical gods anymore. I think.

>>82832367
It's nice to have a confirmation that /pol/tards are mentally challenged.

>>82832429
oh your probably right, but why did the god send her to the door covered in thoth decorations

>>82832523

Not sure, they both work together though in a funeral shop in their human disguises. Maybe they share the profit of souls harvested.

>>82832473
Vulcan is in the show though

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>>82832590

The god of /k/ weaponry and fire, not surprising he's doing well in America.

>>82822388
>Born in norway
>named shadow moon
Nah.
Hippies where never really a thing here.
Certainly not at the time when he was supposedly conceived.

>>82827015
But thats the whole point of the series.

Today people only care about futile things.They literely live to work and consume shit. Most of the time that they have they spent witth futile things and work.

How their gods could be any different? The old gods represented what people wanted to be on the past. The new gods looks like what people want to be on our era, a super rich genious know-all startup leader wannabe, a famous and beautiful actress (woman on the 80 wanted that at least), and so on.

The opening of the series actually hits the nail perfectly, things that were once sacred perverted by drugs, technology and all kind of things... Hundreads of tradition distorted by the culture of today.

Think about the old world, thousand and thousand of years of tradition and values.. Old gods were built on that. The new world has just half century and no much to add on value or tradition.

And there is probably a press god, so far we saw only two new gods, the book describes a lot of them and if you think well its natural that Media is more proeminent than any press god.

>>82832378
>implying thoth would come to earth to collect a soul himself
It was anubis. Doing that shit was literally his job.

>>82832466
Kinda the whole point of the show. Fast food gods. I like that.

>>82832694
>Today people only care about futile things.They literely live to work and consume shit.
How is that any different than in the past when people only lived to work to survive? We're uneducated farmers preferable to a wagecuck who comes home and watches TV? At the end of the day that person can at least save up and go on trips to places the farmer could only dream of.

The people actually dedicating their lives to significant stuff--the wealthy--are still doing that today. That has never changed.

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>>82822388

>>82832590
Weird. I didn't remember any roman or greek gods in the book. But I don't really remember much about the book, I read it 15 years ago. Maybe I'm wrong.

>>82822625
>>82822679
how is this book so popular that everybody on /tv/ read it?

>>82832929
Nerds liked the Sandman comics and wanted to read more by their author.

>>82829106
>>82832214

A god feeds on everything that represents him until his existence is completely forgotten. Thing that represents him directly would be better of course. On the series we see gods looking for source of powers that were barely related to them.

Odin is not just the god of war. Gods are more complex than just a single element, he is also a god of death, communication, wisdom.. Before he is a warrior he was mainly a traveler, seducer and trickster... So only the fact that he may con his way in on everything may help him keep the shape. But of course, Odin is also ambitious.

>>82833040
I wonder if they'll do an adaptation of Sandman next if this one is successful.

>>82833040
Sandman is better desu

>>82832830
Because people valued that.

Its not about how you live, but the meaning about what you do or at least the meaning that this have to you.

On tribal cultures the tribe was everything, people would only endure if they help each other. They respected that, they lived for that.

Think of the vikings, on their culture a man value was all about how good he was as a farmer or a warrior, how he could provide. They valued courage, a battle was something glorious, a test of each one value. They lived for that. They would die for that. Yeah, they were a bunch of rapist and pirates... But they had a clear idea about what their values were.

Could you say that you respect what the media and TV is? Could you say that the internet represent some kind of dignity? That after years losing a absurd number of hours on the internet you will not look back and notice that you lost time on a futile thing? Yeah, its fun, but its also a time that is lost and will never come back. We are alll giving our lifes to the new gods and this is sacry and futile as it sounds.

Yes, we live far better than our ancestours.. with lifes that were far more futile than theirs, this is our gift and our curse.

>>82832929
The book is actually pretty bad. I got meme'd into reading it last year.

>>82833573
sacry = scary.. I mean.

>>82833573
People have always been the same, they haven't changed one bit. If you don't know that it's clear you are a brainlet who doesn't read.

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>>82831685
> > I have a feeling that this tv series will be one of the very few instances where the tv show will be better then the book.
> Really? You think so? I think it's the complete opposite. The overarching description of american culture and the anecdotes and explanation of the gods are completely lost in the series.

That’s pretty much inevitable with any book adaption, as you can say much more with text then video but the book does kinda ramble on (I’ve got the longer “author’s preferred edition”) and I don’t feel much is being lost.

I’m just happy the tv show sticking to the original story, instead of shitting it up with retarded original content *coughGoTcough*

>>82833688
> People have always been the same, they haven't changed one bit. If you don't know that it's clear you are a brainlet who doesn't read.

If they have different values and philosophies then they are not the same. You can undermine the importance of this just to keep pushing your point but I would say that if you undermine values and philosophy on a conversation about values and philosophy would be a very dumb thing.

>>82833573
This isn't your blog. Go pontificate elsewhere.

>>82833940
Read any philosophical text from a couple centuries ago brainlet, people had nearly identical values and philosophical views back then as well.

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>>82832830
> > Today people only care about futile things.They literely live to work and consume shit.
> How is that any different than in the past when people only lived to work to survive?

Life was a lot more laid back in oldy timey days.

Sure, farmers might bust their ass 16 hours a day during harvest time, but that was just a few weeks each year, they weren’t punching a time clock day in and day out like we do.

Modern society is highly constrained and stressful, with virtually every minute of our lives scheduled and planned out for us, (usually by other people) whether it's work or school or family commitments, etc.

Even our “time off” is scheduled to a few three-day weekends and holidays per year.

>>82834028
> Read any philosophical text from a couple centuries ago brainlet, people had nearly identical values and philosophical views back then as well.
Son, we have a entire board just to complain that immigrants with a alien culture are ruining everything.

>>82834374
Only retards complain about that.

>>82823456

WUZ

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>>82827104

this is true

>>82823868
>big ass tiddies
>casually walks around showing off her feet
>"I'm a virgin tehee"

wtf I hate women

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>>82827104

Algerians migrated to Africa. Their ancestry is majority European. They are a mix of many European groups: Greek,Phoenician, Roman and French. The Algerians you see today are not native to the land of AFRICA in anyway shape or form. Their ancestors displaced the original black Berber inhabitants and claimed the land for themselves much the same as Native Americans were displaced by European whites in the united States. Europeans colonized nearly every inch of the globe in this same manner.

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Will Kuk join the show?

>>82822388
KANGZ

>>82832429

looks like egyptians are black now

>>82827145
They were closer to "Whites"(Europeans) than Arabs.

>>82830868
Think Greeks.

>>82832838

shadow is the son of odin

>it's after school hours in burgerland
>thread gets fills up with /pol/ replies
kek

>>82836304
>>82836249
It's cute how tards like you don't see the irony in this.

>>82836518
shut the fuck up cumskin smfh