American Gods

[CaptainWacky]

Season two starts tomorrow (for me) and I'll try to watch it even though there's a lot to watch on a Monday.

 

[Cassie]

Oh sweet! I haven't been paying attention to when it was coming back.

 

[whisky]

How can you shoot a god?

 

[The Highwayman]

How can you shoot a god?

With a gun, presumably.

Okay, more serious note, have you read the novel the TV series is based on? I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't.

 

[whisky]

No, not read it.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It was a pretty good start to the season. Not much actually happened until the end, but I guess season one was like that too.

 

[The Highwayman]

No, not read it.

It's worth a read, and may not actually spoil much. The TV series is taking a more, um... compressed approach to the story and deviating significantly (but in a very thoughtful and skillfully executed way) from it in places.

 

[Cassie]

The House on the Rock was pretty cool!

 

[whisky]

I had never heard of that place before, looks interesting

 

[CaptainWacky]

It definitely felt more like a conventional tv show this week. I guess we won't be getting ten minute vignettes about random gods anymore. But it was still a pretty entertaining conventional tv show, even though Shadow himself is still dull.

 

[whisky]

Ten minutes of story 50 minutes of padding

 

[Cassie]

I watched it. Flashbacks are annoying, especially when I don't realize it's a flashback and think WHO IS THIS OTHER SHADOW? lol

 

[whisky]

This isn't as good as season one

 

[CaptainWacky]

At least there was tentacle sex.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I though this week's was better (despite the lack of Laura, the best character.) The sex scene was disappointngly bland though. Remember in season one why they did the really arty and weird sex scenes, that felt like real "worship"? This was just a tv sex scene.

 

[whisky]

This show is so frustrating.

 

[whisky]

So did they end up shagging or did they just imagine it?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Psychic ghost sex.

Good to see Bushmaster again.

 

[Cassie]

That was so good! She needs a couple drops of Sweeney's blood.

 

[whisky]

So is shadow Thor reincarnated?