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I didn't think Snyder's DC movies were that bad.

Anyway, having read American Gods, I could, if you guys want, clear up any confusion the show may be causing you. If you want. I'm not really going to go to the effort if nobody is interested.

Edited, May 23rd 2017 1:09am by Turin

Well, to say that Shadow is special sort of goes without saying, otherwise the story wouldn't be about him. But, you are way off on who he actually is. The rest of this is going to be very spoilery, so if you don't want to know, don't look.

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The main theme of the story is the power of belief. Things are the way they are because of people's belief. When it comes to gods, they only exist and have power because of the people that believe in them. Now, this has a couple of consequences. First, things that not necessarily have a religion built around them, like technology end up spawning a physical god. That's who the little **** in the limo that interrogated and tried to kill Shadow is. He's one of the most powerful of the new gods. Secondly, when people stop believing, the physical incarnation of that particular god gets weaker, if nobody believes in them, the god can cease to exist. Third, when people first started coming to the Americas, they didn't bring their gods with them. The physical incarnation of their gods are still back in the old world. When they came to America, their beliefs spawned new versions of their gods, the American Gods. That's what that bit with the vikings was about at the start of the first episode. Now, if you know anything about Norse mythology then it becomes obvious that they vikings were praying to Odin (gouging out their eyes sort of gives that one away) for help.

Now, when Wednesday and Shadow first meet on the airplane and Wednesday introduces himself, he asks himself what day it is. He realizes that it's Wednesday, and says something like, "Oh, it's my day, you can call me Wednesday". Again, if you know a bit about Norse mythology, then it becomes apparent who Wednesday really is. The day of Wednesday is named after the Norse god Wodan (Odin).

Now, this next bit is extra spoilery, you've been warned. Spoiler Now, the gods in general are sterile, they can't have children. But, every now and again, very rarely, a god can have a child. That's who Shadow is, the child of one of the new American Gods. Not a lot of people know this, but Wednesday does, and he wants to use Shadow's latent power to further his own ends. Wednesday doesn't have a lot of followers left in America, he's very weak at this point and comes up with a scheme to regain his lost power. How he plans to do this is actually a fairly complicated plan to cause something fairly simple to happen. He wants to cause a war between the old weak gods and new strong ones and have it dedicated to him. That's the other important bit to take away from the opening scene with the Vikings. The new American version of Odin only came about when the vikings started battling and killing each other in his name. All of those gods fighting and killing each other in his name would give him a massive infusion of new power.

Anyway, there's ton of stuff I left out, but those are the basics.

Edited, May 23rd 2017 10:26pm by Turin

Arrow Finale: SpoilerEveryone but Olli blowed up (like there's any chance Felicity is gone. Can't kill the main character, after all) and the flashbacks are over. Mon-El flew into a wormhole. Flash is in Speedforce Infinity Prison but his show and Legends don't really matter for what I'm predicting, so I'm betting next season is all based on timeskips just to give Arrow more seasons to have flashbacks. As for the episode itself, not so horrible considering the disaster that was Supergirl and Flash's, and past Arrow seasons.

New Mutant's director Josh Boone says that they "are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different." None of which confirms or denies the possibility of the Demon Bear Saga. Kind of leans towards it, actually. Also revealed that Storm won't be making an appearance after all, and that Rosario Dawson, Claire from every Marvel Netflix show, will be showing up as Dr Cecilia Reyes which pretty much sounds a lot like an Easter Egg in and of itself.

Gina Prince-Bythewood will helm Sony's Silver Sable and Black Cat team up movie, which is being called Silver & Black. She'll also be rewriting Christopher Yost's script for the movie. No other details, including much like Venom why and how are available.

Edited, May 25th 2017 3:00pm by lolgaxe

I just got back from seeing Wonder Woman. The story was more or less what I expected. The big villain reveal was only a shock if you're blind, dumb, deaf, stupid, and mildly drunk. There were some decent fight scenes and the characters, while not terribly fleshed out, at least got the job done. Overall, it was entertaining enough that I don't regret seeing. It's one of the better DC movies, though at this point, that's not saying much. There is no after credits scene, so if you plan to see it, save yourself the line at the bathroom and head out as soon as the movie ends, you won't miss anything.

Curious, Spoilerwhat about it gave it away so easily? The character it turns out to be was on screen three times, a whole maybe 4-5 minutes total. And his only interactions were that of the annoyed boss-man who helps once. Very little given to the character to foreshadow that he was actually Ares. Maybe if you interpreted his shock at Diana in the council room originally due to recognition instead of the fact that she was a woman as everyone else was going on about, sure. But I can't seem to think that interpretation should have been obvious at that point in the movie. The only other times he really interacts with the group is when he gives them the green-light at the bar, and then when Mr Spy calls in and talks to the Secretary.

It was pretty obvious it wasn't going to be the original bad guy. Thought for a moment they'd make it Miss Poison, and be like "Haha, Ares was a woman all along." But that never panned out.

I know there are a lot of similarities between the characters of Wonder Woman and Captain America. But the movie itself had a very Captain America feel to it.

No new trailers. At least none of that have not already been discussed. Geostorm was shown, and it hadn't been when I saw the Alien movie last week. Definitely FX fodder there.




The seemed to have ditched the token hot girl in favor of a "girl power" kid. That's something new, right? I've liked the transformers movies for what they are Spoiler(robots blowing **** up). I think I only saw one in the theaters though, rest were on TV.

Edited, Jun 4th 2017 3:43pm by TirithRR

American Gods: SpoilerTurns out the tree was Mr. World. And Odin (called Grimnir again) is actually afraid of him. Mr World is the oldest God it seems. He used to be the a god of Nature. Maybe the story told last episode was his.

Odin also wants to avoid Dead Wife.

More Leprechaun and Dead Wife fun. This times that equal you're a cunt. Did you have a Genie in your butthole? This guy isn't actually fully possessed by the Genie. Or if he is, he is not aware of it, somehow.

Mexican Jesus got crucified using Vulcan bullets. I wonder if that happened before or after the bullets were infused with Vulcan himself and cursed by Odin?

The show is out there. Only two episodes left, I suspect zero answers, mostly just character development and setting up the story this season. I always hate these shows with short premiere seasons. Nothing ever actually gets concluded.



I guess. SpoilerStill think it wasn't all that obvious, and could have been a couple others instead, and if not them, then literally any random person from the German army and would have almost as much foreshadowing as the person it turned out to be.

Edited, Jun 5th 2017 6:51am by TirithRR

Trying to get back into the swing of things.

The American Gods Must Be Crazy pt 1: There's really no bad characters. Even Zombie Wife has her moments. (SpoilerThat beat down on Leprechaun, and then playing dead in the tub certainly were high points for her) There's definitely some delicious schadenfreude with Leprechaun's quest to get his lucky coin back. SpoilerWorld definitely has to represent information, and Anderson represents being awesome.

The American Gods Must Be Crazy pt 2: I think at this point I'm just watching for Leprechaun one liners. I think I annoyed my wife when I started laughing the moment they showed the people standing in front a river. I knew Mexican Jesus was going to show up. After Wednesday's little speech about multiple Jesuseses there was no way they weren't going to capitalize on that. SpoilerSeems a bit off a God of Fire and Forges dies in a, you know, fire and forge. I'd imagine they'd have some kind of immunity to it. Mr World being a tree makes sense. Tree of Knowledge from the Bible, Yggdrasil, the Acacia Tree of Lusaaset, trees are pretty common in religion.

Deadpool Blooper/Gag Reel. It's exactly what you think it is, so not the most appropriate for work and child friendly enviroments. Spoiler


Harley Quinn confirmed to appear in the season 3 finale of Gotham. I need to find last Monday's episode.

Finn Jones reportedly confirmed that Iron Fist has gotten a second season. Hopefully it can fix all the problems with the first season.

Silver & Black, the Silver Sable and Black Cat movie is rumored to include Kraven The Hunter, two Spider-Womans, and cameos of various other Spider-Man characters, which I assume is Sony's way of ******** over the MCU and preventing them from being used in the bigger MCU universe. According to the Splash Report, this is in part with Sony planning an Avengers type team up movie that will feature only females from Spidey's deep pool of rogues and allies. Avi Arad is in charge here, the guy that brought Venom into Spider-Man 3 so ... well, my hopes certainly aren't that high.

Sin City is getting a TV reboot, with Glen Mazzara writing and Len Wiseman to direct.

Henry Zaga and Blu Hunt will be joining Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy in New Mutants as Sunspot and Danielle Moonstar, and rumor has it that Charlie Heaton is in talks to play Cannonball. I'm too old to recognize names anymore and too geek to let it affect me. Blu?

Dan Aykroyd says Paul Feig won't be back to the Ghostbusters franchise due to overspending and not listening to scene suggestions and generally just doing whatever he felt like doing. I'm sure that the movie he did make being a dumpster fire was amongst the reasons as well, but no one wants to say that live.

SpoilerMy belief that he wasn't going to be Ares was because of how sure Diana was that it would fix everything, and how they had been focusing pretty heavily on her being generally naive of how the "real world" worked. And Stephen (is that his name?) kept doubting her and doubting the fact that his death would solve anything.

Though, when the real Ares was defeated, all the Germans took off their masks and were young boys waking up from a mind controlled stupor. So in the end Diana was really shown to be correct. But at the time there was no real reason to assume everyone would go back to playing nice if this Ares (who wasn't even 100% certain to be real, in the context of the movie's "real world") was to be defeated. Cause we all know Germans were just assholes.

On the Americans Gods front, Spoileruntil this week I was shocked at how faithful they were being to the book. The episode that showed Shadow and Laura getting together and Shadow going to jail was greatly expanded, but was more or less accurate to the source. Aside from that, it was almost scene for scene out the book. Then we got this pile crap side story with Vulcan. Not only was it written in as filler, it doesn't even make sense in the overall narrative. It felt like they writers had to come up with something to happen after Wednesday healed Shadow, and that was all they could manage. In the book, after they get away, and Shadow gets sorted out, there is a bit of a time jump (the book is broken up into three separate acts, with a bit of time in between each).

Then we get the team up of Laura, Mad Sweenie, and the Arab fellow, who honestly was never mentioned outside of f*cking the Djinn in the book. Granted, what happens to the Leprachan and Dead Wife in the book is more or less glossed over until it's time for them to be relevant again, but I'm not really liking the idea of them hanging out together. Given what happens later on to both of those characters, having them travel together doesn't work out very well, they end up in two completely different parts of the story, hundreds of miles apart.

Anyway, that's more or less all of the ******** I've got in me on the subject for the moment.

...and we've got a Black Panther teaser trailer.

There's been a lot of noise on twitter, including from the cast of Powerless themselves, about the episode so it does exist. Hopefully NBC is smart enough to air it now. Even if the show itself was a ratings sinkhole, an Adam West tribute will definitely win viewers. Or at least leak the episode online. I was thinking what Family Guy is going to do. I'm hoping they get Burt Ward to be the new mayor.

Gods: SpoilerSweeney is more of a nice guy than he lets on. Nice story about how gods and legends and such move around, though. Probably filler, but I liked it.

Panther: T'Challa with a beard just looks so alien to me. I can usually let things like that go, but for some reason that beard just doesn't stop nagging at me. It's been eating at me since Civil War.

Lucy Liu spotted on the set of Luke Cage 2, and also spotted having coffee with Mike Colter. Actually coffee, not "coffee." Video suggests she might be directing an episode, not so much actually acting in one. Either way, mildly interesting. Spoiler


Edited, Jun 12th 2017 10:31am by lolgaxe

The writers couldn't pass up an opportunity to reinforce that angry white folks clinging to their guns and religion are "bad". Seemed quite clear to me. Only thing that surprised me was the absence of someone wearing a Make America Great Again hat or something. I might just have missed it though.

First Zack Snyder stepped back due to family issues with Joss Whedon taking over directorial duties for Justice League's final touchups, and now Junkie XL has stepped away from scoring (giggidy) the film, with Danny Elfman taking over. Not sure if that means they're dumping XL's work (doubtful) or if it'll be like Age of Ultron where Elfman composed like a quarter of the tracks. Also in, I guess "taking over" news, Bryan Singer officially passed the X-Torch to Simon Kinberg to direct X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

Legends of Tomorrow will bring in Billy Zane as nineteenth century politician, showman, and businessman PT Barnum.

Edited, Jun 15th 2017 1:58pm by lolgaxe