My first thought is, for a show that seems to pride itself (in my opinion, smugly) on its knowledge of arcana, they sure fucked up how we determine the date of Easter. Odin says Easter is the first Sunday following the vernal equinox. Sometimes it may be, but that is sheer coincidence. Easter is the first Sunday after the Full Moon in Libra. The vernal equinox occurs when the sun enters the sign Aries, the first day of the astrological spring. Libra is the Zodiac sign that directly opposes Aries. When the sun and moon are in direct opposition, things are brought to conclusion.
I'm sorry to say that such a big mistake on such a major "god" fact--His resurrection, did, after all, freaking CREATE Christianity--confirms what I've felt from the start: AG is WAY too impressed with itself. I think this project was a squandered opportunity. No wonder HBO passed.
It looked really good, though.
PS Bunny meat is yummy.
Final Thoughts: First, McShane and Schreiber were great. Anderson could be replaced with a sock puppet.
Second, if Season 2 continues the magic of the last 10 minutes of this episode, I'll keep watching. The first season was a slog for me. I stand by all my complaints about it. Third, I reject out of hand Media(shudder)'s proclamation that "We live in an atheist world." I am not, nor ever shall be, severed from my Lord (and I am NOT alone!), so as long as I/we live, the world is not atheist. The Tyranny of the Majority does not determine the direction of the species.
Which leads to, third, iBoy says to Odin, "Things are not going back to the way they were. You can't fight progress." Change is not necessarily progress. Change is change. Progress, as I would like to understand the word, is improvement. Losing touch with nature and one's soul is not improvement.Twitter is change, not improvement. It's just change.
Fourth, Odin replies, "I don't fight. I have faith."
The difference between confidence in technology and materiality, and faith
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R_Kane (15828)
8 years ago
The difference between confidence in technology and materiality, and faith in the power of nature and the universe is apparently central to this series. This belief is the same duality that created the romantic poetry movement, The conflict between industrialism and nature was at the very heart of The Lyrical Ballads. It seems to be at the heart of AG as well. Speaking of, to be polite, inspirations, or, to be churlish, thefts, the ending of ep 8 seemed to owe a lot to the series finale of Carnivale.
(Sorry for the disconnect between posts. Moviechat apparently does not approve of verbosity. Do not try to paste Molly Bloom's soliloquy here. Then again, I doubt there are more than 20 of us here who would read it.)
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ReelReviews14 (1221)
8 years ago
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Second, if Season 2 continues the magic of the last 10 minutes of this episode, I'll keep watching. The first season was a slog for me. I stand by all my complaints about it.
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The first season was a slog for me as well, but the difference is I won't be watching season 2. The dramatic Odin reveal was well done but the show as a whole seems to be going nowhere. I thought the first two episodes were very intriguing, and it was just scattershot for me after that, although there were some creative scenes and clever dialogue throughout the rest of the season.
I spent most of my time shaking my head about how vulgar and obscene the show is... and for those who claim "you must be a prude who can't take adults-only material", I'm the kind of guy who can sit thru Hellraiser movies without blinking. I honestly think American Gods did stuff that would make Clive Barker blush in comparison.
Never read the book, but if the TV series is indeed a "faithful" adaptation, I don't think I want to.
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