GasBandit
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Or leak from the tubes, if you'd rather.
[TV] American Gods
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Didn't you just answer your question?
I dont want to pirate this. I want to give them my money so more gaimen gets made.
According to Gaimen's blog: Amazon prime video on May 1 is Canada's release date.
Dammit, I am still resisting. I am so weak...
Necronic
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You know I used to do that for most things, but the reality is I can afford it and I like to support good shows. If there wasn't a streaming option I would definitely torrent it though. At this point it's just easier to pay for it and have it with one easy click. Torrenting takes like....3 or 4 clicks.
My wife wasn't at all interested in this, but I DVRed it anyway. Got her to watch the first episode last night when we couldn't decide on what movie we wanted to watch. Now she's hooked and wants to watch the rest of them with me.
"...dick, dick, dick dick dick."
"That's a lot of dicks."
"That's a lot of dicks."
GasBandit
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It shouldn't burn when you do that, too.
GasBandit
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I think I've seen one or two more explicit, but I'd be hard pressed (har) to name exactly where... HBO and porn kinda overlap in my memory. It was probably in Deadwood or Rome or maybe GOT...
but wherever it was, I'm pretty sure it was hetero. This was definitely the most explicit gay sex I've ever seen on tv, even on premium party cable.
Starz themselves got pretty close to this before with certain characters in Spartacus' later seasons. American Gods' profile is way higher though.
GasBandit
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This week's episode affected me on a very personal level for quite obvious reasons.
I really felt the turmoil and conflict in Shadow's head and heart. I don't know if, had I been in his shoes, and I had just walked in to find Pauline sitting waiting for me, whether I'd have had the strength to say "no" and walk away as he did. Even though she done me as wrong as anyone can do someone, and there's clearly no future (and a really short expiration date), I don't know.
GasBandit
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I get the feeling last night's confrontation/reveal/gathering of characters/epiphany had a lot more gravitas in the book - which I have to admit I haven't read, I just kinda... get that feeling. In fact, I'm starting to get the sense I'm not nearly as impressed with this show as it so very badly wants me to be.
I mean, I'll keep watching it to the end probably, but I don't think at this point I'll ever feel the need to re-watch it, unlike, say, Deadwood or GOT.
I mean, I'll keep watching it to the end probably, but I don't think at this point I'll ever feel the need to re-watch it, unlike, say, Deadwood or GOT.
The meeting in the book was less impressive in my memory. It has been 10 years or so since I read it though. Wisconsin is where the story picks up.
Haven't seen the episode yet (I'm up-to-date otherwise), but since I have read the book:
In the book, this is the biggest "yes there's directly Gods" moment for Shadow up to that point IMO. For example, Vulcan isn't in the book (at least there's no town for him that they go to at least) so this is kind of a "big deal" for Shadow having it (mostly) out in the open for him. Before that point, it was just fucked-up-ed-ness (like dead wife, and "if I really try hard, it could all be coincidence"), after, it's more open.
So not MASSIVE gravity in the book IMO, but still an important marker for other reasons.
So not MASSIVE gravity in the book IMO, but still an important marker for other reasons.
I stopped reading the book after the cab driver story. I almost stopped at the vagina-eater. Too damn weird for me. I also couldn't finish GoT. I haven't watched either one, but probably won't. I DID like Stardust - the movie, but I haven't read the book.
GasBandit
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And yet... haven't I seen you in my House of Reprehensible Filth thread?
Is that the politics thread or your AMA?And yet... haven't I seen you in my House of Reprehensible Filth thread?
GasBandit
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Perhaps I was mistaken, then.
Probably best you not pursue this line of inquiry any further
I just looked at the synopsis. And like I thought, Shadow has been to Wisconsin and Cairo, Illinois already at this point in the book.
Going to Wisconsin is HUGE in the third part of the novel.
Other than Mr. Ibis recording things in his book, something tells me there won't be the "Gap time" of Shadow spending time in Cairo over winter in the TV series. Just seems doubtful given the time of year and such.