They’re all Small Gods.
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I believe it (or something along those lines, involving Jesus at any rate) was an appendix in the 10th anniversary edition - he had written it but cut it out prior to publication.
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i honestly have no idea what the real answer is, but maybe they aren’t around because they aren’t/weren’t real in the first place. man-made gods vs. actual gods, or something?
I don’t think so. Considering that the book ends with the protagonist meeting the original, Norwegian Odin, who is distinct from Wednesday, the American version of Odin, it sounds like belief/sacrifice creates the gods out of nothing.
Maybe the point is that American Abrahamists just aren’t willing to sacrifice anything to their god?
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hmm, good point. it’s been a long time since i read the book… i had forgotten about that part.
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Catching up on my Homeland, and caught the scene where Simone is being rescued by her Russian spy boyfriend’s hirelings. Why is thinking women need assistance running (holding their hand/arm) still a thing?
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It does. It’s a throwaway, but the gist is that the Jesus being worshipped in America is so far removed from the Biblical Jesus that he’s essentially as abandoned as the rest. Trudging by the side of the road, unable to get a ride from anyone.
Which, fair point, when you look at the religiosity of the more vocal movements. You could probably class Supply-side Jesus in with the new gods. Real Jesus… A broke iteinerant as one of America’s gods? How appalling!
(Yes, that last sentence is sarcasm. But I think it makes the point, that I have to point that out).
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In this case, I think it was necessary so the audience would continue to think she was being abducted. After everything leading up to that scene, the ending was a twist. I expected she would be kidnapped forcibly or killed.
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You can certainly see the influence of Pratchett on American Gods… not surprising, given their history of collaborations. And @Wisconsin_Platt beat me to it!
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Rewatching the super-weird Canadian-German show Lexx and we just started Frankenstein Chronicles.
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Finally started on Dark, but my usual watching habits of watching in one screen while doing something else don’t work with this. Too many characters, both present and past and too much going on.
But I love it.
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Next on the list of things nobody asked for or wanted
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Only seen the first episode but you can not have a planet with a breathable atmosphere that also has a mountain full of raw magnesium thats ridiculous
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I marathoned this yesterday, and although the science is shaky in spots like @Daveb points out, it’s reasonable in others. It’s a nice break from all the dark, heavy stuff Netflix keeps throwing at me, and Parker Posey does “psychopath” very well.
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I thought the Movie with Joey was bad enough of a reboot. This does not sound like a good use of resources.
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I’m not a science whiz, but that gives a whole new meaning to “breathing fire”, does it not?
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It feels to me like everything in it has been done to death. It’s at least the second reboot of a property that wasn’t good in the first place. There’s no nostalgia value. There are no original fans watching this with their grandkids. The production design is lifted from 2001 and Alien and other unrelated films from 40 or 50 years ago. We’ve seen British Columbia as an oddly similar series of alien planets a million times. James Callis’s Baltar was all the Dr. Smith we’ll ever need.
And then there’s the product placement, intrusive to the point of unintentional self-parody. Eat your Oreos! I guess they finally figured out how to make pirates watch commercials.
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I liked it, even though yeah, there are jarring bits.
I don’t think they’re aiming for nostalgia at all. There’s a few callbacks, but not much.
I liked Maureen’s character, and how she compares/contrasts with Smith. I also liked how there was a lot to dislike about Maureen, if that makes any sense. I liked that some of the Robinsons’ opponents were actually good, decent people who just had different uses about how to handle a survival situation.
I loved that for once, just bloody once, there were situations where most of the experts in the room were women. Not always, not every situation, but it happened.
I liked how it harks back to Swiss Family Robinson, yet without overt religious references.
And I liked how this is set probably closer in the future than anyone was expecting… and how that winds up being a plot point.
I liked how many of the good guys’ choices were debatable. Even highly debatable. I liked that the characters at least spent a bit of time debating them.
I liked that the weather and geology had consequences.
And the Oreos thing… given the shopping scene and the infomercial scene, I could live with it. It wasn’t any worse than Eliot’s Reese’s Pieces in ET.
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Maybe I should say something nice about it. Other than the lack of originality, it looks great. I get the feeling that every dollar is on the screen. I like how the characters actually do things, you see them taking equipment apart and working on it.
I know somebody just like Maureen Robinson. Like, there are actors in her family and I had to check Wikipedia to make sure it wasn’t actually her. So for me it’s not so much “what a cool fictional character,” it’s more like “how odd that Vicky is in my television” 
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