02-02-2021, 03:38 PM
(02-02-2021, 09:29 AM)ELFUNGUSBINGEWATCH Wrote: American Gods its pretty whack, I binge watched season 1 and 2.
Then getting season 3 every week, episode 1-3 looked like it was gonna be another shit machine.
But episode 4 now its starting to get whack again.
I don't really get the Neil Gaiman obsession that many people have. I understand that he's absurdly gifted and very well educated, but the way he puts it together -- weaving existing myths into contemporary fiction, etc., -- strikes me as very clever, but at the expense of going deeper into the human condition. I thought his graphic novel work was superior to his novel writing on pretty much every level, but even there I was nonplussed. I have the same problem with Alan Moore's novels (though not with his graphic novels, some of which are staggering achievements in literature), where the prose is weighted by an effort to express ideas, and it's at the expense of anything poetic. I will say that I think Alan Moore, who is deeply versed and invested in the path of the Magician, utterly dwarfs Gaiman on multiple fronts. As far as this show goes, I tried watching the first few episodes of season 1, because I'm a fan of Ian McShane (who played Swearnegen masterfully on DEADWOOD), but ... it's just fucking empty, man. The show has no balls or gamble (imo); it's like watching an aquarium for an hour.
