american gods – Moe Lane

The reassuring ‘American Gods’ series trailer.

‘Reassuring’ in that I kept recognizing characters and scenes on sight, which tells me that the original novel was not an afterthought to the people who made the American Gods series. Certainly Neil Gaiman seems to be happy enough. It’s a real shame that I’ll need to wait for the DVD for this one:

Mr. Wednesday is recruiting for his war against the new gods. Believe everything when #AmericanGods premieres April 30 on @STARZ. pic.twitter.com/p5JTz8Urkv

— American Gods US (@americangodsus) March 15, 2017

The American Gods trailer.

That’s… exactly as I imagined Mr. Wednesday looking. Or, at least, now that I’ve seen Ian McShane in the part I’ve retroactively decided that that was how the character always looked. The point is, that’s inspired casting*. Reassuringly so, in fact. Continue reading The American Gods trailer.

Well, this is embarrassing.

I was gonna go off on American Gods naming the God of the Internet ‘Technical Boy’ in the upcoming miniseries – dagnabbit, I may have to stream Starz for a while – and then I realized that I didn’t remember his ‘real’ name. so I looked it up… and lo! It was, well, Technical Boy.

Clearly I need to read the book again.

Book of the Week: American Gods.

How did I miss making American Gods Book of the Week? It’s a great book! Any week! Maybe I just assumed that you all read it already? Anyway, if you haven’t read it it’s a book that assumes that all gods are real if you believe in them, and stay real even after you stop believing in them. …It’s an excellent example of a Neil Gaiman novel, in other words. You know how those go.

And so, adieu to The Last Centurion.

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Casting continues on Starz’s American Gods.

This looks promising.

https://twitter.com/BrianFaughnan/status/705194976725094404

If you don’t recognize him from that, he was Winston in John Wick. At any rate, American Gods was an awesome book… that was never Book of the Week. Wait, what?