Orlando Jones replying to someone's fear of issues on making Season 2: "Lolololol we had problems making season 1. This ain't a TV show. It's 8 seriously difficult movies with a huge cast of 11 Gods."
Posted Dec 31, 2018, 7:37 AM UTC
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The ****ing cottage industry that has sprung up around the rumors of American Gods' greatly exaggerated death had better fuck off when this airs.
It is tedious.
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There's always time for lubricant!
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They would have been better off planning a single run, 12 1 hour episodes, beginning to end. Plan it out, execute it, if successful, branch off into ancillary tales like a franchise.
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No thanks. Rushing it and trying to cram the entire book into 12 episodes would've been a mess.
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It’s a short book and the tv show as it is wasted half the runtime with shit. I read the book once a year. They fucked up. Give me those downvotes.
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Because there is no wasted time in the book, right?
Yeah, the show sucks, clearly it needed 3 full episodes of shadow just living in a small town and getting to know everyone. All that God stuff really bogs it down.
Btw a "short book" is still too long for 12 episodes of you want to do it right. If they cut things out, you would be here whining that it wasn't the book, which is kind of what you are doing already.
This kind of show wouldn't even make it to TV a few decades ago. We have so many nice things and all you people can do is bitch about how you could have done it better but mom just won't buy you that new camera.
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I watched the show and enjoyed it and time has passed and realised I only tricked myself into enjoying it because I loved the book. Given the issues season 2 has I don't think I'll watch it.
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That's impossible, despite being a roughly 400 page book, there's A LOT of material in it. A direct (and good) adaptation would be 3 seasons at least, with changes to fit the medium, you're looking at least 5 seasons minimum.
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I don't know if this makes me less worried or more worried about S2.