Some combination of 1 and 2? I think both are likely, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more of the latter. He’s always felt more like a figurehead for a shadow government. Like they’re trying to get all these things done in the background, but they need this clown out there distracting people.

i feel like that’s where they said they’d end the first season (unless i misread)

because he’s TOO creepy, even to play the Joker! He’d make a much better Riddler, I think.

Also, what seems to be missing from the replies to your statement are what happens to Bilquis in the book. There’s a reason they’re giving us a good, in-depth look at her and how she survives. I really don’t want to spoil it, so that’s all I’ll say, but in the book, she became a rather important figure and something…

came for Nolan Ryan beating the shit out of Robin Ventura, leaving satisfied.

Mark Webber flew the MB at LeMans (all 3 of those cars flew that week, they actually pulled out of the race after Webber’s accident). The 911 GT1 at Road Atlanta was somebody else, I can’t remember who, but look how much it moves the k-wall when it hits. That’s some serious momentum.

that’s his transitional period, when Ziggy was still just an idea.

It’s kind of complicated, overall, but the gist is this: Wedesday (Ian McShane) is Odin and he’s traveling around America recruiting faded old-world gods (the 3 slavic sisters and Czernobog, the Ifritt, Bilquis (the woman with the man-eating vagina), Mr Nancy (Orlando Jones, the African version of Loki, basically,…

thank you, well said!

No, I get where @WarrenGHarding is coming from on this one. I find Laura in the show to be very hard to like, and Emily Browning doesn’t do much for me. I don’t like how she portrays Laura with little to no affect, it’s infuriating. She seems very 1-dimensional.

Shadow being a light that she’s drawn to comes directly from the text. She can always find him because he’s this bright, throbbing light off in the distance at all times (like when Audrey is driving her and it switches to her POV, the world is all washed out except for Shadow’s light). She shows up throughout the book…

I took it as a suicide attempt as well, one of those “well, my life is grey and shitty, might as well try something different” kinds.

but your personal tastes don’t necessarily apply to every other male graduating from college...

This.

there’s no reason not to wear a navy or dark grey suit to a funeral, wedding, job interview, or literally ANY other event that is traditionally “suited.” black suits make you look like a Rude Boy or a Blues Brother.

I used to do this with my ‘92 Ranger. It was a single cab with buckets and a shitty center console that got in the way of the shifter when in 2nd or 4th gear. Took the seats out one day, realized how easy it was, and ended up doing an entire interior detail. Got 10 years of crap out of it and made a little place for…

you sir, are my idol.

In a very general sense, yes. But isn’t that the way belief works in the real world too? The old ways and beliefs are forgotten as society advances and people are assimilated into other cultures. Mrs. Fadil is Muslim, but grew up hearing stories of the old gods as a child in Egypt, so some part of her internalized and…

Wednesday, in the book, doesn’t look anything like the old-world descriptions of Odin. Odin himself, in the myths, could disguise himself, and did so frequently. In fact, I believe that Gaiman’s description of him in the book sort of honed in on the idea of him looking kind of like a doddering old man (like in the…

i thought that the scene with the ifrit was actually well-done without being overly pedantic. the only thing missing, really, was the idea of the ifrit using Salim as a way to get back to Oman on Salim’s return ticket. that was pretty overt in the book. seems that’s not what’s going to happen here.