![]() What does it mean to believe, anyways? What does it mean to reason?Īmerican Gods is a weird show. American Gods is the kind of show that happily throws our cell phone out the window. The things people used to worship and the things they worship now. These cheap newcomers and golden calves, big-screen TVs and social media stand in stark contrast to the brooding, mysterious and unfathomable old gods, whose power stems from blind obeisance and hard faith, or sometimes simply need. Science fiction as cautionary tale is a close neighbor to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which itself was a parable about unchecked power in the industrial age.Īmerican Gods is the story of a war brewing between the Old Gods-those forgotten immigrant gods-and the New Gods: Media, Technology, Money. ![]() Indeed, science-fiction often warns of the dangers of technology gone awry, of unchecked human meddling and the thirst for power. None of this is to say that fantasy and science fiction can't work toward the same thematic ends. In some ways, this is what American Gods is attempting to examine, this division between faith and science. The latter is obsessed with technology, science, and the tangible. The former is concerned with belief, magic, the unknown and inexplicable. Credit: StarzĪmerican Gods pits old gods against new.įantasy and science-fiction are often lumped into the same genre, but in many ways they're completely at odds. The old gods, come to America, once-hot flames now merely embers in the smoldering pit of modern America.Īmerican Gods asks us to question our faith in technology. In American Gods we see these beliefs in the flesh, as dwindling manifestations of once powerful conviction. Many of these stories are introduced through short vignettes that take place alongside the main story rather than within it. So we're introduced to various histories and immigrants, from stranded vikings to African slaves aboard a slaver's ship to Middle-Eastern cabbies. Perhaps that's because American is made up of so many disparate pieces, so many stories and beliefs. "This is the only country in the world that wonders what it is," Mr. Unlike most stories of immigrants, American Gods is less a story of individual people and more a story of the customs, history and, of course, gods of the immigrants, slaves and explorers who came to America. This is a bit frustrating as far as moving the plot forward, but we definitely want to know more about Laura.Credit: Starz The synopsis and trailer for Git Gone hint that this week’s episode will focus on Laura, and just how she came to be sitting on Shadow’s bed at the end of Head Full of Snow. But Wednesday was in a sharing, conversational mood, so it felt like we were on the cusp of learning what he’s up to.Īpparently not. Wednesday keeps circling around things, and not telling Shadow what they’re actually going to do. It really felt like this conversation was building up to something important. Last week, at the end of episode 3 of American Gods, while driving back to the Motel America after robbing a bank, Wednesday and Shadow had a long conversation about the nature of belief. Here’s how you can watch episode 4, “Git Gone,” live online. By Morit Chatlynne 4 years ago Follow TweetĪmerican Gods is back tonight and we’re all wondering what Shadow Moon is in for this week. ![]()
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