Was that a truly epically dense conglomeration of cultural-appropriation FAIL or what?
I can just see how that might have gone down at the scriptwriter's meeting: "It'll be edgy! It's kind of like
American Gods--only really stupid!"
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The basic concept? Pretty totally ripped off from 'American Gods', to start with. Which, OK, it's a big concept, plenty of ways to tell it, fine...but they didn't do any of the in-depth research Gaiman did and they didn't show any of his intelligence and respect. You cannot just pull gods at random from religions THAT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE PRACTICING and insult them like that. The people-eating business was just to make them gratuitous bad guys. There wasn't even any acknowledgment that Mercury would have different motives than Odin who would have different motives than Baron Samedi, etcetera. (Baron Samedi, from the Voudoun pantheon, at least is a sort-of-god of death. But he's a guardian and guide of the dead - he doesn't KILL people. Well, unless one really has it coming.)
And you certainly cannot get away with implying that your Christian-pantheon villain, who's not even a god, just a fallen archangel, is more powerful than all of them put together. If your plot demands that, then it's a STUPID, OFFENSIVE PLOT and you should rewrite it!
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Ouch. They really didn't even TRY this time, did they? ><
I agree!
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