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[levoi]

Bryan Fuller, I am so mad at you. Cut for spoilers.

I need a moment. There was ZERO REASON to make Shadow a crook when they met. Zero. It means something so much different if he's some thief Laura adopts off the street than if he lets her convince him to do this desperate thing for her. DO NOT WANT.

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[hollyslowly]

I have SUPER MIXED FEELINGS about this episode. SUPER MIXED.

[levoi]

Yes. I have been on board and very pleased up until this episode, and now I am seeing my god has clay feet or--I've lost control of this metaphor. Now we got problems, is the point. I think.

Dammit.

[hollyslowly]

I LOVED the added scenes with Audrey, as well as the shot at the end of the episode where Shadow walks into the hotel with the sun blazing out of him.

My problems with it were the crookifying of Shadow and Laura's condescension for him. I know the book is from Shadow's POV, so we don't really know how Laura feels about him or about anything, but every time she said, "Puppy," I heard, "Stop pissing on the floor, you stupid child." She didn't even seem to like him most of the time, let alone love him.

The more I think about it, the sadder and more disappointed I am.

I hope today's is better. :/

[levoi]

Yes! I am SO MAD about making Shadow some petty criminal instead of the shy, quiet kid who hid in books and moored himself--finally--in this woman, a woman he loved so much that he did a bad thing for her. Uggggghhhhhh why

And Laura... I understand that the aim was to show her as this detached, apathetic kind of living dead girl, and I know that it's a commentary on our generation (though suck my cock, Bryan Fuller, I don't need you preaching to me, you Gen X jerk), but there are problems with that. Like, big ones. The biggest problem is that I don't get that from Laura in the books at all. I just keep thinking about when she's first introduced to Shadow, and she makes him taste her drink because she wants him to taste the thing she tastes, to experience life as she experiences it. And this TV Laura doesn't seem to enjoy any experience. The other thing that's getting me about this is that in the book, Laura and Shadow exist as kind of mirror images on what it means to really be alive. Laura is dead, but she's still lively, and Shadow is alive, but, as Laura says, he doesn't live. And if Laura starts out with this kind of dead life, then how does this metaphor develop? I am just not on board with this at all. I read this interview with Neil Gaiman about how in the scene where Audrey sexually harasses Shadow in the cemetery, Fuller had originally written as Shadow letting Audrey suck him off, and Gaiman told him, "I will literally kill myself and it will be your fault if you do that," and (a) it makes me seriously question Fuller's understanding of the characters, and (b) damn you, Neil, why didn't you fight for this?

Tonight better make it up to me. I'm carrying some serious resentment.