American Gods Shot by Shot - Trailer 2 Review Analysis

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. Uh, many of you who watch the channel know that the channel mostly deals with, uh, cryptocurrency, passive income streams, and various things like that. But every so often, uh, we engage in some of my hobbies which relate to movies, film, entertainment. Um, and so we're going to review the latest trailer of American Gods. This is the second trailer Uh, if you're not familiar with American Gods, American Gods is a, um, a production based on a book written by Neil Gaiman that pretty much goes into his experience as an immigrant from England to the United States. And as he searches for these folklore into, uh, the United States and mythologies that many other cultures have, but America being a new nation, his book is about creating this kind of new area of mythologies about the Americas. And so, um, America Gods, just a great production, excellent book so far. I'm almost done with it, uh, after season 1. I, um, I thought I would be finished by now, but I'm a little bit, uh thankful I didn't finish because I get to be surprised still with some aspects of both the book and the television show. Um, and so gonna be very interesting. March the 19th, I believe, is the release date. And so what we're gonna do, we're gonna look at the latest trailer and I'm gonna try to give some insight into the trailer, um, and, uh, see what direction is going in. A lot of people were disappointed after Bryan Fuller, uh, left production. Many think that it might not be as good as season 1. However, after looking at some of the trailers up to now for season 2, the acting still looks like it's going to be phenomenal. And so I'm still hopeful we're going to get a great uh, a production. So let's look at some of the, uh, this trailer, and I'm gonna stop and kind of do a shot by shot and kind of try to figure out where we're at with this, um, with this trailer.

When people first came to America, they brought us with them. We are the Ancient Ones.

So we get, um, right off we get Mr. Wednesday, Mr. Nancy, and there's this shot as we got to see of someone who was uh, basically sailing to the Americas. And so, um, with that shot, let me take it back a little bit here so we can see that. Okay, there we go. Uh, this reminds me of Ellis Island, right, when a lot of people were sailing to the Americas and the first thing they would see is the Statue of Liberty, you know, as this is an immigrant story. Um, as I understand in the books, uh, there, there— and this person here, I believe it's a person of African descent— there is supposedly these, um, this group of African people that, um, come through the story out of Louisiana. And I haven't got that far in the books yet, so I'm not very familiar. I've been hearing that around the internet. And, uh, so maybe if you guys know a little bit more about that, you can leave comments in the comment section.

They brought us with them. We are the Ancient Ones.

So that's Mr. Nancy, and this looks like that's Billquist. Billquist, Mr. Wednesday, and Mr. Nancy, uh, we get to see. And it looks like Mr. Wednesday was standing and the house in the House on the Rock, right? And the House on the Rock, the background, it looks like that either it's the House on the Rock or it may be Odin's Hall. Uh, however, uh, he's in Mr. Nancy form, or I'm sorry, Mr. Wednesday form in this shot. So looks like he goes to Odin's Hall. Uh, in the last, um, uh, trailer, he seemed to be more of his god deity form. And so, um, you know, so it might be that he's at the House of the Rock. And of course, the House of the Rock, uh, being a real, uh, exhibit, a type of, uh, uh, attraction that is, or landmark that's in Wisconsin, and it has these strange, uh, uh, exhibits like the, I think, the world's biggest carousel. And so, uh, that's the meeting place of this battle that's going to ensue between these new gods, these new American gods, if you will, and the old gods.

We are the ancient ones. Then they built churches, cathedrals, or they erected stone.

So in those shots, we got Mr., um, I'm sorry, we got Mr. Nancy again, and we had got Matt Sweeney. And he's in this field of, of lilies. So, uh, I'm not exactly sure— this happens in the book as well, as I understand— and I'm not exactly sure, you know, what's the significance of these lilies yet. We do get a shot of Lara Moon as well landing in these lilies, or these blue, strange blue flowers. I'm not even sure if they're lilies. I probably not. There's something— I don't know if they're daffodils or what they are, but there are some is some significance to it. I haven't reached that far in the book, but I do know there is something important about that. But of course, Mad Swinney the leprechaun, uh, he's on Mr. Wednesday's side, and they're all headed to the house on the rock.

Churches, cathedrals, or they direct a stone circle.

Again, uh, Matt Sweeney, uh, looks like that's him, um, headed with Mr. Wednesday, headed to the House on the Rock, getting ready for this battle between the New Gods and the Old Gods. And you see the ravens of Odin, right? Mr. Wednesday, and these are his all-seeing, uh, ravens that are able to relay information back to him, uh, and give him information. They're kind of flying out ahead. They can see everything that's going on.

Gradually they abandoned us. Old forgotten God.

I want to go back here because again, guys, I haven't got this far along in the books. Hold on, let me go back a little bit. There was a— something I want to point out here right there. Now, um, I, uh, well, actually, I believe I did come across this character in the books, but this is supposed to be the Indian or the Hindu deity Kali. And, uh, she seems to be dressed in a— it almost looks like she's in a maid's outfit or something like that. And she's working in this motel, the Motel Americas. Motel America was the same motel, I believe, back in season 1 Mr. Wednesday was staying at when he was recruiting Shadow Moon. Um, And, uh, um, uh, yes, the Hindu goddess Kali. So she's apparently— what, what generally happens with these gods or these deities after they're forgotten and they lose their powers, interesting enough, they start to take on just regular lives and jobs, right? And so it's kind of interesting to watch, but they're all just doing regular jobs, right? Like working at a motel or Uh, you know, working in a store someplace, working as a cab driver, uh, because they feed on basically the, uh, uh, the, uh, worship of human beings. And once human beings forget them, it's just like death to them. It's almost like a form of nourishment or food. So if they don't get that, they're no longer able to sustain themselves, and they drop down to these, uh, uh, these, um shadows of what they were as these deities.

Old forgotten gods.

And that was Laura Moon. Laura Moon, uh, looks like she's laying in the same field as Matt Sweeney was. We just saw him in— see if I can bring that back up. I didn't want to— there we go.

Okay, now they're on.

And again, it was, it was some significance to that to that field that, um, Laura Moon's laying in, as I'm understanding around the, around the internet and different information that's coming to come my way. But of course, that's Mr.

Rural.

Mr. Rural's down in his bunker. There were some other trailers released, um, earlier where we saw him and Technical Boy heading to the bunker, and, um, uh, they ran over this guy playing golf on the way over there. Uh, it was crazy. And, uh, so they, they enter into this secret bunker, uh, and it kind of has the 1950s feel, right? This is the era of the— when the CIA was established, right? The early '60s, late 1950s. And, uh, Mr. Rourke, this is his, uh, area of coordination to get ready for this, the ensuing war between the old gods and the new gods.

New gods growing in America.

Okay, that That was a shot of Technical Boy, and then we jumped here to, uh, this is New Media. And, uh, it kind of makes sense. We remember Julian Anderson, who played, uh, Media from season 1. You know, she's not in season 2, but she kind of played like, um, this, um, this more classic media, right? Um, depiction of Media. And that was kind of like when she played like Lucille Ball, she played David Bowie, she played, uh, looks like Scarlett O'Hara. Um, and, uh, just this, these old classic, this old classic media era. But now you see this jump to looks like they're in Tokyo, Japan or something like that, where there's a lot of, a great deal of technology and media and, uh, influence. And she's in this form of some type of hologram. So I think the move was kind of good actually, because even though, uh, Julian Anderson's character as Media did an excellent job Uh, where I think it kind of started to get a— it wasn't really connecting, I think, to viewers of this day and age because none of us in the media look at, really watch Lucille Ball or look at, you know. And, and so now this is kind of an updated media or new media that I think is going to correspond more so with the media of the day and what's happening at the time. I had no idea. I have no idea who that that guy was who's licking. I don't know if he's a god or, or something like that. More than likely he's some type of, uh, god or a, uh, some type of helper of a god. Or he's— he is— not many characters at this stage, I think, in the books that are regular people, with the exception of Shadow Moon, if you want to consider him a normal person. But this is a shot of Mr. Wednesday Odin. He's kissing one of his spears. This is one of the weapons Looks like he's going to take in a battle, and it seems to be two of them, two of these spears.

To destroy us. Wars are coming, Shadow. I have a big role for you.

So that's Shadow Moon. It looks like Shadow Moon is gonna fight in this, in this, uh, in this, in this war. But I, I think it's pretty clear at this point that it's something very special about Shadow. And of course, book readers already know it. If you— I'm trying to stay along with the TV watchers here. But he tosses Shadow this spear, and it's— from what we know about Shadow, he hasn't really exhibited a lot of, uh, special abilities, with the exception of— and maybe many of you remember this in, um, season 1, where Shadow Moon— there's a scene where Snow, where Mr. Wednesday's telling them about to think about Snow, or And I think it begins to snow or something like that. And so it's not ever really revealed that he has some special ability, but I think we can pretty much tell that from Mr. Wednesday. He has to see something in the shadow. It hasn't been revealed who he is yet, if he's a god or not, but he's tossed one of these mythical spears from Odin. And obviously, you know, he has some big role to play in this, in this story and this war that's coming.

Time to ride.

So you see this carousel spinning, and it looks like it's going to transport them to someplace. Now, this carousel is a real carousel, as far as I know. At the House of the Rock in Wisconsin, this attraction that I was speaking about earlier that has all these different exhibits in it. Um, and we see, we get a shot of Billquist, Mr. Nancy, and Mr. Wincy. So I'm assuming that they're all going together to be transported someplace. Obviously this carousel has some mythical powers to it. This is, this was an interesting shot. That was, um Uh, looks like a kind of a reincarnated version of both Lara Moon and Shadow Moon. And from what we got from Lara and the, um, I was trying to get her on there. Okay, there it is. Let me see if I can stop it right there. There she is. What we got from Lara Moon in her, um, from season 1, there was this, um, uh, this story about Laura Moon, or perhaps an ancestor of hers by the name of— I think it was Essie McGowan. And, um, Elsie— this is how she was introduced to, uh, um, Mad Sweeney the Leprechaun. And they, they had this story, and it was a very interesting story that took up the entire episode. But I'm not sure if this is, uh, her story or if this is just a totally different character. Maybe it could be versions of her, reincarnated versions of her going through centuries. Or because the Elsie McGuire story looks like it took place in the 1700s, and this looks like it's— or 1600s, 1700s— this looks like it's happening in about the, uh, 1800s, right? Or I could be wrong. I could be wrong there. I, I'm— it could have— these both could be happening in the 1800s. It's possible they could be the same characters, but I don't recall Shadow Moon being in any of those stories, or even them even hinting at it. So I'm not sure if this is the same story, but apparently here she has some interaction with Shadow Moon back in this period.

Where am I? Did that happen? There's something special going on here, and I feel it.

So again, we see this teleportation of this transportation. We see it looks like Billquist, uh, Mad Sweeney, and Laura being teleported in Shadow Moon on this, um, next to this, uh, this, uh, ocean or river. And it looks like he's in some type of netherworld. And, uh, the only thing I can— that's reminiscent of is when we got to see, uh, um, uh, Anubis, the god Anubis from, um, or what they call Mr. Jackal from season 1, who was the god Anubis. And him and Laura Moon are in this, this realm that's like this afterlife realm. And, um, they are— he's, he's speaking with her there. And so she goes— she's able to transport there some way. But that scene looks exactly like that. So this is— looks like it's some type of netherworld or something like this, or maybe the realm of the gods where they, where they go.

Part of it. He is dangerous. I need you to believe that.

That was interesting. That was a bullet. And I believe it's a Latin phrase on it. And I believe it translates to something like— I know Deus is God and Mortem, which usually means death. So it looks like maybe death of the gods. And so what's interesting about that bullet was that it kind of reminds you a little bit of the god Vulcan, doesn't it, from the last season? How he was making those bullets, right? These— and those bullets were God-killing bullets because remember, they killed the Mexican Jesus with them. So I'm assuming, or I'm wondering, is that Vulcan manufacturing those bullets? And Vulcan is dead at this stage. So I'm thinking that if that has anything to do with Vulcan, which it seems to have Vulcan written all over it, I'm thinking that this is a flashback of Vulcan back maybe with— in a time when him and Mr. Wednesday were working together.

There's always a cost with him, just haven't paid it yet. The work begins. I'm going to take—

so those are some interesting shots as well that showed, uh, it looks like, uh, let me go past that.

I need you to believe that there's always a cost with him, just haven't paid And that was Mad Sweeney.

And Mad Sweeney, um, you know, as we recall from the last season, he said that he was once a king, and it looks like he's in some battle. Um, and, uh, how he goes from being— looks like a mortal king to this leprechaun that's immortal. Um, you know, he always talks about the relationship and the deals he makes with Mr. Wednesday. So whatever happens in that particular period I believe it has a lot to— that battle may have a lot to do with his relationship with Mr. Wednesday, his deal he made with Mr. Wednesday, and why he has to do Mr. Wednesday's bidding. It could have been a favor to win that battle given to him or granted to him by Mr. Wednesday. And that was Mr. World down in his 1950s bunker. There was a fight going on between— as we got to see in that flashback, there's a fight going on between, um, I guess it was, uh, it was two teenagers or something, people. I don't know if they have any significance into what's going on with the battle in the House of the Rock, or if they were just, um, you know, a flashback of maybe the condition of the world. I have no idea. But this shot is very interesting because it, it, it basically gives away who this deity is. Uh, many of us thought prior to this trailer that it was a Greek god because of the, the, the way that the, um, the armor, uh, looks, right? It looks very Greek. Um, and this isn't generally how Norse armor looks, right? But the giveaway is he had— he's holding a hammer in his hand. The hammer of Thor. And, uh, of course, Mr. Wednesday being the Norse god Odin will have this great relationship with Thor. Now, this seems to be a stage presentation, and, uh, you know, because it's a stage presentation, what we, what we have noticed with these deities is as they lose power throughout history and through the courses of their, their lives or existence they take on these, uh, all types of jobs, all types of occupations. And so this stage presentation is why he's wearing his armor. So it has nothing to do with— it doesn't need to have anything to do with Scandinavia or Norse mythology. So he's just doing a job, he's doing a stage, uh, uh, presentation, you know. And, uh, these two women on him, they could be deities as well, or they could be the Valkyries from Norse mythology.

It begins. I'm going to take him out.

So we saw this weird look of Technical Boy where he has this kind of long, uh, uh, hair with the ponytail. And I don't know, that might be going back to like the 1990s or the 1980s. And so some are, uh, make the assumption that maybe what we're getting with Technical Boy as we're getting, um, uh, his, his, uh, his, uh, origin stories. And, uh, I don't— I'm not familiar with any of his origin stories in the books. Uh, I don't recall that, but looks like that's what might be happening here. And, um, it kind of would make sense he would have that look because if you kind of go back to the start of especially a lot of modern-day technology like personal computers and various things like that, You're looking around mid-'80s, the '90s, and this could be when Technical Boy was born or his powers start to emerge. Also, what we get in a lot of the shots from trailers leading up to this with his appearance that way, he's a lot more friendlier. He seems to be in awe of the world, which is in contrast to Technical Boy in modern times, a great deal different. In modern times, Technical Boy is a real jerk, as we got to see. He's very mean. He's evil. And the technical boy, uh, that looks like part of his origin story. You could tell he was in awe of maybe his abilities in the world at that time and the things he could do, but he seemed to be a very different character.

Don't you take them all out.

I'm not sure who that is, but this is a shot of Mr. Wednesday, and he looks like he's performing in the exact same, um, stage presentation, or maybe at the same theater as Thor was. Um, and so again, they do all these very weird performance jobs because I, I, I guess these guys don't have any skills, and so they're taking whatever jobs they can. And we got to see that in season 1 with them doing just these regular jobs that you, you wouldn't expect any of them would be doing. And we also got to see what appeared to be Shadow Moon. Looks like he's either captured by Mr. Rural or Technical Boy, and they're trying to get information out of him. I don't know if they're trying to figure out who he is or just trying to figure out what Mr. Wednesday's plans are, but he seems to be captured.

This is America, greatest story ever told.

There's Mr. Wednesday again in this weird stage performance. Before that, we got a shot of the Nazis, and I'm assuming— or those was like— those looked like SS officers, so I'm assuming it was in Nazi Germany at the time. And for some reason, I'm just guessing here, I'm just going out on a limb, uh, that their influence and story might be related to Vulcan, who we don't have any evidence will appear in season 2. But it's just so interesting that if we go back to Vulcan, uh, in season 1, where he's manufacturing the bullets in this town, the whole town seemed to be dressed like Nazis. If you all recall that. They seem to have those same Nazi characteristics. And, uh, I'll go out on a limb and say Vulcan is the, uh, is— had a lot to do with the influence of the Nazis, uh, and, and that's perhaps why they're showing them. I believe it could be a flashback story, or perhaps him and Mr. Wednesday when they were friends and allies working together. That was Chernobog, uh, you guys remember Chernobog. We haven't seen a lot of him recently. That's Technical Body SS. I want to— there he is. I keep missing them. Yeah, that looks like him right there. Uh, Chernobog. I can't get the Chernobog. I just want the—

this is America.

Freeze.

Greatest story ever told.

There he is. That's a shot I want to get of Chernobog. And you can see he's kind of— we've never seen Chernobog look like this before. He appears to be in his godlike form, you know, looking pretty scary there. We've seen a similar look to Mr. Wednesday where they have this glowing energy and aura around them like pure energy, and this seems to be their true form. Um, and so, uh, that's Chernobyl. Of course, he's the guy with the big long— looks like a sledgehammer— and, uh, he's obviously on, um Mr. Wednesday's side, gonna battle on Mr. Sin's, uh, on Mr. Wednesday's side. Chernobog, meaning Black God. He is a, um, uh, what they— what you would call a, um, uh, a— not a Scand— a, a Slavic god. And this is Matt Sweeney, looks like, and he's leaping in the air, and apparently he's fighting some type of giant. Um, and, uh, this kind of makes me think that this battle is very significant again in how he becomes a leprechaun. And because he got— because this, this giant looks like he's pretty hard to beat. And, and, uh, it kind of makes me think that he's gonna need the help of Mr. Wednesday. Now, interesting enough If that's the case and Matt Sweeney calls upon the power of Odin or some god to slay this, this beast to protect his people, or this giant to protect his people, and to be maybe granted powers in order to do it, it's very reminiscent of, uh, the God of War story. If many of you are familiar with the God of War story from the video games, which is very popular, where he calls upon the powers of the gods, of Ares, the god of war, to give him the ability to, uh, defeat his enemies. Um, and, uh, but God, uh, but the— if this is in accordance with the books American Gods, then I would think that, that, that the God of War story kind of borrowed from American Gods with this idea. But I just thought that was interesting.

Are we ready? I am.

And now, of course, that was Odin's all-seeing eye, that, that one eye that's a different color, and he's able to see all with this eye. And, uh, so that's pretty much it, guys. I wanted to review that trailer. I'm very excited about American Gods coming out March 10th on Sunday at 8 PM on Starz Network. Um, these produ— the production value of American Gods is on the level of Game of Thrones. And here's the good thing, but it's on the Starz Network. Here's the good thing about American Gods. American Gods, as I understand it, looking at Game of Thrones, because I'm pretty sure a lot of people who watch American Gods watch Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones, this will be its final season and that will be it. And they'll do a prequel series at some point in the future, and hopefully it'll be good. But the good news about American Gods, for you American Gods watchers, or the people who are interested in watching American Gods, is that, as I understand it, this is season 2, but Neil Gaiman, as I understand, he has enough material to go for 5 seasons. So we could potentially get 5 seasons of American Gods. That's 4 more seasons. Uh, and, uh, that can help us get over losing Game of Thrones, as I don't know if this prequel series is going to be anything like the— you know, a lot of times, unfortunately, when we have a lot of, uh, sequels or prequel series, they don't do as well as the original. And I hope that's not the case for, for Game of Thrones. But American Gods, you can probably— we can probably be in good shape to get about 5 seasons for them. But guys, that's all I want to talk about today. In this episode. If you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.