{"id":14655,"date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/gods-as-pesky-interlopers\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T04:27:09","slug":"gods-as-pesky-interlopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/gods-as-pesky-interlopers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gods As Pesky Interlopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_10661\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"mailto:hosts@shatpod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10661\" class=\"wp-image-10661 size-full\" src=\"\/tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-Gods-Theories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Have a Theory? <a href=\"mailto:hosts@shatpod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>Hey there!,<\/p>\n<p>I got a little behind on the show, but I&#8217;m caught up now. I wanted to share a thematic thought with you &#8211; the Gods (old and new) come across as pesky interlopers. I was struck by this reading The Song of Achilles. <\/p>\n<p>If you take the Grecian assumption that the gods created the world and man for their own enjoyment, as well as the passage of time, this &#8220;war&#8221; feels like the same inconvenience of when your airport is shutdown because of Air Force One coming to town. It&#8217;s super frustrating in the moment, you&#8217;re pissed at the gall of this powerful being messing up your travel, but you eventually forget it. <\/p>\n<p>Thetis, Achilles&#8217; mother and a minor god, forces a king to hide her son and marry his daughter to Achilles in secret, in an effort to prevent Achilles&#8217; death. But the prophecy wins out, and the poor king and princess are left with a disgraced kingdom and a goddess&#8217; anger because her plot was discovered. The king probably just wanted to go about his day, not getting mixed up in the drama of the gods, but that&#8217;s the heart of every myth and tale &#8211; the gods mess with us. <\/p>\n<p>Ignoring some of the creative issues, the show is essentially asking the question &#8211; do we want to be inconvenienced by the gods and their drama? Or do we want to play a role in it? Shadow Moon seems to be letting it happen to him, even becoming possessed. But Laura is figuring out how to play the game, even when she gets played. <\/p>\n<p>So is that the question, do we just let the gods inconvenience us and move on, or do we participate and gain more from our existence? <\/p>\n<p>Emily Jasper<p><strong>Subscribe Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Android:\u00a0<a title=\"Android\" href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-android<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Apple\/iTunes:\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"iTunes\" href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-itunes<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Help Support the Podcast<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Support with Paypal &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/paypal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/paypal<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support With Venmo \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venmo.com\/ShatPodcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/venmo.com\/ShatPodcasts<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop \/ Merchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/shat-on-podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/shop<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Shop Amazon With Our Affiliate Link &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=shatmovies-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=shatmovies-20<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sponsor&#8217;s Listener Survey &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/survey<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Leave an iTunes Review &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/american-gods-review<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Leave a Voicemail &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"tel:914-719-7428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(914) 719-SHAT<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"tel:914-719-7428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(914) 719-7428<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Feeds &amp; Social Media &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/subscribe-and-follow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/shatontv.com\/subscribe-and-follow\/<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Checkout our Movie Podcast &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shatthemovies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shatthemovies.com<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there!, I got a little behind on the show, but I&#8217;m caught up now. I wanted to share a thematic thought with you &#8211; the Gods (old and new) come across as pesky interlopers. I was struck by this reading The Song of Achilles. If you take the Grecian&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1245],"tags":[5434,5310,2387],"class_list":["post-14655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-gods-confessional","tag-ag-s2e3","tag-american-gods-season-2","tag-confessional-read"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.1 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gods As Pesky Interlopers - Shat on TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/gods-as-pesky-interlopers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gods As Pesky Interlopers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey there!, I got a little behind on the show, but I&#8217;m caught up now. 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