{"id":3203,"date":"2017-07-15T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2022-07-06T00:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T04:27:47","slug":"essie-and-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shatpod.com\/tv\/essie-and-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"The Link Between Essie and Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hi guys,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shatontv.com\/ep-15-american-gods-107-a-prayer-for-mad-sweeney\/\">Great podcast<\/a> again this week.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Only one episode left!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This episode tied so many things together and I finally fully appreciated the attention to detail they have put in; the recurring lucky 7&#8217;s with Laura and Essie, the very subtle nods to history, and what a lovely way to tie Sweeney and Laura together.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I do agree that there has been an inconsistency in style all the way through the show.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Perhaps what they&#8217;re going for is to make each story unique, but I find it a bit distracting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have some comments, I have some theories.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I have a lot this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You guys talked about the link between Essie and Laura and whether she is a descendent or reincarnation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I agree that it&#8217;s not really either.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The showrunners said that the wanted to show a spark of the same soul.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>We know that Laura didn&#8217;t believe in anything, but she does seem to believe in luck.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>She shares lots of Essie&#8217;s qualities, like a fickleness towards men for example. We even see young Essie paying he loves me, he loves me not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Anyways, Sweeney sees that sparkle in Laura.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When Sweeney is yelling at the sky, he seems to say that she his kin, or more precisely our kin, not the enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sweeney was given 3 tasks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kill Laura.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Not actually kill, but to change her luck.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pick a fight with Shadow<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Get to House on the Rock in Wisconsin, where he will stand with Wednesday<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So he did the first, he thought.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>He did the second and lost his coin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The coin brings Laura back and messes up the first thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Easter probably thought she was doing him a favour by getting him his coin back.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>It finally finishes his first task, the minor screw-up from the second is resolved, and he can get on with getting to HotR.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Wednesday probably didn&#8217;t like the little FU that Sweeney gave him earlier and convinced Easter that intervention was in everyone&#8217;s best interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But then there&#8217;s that damn saxophone again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I have a theory<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Because, said Thor, when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki&#8217;s fault. It saves a lot of time. (Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">OK, you are allowed to groan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It&#8217;s clear by now that Wednesday is Odin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Odin&#8217;s blood brother and primary nemesis is Loki.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Loki and his children will be there for Ragnarok, the end of everything, and it will not be on the side of the gods of Asgard that they will fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We&#8217;ve seen a hint of Loki in Shadow&#8217;s cellmate, Low Key Lyesmith (Loki lie smith), but then he is conspicuously absent while Odin gathers his troops.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Loki was not only there at Ragnarok, he was the cause of it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Seems odd that we&#8217;ve only had a whisper of him so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Loki walks in the sky with shoes that fly, and he can transform his shape so he looks like other people, or change into animal form, but his real weapon is his mind. He is more cunning, subtler, trickier than any god or giant. Not even Odin is as cunning as Loki. (Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The fly is always around Laura when she seems get a crazy idea: free-base bug spray, rob a casino, and release Salim (conveniently saving him from the crash).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The thing about Loki is that his M.O. is planting ideas in people&#8217;s heads to manipulate them, that&#8217;s what he was doing for 3 years in prison with Shadow, after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Back to the sax<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first time we hear that wonky sound is when Shadow and Wednesday have just escaped the police station and are walking down the road, just before Shadow tells Wednesday that Laura&#8217;s back.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>This one really sounds like a fly buzzing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">The next time is during the ice cream truck accident.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It&#8217;s possible that the wonky sax is the music for Loki, just as Czernobog has the obo and Sweeney has the lounge-lizard jazz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So Fly=Loki=Sax?. No more, I promise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Easter eggs:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Essie&#8217;s coin<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">I traced it back to a 1666 half guinea coin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Essie&#8217;s coin may be a slightly later date (c. 1719).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Oddly, it has elements of both (possibly a counterfeit coin?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Significant because this is the first series of coins to ever be machine-milled in England leading to 3 primary outcomes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">The cost of hand-hammering and associated levies were eliminated, implicitly increasing the value<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Consistency meant that the coins could be assigned a standard value <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hand-hammered coins were taken out of circulation over the next 40 years<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">In the book, Shadow makes a comment to Sweeney that his coins are useless because they can&#8217;t be converted to cash<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>White Buffalo<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Tatanka Ska is a real thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>The spirit of the land, believed in by the Sioux tribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">So as the real story goes, there was a white buffalo born on a ranch in Wisconsin that was killed by lightning in 2006. The white buffalo in the real story was a descendant of Miracle Moon, who was the first white buffalo in this line. This particular white buffalo was a male where to this point all white buffalos born had been female.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>He was also the third white buffalo born on this farm, an extremely auspicious sign from the gods that this was a sign from God. It was named <a href=\"http:\/\/whitebuffalomiracle2.homestead.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Miracle&#8217;s Second Chance<\/span><\/a>and its birth attracted thousands of Sioux Indians in pilgrimage to the farm. Sadly it was struck by lightning when it was three months old. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Seriously, though&#8230;. Miracle, Moon, Second Chance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>What are the odds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">This is so crazy that I&#8217;m beginning to think the showrunners have pulled a <i>Blair Witch<\/i> on us and planted some bizarre stories around the web<\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Isaac Newton<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">This may be pure rabbit-hole stuff, but I thought there were Newtonian references peppered throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">1666 was also the year of Newton&#8217;s apple-induced epiphany that is credited with decoupling science from magic and starting the industrial revolution<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">During Essie&#8217;s time, Newton was the Warden and Master of the Royal Mint.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>He was responsible for moving England to the gold standard and the re-coinage to remove all hand-made coins from circulation<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Around the same time Essie and Sweeney were in Newgate prison, Isaac Newton had another man, William Chaloner, charged with coin scamming, counterfeiting, and general conman stuff.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Chaloner also sold dildos, just FYI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">And the apples.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Pocahontas<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Essie mention meeting an Indian woman named Susan in the Carolinas. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pocahontas is associated with the colonization and settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">She married a tobacco farmer name John Rolfe and took the Christian name Rebecca<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, I have a question for you and the listeners. Did anyone notice who it was that caught Essie stealing at the market?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I couldn&#8217;t place him as one of the other characters we have seen; not the judge, the warden, the sea captain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I also cannot, for the life of me, figure out what he is carrying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>It looks like a femur made into a walking stick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My hopes for the finale are simple.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I want to see House on the Rock and even just a glimpse all of the old Gods, including Loki.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>However, I don&#8217;t think that will happen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>I think likely what we will get is a build up to it, putting out the glassware and such.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I predict we will see Anansi again and meet Easter, Odin will finesse his sales pitch the new gods will be having their own little huddle somewhere, and Sweeney and Laura will go toward the light.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>Probably the big reveal will just be to hammer home the fact that Wednesday is Odin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I also really have my fingers crossed that the credits will roll on Immigrant Song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My final prediction is that you guys are going to get a crap load of emails this week reacting to Gene&#8217;s complete and total lack of emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lots of love from London,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Jez.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<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\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, Great podcast again this week. 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