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Have a Theory? Share It Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/div>Hi Guys,<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading my email last week. The pod has been great and I can’t wait to hear it each week. Especially this week, when I was feeling a bit down about the show, you guys totally turned me around.<\/p>\n

There is so much that I love about this show, but I have a few small grievances with the pace and style of the show. I feel like there is emphasis on these super-long scenes that don’t forward the plot (Bilquis in ep 2 and Salim in ep 3). They don’t hit the mark for me. The Bilquis scene that started with a spinning space boner, then a 3.5 min montage of her conquests, then another 2 min at the museum. That’s too long. Same with the Jinn scene. Everything leading up to the hotel room was great, but we had almost 4 min that could have been abbreviated.<\/p>\n

It almost seems like some network note that each episode must contain a 3.5 min sex scene at around the 35-min mark. Fine, then make it sexy or use it for exposition. It’s just long and dull, somewhat silly.<\/p>\n

As a book reader, I have been through the text and searched for hidden meaning and the underlying mythology. So, from the show I was hoping to get much more in the visuals. hidden symbolism, Easter eggs, pop-culture references, etc. Yet, these are few and far between in the first few episodes. Feels like a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s plenty to dig into in the dialogue, but we didn’t need the show for that.<\/p>\n

So, a few small things for this week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Anubis scene.
    \n<\/strong>* I think this is meant to be present day, as Mrs. Fadil says that she has a phone that is also a camera. * He comes to her even though she is a Muslim because she is one of the few that still remember him. So, he probably doesn’t have that much going on, while Allah is likely super-busy at the moment. * Mrs. Fadil puts so much faith into him that she gives up her final choice, but then has a last-minute hesitation. The cat that gives her a gentle nudge is Bastet, wife of Anubis.<\/li>\n
  2. Jinn and Salim<\/strong>
    \n* This scene showed how people feeling alienated in a foreign land can find comfort with people who share common stories. It is an instant trust given to a total stranger based on that very basic part of our identities. * I’m not convinced that Salim became the Jinn, but the Jinn granted him a wish by giving him a new identity that would give him freedom, in a sense * This could also be a commentary on the venn diagram between ethnicity and vocation in big cities<\/li>\n
  3. Shadow and Zorya Polunochnaya<\/strong>
    \n* Zorya P tells Shadow he used to be protected by the sun. She could be referencing Sweeney’s lucky coin here, but likely she is talking about the sun itself.<\/li>\n
  4. Wednesday and Shadow<\/strong>
    \n* When Wednesday is buying Shadow his hot cocoa, he puts a bill down on the counter and the attendant hands him back a $20.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What kind of note would he have paid with to get back 20? Thirty dollars for hot cocoa seems a bit steep so clearly this is one of his charms.<\/p>\n

    * The Chinese restaurant honours Odin as well.
    \n* The wolf can symbolize many things<\/p>\n

    i. Odin is accompanied by two wolves<\/p>\n

    ii. Baldur, Odin’s second son (loved by all but Loki, and protected by the sun itself) had dreams of a wolf that would end the world<\/p>\n

    iii. Odin is killed by Loki’s son, Fenrir the Wolf<\/p>\n

    That’s it for this week.<\/p>\n

    Love from London,
    \nJez
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