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And Laura Moon has been cast http://collider.com/emily-browning-american-gods-cast/?utm_campaign=collidersocial&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

They should illustrate it with pictures of Aidan Turner in And Then There Were None to give him a fighting chance.

Ian McShane announced as Mr Wednesday http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ian-mcshane-star-american-gods-872269

Apologies if this has been posted before (or this is the wrong place) but there's a quiz about who is your once upon a time husband http://www.answers.com/article/1343084/who-is-your-once-upon-a-time-husband I got Kristoff which was unexpected but could have been worse.

Please no. I mean I'm not disputing that this show is quite capable of going there, but honestly it's a wonder Hook survived the however many hundred years he's been alive given the stupid plans he's been shown coming up with ever since he met people from Storybrooke. I could actually see it being somebody/something else pushing him over the edge given Emma's reaction at the end of the first episode. She sort of looks at him when she says about what they did to her and turns to the others when she says about punishing them, but she seems much less antagonistic to him than she was to Snow. So maybe what they did to her involved doing something to him, rather than him being involved in whatever they did to her (if that's not too confusingly put).

Do they have seasons 3 and 4 as well? As admittedly it was a while back but last time I used it they only had 1 and 2, which was part of the reason I didn't sign up. Although I don't really know why I'm asking as between here and the Hook youtube clips I feel like I know everything I want to.

If she didn't know that much about it before, she's summing it up pretty well in a lot of cases.

I got the impression that he's interested in the scientific or intellectual aspect of giving the synths consciousness but is aware that it might cause issues, which is why he then wants to control or restrain them. It's a pragmatic form of sociopathy. I don't think Elster ever really thought about potential consequences until possibly the end, and George would have gone with the ethics over the science. Hobb is fascinated by the technology but I don't think he actually really considers them human. Really looking forward to season 2.

I'd be very surprised if Hobb actually stuck to his part of the deal and killed Beatrice. Interesting that all the focus has been on the synths having consciousness whereas the part synth human seems to be flying totally under the radar with just Mattie (and the synths) knowing and nobody else suspecting. Well George did possibly but he was trustworthy and is now dead anyway. Leo's life could get even more interesting if people start thinking about how come David Elster's dead son isn't quite so dead or Beatrice drops him in it.

I knew it was never going to happen, but I sort of wanted the synths to end up living with him. I think they would have been good for each other. I might be imagining this but I thought it was said or implied that he had worked with them at some stage

I'd like for him to change shows though. The writers don't seem to know what to do with Rumple and he'd be in my American Gods dream cast.

You've not missed the backstory, you'll get to find out slightly more about him in the next couple of episodes.

I really like Emma's new look. I so want a coat like that.

Noooo, poor Max! He was becoming one of my favourites, so I'm hoping it's not permanent. Whereas Joe and Pete's wife are fully deserving of being pushed off a bridge (as would be David Elster if he was still alive). Very intrigued as to where Karen fits in with all this, I'd guess she must be one of David's as nobody else seems that technologically advanced but it seems odd that the other ones wouldn't know about her. Unless he created her as a future girlfriend for Leo, because he did sound like a very odd man. I find the transitions with her a bit jarring, it's like she's very human when we're not supposed to think of her as a synth, but then very synth like when we're supposed to remember. It's subtler with the others. Loved the way both the synth and human male came up with equally pitiful compliments.

Actually after watching episode 6 I think George might well be the person with the most aware and appropriate attitude towards synths.

I wonder if he's actually the oldest and got created before Elster had quite perfected creating synths with consciousness, as he seems to be the one who has most trouble passing for human

George might be directing his strongest emotions at a machine, but that's because he's missing his dead wife and trying to remember happier times, which is a very human thing to do. I don't think he loves Odi like a son, I think he's attached to him because Odi is a connection to his past. It's sweet because of the way it's played, but desperately sad rather than terrifying.

There's an interview with Robert Carlyle in the Guardian, it's mainly about his new film, nothing to do with OUaT really apart from brief mentions of it in the list of things he's worked on so it's more of interest if you like him generally. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/robert-carlyle-big-films-dont-feed-your-soul

Robin is making me think of a giant nutcracker come to life in those pictures

I think Hook as the dark one has more potential than Emma. He'd kill Rumple and take the consequences if he thought it would save her and it almost fits better with the "love is the most powerful magic of all", as Emma would then be the one to save him. Plus Rumple as Hook showed that Colin can do dark pretty well so it wouldn't have to be instantly resolved (it would probably take a while for anybody to notice for one thing) and dark Hook would be way better than brooding Hook. Maybe we'd even get some snark back.

I want to see the plot (whatever it is) develop in accordance with how the characters would behave, rather than have them do stupid stupid things just to drive the story in a particular direction. I'm not holding my breath.

I'm totally fine with that idea, and personally my preference is for the permanent option. I find the Regina/Robin thing a bit icky now. Ok she probably killed so many people she didn't really know who any of them were, and I'm presuming Robin didn't know as even his forgiving and good-hearted nature surely wouldn't stretch that far (even if he does appear to be the male equivalent of Belle on occasion). But it's still a bit off and if she holds a grudge about her happy ending being taken away from her, that is possibly even lamer than her grudge against Snow.

Belle's wedding outfit was a bit bizarre. It was like something out of Miss Marple above the waist with white tights and extremely high heels, because of course that's just what you'd wear for traipsing through a forest. Possibly she had the enchanted forest hotpants on underneath the coat.

They really need to give Hook more interaction with characters other than Emma, as that's about the only time he's been at all sparky in 3b - complaining about David setting him up as cannon fodder, his disdain for Smee and the oh so insincere apology to Belle.

The outfit suits him so well though. If it does get changed I think it will be missed, although less plunging necklines would be nice, the leather just about stops it looking too 1970s. I would have liked to have seen him in normal clothes for a brief bit though, bitterly complaining about them and how they're not piratey enough.