EW: This episodes Coming to America sequence is an important one.
One, it became a lot more harrowing after the election.
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We were utterly horrified by what we found was true.
When blood flies and is spilled, it hurts.
We wanted it to have as much of a feel of a true crossing as possible.
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But then we wanted to go to a magical space.
The Divines blood is spilled along with your own.
Long quiet racists have become emboldened.
Its hard to imagine that anyone who thinks hunting Mexicans is anything short of madness is watching this show.
Its a tragedy that America has taken it so far and elected someone who campaigned on pronouncing those fears.
The core of this episode involves Vulcans America or as Wednesday says, their America.
We never wanted to say that we think this is what non-coastal America is like.
Thats not what we believe and not our point.
We wanted to have our own little isolated Stepford bubble that had chosen a certain path.
We dont want to say that guns or gun culture are inherently bad.
And people are terrified to have the answer theyve decided is the correct one be challenged.
That goes for both sides of any debate.
In fact, being presented with facts to the contrary of your own beliefs only redoubles the erroneous belief.
It doesnt help people speak to one another.
Only yell at each other.
Or, worse, shoot.
Maurice Minnifield fromNorthern Exposure.
So for a lot of reasons, they worship him.
They eat and live by his paychecks, and theyve all given him their fealty.
So it is this very strange Stepford,Twin Peaks-y town thats just its own odd bubble.
If Czernobog and the Zorya sisters have an apartment, Vulcan has a town.
So, one or two deaths a year… what was a better sacrifice than that?
We got a lot of nos before we got that great yes.
It is a wonderful thing when the lawyers responsible for song rights have a sense of humor.
What does it mean to see one god kill another?I think well find out.
There are different types of deaths for them, but they are not immune to cessation.
They can be rendered extinct.
It doesnt mean that the idea of Vulcan is necessarily gone, because hes still on Wikipedia.
But that aspect of him, that manifestation, is no more.
And for creatures of concretized ego, thats a thing.
There are a bunch of fun things happening in that triad.
First of all, Salim is the only traditionally religious human we come across so far.
Thats a very interesting dynamic.
Theyre both in interesting places.
Theyre both chasing something that theyve only touched once, really, and that they fear theyve lost.
So theres definitely a kinship there.
