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i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.

Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. But Pterry has done a LOT on stories, which, well, I will just borrow it to use on your friend.

I can't help comparing it to Thief of Time, because of the twin thing. ToT did touch on the feeling incomplete, but i don't think ToT is a clean split like this. .... actually i don't remember what happened with the other twin of Time's, .... and it actually is not so happy-ending as this audiodrama, this one is... so wholesome? why is gaiman being wholesome? Is this changed by the adapting? probably is, considering what they did to pterry's. ehm.

uh. I think the best thing about it is it brought back more DS9, and the worst of it is ...... the series is set out to kill off the novel-verse? I mean... if you've got that in mind, everything is just sort of... done. It doesn't feel intriguing, and I don't think this is the sort of doomed hero arc I like.

and you know, you always kill someone important then bring them back, that would make killing them less significant an act if you don't really do it well, and well, I think what with ezri and miles is pretty disappointing to me. idk. it's a bit bland. the only unpredictability probably comes with julian, but .... i also don't like what you did with julian, and i realise the why is because you alana-bloomed him, you broke him. and what was so precious about julian is the guy is infuriatingly unbreakbale, like, the bad guys relied on him being unbreakable to actually make their evil plan work. that's how unbreakable julian bashir should be, but... i'm now just curious what could possible happen in that section 31 book that broke julian bashir.

one of the stars is for the bickering between julian and quark: quark: i took the liberty of seperating your latinum from your pocket when i transported you, and Julian: this plan doesn't work, i want my money back and one star for quark: they rebuilt DS9, it looks like the original DS9 from outside, but the inside is now all round things. that's federation for you - take away sharp edges, leave you with all the .. round ... things. uh, is bickering only existing between DS9 crew because. i thought i didn't see it as much in TNG because i haven't watched enough TNG, but... now in the books? it's also like DS9 crew bickering a lot more than when we are seeing the TNG crew.