Good Omens Milestone, YEAH!
Added 2015-09-21 06:54:13 +0000 UTCSo we have reached our next milestone, which is $666, and a review of Good Omens.
I started working on the script last week, and the episode will definitely be out before the end of the year, but I want your input, fellow GO lovers:
What do you love about Good Omens? Why do you think it's the sort of book that gets dropped in the bath so much? Did you like the BBC Radio 4 adaptation? Do you ship Aziraphale/Crowley? And do you have any explanation as to how Crowley the demon brought the bird back to life at Warlock's birthday party?
No seriously, I've always wondered about this one, and thus have constructed an elaborate ineffable headcanon surrounding it.
Love to you all, you rock!
PS: Next SYL episode is up on Tuesday 29th September, and is a review of Advantageous, so if you like quiet dystopian lady-centric scifi, you should definitely mark the date. :D
Comments
be forwarned that I may have capitalized he anytime it refers to God even if it was not capitalized in the text [SPOILERS FOLLLOW] what I like about Good Omens: I really like that Adam refuses to end the world and instead saves it I like Crowley and his attitude (eg "Tool. Yeah." he as much as thinks "I know you think I'm a tool"; "underneath it all, Crowley was an optimist. If there was one rock-hard certainty [...] then it was the utter surety [...] that the universe would look after him" [because of this sentence, my head cannon is that Crowley is either merely human or a saint] I like the friendship between Crowley and Aziraphale, and Aziraphale is (semi-)plausible as an angel/saint "Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind" I like the poke at the National Enquirer-style magazine with National World Weekly "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and space men and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'S not worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion" "The whole point about gangsters and cowboys and aliens and pirates was that you could stop being them and go home" "They rather liked the world [...] rather than viewing it simply as the board on which the cosmic game of chess was being played" "Newt always felt guilty in the presence of black Americans, in case they blamed him for two hundred years of slave trading" "From what I remember [...] He wasn't exactly one for a straight answer. In fact, in fact, He'd never answer at all. He'd just [italics]smile[/end italics], as if He knew something that you didn't." I do have issue w/ some of the theology (and Crowley is NOT a demon in my head cannon) and until page 378, the way they describe God is not right... even at that point God doesn't communicate as well as God Biblically does, but enough of the right Spirit is in Him for me to be using capitals for this sentence also, the 'angelic' side of the war doesn't quite work, nor does the fact that the universe is re-written to cancel any consequences of the failed Apocolypse
Ellelarondelle
2015-09-28 23:06:06 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure not. The American version of Good Omens has more footnotes, and has an extra 700 words about Warlock, but I'm pretty sure it's just a reissue = new cover type thing they've got going on there. So...pick whichever cover you like better. :D
Jill Bearup
2015-09-28 14:42:49 +0000 UTCThis comment is more of a question... I've found two different copies of Good Omens. One with a black backdrop and one with a white backdrop. On both copies the arrangement of the author's names is different as well... My question is... Does it matter which one I read?
Rachael Anthony
2015-09-27 19:39:23 +0000 UTC
