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[GOOD OMENS] HAS DROPPED EARLY
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Good Omens is a fantastic little comedic novel about the apocalypse that was written by Neil Gaiman and the late, great (GNU) Terry Pratchett. Apparently one of Pratchett’s last requests of Neil was to get a show made, so Gaiman has been painstakingly involved in the whole process back to front of the new BBC/Amazon collab miniseries for the last couple of years.
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Is that what you’re doing with your evening? It’s what I’m doing with mine! Talk about Good Omens (book and show)
Available to stream on Amazon Prime!!
Is that what you’re doing with your evening? It’s what I’m doing with mine! Talk about Good Omens (book and show)
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I thought they were they were the type that dropped episodes once a week
I think because it's originally BBC and all getting dropped at once on the BBC iPlayer, Amazon didn't really have an excuse not to as they're not actually producing it. They do the weekly thing with for Gentleman Jack because, HBO and the BBC are airing it weekly
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Ah, ok, i'll wait for that, then.
And no, iPlayer is only for UKsians, not for the colonies.
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About as close of an adaption for anything I have ever seen. It’s practically a straight up conversion of book to television.
Edit: hell, most of the changes are for technology and granting diversity
I hope it'll be on BBC 2 one day. I might have to plug in my TV if it does.
As of halfway through Ep3, not yet, though it is always playing.
I think I actually prefer that rather than have them stop to explain it to someone/the viewer (which a lot of Pratchett things end up doing, which kind of kills the joke).
Structural Comment? Still just episode 1 but I'd guess will apply to all:
I think thats kind of the point?
I've read the book, so it's not about that so much as "you can't drive that, it belongs in a museum"
Between this and Captain Marvel, I have lots of happy streaming ahead of me over the next couple of days.
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David Tennant as Bill Nighy is also v good.
I actually fell for it for a while, thinking that yes, they've been given divine protection, or turned into something new. Nope, they're just smarter than their would-be executioners.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
The comedy plays well in the actual show, although I guess your mileage may vary on that?
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
My only complaint is there are more than a few places where I think God's narration is unnecessarily and awkwardly redundant to the action on the screen -- I especially noticed it in the introductions to each of the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse. Show, don't tell, and all that -- but especially don't show *and* tell.
There’s also a slight anachronism of technology going on that I can’t not notice. Maybe there wasn’t a way to easily set the show in the late end of the Cold War with all the cultural anxieties feeding the concept of Apocalypse at that time, but it always felt crucial to the character of the story to me.
It’s a well-intentioned adaptation, and I get Gaiman was fulfilling a promise to Pratchett to get it made. But for anyone who hasn’t read the book, give it a read: the high notes are higher, the jokes land better, and there’s a lot of interesting and fun ideas that didn’t make it onto the screen.
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You don’t need this narration, the scene speaks for itself! Yeah, it’s a funny bit in a book, but it’s really redundant here!
I enjoyed it, I'm very glad it was made, and it makes me want to go re-read the book. If you haven't read the book yet, definitely give it a shot after you watch it. Having David Tennant and Michael Sheen in mind (not to mention the rest of the cast) is something I'm looking forward to when I read it again this summer.
If you've read the book but haven't seen the show yet, I definitely recommend it. There's a few scenes and plots that get cut, but overall, it's a really fun adaptation that I think you'll enjoy.