Jez Bell Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 the remainder of the Good Omens Cast has been released http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/ I managed to get zero correct out of my list of predictions I have to say that I am mildly disheartened by the photos of Crowley and Aziraphale. I was really hoping for something modern and slick, set in today's London. These dudes have been on earth forever, they should be a bit more fashion forward, me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 I think the photos are supposed to be in the past though? Not the period when most of the show will take place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Which Tyler Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 13 hours ago, dog-days said: I think the photos are supposed to be in the past though? Not the period when most of the show will take place. Correct - 11 years previously, to be precise - though I've no idea why they should be "modern and slick" - Is that "modern" like a 1926 Bentley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 31 minutes ago, Which Tyler said: Correct - 11 years previously, to be precise - though I've no idea why they should be "modern and slick" - Is that "modern" like a 1926 Bentley? Modern like bebop, I bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Bell Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 2 hours ago, Which Tyler said: Correct - 11 years previously, to be precise - though I've no idea why they should be "modern and slick" - Is that "modern" like a 1926 Bentley? a 1926 Bentley is a vintage classic that will forever be cool. Skinny scarves and long hair or waistcoats, less so. I was just hoping for an updated version, and not something off the set of Dr. Who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 John Hamm is Gabriel. I really need to reread this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Good Omens Production Trailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 GOOD OMENS Official Trailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 OK trailer - I enjoyed Aziraphale's "But I don't even like you!" Wish they'd just be a bit more precise about the release date. What if the apocalypse comes, and I still don't know when Good Omens is being released?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 23 hours ago, dog-days said: OK trailer - I enjoyed Aziraphale's "But I don't even like you!" Wish they'd just be a bit more precise about the release date. What if the apocalypse comes, and I still don't know when Good Omens is being released?? Apparently the BBC and Amazon are locking it down. Amazon get to show it first and then the BBC get to show it 6 months later, so it requires the BBC to lock in a date and then Amazon release it 6 months ahead of time. They're also still in post, so they have to wait until that finishes. My sense was that this was always going to be Spring on Amazon and then Autumn for the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Good Omens: Opening Title Sequence. (debuts May 31 on Amazon Prime Video) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HexMachina Posted February 16, 2019 Author Share Posted February 16, 2019 20 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: Good Omens: Opening Title Sequence. (debuts May 31 on Amazon Prime Video) Really like that, the animation is cool and the music is finally appropriate. roll on 31st May! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AncalagonTheBlack Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Good Omens - Behind The Scenes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 I have warned my wife to expect a zombie this weekend. I plan on binging Good Omens over the next couple of nights since she still has no desire to watch it. I know reviews have been so-so but this has been on my wish list for so long it will take a lot to disappoint me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 I went to a launch event in London on Wednesday which was great. It was supposed to by Kirsty Wark interviewing Neil Gaiman but they changed things so that both David Tennant and Michael Sheen could come along as well. It was hugely entertaining, they did live readings of scenes from the book they'd had to cut from the script and so forth. Very entertaining. One of the best bits was when the original actor playing the American Ambassador dropped out and they needed a replacement ASAP. Gaiman emailed Nick Offerman, whom he'd vaguely heard was a fan of the book, and asked him if he could fly from Los Angeles to South Africa in three days to be in it, and Offerman replied, "I'll pay for my own airfare." Later on one of the crew thanked him for flying so far for so few lines and he said, "I'd have flown a hell of a lot further for a lot fewer lines." Halfway through Episode 3 (which contains allegedly the longest pre-credits sequence ever at 29 minutes) and it's pretty good. The two main complaints from the reviews are valid, namely that God's voiceover is a little too prevalent in the first episode, to the point of redundancy, and that the scenes without Sheen nor Tennant are a mixed bag. I think that's a problem inherited from the novel, where Anathema and Newton feel like they're supposed to be the protagonists but then Aziraphale and Crowley (originally the same character until Pratchett split them in half) took over. In the TV show, neither Anathema nor Newton show up until Episode 2. I think there's also an issue with tone: the music and jovial tone make it feel dangerously close to "twee," but then Dark Neil Gaiman suddenly shows up and we get an unexpectedly graphic depiction of the Crucifixion and people just being outright murdered, which tonally jars a little. But Sheen and Tennant are a fantastic double act. Apparently a sequel is unlikely (Gaiman reckons he's about 50% of the way through writing Neverwhere II, which he needs to finish before doing something else, likely the American Gods sequel) but Pratchett came up with a title years ago which Gaiman would like to use one day: 667: Neighbour of the Beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 That's a great book title you mention at the end, wert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Werthead said: Apparently a sequel is unlikely (Gaiman reckons he's about 50% of the way through writing Neverwhere II, which he needs to finish before doing something else, likely the American Gods sequel) but Pratchett came up with a title years ago which Gaiman would like to use one day: 667: Neighbour of the Beast. That's probably for the best. I love both Gaiman and Pratchett's work, but I think both have said before that Pratchett wrote more of Good Omens than Gaiman (something like 60-40). A Gaiman-only sequel I'm sure would be good, but I wonder if it would really feel like Good Omens. I don't know for sure, but I suspect a lot of the more lighthearted elements of the book came from Pratchett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 I binged this yesterday and am somewhat of mixed mind - I'm increasingly impatient with television but I was more or less entertained by this throughout and only fell asleep for a little bit and was sad for it to end, so that's something, but its definitely also a mess. There's no real weight to any of it - even the central friendship just barely manages to earn some stakes - and everything else was meh, take it or leave it (Anathema in particular, who I remember quite liking in the novel, was just irritating here. No idea if it was the writing or the acting or what, but just unlikeable and dull.) But, like, fine - not tuning in for deep emotional fare here. My bigger problem though is this trend of trying to do books to television literally, pardon the tortured vocabulary. Like, they're different mediums, y'all. These efforts (I AM LOOKING AT YOU, Lemony Snicket) to catch the irreverent or punny or whatever tone of a novel in a tv show with miles of narration or loads of screen captions or all the rest of it is just cheap and uninmaginative. Figure out different ways to arrive at what you're going for - with visuals, for example. Like its, you know, your job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 first episode was ok - weirdly reminded me more of preacher than American gods in the sense it doesn't take itself so seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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