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Spoilers Amazon's Good Omens mini-series

I missed the Gallifrey reference, although I knew there was going to be something in that scene but it went by too quickly and I didn't bother to back and pause it.

I don't know how I missed the scarf as a bow tie. :o
 
JD said:
Well I guess since Christopher Lee isn't an option anymore, Brian Cox is a good choice.

For those unaware Christopher Lee played Death in all of the animated and live action Discworld adaptation, so this'll be the first screen adaptation of a Terry Pratchett book with Death as a character where he wasn't voiced by Lee.
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Wasn’t it Ian Richardson in Hogfather? I could be getting the name wrong, House Of Cards Chap.
The Good Omens Death was just different enough from the Discworld version to make sense and be a good homage. Two episodes left to go.
 
I'm loving my second viewing. This is one of those shows where it definitely pays to go back and to see all of the seeds that were planted early on that take root later.
 
jaime said:
Wasn’t it Ian Richardson in Hogfather? I could be getting the name wrong, House Of Cards Chap.
The Good Omens Death was just different enough from the Discworld version to make sense and be a good homage. Two episodes left to go.
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Oops, I just double checked on Wikipedia and you're right, and apparently Death wasn't in Going Postal. I could have sworn he popped up somewhere in that too.
 
JD said:
Oops, I just double checked on Wikipedia and you're right, and apparently Death wasn't in Going Postal. I could have sworn he popped up somewhere in that too.
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Really? Blimey. He must have been. Though I don’t remember seeing him in it. Will have to watch it..actually...the thing starts without murder and he wasn’t there. Nope...probably no death in it. Odd.
 
Never read the book but just finished the series. Absolutely fantastic! Honestly, one of the best things I've watched in a long time. The cast were all brilliant as well. The term "Instant Classic" comes to mind. :)
 
I loved all of the flashbacks in episode 3, and the fact that Shadwell was working for both Aziraphale and Crowley and neither of them knew it cracked me up.
 
The twisty end...which I just got to see...was well done and surprisingly subtle. Not from the book that I remember.
 
jaime said:
The twisty end...which I just got to see...was well done and surprisingly subtle. Not from the book that I remember.
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From an interview with Neil Gaiman...

GAIMAN: There are ideas that I took from the sequel to Good Omens that Terry and I talked about but never wrote, which is where our angels come from.

DEADLINE: Interesting.

GAIMAN: Yes, there were things that Terry and I had talked about and planned but we’d never actually got to use so I got to steal from that. I got to reshape some of the plot just a little so that the plot keeps kicking until the last minute of episode six. Because if we’d just done the book then the plot would have ended halfway through episode six and we would have spent the rest of episode six saying goodbye to people and it would have been like the third part of Lord of the Rings, only even worse.

So, I reconfigured it, because it’s television, because I can.
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For those who haven't read the book, the first half of the third episode is all new material that Gaiman wrote specifically for the series. We get small tidbits about the history between Crowley and Aziraphale but nothing that detailed (nor was there any lead-in for the holy water).
 
That's interesting. So other than that has Gaiman made many changes from the book?
 
JD said:
That's interesting. So other than that has Gaiman made many changes from the book?
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It's not a change, but it's something that the series didn't get into. There is a reason why Crowley plays so much Queen in his car. For reasons that were never fully explained, any cassette tape (hey, it was the 90s) left in Crowley's Bentley for more than 2 weeks inexplicably turned into The Best of Queen.
 
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Turtletrekker said:
It's not a change, but it's something that the series didn't get into. There is a reason why Crowley plays so much Queen in his car. For reasons that were never fully explained, any cassette tape (hey,it was the 90s) left in Crowley's Bentley for more than 2 weeks inexplicably turned into The Best of Queen.
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Yeah, it's a shame that bit wasn't worked into one of God's narrations. Ah, well.

As for how loyal the series is, it's pretty damn good from my recollection. It's been more than several years since I've read the book, but the meat and potatoes are spot on. I think only certain details are omitted here and there with a few things changed because they worked better on television (such as the absence of the Dalek).
 
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Turtletrekker said:
It's not a change, but it's something that the series didn't get into. There is a reason why Crowley plays so much Queen in his car. For reasons that were never fully explained, any cassette tape (hey, it was the 90s) left in Crowley's Bentley for more than 2 weeks inexplicably turned into The Best of Queen.
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Tut tut.
Greatest Hits.
As featured in ever jukebox in students bars, or any half decent pub at the time. Sadly they didn’t use the Highlander tracks from it in the series.
 
I will say in advance that I have never read the book. I didn’t even know it existed. That said, seeing it as a tv series, it’s utterly brilliant. I love the Doctor easter eggs, and enjoyed the terrific writing, the exemplary acting, the characters, and Frances McDormand as the voice of God is nothing short of inspired. This is a cracking series, and I enjoyed every minute.
 
Turtletrekker said:
It's not a change, but it's something that the series didn't get into. There is a reason why Crowley plays so much Queen in his car. For reasons that were never fully explained, any cassette tape (hey, it was the 90s) left in Crowley's Bentley for more than 2 weeks inexplicably turned into The Best of Queen.
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I took the fact that Queen songs were playing whenever the car was seen to be referencing that. At one point Aziraphale flicks through the CDs in the glovebox and none of them were Queen...

dJE
 
danellis said:
I took the fact that Queen songs were playing whenever the car was seen to be referencing that. At one point Aziraphale flicks through the CDs in the glovebox and none of them were Queen...

dJE
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We overtly see a Mozart go into it, then it evebtually gets to Queen.
 
Watched the entire series and it was great.
Definitely worth watching.

My only concern is that David Tenant will get sued by Geddy Lee for stealing his look.
 
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