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I loved it. It isn't perfect - for me, episode 5 is definitely the weakest - but its flaws are essentially those to be expected from the book, and after waiting for decades I am delighted that this is the imperfect version that we get. Right, coherence isn't working: bullet points it is. There's a lot of 'I love' in here. Also some adaptation spoilers.

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After he was dropped from Hell's payroll, Crowley opened a garden centre...

Good Omen Plants

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The Good Omens TV series is released on Friday.
All six episodes are released at once.
My father is visiting Friday - Monday.*
My father and I have many shared tastes, but one that divides us is that he is seriously allergic to anything that smacks of SF/fantasy. He also doesn't really care for Monty Python. He is completely unable to read Terry Pratchett.

You can see the problem.

Dad would have no objection to watching an episode with me, but if there is one thing I do not need in life it is watching the first, untested episode of a Pratchett adaptation with my father there thinking "Why is my daughter watching the rubbish?" He wouldn't be able to help it any more than I could in a similar situation. He would no doubt be happy to make himself scarce. Or I could, as I had planned, watch it first thing in the morning on the laptop, and that would be perfectly manageable. Except now I can't because there are six episodes at once and that is simply impossible.

And the true kicker? The one with that extra-special demonic touch?

I was the one who suggested it would be a good weekend for him to come. This weekend was also an option, but I will be working Monday and suggested that the travel home would be grim on the bank holiday. That'll teach me to be considerate.

I am going to miss the immediate fannish discussion. I am going to miss the immediate wank.** And above all, I am going to have to use superhuman levels of self-restraint not to get spoiled before I have the opportunity to watch it all. My soul is going to be severely tarnished on the envy, greed, and wrath fronts.

*We are going walking.
**Not entirely a bad thing, but I fear that fandom wank has a tendency to increase. It's not like "are Victor and Yuuri engaged?" has got less contentious over time.

Found while googling for random Good Omens-related things: Crowley Young Chartered Accountants. Address, 10 Berkeley Street.

As a general comment from one who has been whiling away some of her sick leave this week having a look at GO fanfic for the first time in ages, I have to admit that I am not entirely looking forward to the increase in fandom activity that next year's TV series will doubtless bring... On the one hand, increased volume and discussion is great. On the other, people might be Wrong on the Internet! Though I had to admit that as someone who enjoys a bit of good old-fashioned smarm for this one, Sheen and Tennant's recent Comic Con interview is very encouraging: It makes it so much easier as an actor to go ‘my objective in this scene is to not show you how much I love you,' and just gaze longingly at you all the time'. (3 mins in)



TL:DR I like the trailer. For me, the biggest problems hitherto with Pratchett adaptations has been that they've tended to be stodgy, and this looks like they might have avoided that.