Michael Sheen and David Tennant have been cast in the lead roles in the Amazon series adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Good Omens,” Variety has learned.
The show is set in 2018 on the brink of an apocalypse as humanity prepares for a final judgment. But Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a demon, aren’t enthusiastic about the end of the world, and can’t seem to find the Antichrist. Sheen will play the role of Aziraphale, while Tennant will play Crowley. It will consist of six one-hour episodes.
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Gaiman adapted all six episodes of the series and will also serve as showrunner.
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2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
4-5 episodes in and it's luke-warm. Haven't finished it yet but to me, so far, it's a 6.5/10. It's mildly entertaining but it could have been so much better than it is. We're talking Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett for crying out loud in combination with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
I wonder if they were miscast and should have swapped roles. I think David Tennant would've been a good meek/weak Angel and Michael Sheen could've been a slacker demon Crowley with more smirk.
The book was kind of weird because of the writing process. I never found it as good as other works by both authors and a bit of hit and miss.
This is adapted by Neil whom I find subpar to Pratchett in terms of humor. Still I'm enjoying it but it's on the level of every BBC adaptation of Pratchett works.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
Very very mediocre.
The narcissism and ego is seen in every extra added line to further push a punch line into something peculiar or witty or celver. This watches like something someone wrote after binge watching Doctor Who with little breaks of hitchhikers guide fandom here and there. Very teenage edgy. Gaiman is talented. But this just feels rushed to the presses. Like someone couldn't say this is too much, tone it down, it reads like a fanboy wrote it.
It has glimpses of genuine fun, but they're underneath the muck of mediocrity. Unfortunate events does the witty, clever fun better.
Shame. It has potential to be much much better and not a rushed mess that it is. But if you miss the old doctor who... This is it.
loved it at the start, was thinking this could be one of all my all-time favourite series and also got the Hitchhikers vibe to it. For me though, it tailed off and become too drawn out and boring in the later episodes and I was already starting to fast skip through it by episode 5. Shame.
Gaiman is talented. But this just feels rushed to the presses. Like someone couldn't say this is too much, tone it down, it reads like a fanboy wrote it.
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Are you talking about the book or the show actually..?
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Show. Gaiman adapted the novel to the show. Wrote the scripts as well if I read correctly. And they are just filled with fluff and useless added lines. Haven't read the book but if it ends like the show did... It doesn't seem like a worthy read.
Show. Gaiman adapted the novel to the show. Wrote the scripts as well if I read correctly. And they are just filled with fluff and useless added lines. Haven't read the book but if it ends like the show did... It doesn't seem like a worthy read.
Well I read the book and be prepared because as I wrote it's kind of a mess because of this:
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Gaiman and Pratchett had known each other since 1985. It was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel.[4] According to Gaiman, he originally began the book as a parody of Richmal Crompton's William books, named William the Antichrist, but it gradually outgrew the original idea.[5]
Neil Gaiman has said:
We were both living in England when we wrote it. At an educated guess, although neither of us ever counted, Terry probably wrote around 60,000 "raw" and I wrote 45,000 "raw" words of Good Omens, with, on the whole, Terry taking more of the plot with Adam and the Them in, and me doing more of the stuff that was slightly more tangential to the story, except that broke down pretty quickly and when we got towards the end we swapped characters so that we'd both written everyone by the time it was done, but then we also rewrote and footnoted each other's bits as we went along, and rolled up our sleeves to take the first draft to the second (quite a lot of words), and, by the end of it, neither of us was entirely certain who had written what. It was indeed plotted in long daily phone calls, and we would post floppy disks (and this was back in 1988 when floppy disks really were pretty darn floppy) back and forth.[6]
Terry Pratchett said:
I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens. It was fairly easy to keep track of because of the way we sent discs to one another, and because I was Keeper of the Official Master Copy I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens. However, we were on the phone to each other every day, at least once. If you have an idea during a brainstorming session with another guy, whose idea is it? One guy goes and writes 2,000 words after thirty minutes on the phone, what exactly is the process that's happening? I did most of the physical writing because:
I had to. Neil had to keep Sandman going – I could take time off from the DW;
One person has to be overall editor, and do all the stitching and filling and slicing and, as I've said before, it was me by agreement – if it had been a graphic novel, it would have been Neil taking the chair for exactly the same reasons it was me for a novel;
I'm a selfish bastard and tried to write ahead to get to the good bits before Neil.
Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. By agreement, I am allowed to say that Agnes Nutter, her life and death, was completely and utterly mine. And Neil proudly claims responsibility for the maggots. Neil's had a major influence on the opening scenes, me on the ending. In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock.[4]
Ah Terry Pratchett - I love how frank he was in all his interviews. I really miss the bastard.
I may have mentioned this before, but as a teenager, I was a HUGE fan of the magazine PC Gamer (UK) right from the first issue in 1993. I later got to know the staff and was offered a chance to buy the original issue 0 which was a promo issue of PC Gamer made just for industry professionals - it got sent to the bigger developers and publisher so not that many were made.
That issue 0 had a huge picture of Terry Pratchett on the front as well as an interview that was quite different from the one in issue 1. He got interviewed several times over the years by PC Gamer and loved all of them - his love for games meant we got some brilliant PC games based on Discworld - especially Discworld Noir is a brilliant game.
More on topic: I've been waiting for this series for ages but if it's really rather meh, I'd prefer not to watch it to save my disappointment.
At least start with episode one and see if it's in your ballpark of not. Just because some of us weren't particularly impressed doesn't mean you won't like it.
At least start with episode one and see if it's in your ballpark of not. Just because some of us weren't particularly impressed doesn't mean you won't like it.
Exactly show is good fun and is getting great scores, some ppl here just have a weird taste i guess.
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