#anyway this is a deeply blatant cashgrab which even more annoyingly is attached not to the book which i like a lot

[thedreadvampy]

oh my god please stop making sequels to things

#i was obsessed with good omens for like a decade #I'm a lifelong Pratchett fan #and yet i don't remember ever thinking 'this story needs More Story' #especially not 'this story needs More Story five years after one of its authors died' #like what was left hanging here? like what needs to be said? #every core character had a complete arc. the thematic arc was finished. the plot conflict was well and truly wrapped up. #nobody can just Let Things End when there's still blood to squeeze from the stone #even when. The story is OVER. YOU DID IT YOU TOLD A COMPLETE STORY GOOD JOB #and Neil gaiman's out here like 'me and Terry talked at length about what the sequel would be' #and i have no reason to disbelieve him but like. hear me out. #i don't think in 1990 Terry Pratchett was like MY VISION FOR THE SEQUEL IS... FIVE YEARS AFTER I DIE OF ALZHEIMERS PLEASE WRITE A TV SHOW #and look i love John Finnemore as much as the next kid who grew up listening to BBC radio comedy #but the entire thing about good omens is that it's a fusion of two very idiosyncratic writers with signature styles and imaginations #and John Finnemore is. hear me out on this. a Different Person #with his own idiosyncratic style and imagination #anyway this is a deeply blatant cashgrab which even more annoyingly is attached not to the book which i like a lot #but to the tv show which i found intensely flat and irritating and poorly conceptualised #even before i has to endure the rather annoying end of the fandom bleeding into my dash and the wall to wall carpeting of show!GO content #like it's bad. it's a bad show. and that's a legacy of Pratchett if we're being honest bc while he's a phenomenal writer for book and stage #almost every tv and film adaptation of his work falls short #he has that in common with his comrade in humour and Forming My Childhood Douglas Adams #like prose that rich and weird you either lose most of the charm in translation or you diverge and make something good but different #good omens tries to balance both and manages neither. it vibes like the 2000s HHGTTG movie #but HHGTTG a) is a very broad story constructed of barely-connected vignettes thus b) leans a lot less heavily on prose and character #so that film worked. good omens didn't especially because they filed off a lot of the idiosyncrasies #some of which were kind of very 1990s and are now pretty regressive but if you're going to scrub them then replace them with something else #also i don't like that they didn't keep Death consistent with the book Death. Death was very important to Pratchett #and afaik the reason his character is recognisably similar between Discworld and Good Omens #is that unlike any of his other characters Pratchett said he'd had visions of Death from early childhood so he was like. real to him. #and idk i just think if you're going to play it as 'we're doing a posthumous adaptation it's what Terry would have wanted'