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#but to the tv show which i found intensely flat and irritating and poorly conceptualised
thedreadvampy
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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'
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