[crowleys-bentley]

Ahh, validation from Neilman. Today is a blessed day.

[neil-gaiman]

[crowleys-bentley]

Good Omens + that old film look

Knowing that shooting on the Arri Alexa SXT and adding old film effects in post production wouldn’t look right, DP Gavin Finney got creative. He used the Arriflex D-21, one of Arri’s first digital cameras, and attached a hand crank handle from a film camera digitally to the D-21, making it the world’s only hand-cranked digital camera. This allowed him to have control over how fast the camera recorded, giving it that old irregular speed feel. With the addition of a Lensbaby creative effect lens and holding it loose in front of the lens mount while cranking the camera, the old film look and feel just needed to be finished in post with some grain and a black and white conversion.

All of this creative innovation and dedication to vision for a 30 seconds scene. That’s why every part of Good Omens is special, friends.

[neil-gaiman]

Yup.

[neil-gaiman]

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Exclusive Video: Good Omens Author Neil Gaiman on Honoring the Late Terry Pratchett

The quasi-religious series has attracted some silly controversy but Gaiman wouldn’t have it any other way.

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The video is lovely. It’s about Terry Pratchett. Lots of Rob Wilkins and me talking…

[neil-gaiman]

autumnimagining asked:

Hello! I loved the Good Omens adaptation; thank you so much for all the hard work you put into it. I have a question about the Sandman universe. Is there any sort of plan afoot to collect together all the spinoffs? By which i mean all the ones like Petrefax, Merv Agent of Dream, Death: The High Cost of Living etc? I'm slowly tracking them all down on ebay/2nd-hand bookshops but i just wondered if they would or could ever be collected together in one form or another.

Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life are collected as Death: Deluxe Edition - https://amzn.to/2ZQzgVV 

I don’t know about the others, I’m afraid.

[neil-gaiman]

gods-no-longer-tread-here asked:

Good Sir who came up with the line "The Earth is a Libra" and asked Frances McDormand to deliver it with such perfect scorn because I actually honestly shrieked and now I have an immense craving to know.

That section in the original book was written by me.

[neil-gaiman]

hannibaelchen asked:

Hello Mr. Gaiman, I've been wondering when aziraphael calls crowley nice amd crowley gets all amgry and says something like "i'm not nice, nice is a four letter word" what does he mean by four letter word? What's bad (or good) about words with four letters? Am i missing something here?

You are, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-letter_word

[neil-gaiman]

lockejhaven asked:

Hi! I have a small question that you absolutely don't have to answer; I was wondering what your thoughts were on the recent response from the official good omens twitter to a gif about Aziraphale being on a diet? I know its likely that you have nothing to do with the account itself, I just was curious of your opinion on it!

I have no opinion. I don’t try and keep up with things on Twitter: I treat it like a stream. You step into it, you step away. If I’m lucky I’ll see a percentage of what people send which tags me on Twitter. The same goes for Tumblr, although I think I see a much smaller number of things people tag me in, because life, work and time.

[strangelyineffable]

[eneriables]

tried my hand at some more clip paint. getting the hang of it. anyways. snake time!!

[good-omens-fanart]

[ciaran-polar]

This time if you fall, I'll catch you.

[roachleakage]

Last night, I was talking with a friend about the theological worldbuilding of Good Omens and she mentioned her interpretation that angels and demons (and, more broadly, Heaven and Hell) required belief to keep themselves running.  That got me thinking: What if Heaven and Hell aren’t afterlives?

The idea of souls going to these places is a foregone conclusion in Christian theology, of course.  But Judaism doesn’t follow this model at all, and what we see in-universe (at least, in the miniseries; the book doesn’t show us either location and I haven’t experienced other versions) only establishes the locations as headquarters for angels and demons, respectively.

The most we see on the subject of human souls is a few lines indicating that angels and demons are in conflict with each other over human behavior - and yes, that’s probably meant to imply the whole afterlife business, I’m not knocking anyone who reads it that way - but it could also be read that Heaven and Hell draw power from how humans are behaving on Earth.  Pious and faithful?  Heaven gets a boost.  Hedonistic and selfish?  Power goes to Hell.  (Sodom and Gomorrah weren’t just senseless violence, they were strategic attrition strikes.  Presumably Hell got enough of that kind of meddling and put a stop to it somehow.)

That’s the idea.  I think it fits nicely with the whole Cold War thing, given that otherwise having human souls seems to do nothing for either side in terms of the Great Plan.  Plus the idea that demons have done nothing to update their power-collection methods while Heaven’s gone ahead and invented megachurches is pretty damn funny.