Time to watch Good Omens. :D
I thought about live-liveblogging it, but I didn’t want to fill everyone’s dash, so I’m just going to keep notes and post at the end of each episode. I’ve just seen episode one, and so….
It has always amused me that the baby swap at the start is needlessly complicated so that it’s the son of the ambassador rather than of the Youngs who gets…disposed of by the nuns. I mean I get why, I just find it funny.
(Also I have to say, there’s that post going round about who Adam Young’s infernal mother was, and I always just assumed because the setup is so heavily based on The Omen that his mother was a jackal, like she is in The Omen. *The More You Know star here*)
For my entire life I’ve been pronouncing Crowley as if the ow sounded like Wow, not like Crow. That’ll take some getting used to.
I understood that the nanny and the gardener were meant to be infernal and angelic influences on Warlock, but I suppose I had always assumed that they were emissaries of Crowley and Aziraphale, not actually played by the beings themselves. I’m still not sure that isn’t the case, like what showed up at the ambassador’s home aren’t just little offshoots doing their thing while Crowley and Aziraphale are lunching at the Ritz. Divine macros, as it were.
Either way, it was worth it to see David Tennant in Mary Poppins level drag, so job well done there.
When I got my first dog at the age of 13 I had just finished reading Good Omens for the first time, and we gave him a real proper name, but then we always just called him Dog because I thought it was a funny joke. Aw, I miss Dog.
“I know what you smell like,” is the most Good Omensy moment in this whole Good Omensy show.
ONWARD TO EPISODE TWO.