has this one been done yet
PLEASE UNMUTE THIS
Gabriel you fucking hypocrite
I’m doing the 10 Days of Good Omens Challenge with the lovely @annadiplosis ! All artists are welcome to join :D
SO MUCH new Good Omens fic~~~
And it’s very nearly all titled such high-falutin’ stuff~~~
I’m gonna have to write something called SEX POLLEN TROPES just to balance out the equation.
aziraphale, tenderly, taking one of adam’s hands while crowley does the same with the other: whatever happens, for good or for evil, we’re beside you
adam: cool. who are you
silfron asked:
Was the reference to Petronius and oysters in Good Omens a specific reference to the Satyricon? Or just a coincidence?
neil-gaiman answered:
Well, in my head it’s the same Petronius.
wordsinhaled asked:
Hi, Neil! Thank you so much for creating the Good Omens series—I am a longtime fan of the book, and both it and the series have brought so much joy to my life!—and for all of the wonderful behind-the-scenes information you've been sharing with us since the series dropped. I was just wondering if the song in the disco dancing video you posted is a real song, or if it was created for the show, and if it is a real song, what song is it?
neil-gaiman answered:
It’s a David Arnold (our composer) created disco version of a Gilbert and Sullivan song from the Gondoliers, “I am a Courtier, Grave and Serious…”. It’s the same music that Aziraphale is dancing to, only with disco beat and instrumentation.
katsuja asked:
Hi! We are currently watching Good Omens with my spouse for third time in row and enjoying it immensely!. As big fans of the blacker humour in the book we were wondering what happened to the shooting scene at Warlock's birthday? It's in the script book and there's even a shot of a guard pulling a long handkerchief from his coat's pocket (sending the gun to fly amidst the guests soon) in the TV Companion. What were the reason for that delicious scene to be left out?
neil-gaiman answered:
Pacing and how it worked, basically. It was shot. It was good, but not necessarily great, and it confused people. When we snipped it out and went straight to the flung cake the whole thing worked better. So we reluctantly let it go.
jayalay asked:
Hey Neil, I loved Good Omens so very much. I was wondering though why in the show the Them used the flaming sword to take down the Horsemen, instead of their own homemade sticks and bits of wood equivalents of the scales, sword, and crown? That's one of my favourite parts of the book and although I enjoyed it in the show, particularly Pepper, it didn't come across as powerful as I imagined.
neil-gaiman answered:
I wrote a version of the script with the Them having the things (and gave the things to them in episode one - you can see the sword, crown and scales there), but the main reaction to that part of the script in episode 6 was confusion and a concern that an incredibly long scene (the airbase) would get even longer and more complex. So I streamlined it as best I could.
thewrongbookshop asked:
Who decided David Tennant and Michael Sheen should have English accents and why? They were phenomenal as they were, of course (the entire cast is amazing!!!), but Welsh seems way more angelic and Scottish would suit Crowley too. Not a bad decision, but one I'm curious about. Ps. I usually have to treat adaptions as coincidentally similar to the source material so I'm not disappointed but, while I still think of it as a parallel universe to the book, I did not have to do that for Good Omens.
neil-gaiman answered:
Our (Scottish) director and I talked a lot about the Englishness of Good Omens, and decided that that was the feel we were going for. But it was set for us by the book. Had Terry said that on meeting Aziraphale people were struck by his Welshness, he would have been Welsh
ok but zira’s flawless japanese and then awkwardly spoken french in the flashback later on has me wondering. do all angels inherently know every single language or did he teach himself? because if so, did he focus on the ones he thought would be the most useful or were there a few consecutive years in which crowley found him holed up in different libraries every day just going fucking ham on stacks upon stacks of translation dictionaries
more importantly, do angels have the ability to give themselves understanding of any language when desired, but he made the effort to learn them on his own because he wanted the knowledge to be authentic
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