can someone with more knowledge about storytelling/tv show plotting help me? I just wonder why, in good omens, they chose to keep the scene in ancient rome and delete the scene about aziraphale’s bookshop opening? does it make more narrative sense?
Actually (I just went and checked) our producers presented me with a draft in which they had cut Arthurian Britain, The Globe, The Church in the Blitz, and London in the 60s, but kept in The Opening of the Bookshop. We needed to save money, but that was the only bit I was prepared to lose, because while it was fun (I mean, I wrote it, I would have loved to have seen it filmed) it didn’t move Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship forward.
Having read the scene, he’s right. It’s a cute scene, but the others are better. (Although Crowley mouthing ‘michael’s a wanker!’ is delightful.)