[ghostarcherthinks]

That scene where Aziraphale and Crowley get shot with paintballs is even more hilarious in the book because of the way it’s dramatized like these idiots get shot and we immediately cut away to an explanation of how Sister Mary Loquacious came to be a successful entrepreneur and when we get back to the ineffable morons Crowley has sunk to the ground, dramatically leaning against a statue and Aziraphale has straight up fallen over on his ass and stays lying down until Crowley, after a quick contemplation of how inconvenient it is to get discorporated at a time like this, realizes Shenanigans are Afoot, tastes the paint and crawls over to him to be like “hey Shenanigans are Afoot” like the adaptation gives them too much dignity in this scene when they both legit thought they were dying for at least a full minute

[wolfiejimi]

There are, shockingly, only a few scenes that are definitively better in the book, but this is absolutely one of them. In the show the paintballs are a mild, albeit gloriously shippery, inconvenience, swiftly understood and moved on from. As if Crowley and Aziraphale are, you know, in any way competent, non-dramatic, sensible beings. In the book they are like aaaaaahhh I’m DEAD I’m DEAD I’ll just LIE HERE and why is my blood YELLOW? Is it meant to be yellow? *Crowley over-dramatically <i> crawls </i> over to a still prone Aziraphale and is like dude your blood is blue something is up here.

Also, in spite of ADORING whipped Crowley miracle-ing the paint from Aziraphale’s coat, I nonetheless am also Very Much Here for TiredTM Crowley being so not in the mood for this bullshit and dismissively telling him to magic it away himself, before sulkily wandering off.

Ahhhhh Good Omens, what did we ever do to deserve not only an insanely stellar book, but a ridiculously stellar adaptation. YAY

[fuchsimeon]

I dug out my copy to give you a little view of how dramatíque it really was.

Now here is where there are two pages following narrating some other plot, leaving you on that cliffhanger after the two of our heros get shot. And then we get this.

So far, except for the last sentence it pretty much sounds like they got shot. Dark stain, thrown back, on the ground, thinking about getting a nw body etc etc

Boom, drama queens in pain. Also the fucking hilarious line where Aziraphale is called a “fallen angel” because he’s an angel that fell over.