songbirde asked:

Neil - thank you for Good Omens. Every scene bursts with what a labour of love it has been for you and everyone involved. I’ve been thinking a lot about this line of Adam’s in the book: “Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive.” It feels like the crux of the story; how come it didn’t make the cut for the series?

neil-gaiman answered:

Like many of my favourite lines in the book, it didn’t make the cut because the series is 5 hours long, and has to have room for visual things, and the book is about 12 hours long when spoken. (There’s undoubtedly an alternate universe where I decided to make a longer version of Good Omens, in which more of our favourite lines made it onto the screen.) I love everything that Adam says to the Metatron and Beelzebub in the book, but was also concerned that we’d been standing on that tarmac for 12 minutes, and I needed to keep the scene moving.