perpetually off-topic

Well then.

I thought I'd left Good Omens fandom behind. But it turns out my fannish fervor was only sleeping, waiting for the right spark. And this is more like a whole flaming car crashing straight into my brain.

It's so good omg.

Like - Good Omens has always just been a story about love in all its forms, and this TV show is full of love, underpinned specifically by Gaiman's love for PTerry and his desire to do right by their story. It is faithful almost to a fault, which is both its triumph and its downfall - the narration rings hollow more often than not, a way to get all the quotes in rather than actually contributing much of anything to the show, and the pacing is just as choppy on screen as it was in print.

The best bits were 100% the new additions and the visual gags, the moments when the show could stop being such a self-conscious tribute and just embrace the weirdness and the wildness and the superb acting ability of every single cast member (Jon Hamm's Gabriel, omg, and Tennant and Sheen's expressions are 1000x more telling than any narration.)

Above all, watching the show makes me understand how Aziraphale must have felt when he got to Tadfield. Every bit just radiates love. And in light of that, a thousand little nitpicks are swept away.