Good Omens
Mar. 2nd, 2020 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustI came late to Good Omens - the TV show, obviously, not the book, which I read long since. It's not that I wasn't enthusiastic about it. In fact, given my resistance to film / television adaptations of books I like, and to must-see television generally, I was surprisigingly enthusiastic, and delighted to see that sfter its initial run it would be shown by the BBC, and I wouldn't have to give in to the blandishments of all those strange channels I don't have, but could wait for it to arrive on regular terrestrial television. Well, on catch-up, since they broaacast it on Wednesdays, which is pub quiz night, but you get the drift.
It did not disappoint. It wasn't earth-shattering or life-changing (after all, as I said, I had already read the book, and more than once) but it was good entertaining television, and I looked forward to my weekly helping (which is more than I can say about Doctor Who right now). I probably didn't get as much out of the stellar casting as I should have (not necessarily up to date with stars, not good at recognising people who appear briefly and heavily made up); I enjoyed David Tennant's Crowley, though possibly not as much as David Tennant did. I had not remembered the book as quite so dominated by the Crowley / Aziraphael story, and at the end of the first episode was beginning to wonder whether the adaptation had simply omitted Anathema and Newton and the book (I found the pacing of the ending a bit odd, too, but I frequently react this way to Neil Gaiman's work).
The one thing I got really excited about, though, was the opening credits. I wished I could slow them down and blow them up and watch them properly to find out what was going on - and up to a point, I can:
I had never heard of the Peter Anderson Studio, but according to this 'making off' article the brief they were given was:
How appropriate that the opening titles are so impressive: it's a good omen for the show itself.
It did not disappoint. It wasn't earth-shattering or life-changing (after all, as I said, I had already read the book, and more than once) but it was good entertaining television, and I looked forward to my weekly helping (which is more than I can say about Doctor Who right now). I probably didn't get as much out of the stellar casting as I should have (not necessarily up to date with stars, not good at recognising people who appear briefly and heavily made up); I enjoyed David Tennant's Crowley, though possibly not as much as David Tennant did. I had not remembered the book as quite so dominated by the Crowley / Aziraphael story, and at the end of the first episode was beginning to wonder whether the adaptation had simply omitted Anathema and Newton and the book (I found the pacing of the ending a bit odd, too, but I frequently react this way to Neil Gaiman's work).
The one thing I got really excited about, though, was the opening credits. I wished I could slow them down and blow them up and watch them properly to find out what was going on - and up to a point, I can:
I had never heard of the Peter Anderson Studio, but according to this 'making off' article the brief they were given was:
"I want you to promise me that you send us emails that start with, 'This might sound absolutely mad, but our idea is dot dot dot'."
How appropriate that the opening titles are so impressive: it's a good omen for the show itself.
