Good Omens reaction post

[luzula]

I have now finished watching Good Omens. The thing is, Good Omens was one of my first fandoms. I mostly lurked there, inhaling all of the fic, but I also wrote my very first piece of fan fiction there. So it has a special place in my heart.

I simultaneously loved the miniseries while also having issues with it, namely: I feel weird about actors. I don't want to think about the characters being played by actors, I just want them to be them. *facepalm* My issue is mostly with Crowley. I watch very little TV/movies, so I have not actually watched David Tennant in anything (except Hamlet, actually, years ago). But he's an actor who's in various stuff that people are fannish about, so I am aware of him as an actor. It's not that I have a detailed picture of Crowley in my head that he's not matching up with--it's just that I look at him and see David Tennant, not Crowley. I mean, I do think he did a good job! Sigh. Maybe I'll get used to it.

Aziraphale, on the other hand. I don't know the actor beforehand, which is maybe what makes the difference, but I think he was a perfect Aziraphale! His smile, wow, he just lights up the room. I totally buy that he is an angel. And the way he talks and his whole body language, yesss. That is Aziraphale. ♥

Like everyone else, I loved the flashback sequence. Can we have a whole spin-off series like that, please? And wow, they really leaned into the slash. That is not even subtext any more; it is text. ♥

I was a little bothered by the pronunciation of both Crowley and Aziraphale's names not matching up with my own pronunciation (and given podfic, I have put my own pronunciation out there). I don't know that I can change the way they're pronounced in my head.

...how have I made only one Good Omens podfic, though??

Comments

[scribe]

I will never quite forgive the world for denying me Richard Ayoade's Aziraphale, but I am a big enough person to admit that Michael Sheen hit it out of the park. I agree that I have a hard time seeing past David Tennant's...David Tennant-ness, but I accept him as an interesting interpretation of Crowley, though not necessarily the one that I would have gone with. To tell the truth, though, mostly the show made me want to go read the book again!

(I am super enjoying the massive fandom revival, though. I might even try to write fic this time! Trying to fanfic Pratchett terrifies me because he has such a distinct narrative voice that I cannot come anywhere near, but I feel like show!fic now doesn't require that as much.)

[luzula]

Your'e always so much more free with style when writing fic for TV-shows rather than litfic, just because you're writing in the same medium. I've written one GO fic in my life, and sadly it was not so much with the book style. I don't think I could attempt it, either.