Good Omens Discussion Post

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Welcome to the official Queerly Beloved Good Omens Discussion Post! Here, you can discuss all things Good Omens: The book, the audiobook, the radio play, the in-progress Kickstarter for the graphic novel, and everything related to the TV show, seasons one and two. I imagine that the TV show in particular will be on everyone's mind, as the second season was just released two weeks ago, and people are still watching. As such, please be aware that there will be spoilers for all of it, so if you wish to remain unspoiled, this is probably not the post for you.

Please do your best to keep discussion peaceful! Remember that no representation is going to work for everyone; a form of representation that one person finds healing, another person might find harmful, and vice versa. This is a great opportunity to learn other perspectives on various elements of the various incarnations of Good Omens. While they may not change how you feel about the pieces in question, you may at least understand why someone else finds them helpful or hurtful.

As a last note, Neil Gaiman has confirmed that if Amazon doesn't renew the show for a third season, he is prepared to write it as a novel, so the ending of the story that he and the late Sir Terry Pratchett had planned will be released someday, in one form or another. (He also reports that the closed captions have been fixed for Season 2, so if you've been holding off on watching because you need them, you should be good to go!)

That's all I have to say for now; have at it!

Comments

[bedes]

I feel like I'm the outlier here, because I am the only one who has 1) read the books and 2) also absolutely loved the latest season. Don't ask me about it, I Will give you a lengthy response. I suppose that's just my taste in media, though; I love seeing queer people (and I have considered Aziraphale and Crowley canonically queer ever since Neil confirmed it) just doing silly little domestic things, because it feels like that kind of media has been out of our reach for so long. It wasn't plot-heavy, I suppose, but I don't mind that. I even like it, because I know that season 3 is going to be another near-apocalypse. It makes sense to have a nice slow-down in the middle.

[gwydion]

I liked it too, but I was also accepting of this being the middle part of the story. I think a lot of people wanted different things from it than it gave.