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chocolatepotI have gone Good Omens mad. Watched the second season over the course of the first two days it was out, then rewatched it, then started at the beginning of season one and watched the whole thing through. Like a normal person. I wrote a non-s2-compliant post-s1 Ineffable Wives fic, then a one-shot all about s2, and am working on a post-s2 how-it-all-gets-fixed fic. I've written up a
lotttttt of things about it and will summarize below:
1) This was not a well-done season of television. I don't pretend to know why. There was dialogue that looped back on itself in a way that was not funny but also took up too much time, there were flashbacks that were unnecessarily long, there were unsuccessfully lampshaded/explained plot holes. Nevertheless I enjoyed it immensely and on rewatches it gets better as I can just ignore the dumb parts.
2) I really want to know WHAT went on with the Gaiman/Finnemore collaboration. John Finnemore has basically said nothing about the show on Twitter and left very few fingerprints on it; I strongly suspect something Went Down and Finnemore went, fuck it, I'll just collect the paycheck and get out of here.
3) I LOVE MURIEL. One of the Finnemore fingerprints, not coincidentally. Their writing is such a balance of sweet and stupid and Quelin Sepulveda did a magnificent acting job. My one-shot was about them.
4) In terms of overall romantic plotline, I think A/C was done perfectly. Romantic references and subtext up an order of magnitude from s1, both Tennant and Sheen being so danged adorable, and then a confession - and a separation??? Apparently some people are mad but I think most people are going:
At least, I sure am. You want good fandom activity between seasons? You want fans to dedicate their lives to making sure s3 comes along? Split up the gays over a tragic miscommunication.
5) The coffee shop/record shop lesbians were adorable, though affected by the wonky writing, and I do think the overall season would have benefited from them having more to do with the plot, in much the way that the book/s1 benefited from having humans with their own stuff to do. Overall charming, though. Potentially I will write fic where Maggie and Nina finally go on a date (not potentially anymore, just by typing that I made myself want to write it).
6) I have nothing inherently against Gabriel/Beelzebub (Ineffable Bureaucracy, Brielzebub), but they REALLY did not sell me on it. How on earth did G and B meet up a handful of times in four years and apparently get to the point of being so in love they'd chuck Heaven and Hell in for each other? How did Gabriel, a massive smug asshole, fall in love with Beelzebub at all? What is it about the status quo that appealed to Gabriel when he'd previously been extremely gung-ho for a chance to win the war? This was always going to stand out to me but it especially did so because they called back to the "shut your stupid mouth and die already" line specifically to remind us that he didn't really deserve a happy ending and he never earned it.
7) The Bentley being semi-sentient and loving Aziraphale ... it's like E-ming in TGCF, "character has a key object that loves its owner's love interest" is a Good Trope.
I also read This is How You Lose the Time War because of that whole Bigolas Dickolas thing. I thought I would like it more because a) lesbians and b) rather an asexual love story, but I'm just too literal for that kind of literary-fairy-tale writing style. And then in a reversal from my usual cranky ace viewpoint, I didn't really buy them falling in love while exchanging the letters. Ah well.
My most literary OFMD discord server has a channel for original fiction, so I found someone there to alpha read my two old NaNo novels to see if they have good enough bones to be worth rewriting. So far they say yes, which is nice!
lotttttt of things about it and will summarize below:
1) This was not a well-done season of television. I don't pretend to know why. There was dialogue that looped back on itself in a way that was not funny but also took up too much time, there were flashbacks that were unnecessarily long, there were unsuccessfully lampshaded/explained plot holes. Nevertheless I enjoyed it immensely and on rewatches it gets better as I can just ignore the dumb parts.
2) I really want to know WHAT went on with the Gaiman/Finnemore collaboration. John Finnemore has basically said nothing about the show on Twitter and left very few fingerprints on it; I strongly suspect something Went Down and Finnemore went, fuck it, I'll just collect the paycheck and get out of here.
3) I LOVE MURIEL. One of the Finnemore fingerprints, not coincidentally. Their writing is such a balance of sweet and stupid and Quelin Sepulveda did a magnificent acting job. My one-shot was about them.
4) In terms of overall romantic plotline, I think A/C was done perfectly. Romantic references and subtext up an order of magnitude from s1, both Tennant and Sheen being so danged adorable, and then a confession - and a separation??? Apparently some people are mad but I think most people are going:
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ good shit goเฑฆิ sHit๐ thats โ some good๐๐shit right๐๐there๐๐๐ rightโthere โโif i do ฦฝaาฏ so my self ๐ฏ i say so ๐ฏ thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: สณแถฆแตสฐแต แตสฐแตสณแต) mMMMMแทะ๐ฏ ๐๐ ๐ะO0ะเฌ OOOOOะเฌ เฌ Ooooแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแตแต๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐Good shit
At least, I sure am. You want good fandom activity between seasons? You want fans to dedicate their lives to making sure s3 comes along? Split up the gays over a tragic miscommunication.
5) The coffee shop/record shop lesbians were adorable, though affected by the wonky writing, and I do think the overall season would have benefited from them having more to do with the plot, in much the way that the book/s1 benefited from having humans with their own stuff to do. Overall charming, though. Potentially I will write fic where Maggie and Nina finally go on a date (not potentially anymore, just by typing that I made myself want to write it).
6) I have nothing inherently against Gabriel/Beelzebub (Ineffable Bureaucracy, Brielzebub), but they REALLY did not sell me on it. How on earth did G and B meet up a handful of times in four years and apparently get to the point of being so in love they'd chuck Heaven and Hell in for each other? How did Gabriel, a massive smug asshole, fall in love with Beelzebub at all? What is it about the status quo that appealed to Gabriel when he'd previously been extremely gung-ho for a chance to win the war? This was always going to stand out to me but it especially did so because they called back to the "shut your stupid mouth and die already" line specifically to remind us that he didn't really deserve a happy ending and he never earned it.
7) The Bentley being semi-sentient and loving Aziraphale ... it's like E-ming in TGCF, "character has a key object that loves its owner's love interest" is a Good Trope.
I also read This is How You Lose the Time War because of that whole Bigolas Dickolas thing. I thought I would like it more because a) lesbians and b) rather an asexual love story, but I'm just too literal for that kind of literary-fairy-tale writing style. And then in a reversal from my usual cranky ace viewpoint, I didn't really buy them falling in love while exchanging the letters. Ah well.
My most literary OFMD discord server has a channel for original fiction, so I found someone there to alpha read my two old NaNo novels to see if they have good enough bones to be worth rewriting. So far they say yes, which is nice!
