"Good Omens" TV Series from Amazon & BBC

I enjoyed it.

 

Personally the Sheen Tennant time got on my nerves, if anything. From day one (literally) it's clear that they are played as a gay couple, in a very stereotypical way. Too much. That sort of thing is supposed to be an analogy, here's it's become just too obvious.

Hey? Actually I'd expect a two-author book to be better, for the same reason that Monty Python (six critical crazy writers) were better than Spike Milligan (one crazy writer).
I think Gaiman giving one of his own books a cameo (the soldier at the gate is reading it) was a bit up his own ass too.

 

Show me a movie or tv show adapted from a book that does not feature an appearance of at least one of the author's books. Usually with the author reading it!

 

I haven't seen Stephen King anywhere on The Shining.

 

But you can see him consumed by space grass in Creepshow!

 

It never struck me before that others have? Do they?
But with Gaiman it's beginning to form a pattern. I noticed when reading his Trigger warning that these days, he's full of it. Writing his own introductions (including to every story), full of false modesty and name dropping... "Oh yes, George RR Martin said to me..." And pretending that we were now entering the Twilight Zone... While in reality I found the stories in that book rather weak and I had guessed every surprise well in advance. So that's not a recommendation.

Having read most of his work and enjoyed a good part of that, I feel entitled to slash it when I don't.

 

Yeah it is common. For example Chairlaine Harris sits at the bar of Merlott’s, and Sookie’s grandmom reads Harris’’ paperbacks at the kitchen table in an episode of True Blood. Whenever you know something is an adaption of a book, just look at the covers of any book that any random character may be reading and you will start to notice.

Were you saying that Gaiman writes characters in his books who are reading his books? Or did you mean in tv and film adaptions? Because the latter is almost certainly not dictated by the script. The references are added for fun.

 

The latter, and of course it's for fun -- and for blowing his own trumpet.
Well, it was the book in my previous post that gave me this impression anyway. Without that I probably wouldn't have thought about it.

 

Picked up the paperback and finished it.
A slog with a thin plot held up by sometimes pretty funny British humor.
I have read American Gods and Neverwhere but if I didn't like Good Omens will I like any Disc World novel by
Pratchett?

I don't even feel like watching the Amazon mini-series.

 

Normally I would be cautious, but if you hate thin plots, then I recon that No, you won't like it.
Pratchett's Dics World = Wodehouse + a fantasy setting - coherence.

 

A second season has just been green lighted:

'Good Omens': Neil Gaiman Amazon Drama Set for Season 2 - Variety

 

John Finnemore is a co writer and that’s a great pick. Just the right sense of humor. Listen to the BBC radio show Cabin Pressure.