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GOOD OMENS *potential spoilers*

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This series has been out on Amazon Prime for the last week or so.

Just got around to watching the first episode today and it's pretty good. They have 'God' narrating so you get a lot of the flavor text that is the real source of Pratchettian comedy. It's got the biggest names in the roles of Crowley and Azraphale and seem to be treating them as the main characters, which while they probably the best remembered parts isn't really the case in the book, though I admit it's been a while since I read the book.

I wonder if they can really stretch this to six episodes but I am enjoying and looking forward to the Four Horsemen appearing down the line.
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It's amazing and very true to the book. They did a superb job.
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Only seen a few clips so far, but David Tennant is pretty much enough to catch my interest by himself.
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I really enjoyed it. We binge watched it the weekend it came out. They managed to pretty much nail it.
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I haven't read the source material but I was interested when I first saw the adds. I was off of work when it was released so I watched it all in a day or so. I liked it a lot but. David Tennant and Michael Sheen together were excellent.

I seem to be watching a lot of shows that deal with Heaven & Hell lately. Lucifer, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and now Good Omens. It's interesting where they overlap in how they depict similar things and where they diverge.
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I enjoyed it - Tennant and Sheen are excellent of course and I could watch them bicker like an old married couple forever.

If I am picking holes I thought it didn't really do enough to get into Adam's head or explain the reasoning for his eventual decision (which should have been the dramatic moment on which the season turned, but instead fell kind of flat) .
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From the clips I've seen, Tennant and Sheen seem very well -cast in this.
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Looks like Good Omens is popular enough for some Christians to petition Netflix to cancel it. They will be disappointed when Netflix just ignores them for reasons that shouldn't need explaining.

Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens
US Christian group condemns Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s story as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company

More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel – unfortunately addressing their petition to Netflix when the series is made by Amazon Prime.

The six-part series was released last month, starring David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, who collaborate to prevent the coming of the antichrist and an imminent apocalypse. Pratchett’s last request to Gaiman before he died was that he adapt the novel they wrote together; Gaiman wrote the screenplay and worked as showrunner on the BBC/Amazon co-production, which the Radio Times called “a devilishly funny love letter to the book”.But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters have signed a petition in which they say that Good Omens is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable”, and “mocks God’s wisdom”. God, they complain, is “voiced by a woman” – Frances McDormand – the antichrist is a “normal kid” and, most importantly, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil”. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show.

Gaiman responded to the petition on Twitter, writing: “I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really. This is so beautiful ... Promise me you won’t tell them?”

The publisher and science fiction critic Cheryl Morgan tweeted: “Miraculously God has already done it. Don’t tell them She put it on Amazon instead.”

Return to Order is based on the writings of the author John Horvat II. It “calls upon Americans to put principles into actions by working toward what is called an organic Christian society”. Another of its petitions in April called on Walmart to “stop selling Satanic products” following a 2018 protest against a “blasphemous ice cream chain called Sweet Jesus”.
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They petitioned the wrong company, and they only got 20,000 signatures. Pathetic. The Game of Thrones rewrite petition is at well over 1.6 million. Hell, even the de-canonize The Last Jedi petition did way better than this. As whining about TV shows goes, this is a really weak effort.
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"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."-General Von Clauswitz, describing my opinion of Bernie or Busters and third partiers in a nutshell.

I SUPPORT A NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
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