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5 YEARS SINCE GOOD OMENS S1 CAME OUT! 🥳❤🐍
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for whom good omens is being written
Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:
The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.
And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:
'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."
'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'
He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'
(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'
And, finally, this paragraph:
"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"
I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.
Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")
Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)
Still true in Season 3. Missing him more.
Hi Neil!!
How our you feeling right now, working on the scripts of Good Omens s3?
It's like the end of an era (Not really cause it will live forvere 💜) finally writting the ending to the story after all this time. So it must be kindda bitter sweet, isn't it?
Will it be hard to let go on working on GO? Or are you happy about it?
🫂💜
(English is not my first language 😬)
Really happy. I promised Terry I'd finish the story. It didn't really occur to me that it would take almost a decade (so far) at the time. I love carrying this beautiful thing, and I will be delighted when it is time to put it down.
why do you keep trying to promote dead boy detectives? also im using my aunts laptop and i can actually type on this thing?
*crawls up your chair to hiss in your ear* listen. come here.
closer.
listen.
DEAD BOY DETECTIVES IS FUCKING AMAZING AND I JUST FINISHED IT AND MY MIND IS BLOWN AND I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN AND I AM GOING TO DIE RIGHT HERE I JUST SPENT MY ENTIRE DAY WATCHING IT BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP AND OH MY GOD WE NEED A SECOND SEASON AND FOR THAT PEOPLE NEED TO WATCH IT AND EVERYONE WHO'S WATCHED IT LOVES IT AND NOW I CAN SEE WHY
ahem.
yes. i mean. it's a. good show. that i am normal about.
*crawls into your spinal cord for a nap* remember to drink water.
I'm not saying it will be your new favourite show. I'm just saying...
Actually, it will probably be your new favourite show. Who am I trying to kid?
HELLO NEIL!!!!! I LOVE ALL THE STUFF YOU DO SO SO SO MUCH!!!! I just watched through all of Dead Boy Detectives and wondered if there will be a season two??? Because OH MY LORD!! It's so good and addicting, may or may not have busted it out in 2 days... And if there is no plan for season two as of now what about season two of The Sandman? How is that going?
There’s a plan for Season 2 but we will need to find out whether Dead Boy Detectives is renewed for another season, and we won’t know that until all the statistics and algorithms are put together, at least a month from now.
In the meantime, if you want a Season 2, get every human being you know to watch Season 1.
if you love good omens, you NEED to watch dead boy detectives on netflix. Super fun show with great characters!! And neil gaiman is part of the production!
What’s your favourite line from good omens?
The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.
Can Aziraphale and Crowley actually fly with their wings? Or are they basically like Penguins
"Poets are like penguins. Their wings are to swim with." E. E. Cummings.
Not really an answer to your question but too beautiful a quote to be forgotten.
Hi! I have a question from The Graveyard Book. So Silas, does Silas have gender? Cause the book refers to them with he/him pronouns, but Silas is neither dead nor living as they state in chapter 5, so I was wondering if they have a gender or not. Thanks!
He has a gender, yes. That's why he gets he pronouns in the book. Living people can have genders, dead people can have genders and those people who walk the twilight, not alive and undying, they can have genders too if they want.
if yall ever want like serious advice from me about how to solve burnout as a creative it's like...
literally ignore it. stop pushing. go do something else, enjoy your life, fill it with other things, do what brings you joy in the moment if you can.
go to the gym, take a walk to touch grass and look at dogs and smell flowers, cook dinner, watch tv with your friends, talk about your feelings as needed with ppl you trust, take a drive and blast your music, do the chores you need to do, the job hunting slog you need to do, read books that aren't for research, stop cordoning off your brain for The Craft or The Draft or whatever the fuck
forget about the project, stop thinking about it for as long as it takes to be excited again.
fuckin rest, basically
reiterating this--
stop pushing. stop blaming yourself for not working on creative stuff enough, stop tormenting yourself. remove all pressure and expectation. it'll be done whenever, you'll work on it whenever. who the fuck knows when that is, but it'll happen when it's ready.
stop doing shit that feels bad. do stuff that makes you happy and relaxed.
at a certain level of spoon usage from job, chores, errands, socialization and basic maintenance there will just Not Be Anything Left for your projects for awhile.
you have to let it build back up and then take your time getting back into it organically as it comes.
hope this helps someone else, bc I have learned it the hard-headed stubborn-ass fish-thrashing-in-a-net way and it's been agonizing.
Various sources are constantly telling me various things about the production of go3 and it’s all very confusing. Are you or are you not in the process of writing?
Yes, I am.
Neil Gaiman about David Tennant: He's a wonderful man. He's one of our finest actors. He's really funny. He's astonishingly Scottish. He's a great father to his kids. He's extremely flammable.
this drawing started off as tv crowley and aziraphale dressed like their book cover counterparts, but then I got carried away and it turned out... not being exactly that anymore 🤷🏻♀️
so... late 80s/early 90s au? (aka. literally the book lol)
This needs so many more notes.
I know your ask box is probably full, so I totally get it if you don't get to this anytime soon, but I need some help.
I'm a sixteen year old aspiring writer with ADHD and anxiety. My writing patterns are horrible. I go months without writing then spit out a hundred pages. I've been writing since I was eight and I've never finished a story longer than a few thousand words because I physically cannot force myself to write in order, though I can eventually fill in the gaps (if I'm given a few months).
I'm trying my best, but it feels like my best isn't good enough for the world. Do you (or any other successful writers you know) have similar problems? Or is this something you overcome with time? Basically wondering if there's hope of me being successful despite these traits. Thanks!
You're sixteen. The reason why the world isn't filled with successful sixteen year old novelists is we were all (or most of us) trying to figure out how to do the writing thing in bursts and spurts and with dozens of beginnings and not a lot of endings, and we have some characters over here and some story over there and we can't work out how to make them align and work together. And so on and so forth.
You are not a failure if you haven't published a Hugo-award winning trilogy by the time you're twenty. You're an egg that hasn't even finished hatching.
Write. Read everything you can. Write more. Finish some short stories. Read more. Write more. Experience some life. Finish longer things. You'll get there. It's not a race. It's a way to learn.
Will there be a nightingale singing in Berkeley Square in go3 ?
The entire plot of season 3 will involve some badgers trying to train a choir of Nightingales to win the annual animal Berkeley Square sing off.
How does anything get done on the set of Good Omens when David Tennant look like THAT
We keep him in a box until we're ready to shoot.