Aziraphale's bookshop: Heavenly when it should be Hellish
I'm going to fly in the face of fandom here and confess that I do not like the way Aziraphale's bookshop was portrayed in the TV series.
It's described as "Aziraphale's dingy old bookshop in Soho," and in my mind, I knew exactly what was intended by the description. I have loved used book stores since I was a child. They're small, cramped and crammed full of books, they're poorly lit with a severe lack of windows, they smell weird and musty in ways that are unique to each individual shop, and the owner camped out at the check-out table because he (it was usually a he) was the only person he trusted to correctly price each book. Sometimes the book prices were labeled, sometimes you didn't know the prices until you got to the register, sometimes the owner would look at a book you brought up, say "that's not supposed to be for sale," and the bastard would take the damn book away from you.
The best ones had a bookshop cat watching you imperiously from atop the stacks.
That's the sort of bookshop I imagined when I read Good Omens. Dusty, magical, irritating, a place containing unknown treasures, a place you could explore for hours because it was just so densely packed with stuff.
But then, the series came to TV, and Aziraphale's bookshop was...well-lit? spacious? surrounded by windows and sunlight, with Aziraphale strolling around politely, not scowling or brooding at his customers whatsoever? not looking dusty at all unless a specific scene called for it and then it was more like sand than dust? altogether looking extremely warm and inviting?
I was disappointed as Aziraphale when hearing of the antichrist's toesie-wosies. "Oh."
And it was supposed to stand in stark contrast to Crowley's flat, wasn't it? Crowley's place was spacious, pristine white, perfect, untouched, unused, un-lived-in, because he didn't live there. When he was stressed from hearing nothing about Armageddon, he cleaned his flat and organized his books and music, then felt depressed when it was spotless and he had nothing left to do. Much like the boredom and perfection of heaven, right?
By comparison, Aziraphale's bookshop was hellishly dank and uninviting, designed to keep people out so they wouldn't think to buy his jealously hoarded books. He made that place as hostile and repellant as possible, made it lived-in and neglected, left work to be done all over the place so he could ignore it and indulge himself instead. It was a dark hole for him to wile away the hours in while he enjoyed all his little hobbies.
The TV show changed this by making Aziraphale's place the heavenly spacious one and Crowley's place all dark and brutalistic in its architecture.
And I think these changes really did a disservice to how grey and unlike the other angels and demons these characters are supposed to be.