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good omens series/book observations
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stariceling a... couple of week ago? And also I watched half the series with my family on father's day before leaving my prime logged in on their roku so they could finish it. and also I watched a bunch of it with niqaeli. Also I listened to the book on the drive to and from visiting niqaeli, which was interesting; the series is a VERY faithful adaptation to the point that I've started filling in things from one to the other and was startled upon rewatch that certain book bits were not in the show. There's a bit at Warlock's 11th birthday party where he gets ahold of one of the secret servicepeople's guns, but thankfully someone miracles it into a water gun before he fires it; my brain absolutely produced footage of that for the show. There's a bit--oh, I'm mixed up in my head, because I know the episode 3 cold open is not in the book, but there is a scene where they're both in Rome, one to to influence Caligula, the other to influence Nero; the Rome scene in the show instead has Aziraphale in town for a restaurant, but Aziraphale being a foodie is I think more emphasized in the show. The book has Crowley getting holy water out of a nuclear materials safe with huge PVC gloves and tongs to use on Ligur, but doesn't say anything about where he got it, and of course the show took the opportunity to do some very shippy stuff with that bit of backstory. In the book, the M25 was not just on fire, it was glowing infrablack and either 700°C or -140°C (or rather, both at the same time, but all the thermometers read one or the other). In the show, Adam rewrites the world with a very specific statement, that Satan is not his father and never was; in book Satan doesn't actually make it out of the volcano to be addressed, and it feels like Adam spends a lot of time personally thinking about what he wants to fix (despite specifically announcing that he's not fixing anything because if he did no one ever stop asking him to fix everything, and everyone has to be responsible for their own actions and not mess things up in the first place). I don't particularly have a preference for one version over the other but that might be because my brain seems to be classifying them as the same thing, essentially.
stariceling a... couple of week ago? And also I watched half the series with my family on father's day before leaving my prime logged in on their roku so they could finish it. and also I watched a bunch of it with niqaeli. Also I listened to the book on the drive to and from visiting niqaeli, which was interesting; the series is a VERY faithful adaptation to the point that I've started filling in things from one to the other and was startled upon rewatch that certain book bits were not in the show. There's a bit at Warlock's 11th birthday party where he gets ahold of one of the secret servicepeople's guns, but thankfully someone miracles it into a water gun before he fires it; my brain absolutely produced footage of that for the show. There's a bit--oh, I'm mixed up in my head, because I know the episode 3 cold open is not in the book, but there is a scene where they're both in Rome, one to to influence Caligula, the other to influence Nero; the Rome scene in the show instead has Aziraphale in town for a restaurant, but Aziraphale being a foodie is I think more emphasized in the show. The book has Crowley getting holy water out of a nuclear materials safe with huge PVC gloves and tongs to use on Ligur, but doesn't say anything about where he got it, and of course the show took the opportunity to do some very shippy stuff with that bit of backstory. In the book, the M25 was not just on fire, it was glowing infrablack and either 700°C or -140°C (or rather, both at the same time, but all the thermometers read one or the other). In the show, Adam rewrites the world with a very specific statement, that Satan is not his father and never was; in book Satan doesn't actually make it out of the volcano to be addressed, and it feels like Adam spends a lot of time personally thinking about what he wants to fix (despite specifically announcing that he's not fixing anything because if he did no one ever stop asking him to fix everything, and everyone has to be responsible for their own actions and not mess things up in the first place). I don't particularly have a preference for one version over the other but that might be because my brain seems to be classifying them as the same thing, essentially.
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I had a moment of thinking about that, but you're right: it's not in the show, even though it feels like it was.
The foodie thing is a little more pronounced on the TV, but I also noticed that they don't specifically tell each other their assignments until the Hamlet scene, so I figured in the earlier scenes Aziraphale was on some sort of assignment in rome but wasn't prepared to mention that to Crowley.