• gramie@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The pictures are an angel and a demon from the Amazon Prime series “Good Omens”, if you were wondering.

    • Is it worth watching? I’m not sure what kind of show it is…I watched about 10mins of the first episode and couldn’t get into it. Couldn’t figure out if it was fantasy, comedy, comedy-horror, or something else. It felt weird. An angel and demon meet up and chat about the apocalypse?

      Does it get better?

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        The first season is incredible. Tennant and Sheen have an amazing chemistry together and they’re both phenomenal actors. The story is very Pratchetty if you’re familiar with his work. Second season is a bit so-so but still good, mostly because I didn’t really like the ending.

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          I concur, first season was incredible, one of the best series I’ve watched in the last few years. And it had a real ending + finished storyline: no aggravating cliffhangers or loose ends, no endless milking or filler episodes to uselessly extent the viewtime, just a very good finished story that never left me bored. This feels so rare these days.

          I’m now watching the 2nd series and so far it’s been so so indeed. I’m not very far yet though.

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          Yeah the second season honestly felt a bit like a fan fict. Not bad, per se, just an excuse to keep using the characters but nothing new in terms of message.

          Probably nothing to be done about that with Pratchett’s death.

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            yeah it was absolutely a fan fic, but tbh I’m still glad it was made! If you have the time and money to create a work of art (that isn’t meant to just be a cashgrab) flipping go for it, and Neil clearly had fun making it, and brining the shipping crowds to their knees lmao

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            Apparently the sequel was planned by Pratchett and Gaiman a while ago. Season two only took some elements of it, and the rest of it should be what season three is about. I trust Gaiman to make it work.

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              IF we get a season three. It hasn’t been renewed yet, and won’t be until after the actors strike, if it is renewed. But, Gaiman has promised that if a season three doesn’t happen on TV, he’ll write it as a book, so as to not leave everyone hanging.

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          I read Diggers as a lad and enjoyed it but I’ve never bothered to get into his Discworld stuff cos it seems too vast. I’ll watch the first two episodes and see if it clicks. Thank you. 👍

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            While there are many connections between discworld books, none of them are required reading. You can jump in anywhere. I’d recommend starting at Guards! Guards!

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        It’s based on a book by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU Terry Pratchett, you shall be missed) and Neil Gaiman. If you know Pratchett then you know it’s mostly going to be an absurdist comedy.

        Other works I recommend from Pratchett are Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Guards! Guards!

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          My favorite ‘intro’ to the discworld is Wyrd Sisters, even if it’s not the first Granny Weatherwax book. It feels like it’s the first one that’s really got its footing, and is a fun subversive parody of Macbeth amongst other things.

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        I definitely enjoyed watching the first two seasons, and will wait eagerly for the next. I’m sure it would be disturbing for someone with fundamentalist Christian views, but the story and humor were right up my alley.

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        It’s comedy, mostly. Not horror at all.

        And it’s more that an angel and demon who are friends (because they’ve spent so much time on Earth they felt they ended up having more in common with each other than their own side), and upon finding out about the approaching apocalypse, decide to try to avert it (without actually going against their own side) because they don’t want Earth to end, as regardless who wins The Final Battle, it will suck.

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        I think it gets better, but it is a bit of a slow burn. It’s just a comedy that’s a satire on religion and systemic oppression, that uses an angel and a devil being friends to convey that.

        I enjoyed it, but I wasn’t glued to the screen. I think it’s absolutey worth the watch, but it did take an episode or two to gain my interest.