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** Neil said he believes TV!Crowley would love Series/TheGoodPlace
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** War’s introduction originally more closely followed the one in the book. It was even shot. However, people found it confusing, necessitating that it be rewritten and reshot.
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** There was originally going to be another flashback scene showing Aziraphale getting ready to open his new bookshop, and heaven attempting to give him an promotion that would have taken him away from Earth, the shop and Crowley. They convince their respective offices they need to stay on Earth to “thwart” each other [[https://live-long-and-paws-purr.tumblr.com/post/185563274623/im-not-saying-that-we-were-robbed-im-just]]
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** There was originally going to be another flashback scene showing Aziraphale getting ready to open his new bookshop, and heaven attempting to give him an promotion that would have taken him away from Earth, the shop and Crowley. They convince their respective offices they need Crowley convinces Gabriel Aziraphale needs to stay on Earth to so he can “thwart” each other him, through the use of some tailor dummies [[https://live-long-and-paws-purr.tumblr.com/post/185563274623/im-not-saying-that-we-were-robbed-im-just]]
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** It’s a small scene but in the book Crowley is the one to revive the dead dove after the magic show, whereas in the show it’s Aziraphale. It was in the script as originally written, but the director needed to change it for blocking reasons (they needed to get Crowley in the car first for the actions of the scene to play out in a way that visually made sense).
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** It’s a small scene but in the book Crowley is the one to revive the dead dove after the magic show, whereas in the show it’s Aziraphale. It was in the script as was originally written, written in the book, but the director needed to change it for blocking reasons (they needed to get Crowley in the car first for the actions of the scene to play out in a way that visually made sense). sense).
** There was originally going to be another flashback scene showing Aziraphale getting ready to open his new bookshop, and heaven attempting to give him an promotion that would have taken him away from Earth, the shop and Crowley. They convince their respective offices they need to stay on Earth to “thwart” each other [[https://live-long-and-paws-purr.tumblr.com/post/185563274623/im-not-saying-that-we-were-robbed-im-just]]
** There was originally going to be another flashback scene showing Aziraphale getting ready to open his new bookshop, and heaven attempting to give him an promotion that would have taken him away from Earth, the shop and Crowley. They convince their respective offices they need to stay on Earth to “thwart” each other [[https://live-long-and-paws-purr.tumblr.com/post/185563274623/im-not-saying-that-we-were-robbed-im-just]]
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* LGBTFanBase: The series is interpreted as Queer Coded, and the [[WordOfSaintPaul actors have said they were intentionally playing up the love between the two main characters]]. Upon release Vulture ran a headline declaring it to be a Gay Love Story. While per WordOfGod and book canon angels don’t really use human labels regarding gender and sexuality, this attracted a lot of transgender and asexual fans into the fold as well.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Hell's Angels bikers who decide to be sidekicks to the Horsemen were cast for the show, but due to budget issues their scenes were never filmed.
* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. He believes the moment where [[spoiler:Crowley his books from the Nazis]] is the exact moment Aziraphale realizes the depth of his feelings for Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation, and that “...then Crowley absolutely loves Aziraphale. He hates that he loves him. It's really annoying for him."
* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. He believes the moment where [[spoiler:Crowley his books from the Nazis]] is the exact moment Aziraphale realizes the depth of his feelings for Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation, and that “...then Crowley absolutely loves Aziraphale. He hates that he loves him. It's really annoying for him."
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**The Hell's Angels bikers who decide to be sidekicks to the Horsemen were cast for the show, but due to budget issues their scenes were never filmed.
** It’s a small scene but in the book Crowley is the one to revive the dead dove after the magic show, whereas in the show it’s Aziraphale. It was in the script as originally written, but the director needed to change it for blocking reasons (they needed to get Crowley in the car first for the actions of the scene to play out in a way that visually made sense).
* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. He believes the moment where [[spoiler:Crowley saved his books from the Nazis]] is the exact moment Aziraphale realizes the depth of his feelings for Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation, and that “...then Crowley absolutely loves Aziraphale. He hates that he loves him. It's really annoying for him."
**The Hell's Angels bikers who decide to be sidekicks to the Horsemen were cast for the show, but due to budget issues their scenes were never filmed.
** It’s a small scene but in the book Crowley is the one to revive the dead dove after the magic show, whereas in the show it’s Aziraphale. It was in the script as originally written, but the director needed to change it for blocking reasons (they needed to get Crowley in the car first for the actions of the scene to play out in a way that visually made sense).
* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. He believes the moment where [[spoiler:Crowley saved his books from the Nazis]] is the exact moment Aziraphale realizes the depth of his feelings for Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation, and that “...
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** In the final two episodes, the guard on the gate of the Airbase is played by Andre Nightingale, whose name is prominently displayed in the final episode's credits right as the line about a nightingale singing floats over the top of them.
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* WordOfGod: Well aside from the literal InUniverse [[{{IncrediblyLamePun voice of God we hear}}]]. Neil Gaiman has revealed some things about the series on his Tumblr. Including:
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* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation.interpretation.
* WordOfGod: Well aside from the literal InUniverse [[ {{IncrediblyLamePun}} voice of God we hear]]. Neil Gaiman has revealed some things about the series on his Tumblr. Including
** In her retirement Pestilence spends a lot of time on the internet ranting about vaccines
** The demons with animals on their head “have people shaped things beneath them to get from place to place” (implying the demons are the animals on their heads and the rotting humans below them are vessels).
** The scene where Aziraphale does the Gavotte is set at the 100 Guineas Club (a real life historic gentleman’s club/gay bar).
* WordOfGod: Well aside from the literal InUniverse [[ {{IncrediblyLamePun}} voice of God we hear]]. Neil Gaiman has revealed some things about the series on his Tumblr. Including
** In her retirement Pestilence spends a lot of time on the internet ranting about vaccines
** The demons with animals on their head “have people shaped things beneath them to get from place to place” (implying the demons are the animals on their heads and the rotting humans below them are vessels).
** The scene where Aziraphale does the Gavotte is set at the 100 Guineas Club (a real life historic gentleman’s club/gay bar).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Hell's Angels bikers who decide to be sidekicks to the Horsemen were cast for the show, but due to budget issues their scenes were never filmed.
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* WordOfSaintPaul: Micheal Sheen said he was intentionally playing Aziraphale as being in love with Crowley. David Tennant has also said he believes their relationship to be open to interpretation.
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* AscendedFanon: Hellfire destroys angels in the same way that holy water destroys demons. This was a staple of fanfic, but never mentioned in the original book.
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** Defied with Andy Hamilton as the voice of the tiny Hell's Usher; although Gaiman [[https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/185552311121 later said on his Tumblr]] that he's a fan of ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'', it wasn't a question of giving the series a ShoutOut so much as casting the voice that best embodied the character.
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* CastingGag: in ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'', Daniel Mays played [[spoiler:either Satan or one of his high-ranking minions]]. Here, he plays [[spoiler:the Antichrist's (adoptive, human) father - Adam's original father being Satan]].
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** When Crowley is trying to find a place in the universe to run away to, one of the possible choices is Gallifrey.
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** Shadwell is oddly uninterested in his protege encountering aliens. You'd think someone who was previously [[Film/{{Coneheads}} trying to catch them]] would feel differently.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/NeilGaiman were working on various adaptations of their book for a long time, and then Pratchett died. [[https://fuckyeahgoodomens.tumblr.com/post/183361161379/terry-wrote-to-me-and-he-said-you-have-to-do Gaiman says]] he was probably more strict about making it a good adaptation than he might otherwise have been, since he wanted to keep Pratchett's memory alive.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/NeilGaiman were working on various adaptations of their book for a long time, and then Pratchett died. [[https://fuckyeahgoodomens.tumblr.com/post/183361161379/terry-wrote-to-me-and-he-said-you-have-to-do Gaiman says]] he was probably more strict about making it a good adaptation than he might otherwise have been, been since he wanted to keep Pratchett's memory alive.
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* RefittedForSequel: Inverted. In an [[https://www.gq.com/story/neil-gaiman-interview/amp interview with GQ]], Creator/NeilGaiman said that certain elements -- like the expanded roles of some of the angels like Gabriel, Uriel and Sandalphon -- were ideas that he took from a sequel to the book that he and Creator/TerryPratchett had planned but never written.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: Crowley's answering machine plays way too big a role to be jettisoned completely, so it's referenced as an antique he's hanging onto, and his cell phone also plays a part in the plot point.
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** Crowley's answering machine plays way too big a role to be jettisoned completely, so it's referenced as an antique he's hanging onto, and his cell phone also plays a part in the plotpoint.point.
** Crowley shuts down a wireless network rather than landlines.
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* NamesTheSame: When sorting through records, someone mentions a "Mr. Plinkett," which also happens to be the name of the CausticCritic character in WebVideo/RedLetterMedia videos.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The scene in the Globe Theatre depicting Aziraphale and Crowley attending a performance of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', which is a massive commercial flop with only a handful of people in the audience. The original version of the scene called for a full audience, but Gaiman [[https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/neil-gaiman-good-omens-podcast-1203229927/ says]] that he noticed that it was scheduled for the last day of filming in the UK, in December 2017. It occurred to him that the scene called for hundreds of extras in Elizabethan costume, and suspected that the scheduling of the scene was a sign that it would probably get cut, and also that there would be very little daylight to shoot it, so in order to drastically reduce the budget he rethought the scene and asked director Douglas [=MacKinnon=] if he'd prefer a rehearsal of ''Hamlet'' or a flop. [=MacKinnon=] said he wanted a flop, so Gaiman rewrote the scene for just half a dozen actors and it stayed in the show.
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** David Tennant's character [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode is at the Globe Theatre yet again]]. Shakespeare even takes one of his lines to use in his plays.
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* ActorAllusion: There are a few scenes where Crowley is walking by a prominent [[Series/DoctorWho police call box]].
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The full trailer shows several scenes people who've read the book know come near the end, including [[spoiler: Aziraphale's bookshop burning down]] and [[spoiler: Adam almost giving in to his Antichrist self]].
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* ActingForTwo: Jack Whitehall plays both Newt Pulsifer [[IdenticalGrandson and his ancestor]] Thou-shalt-not-commit-adultery Pulsifer.
* AllStarCast: Just about everyone, even the cameos, are famous actors.
* AllStarCast: Just about everyone, even the cameos, are famous actors.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Hell's Angels bikers who decide to be sidekicks to the Horsemen were cast for the show, but due to budget issues their scenes were never filmed.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/TerryPratchett and Creator/NeilGaiman were working on various adaptations of their book for a long time, and then Pratchett died. [[https://fuckyeahgoodomens.tumblr.com/post/183361161379/terry-wrote-to-me-and-he-said-you-have-to-do Gaiman says]] he was probably more strict about making it a good adaptation than he might otherwise have been, since he wanted to keep Pratchett's memory alive.
-->'''Gaiman:''' So I had to make the thing that he wanted, which meant it became kind of a mad passion project. The things that if it was a me-project I would've given away on, things I wouldn't have held the line on like some kind of a mad-eyed prophet. Suddenly I'm going "No, you cannot take this out. This is going to be in there. Because Terry wrote that scene and he would have wanted to see it, so it's in there." And they're like "Oh, but do you know how much money we could save if you don't actually see Agnes Nutter being blown up and arrested and dragged to the stake, we got this idea," said an early bunch of producers who later left, "that we could have woodcuts and the narrator explaining what happened. Isn't that just as good?" And I sort of mentally run that by the ghostly Terry Pratchett in the back of my head, it's like: "Terry, is that just as good?" And he's like: "Fuck 'em."
-->'''Gaiman:''' So I had to make the thing that he wanted, which meant it became kind of a mad passion project. The things that if it was a me-project I would've given away on, things I wouldn't have held the line on like some kind of a mad-eyed prophet. Suddenly I'm going "No, you cannot take this out. This is going to be in there. Because Terry wrote that scene and he would have wanted to see it, so it's in there." And they're like "Oh, but do you know how much money we could save if you don't actually see Agnes Nutter being blown up and arrested and dragged to the stake, we got this idea," said an early bunch of producers who later left, "that we could have woodcuts and the narrator explaining what happened. Isn't that just as good?" And I sort of mentally run that by the ghostly Terry Pratchett in the back of my head, it's like: "Terry, is that just as good?" And he's like: "Fuck 'em."
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