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Good Omens

pgn — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 07:38:37 GMT

One of my favourite books, by two of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman (r) and the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett (l), is coming to the small screen, courtesy of Amazon Prime, in 2019.

The trailer looks like the mayhem I imagined as I read the book - can I wait?

Gonna havta... 😳

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Glory1 — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 08:03:59 GMT

Looks right up my street @pgn. I look forward to watching it.

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Anonymous — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 08:16:50 GMT

Never heard of it! (Might have to look it up later)

trailer looked ok.

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Cleoriff — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 08:59:46 GMT

I was never a fan of Terry Pratchett (Heresy) lol

Though the trailer looks very interesting.

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sheepdog — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:18:19 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
I was never a fan of Terry Pratchett (Heresy) lol
Though the trailer looks very interesting.

Neither am I but most of these fantasy things aren't my cup of tea anyway. That trailer is just begging to add the Dr Who theme tune and titles at the end!

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pgn — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:19:41 GMT

@sheepdog wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
I was never a fan of Terry Pratchett (Heresy) lol
Though the trailer looks very interesting.
Neither am I but most of these fantasy things aren't my cup of tea anyway. That trailer is just begging to add the Dr Who theme tune and titles at the end!

It's the theremin, isn't it? Doctor Who and Midsomer Murders both rely on it for that eerie tone to the theme...

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Anonymous — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:51:46 GMT

I didn't read the books but watched the excellent Sky adaptations of The Colour of Magic, Hogfather and Going Postal, the first two of which I ended up buying on DVD.

I've not watched the trailer at the time of writing but I definitely think I'll be watching this, the man had an amazing mind and was taken way before his time in such a terrible way.

RIP Sir Terry

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jonsie — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 23:05:50 GMT

For a great many years we had the full works of Sir Terry in our book-case. One a first edition and signed by the great(?) man himself. These were my son's books and he was into the whole fantasy and 3rd World phenomenons. He had all the box-games, CD's and Nintendo/X-Box Games. He did roleplaying online and even now meets up with like-minded roleplayers in Berlin.

I think it was a turn-of-the-century university must-do thing alongside with back-packing! (which he still does all over the world) He's also just completed a month in a temple in China doing Tai Chi as a milestone for his 40th birthday! Must be some kind of slow motion Ninja now! Where did I go wrong as a parent?

Thankfully when I sold the house, he came over and shipped all his books to Berlin and there were 5 big heavy boxes.

....and in all those years I was never tempted to read one of that genre of books!

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Glory1 — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 23:59:37 GMT

Brief lessons on different cultures' mythology back in junior high (or middle school as many are now calling it) gave me a love of fantasy and, though a different genre entirely, sci fi. Add to my already tremendous love of horror and you had the school nerd. Don't get me wrong I love other genres as well, crime and legal thrillers to name two. But my biggest loves are fantasy and horror: the written word and the visual. Just received Once Upon a Time the complete series to empasise my love of fantasy and fairy tales.

Yes, I'm reverting to my childhood

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gmarkj — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:10:47 GMT

I must admit to having not read much of his work, despite being a big fan of the fantasy genre.
My favorite author(s) are Raymond E Feist and Terry Goodkind.
Will have to give the book a go before the series is broadcast.

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pgn — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 09:17:06 GMT

Well, despite there being another thread on this topic, I will resurrect this one (in the spirit of Armageddon!).

I watched the 6th and final episode on Prime on Thursday night, and I'm going to have to back-track to find out at what point they did that, rubber ducky notwithstanding...

Ya havta pay attention if ya really want to spot the subtler plays, ploys and plot lines...

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welshsteve76 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:33:57 GMT

@pgn wrote:
@sheepdog wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
I was never a fan of Terry Pratchett (Heresy) lol
Though the trailer looks very interesting.
Neither am I but most of these fantasy things aren't my cup of tea anyway. That trailer is just begging to add the Dr Who theme tune and titles at the end!
It's the theremin, isn't it? Doctor Who and Midsomer Murders both rely on it for that eerie tone to the theme...

Metallica have been using Ecstasy Of Gold for their intro music before concerts their whole career. It's a fabulous piece of music.

Here's the orchestra for their live album "S&M" doing it (then goes into their own composition called The Call Of Ktulu which is also awesome)

They also did their own version of it:

As for Good Omens itself, I fancied it when I first heard about it, although I've never read any Terry Pratchett.

I've watched 2 episodes so far and am liking. My son has watched the whole thing as says it's great.

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Glory1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:15:18 GMT

I've also never read a Terry Pratchett book. But I've seen Sky's versions of 3 of his books and enjoyed them all.

The promos for Good Omens intrigued me, and as I do like this type of show, it's on my Prime watchlist when I get the time to view.

I should add I'm also a fan of David Tennant and Michael Sheen; both fine actors. So I'm looking forward to watching it. For me, it's just finding the time

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pgn — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:25:47 GMT

@Glory1 wrote:
I'm looking forward to watching it. For me, it's just finding the time

You won't be disappointed, @Glory1 - and the episodes aren't all of the same duration, just to confound any viewing schedule you may have...

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Glory1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:37:00 GMT

Thanks @pgn, I did notice that. As I say it's just finding the time. I have a very long Prime watchlist as it is and that, with all the recording I do, and my TV boxsets and films; there are just not enough hours in the day to be honest. But I'll fit it in somehow

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pgn — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:49:56 GMT

Let's hope they don't remove that PRIME triangle on the corner, @Glory1 @- I plan to watch it again with my older daughter when she's home from Uni in a few days' time. :grimacing

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Glory1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:55:33 GMT

Well you should be okay @pgn they don't normally get rid of shows that quickly on Prime, particularly as they've been promoting it so much.

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pgn — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:00:45 GMT

👍😎