Maius Intra Qua Extra

First day of Christmas holidays! I have to say that I've mostly spent the last two months yearning for this. It's not like things have been bad, but I've just been so tired! Every week, I've been saying, "Okay, I didn't get (this) done, but I'll do it next week when things let up," and of course, they never did. New things just kept appearing, both work-wise and RL-wise. But now we're actually done - no work until next year, and no further RL responsibilities, not even band rehearsals to attend. Yay!

Random stuff:

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Still obsessing about Good Omens (though slowly getting excited for the DW 60th!). Lots of blabber below, mostly on themes and purposes.

Good Omens (very spoilery!)
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Title: "A Car and His Boy"
Fandom(s): Good Omens
Characters: The Bentley, Crowley, Aziraphale, the Metatron
Pairing(s): Aziraphale/Crowley
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 470

Summary: Crowley leans against his Bentley, parked over the road from the bookshop.

Notes: Major spoilers for season 2. Don't read this if you haven't seen it yet but plan to.

Read it on AO3.

Omg I wrote a thing! This was a very quick thing today in response to the current challenge at tenminutesaday. It was originally just going to be a character introspection, but then took a weird turn.

Good Omens is definitely my obsession at the moment, as is evidenced by this flash fic and the other one I'm working on right now - it's in editing and I hope I'll get it posted within the next couple of weeks. I've been working off and on on various DW fics as well as my origfic, but nothing seems to stick. I guess I just needed more obsession to get me back to the keyboard.

This is a full review of the second season of Good Omens. The first paragraphs are general and non-spoilerific, but the rest, under the cut, is fully spoilerific, so don't click if you don't want to know.

It's important to understand that season 2 is not season 1: it's not an adaptation of an existing story, it's not a parody of 1980s Armageddon/Antichrist movies, and it doesn't focus on the humor and absurdity of the end of the world and the people caught in it. Gaiman took season 2 in a totally different direction, and if you're not expecting that, you may not like what he came up with.

Season 2 is far more serious in intent, if not in execution. It opens with a puzzle - why is the archangel Gabriel in Aziraphale's bookshop? - and follows Aziraphale and Crowley through trying to solve it. It seems to capitalize on the popularity of the "A & C through history" sequence of the third episode of Season 1 by having a historical flashback in each episode, and while not as charming as the first time, they provide plenty of A & C goodness. Then in the sixth episode, when they finally do figure it all out, a more important story emerges. I'll admit that while watching the episodes for the first time, it felt a bit janky - some of the situations were a bit too absurd and implausible - but it comes together in the end and looking back, now I can see why things happened the way they did.

(Note: I read a few of the reviews that came out on the release day from critics who'd been given an advance viewing, and it was immediately obvious that they'd been allowed to see the first five episode but not the sixth. They all complained that "nothing makes sense" and "obviously Gaiman ran out of ideas". Sorry, guys, but episode six - like in the first season - is the one that made the story.)

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After spending half a week of careful preparations and hype, as well as half the day reloading the page during work, I discovered that the information my husband gave me was wrong and that the second season of Good Omens premieres on July 28, not June 28.

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Perfectly reasonable grounds for divorce, don't you think?

Title: "Show Me a Great Plan"
Fandom(s): Good Omens
Characters: Crawly, the Metatron, God
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 4042

Summary: The Host have been preparing the universe for the Almighty's Great Plan for billions of years. Now it is time to set it in motion.


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Title: "Playing with Fyre"
Fandom(s): Good Omens
Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 6477

Summary: Armageddon has been averted and Adam has sent the Adversary back to Hell. All that's left for Aziraphale and Crowley is to figure out Agnes' last prophecy.


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It's been a while since I've had any time to relax, but this weekend was just wonderful. Evidence: I haven't been on any social media since Wednesday. I didn't even check email.

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Title: "A Deal with the Angel"
Fandom(s): Good Omens
Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: Adventure
Word Count: 4519

Summary: Crowley iworks hard for the ruling demons of Hell, but this time, there's no way he can complete all of his tasks.

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I was going to post a full review of Good Omens, but honestly, it would take way too long to write everything I want to say. So, I'm going to abridge this. Let's start with a tl;dr.

tl;dr: This show is fantastic, both from the point of view of an interesting mini-series and as an adaptation of a complex and unique novel. I honestly had no confidence they could translate the dry, surreal British humor to the screen, but Gaiman did it. By his own admission, he wrote it in honor of Terry Pratchett, so that it would be something that Pratchett would be proud of, and kept as much of the original plot as he could. Sure, some things had to be cut, and new thing were added, but the story is tight and the spirit is spot-on.

Now for the longer review, with spoilers:

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