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autumncottageattic · 9 months
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Berkeley Square 1998, British dramatic television series
Part II
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crunchyyetsatisfying · 7 months
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The Garden
"It starts, as it will end, with a garden." - The voice of god
Did it, though? The Good Omens tv series began in the Garden of Eden.
The world *doesn't* end at the Tadfield Airbase. At the end of the first season, we see Adam escaping his yard and running through an orchard, but then we see Aziraphale and Crowley in the park and finally at the Ritz, before a nightingale sings in Berkeley Square and we go to credits. The second season ends with Aziraphale taking the elevator to Heaven and Crowley driving off to who-knows-where. Maybe the scene with Adam running through the orchards is supposed to tie up the prediction. But honestly? I'm hoping for season 3, as our final season, to end with Aziraphale and Crowley in a garden. Because who says the voice of god was referring to The World beginning and ending in a garden, and not the story of the Long and Winding Road leading an angel and a demon together?
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thavron · 5 months
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Oh good Lord, I'm going to write about the Nightingale thing again. And whilst I’m at work no less. I’m not going to try and interpret the scene again. I’ve done that already, and honestly I’m not sure if I even agree with my own points, it just made sense to me at the time of writing. But I’ve been having some thoughts as to why that line of dialogue sticks out like a sore thumb. Because it does, it feels alien in the moment. 
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Currently, because I am a huge nerd, I’ve been putting together a table of what Crowley knows and what Aziraphale knows, because it was quite correctly pointed out in a meta that I read yesterday, that they actually don’t have the same information. That means they are going to react very differently to the same situation (I may or may not use that to write another post about the final fifteen, maybe I won't, I'm obsessed. I think I’m just in denial honestly…). And that’s when it occurred to me, the nightingale reference does not exist within the narrative. Or not for us as an audience, not yet anyway.
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So, Nightingales are referenced in series one directly by God, where she says:
"While they were eating, for the first time ever, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square. Nobody heard it over the noise of the traffic. But it was there, right enough."
This is actually a joke, a reference to the song which is playing over the scene "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”  which contains the line “There were angels dining at the Ritz.” Which is funny because there is, but obviously no one knows that either.
Edit to add: It also means that impossible things do sometimes happen. We have two impossible things happening at once right now. (like and angel and demon falling in love *cough*)
But it’s also a wonderfully romantic song and that scene is just beautiful, you can not convince me that that was not intended as a date. 
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The song becomes synonymous with their romantic/domestic interlude, and little references pop up during series 2. 
But the references are kind of like Bad Wolf in Doctor Who, they’re in the background or in the soundtrack, and not meaningful to the characters within the flow of the narrative. We notice, if we’re paying attention and gigglesnort at the implications, but it is not actually something that means anything to Crowley and Aziraphale, or it doesn’t from our view point. The only instance really I can think of where the song is actually being used diegetically, is in the Ritz scene is series one. But it’s background music at a restaurant, it isn’t meaningful unless there was more to that scene. (which might be the case, in a flashback.)
But, Crowley references Nightingales directly. Which means it must mean something to them. For us it is shorthand to refer to their blossoming relationship, but to them it could mean something quite different. But until we know the context, there is no way to interpret what he means. But that line does stand out, and the reason I think it does, is right now it feels like a fourth wall break. Like Crowley is turning to the camera to say “don’t worry kids, this kiss isn’t the romantic kiss.” I’m not quite sure what to make of that really. It’s like they put a little mystery in a box and left it in full view next to one of the most harrowing moments in TV history. How am I meant to look at that and not go feral? It makes it difficult to take that entire scene at face value because of the question mark hanging over that line (and also some of Michael's acting choices, which have been spot on throughout so again makes me feel like there is more to the scene than meets the eye). I would imagine it's meant to be that way, and when we finally see the context that scene will have us in tears all over again. I should just sit back and wait and see, because I am sure that whatever Neil has planned is better than anything I can come up with, but my God has he put an itch in my brain that I can’t scratch. 
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the streets of town (were paved with stars)
the streets of town (were paved with stars)
by morpheustheendless
The fact of the matter was that the demon Crowley had no idea what to do now. Last time Aziraphale left, he drank himself into a stupor in the middle of a pub, and even then the angel had only been inconveniently discorporated. This time… This time he’d left of his own accord.
 AKA: The fix-it we all need after that episode.
Words: 1217, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Other
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens - mentioned), Beelzebub (Good Omens - mentioned), God (Good Omens), The Bentley (Good Omens)
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Aziraphale Loves Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley Loves Aziraphale (Good Omens), Angst and Hurt/Comfort, POV God (Good Omens), Song Lyrics, Jukeboxes, Happy Ending, Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens), Ineffable Idiots (Good Omens), Soft Crowley (Good Omens), Soft Aziraphale (Good Omens), Bars and Pubs, Religious Discussion, (Just a little bit), The Bentley Ships It (Good Omens), God Ships Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), title from a nightingale sang in berkeley square bc i'm evil, AND GAY, Post-Season/Series 02
From https://ift.tt/f072Sln https://archiveofourown.org/works/48920833
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neil-gaiman · 4 years
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Hello sir! I believe the song A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square predates Good Omens, so I was wondering if the idea of ‘Angels dining at the Ritz’ came from that song, or if you thought of it independently and then used the song in the show when you realized it had that line? Thanks for your time!
It predates Good Omens the book by almost 50 years, yes. I think the line was my idea and Terry wrote it although I could well be wrong about either of those two things. When we wrote the book I think we were just thinking about that "angels dining at the Ritz" line of the song. As I was writing the scripts for the tv series I thought more and more about the lyrics to the whole thing, and how appropriate they were, and what a good place it would be to finish, with the whole song being sung.
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papermoonloveslucy · 3 years
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THEY STILL LOVE LUCY
May 23, 1977
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[The article below is reprinted verbatim. Photos and Footnotes have been added for editorial enhancement.]
There has already been some moaning at the bar that when Dinah Shore's blithe talk show moves to Channel 5 in July, it will be on 3:30 in the afternoon instead of 6:30 p.m. I have letters from viewers who lament "Now we'll never see it." I'm with them. It was nicely placed in the wake oi Cronkite, some easy chatter and gossip after the somber events of the day, like turning from the front page to the feature section of a newspaper. Moreover, Dinah does her interviewing very well, much less obtrusively than the assorted Mikes and Mervs of TV. She actually makes you believe she's more interested in the answer than the question.
Sometimes the answers are hard to come by. The other evening Lucille Ball was much more interested in clowning than answering serious questions about her comedy. Flanked by Jim Coburn and James Garner, Lucy was much more intent on giving a performance and it was great fun. Anyway, Lucy saves her serious answers about comedy these days for the seminar she's conducting at a professional school in Hollywood. 
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I asked the great redhead the other day what she told her students "Whatever they ask me," she said. "I just answer questions. If they're not interested enough to ask questions, the hell with 'em." That's basic to Lucille Ball. In her philosophy, you push forward, you ask, you try things. She used to tell her daughter Lucie: "Don't turn things down. No matter how lowly it seems at the time, you'll find you learn from everything you do it's worth it." 
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Years ago, Eddie Cantor told me that during the filming of Roman Scandals with the Goldwyn Girls, director Busby Berkeley worked out a sight gag wherein someone threw a glob of mud at Eddie who bent over at that moment and the mud sailed over him and caught some beautiful girl square in her pretty face. He asked for volunteers among the girls. All of them shrank back except one a redhead who stepped forward. "I knew," said Eddie, "that she was the one who would make it. Lucy Ball." 
Too Much Lucy? 
In case you are one of those who will miss Dinah! because you don't watch daytime TV, you may be unaware that Lucille Ball's fourth and last Lucy series. Here's Lucy, is now rerunning on CBS every morning at 9 on Channel 2. This is the six-year series in which her children grew up Lucie and Desi Arnaz Jr. with Gale Gordon as Uncle Harry. 
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There are six years of those shows and even spun off daily they should be around quite awhile. Not surprisingly, they're on opposite I Love Lucy which Channel 11 shows in the mornings at 9. Lucy shrugs at the schedule. At one time, there were Lucy shows on various channels seven times during a day "That bothered me," she said. "Every time you turned on the tap. you got me. There can be too much of anything." 
To an historian of this windblown diversion, it's interesting two versions of the same basic Lucy character 20 years or so apart, still equally delighting audiences. Lucy, the character, must be the most durable creation of the television age, unsinkable, unstoppable, largely changeless. I have had the feeling at times that Lucille Ball feels Lucy rides her instead of vice versa. When she was doing Wildcat on Broadway, she said: "I thought they wanted something different, but they don't So in the show, I'm doing Lucy." 
The other day the comedienne said: "I'm having a recurrence of that In the last couple of years, I've been doing specials that were different kinds of comedy dramas than the Lucy shows. I did a couple with Carney, I did that show with Gleason trying to play my age, trying to do something they would believe and buy. Well, they didn't buy it not really. What the people seemed to want was Lucy again. Now I'm faced with doing two more specials for next season, and I thought: 'Oh. God, not that again.' Then I decided the hell with anything different I'll do a Lucy show." 
Old Friends on Hand 
She'll be back in her own arena the three-camera TV technique created for her by Desi Arnaz; Madelyn Davis and Bob Carroll Jr., who wrote most of the Lucy shows over a quarter century, are doing the script; Gale Gordon will be on hand and perhaps Mary Wickes and Mary Jane Croft but not the kids: Desi is making a Robert Altman movie in Chicago; Lucie is on the summer musical circuit. The topper the show will be directed by Marc Daniels, who directed the first season ever of I Love Lucy. They'll film it in August for a probable November showing. (1)
There are other roles Lucille Ball itches to play a legless legend of a woman who has been a patron saint of the ghetto kids of Baltimore, for one. (2) She turns down constant requests to direct. (3) She likes teaching, working with kids. There's very little comedy on television she can watch. "I keep seeing rip-offs of my writers. They're doing our old scripts. Laverne & Shirley they're doing the shows Vivian Vance and I did years ago." (4)
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Cecil Smith (author) began his Times career as a reporter and feature writer in 1947 and became an entertainment writer in 1953. He was the entertainment editor and a drama critic in the 1960s, and in 1969 he became the paper's television critic and a columnist for The Times' syndicate.  Smith served as a captain in the Army Air Forces during World War II and as a pilot flew a B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. After the war, he wrote radio plays and television scripts before getting involved in journalism.  He was related to Lucille Ball by marriage. Cecil's wife Cleo was Lucille's first cousin.  He had a cameo (with other journalists) in “Lucy Meets the Burtons” (HL S3;E1) in 1970.  He died in 2009. 
FOOTNOTES from the Future
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(1) “Lucy Calls the President” aired November 21, 1977 featuring Gale Gordon, Mary WIckes, Mary Jane Croft, and although she is not mentioned in the article due to her health issues, Vivian Vance.  Desi Jr. was filming A Wedding, and Lucie was appearing as the lead in Annie Get Your Gun. 
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(2) This refers to ‘Aunt’ Mary Dobkin, a little league baseball coach and children’s welfare advocate.  The role eventually went to Jean Stapleton and the film was aired on “The Hallmark Hall of Fame” in 1979.  
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(3) In 1980, Lucille Ball signed with NBC, and finally gave in.  She directed a pilot for a half-hour sitcom called “Bungle Abbey,” starring Gale Gordon.  The pilot was not picked up and that was her only solo directing credit, although she had co-directed a few episodes of her series.  Many directors would say that despite who got the credit, Lucy was also directing!  In fact, that was nothing new.  
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Exactly 40 years earlier, to the day, the above item appeared in Erskine Johnson’s “Behind The Make-Up” syndicated column!  
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(4) It was not secret that “Laverne and Shirley” was heavily influenced by the antics of Lucy and Ethel. The show’s creator Garry Marshall was one of Lucille Ball’s writers at one time, and readily admitted how much he admired her. 
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autumncottageattic · 9 months
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Berkeley Square 1998 Part V
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secondhand-trash · 3 years
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Hello💕💕8 and 11 for the ask game?
8. three songs that remind you most of summer and vacation
Diane Young — Vampire Weekend
Dear Maria. Count Me In — All Time Low
Mystery of Love — Sufjan Stevens
11. three favourite songs from movie or TV series soundtrack
God, so many lmao
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square — Tori Amos, from Good Omens
I Think We’re Alone Now — Tiffany, in Umbrella Academy
Hungry Eyes — Eric Carmen, in Dirty Dancing (I had an Aizawa fic concept with this song from back in summer but I lost motivation to actually start it lmao let’s see if I’ll ever get back to it😌✨)
(Three songs ask game)
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OKAY for the fanfic asks, from go doctor who au: "The universe is still singing for them. Or maybe it’s just the nightingales in Berkeley Square. Or perhaps it’s just him, his essence, his starlight soul beaming. “And if you weren’t, deep down, just enough of a bastard to be worth Knowing.” He grins. He is free. He is happy. “Cheers. To the world.” “To the world.” He is alive." and also “Happy ever after doesn’t mean forever. It just means time. A little time.” how do you come UP w this stuff
my baby starlight, i totally forgot this fic even exISTED i haven’t even glanced at it since literally an entire year ago
okay first i have to make it very clear: 
“Happy ever after doesn’t mean forever. It just means time. A little time.”
this is an actual quote from Doctor Who, from i think the episode “The Husbands of River Song” and it’s said by River Song to the Twelfth Doctor. i own absolutely none of those rights; i did not write this line.
a lot of this fic was me pulling quotes from actual Doctor Who and shoving it into this Good Omens story. you’ll find i do this a lot in all my writing lol
“a string of paper cranes” (tsomd) contained SO MANY actual quotes from prose/poems about love. “i love(d) you” (go) contained several actual quotes from the Star Wars series. my final project for my writing class in the first semester of university was a spoken word poem that was a rearrangement of quotes from all our readings in the past months + “My Shot” from Hamilton: The Musical. if it ain’t broke, why try to fix it yea? there are so many better writers out there; i shall quote the heck out of them and hopefully give them more exposure. i do not want to claim any of their words as my original content ever.
ok and now this:
The universe is still singing for them. Or maybe it’s just the nightingales in Berkeley Square. Or perhaps it’s just him, his essence, his starlight soul beaming. “And if you weren’t, deep down, just enough of a bastard to be worth Knowing.” He grins. He is free. He is happy. “Cheers. To the world.”
“To the world.”
He is alive.
again, this is my great amalgamation of quotes from GO and DW. this AU was borne purely from the fact that the glorious David Tennant played both Crowley and the Tenth Doctor. 
Ten’s death in DW is an incredibly heartbreaking one (“I don’t want to go,” he begged, tears in his eyes, young and afraid despite all the centuries he’s been alive), but every Doctor’s death is miserable. yes, the Doctor Regenerates, but every life is an individual. he can run as far as he wants, but even he will still run out of time.
“The universe will sing you to your sleep” is a quote from DW before Ten dies and then Regenerates. but this fic is meant to be Ten’s second chance, where he Lives, where he has a Companion in the form of an angel, where he is so Human. so it’s not the aliens who sing him to sleep here; it’s the birds outside Aziraphale’s bookshop, outside a home/haven/paradise. it’s the birds that sing, sing of a normal life, a normal and happy life where he is loved.
the rest of the dialogue in this snippet is the actual lines that Crowley and Aziraphale say in the tv series.
i do not remember writing “Or perhaps it’s just him, his essence, his starlight soul beaming.” at ALL but i think it’s a pretty beautiful line if i do say so myself. Crowley created the stars after all, and the Doctor basically defies time and space. i like the idea that he can bring peace to and for himself now.
“He is free. He is happy.” no Doctor plagued by the extermination of his own home-planet, no demon bound by the division of Heaven and Hell.
this story does not end.
“He is alive.”
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benisasoftboi · 5 years
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Right, so, seeing as we’ve had Good Omens the book, radio drama and now TV mini-series, I think the next thing we need is Good Omens the stage musical. I want tap dancing Horsemen of the Apocalypse, I want a Heaven/Hell dance off, and I need a Crowley/Aziraphale duet of ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’. Casting suggestions welcome
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I'll Watch From Afar (It's My Fault)
I'll Watch From Afar (It's My Fault)
by silverstar2419
Aziraphale has left Crowley and throws himself into work, but he can't leave well enough alone and has to keep checking up on his fallen angel.
 Basically, I, the author, am struggling to cope with the ineffable divorce.
Words: 492, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Background & Cameo Characters
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Heaven & Hell, Crowley Loves Aziraphale (Good Omens), Hurt Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley is a Mess (Good Omens), Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, A Nightingale Sings in Berkeley Square (Good Omens), Men Crying, Drinking to Cope, Post-Break Up, Short One Shot
From https://ift.tt/f072Sln https://archiveofourown.org/works/48922069
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rosalyn51 · 5 years
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A Discovery of Witches season 2 “Filming in Bristol city centre”. Photo: Bristol Live July 12, 2019
Find out which Sky TV series was being filmed in Bristol city centre
by Emma Grimshaw 12 July 2019 Bristol Live
Crews were spotted in Berkeley Square filming for the new A Discovery of Witches series.
Bosses for the fantasy-drama, which is shown on Sky, have been shooting the second series in our city all week.
Most of the work seemed to be taking place inside a Georgian style property on Berkeley Square.
Pictures from the square yesterday (July 11), showed a huge crane being used to capture aerial views of the city centre location.
Crews could also be seen carrying props in and out of one building.
What is Discovery of Witches?
The British TV programme is based on the All Souls  trilogy by Deborah Harkness.
It is produced by Bad Wolf and Sky Productions, and stars Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode and Edward Bluemel,.
The first series of A Discovery of Witches  premiered in the UK on Sky One on 14 September 2018, and consisted of eight episodes.
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Aiysha Hart posted this photo with Adelle Leonce (Phoebe Taylor) and Edward Bluemel on her Instastory earlier this week.
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Director Farren Blackburn also tweeted today.
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[Looks like ep 6 scene 17 - filming modern day scenes first while waiting for ‘Matthew and Diana’ Elizabethan England shoot]
#ADoWLoc #Bristol
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tinsnip · 5 years
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens) Additional Tags: the Accidentally Married AU we all need in our lives, Fluff, accidentally married AU Series: Part 1 of Queen's Greatest Hits Summary:
The morning after dining at the Ritz when a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, Crowley wakes up on the floor of his own apartment, hungover like he hasn't been in a very long time and with a ring on his finger. The ring and the hangover are both a surprise.
The Accidentally Married AU
I clicked on this so Fucking Fast and it was worth it.
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ao3feed-goodomens · 5 years
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Retroactively Tempted
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2L6BhcA
by BuzzCat
The morning after dining at the Ritz when a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, Crowley wakes up on the floor of his own apartment, hungover like he hasn't been in a very long time and with a ring on his finger. The ring and the hangover are both a surprise.
The Accidentally Married AU
Words: 4060, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 1 of Queen's Greatest Hits
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: the Accidentally Married AU we all need in our lives, Fluff, accidentally married AU
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2L6BhcA
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yourfandomfriend · 5 years
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Good Omens, Yay
So, the night before last I finished watching the Good Omens miniseries with my bestie, and I loved the absolute boop out of it. I’ve been burned so many times by tv adaptions *cough* Going Postal! *cough* so I was afraid if it wasn’t awesome said bestie would shake her head at me for suggesting we waste her time and Prime account on such utter wank as popular culture. But it was lovely.
SPOILERS BELOW, MY FRIEND
I don’t at the moment have any meta planned because I think it really explored its themes blatantly, but I might go on about the difference between good and Good™️ that was emphasized in the series since some people still apparently are weirded out that the angels were villains, too.
Because, well, they’re Righteous! And what could be bad about that?
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The Land of Might-Have-Been
I’ve heard people complaining about how the show changed the story because Neil needed to restructure it for the format, and I might talk about what could have been lost and gained by it. Buuut I haven't read the book, so that would mean reading the entire thing real fast on my day off just for a meta no one would read, which would be super dumb. Which means I still might do it someday...
I loved the ending so much. It felt so warm and good and nice and happy and romantic and old fashioned but earned and MWAH. The feeling of “the war is finally over, we’re finally safe”, the sense of a better world beginning, partly won by (I’m given to understand) altering the Az and Crowley story structure and adding a cap on the end. 
I don’t know what I’m missing of course but as an ignorant neophyte, I just wouldn’t change a damn thing, especially the song. I really expected a Queen song, maybe a careless reprise of “You're My Best Friend” but using “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” just (emotionally) knocked me on my ass with how sincere and romantic and hopeful and almost... dreamlike it was.
Think all the emotion of “The Land of Might-Have-Been” only we get to actually go there and be happy:
“Sometimes on the rarest nights comes the vision calm and clear, gleaming with unearthly lights on our path of doubt and fear. Winds from that far land are blown, whispering with secret breath -- hope that plays a tune alone, love that conquers pain and death.”
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silverpetticoat · 5 years
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'Berkeley Square,' The Complete Series: Secrets and Romance!
'Berkeley Square,' The Complete Series: Secrets and Romance! A TV review of the 1998 BBC Berkeley Square series with Jason O' Mara and Victoria Smurfit.
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