I don’t hate the intros of the 4 Horsemen(?) so far, but I feel they could definitely benefit by being updated. Or even just sharpened. Make War a UN Secretary General. Famine can be a social media influencer who started by making pro-ana websites mainstream and is now flogging a nutrient-free version of Soylent…

This episode was a perfect highlight of what makes the book great, and of what drags it down. Any time Aziraphaeal or Crowley are on screen/page it’s amazing; when they aren’t, it drags.

Giving the book its texture and not translating well to the screen are not mutually exclusive things. I agree with the reviewer. As much as I’ve enjoyed this adaptation, its problems seem to all stem from a writer that’s too fond of his book to rework it properly for the screen and too famous to be made to do it.

I think the biggest problem is that Anathema and all of the witch stuff feels like it was written separately from everything involving Az and Crowley. The show doesn’t rectify this, its almost like someone had a short story about and angel and a demon, handed the writting off to someone else to turn into a book, but…

I think the audience for this show is somewhat unevenly divided between “people who were curious what a successful adaption of Good Omens to the screen might look like” and “people who really wanted Neil Gaiman to come over and read the book to them” and there’s going to be close to zero agreement between the two…

I like the tone of the book just fine—I’m one of the biggest Terry Pratchett fans you’re likely to meet, and I think Gaiman’s sections do a decent job of matching Sir Pterry’s voice. But it is, structurally, a complete and utter mess, a series of incidents and digressions that just sort of happen with no rhyme or…

“I have figured out a way to make my debilitating emotional fragility sound like a superpower. Most of my friends have.”

“it takes about half way thru the movie before it makes sense” sounds like most 90s movie.  

A real win for women would be if a high-profile movie written and directed by a woman, starring a woman, could fail or succeed on artistic merit rather than as some stupid fucking proxy in the culture wars.

You might also see people using “real-play.” If you’re looking for more podcasts in that genre, be sure to search for both terms!

So Golden Age of Radio has taken podcast form... This is an interesting development.

Thanks for the suggestions, and for my new term, “actual-play”. My personal favorite in that category is one called The Film Reroll, where they use the Gurps framework to try to re-create famous movies and action scenes, and frequently veer way off course! Favorites include Indiana Jones for quality, and Wizard of Oz…

Hugo definitely sucks but he also reads as so dumb and lame that it was hard for me to scan him as emotionally abusive, even though you’re not exactly wrong to characterize it that way. The love story stuff is very bad. But I mean, a lot of people do misguided things for their first boyfriend/girlfriend, even if I…

See, I felt, while I was writing it, that I was listing a lot of pretty negative stuff for a movie I really enjoyed... so I think that probably tracks.

I give this exchange on the internet an A, because neither of you immediately devolved into epithets.

A B-minus is positive! Just mixed-positive. But this comment was also very flattering to my writing so I give it a B.

I’m gonna go with option C. “You’all need Jesus”

49-year old Matthew McConaughey’s high-school sweetheart, 36-year old Anne Hathaway. Oh Hollywood, never change.

That's the big reveal. It's all taking place in Mal's mind, man.

Chidi spent the entire episode being charming and romantic, but I didn’t swoon until he put on that mailman’s uniform for Eleanor.