Good omens lgbt
I'm just going to state it: I liked the Good Omens miniseries more than the novel. It's sacrilege among Book Folks, my people, to confess this, but sometimes recasting an old story into a new medium improves the experience. (Remember Legally Blonde, the Amanda Brown novel? Of course you don't.) There are several reasons why I preferred the show, but mostly it's because the novel didn't have Aziraphale and Crowley's queer-as-hell relationship — unarguably the best part — as the main focus.
So when I state Good Omens the exhibit is "better" than Good Omens the book, what I mean is, it's gayer.
Good Omens isn't one-of-a-kind in its having fans who read queerness into the text. Fandoms possess been doing this for years: Supernatural immediately comes to mind, as does The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. What does make Good Omens unique is that this fan-created queer passion story — a fairy tale for the terminate of the world — pretty much came right when the story was adapted from the page to the screen.
Consider the standard one-sentence summary of the miniseries, which goes like this: In the final days leading up to the final battle between Heaven and Hell, the angel Aziraphale and the
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the way the books we read shape us and, even in fantastical settings, give us windows into possibilities for sympathetic and working through our own challenges. I believe that’s one of the most meaningful things a story can do, especially for those who undergo they’ve been put in unbearable circumstances. As chaplain Vanessa Zoltan writes in her memoir Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Holy Practice, “A willingness to survive is about believing in the possibility of a better future. Survival is about hope.”
Good Omens, the apocalyptic satire novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is one of those books for me. It came into my life when I was at a crossroads that I didn’t understand how to pass. I was a college trainee who had recently enter out as a trans man, trying to reconcile my religious upbringing and search for spiritual definition with my queerness. I couldn’t get rid of either; they were characteristic parts of me. Yet bringing them together seemed impossible.
I attended BYU, a Mormon university in Northern Utah in the years directly following two homosexual historical milestones, one awesome and one terrible. Queer marria
Good Omens, Queerbaiting And Death Of The Author - Quill’s Scribbles
I confess this is the most reluctant I’ve ever been to write a Scribble. When this topic came up, I remember just groaning and putting my chief in my hands because I knew that, due to the nature of what I tend to write about on this blog and the reality that I’m an out and out biromantic demisexual queerbo, people would be asking me to contribute to the discourse. And honestly I don’t particularly want to. I don’t get to enjoy many films and TV shows anymore thanks to the industry doing their very best to ruin everything they touch. Can’t I just watch one great TV show without entity dragged into some ideological battle?
Okay. Guess I can’t really put this off any longer.
On the 31st May, the long awaited adaptation of Good Omens was released on Amazon Video. I thought it was quite good. Not perfect. There are some things I could criticise, but overall it was a worthy adaptation of the source material and it was very enjoyable to watch. And that seems to be the general consensus with both critics and fans. However over the past couple of months since its release, a ‘controversy’ began to emerge w
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The fact that Good Omens S2 was SO QUEER.
Not Just Maggie and Nina (and Lindsey)
Not just Aziraphale and Crowley
Not even just Gabriel and Beelzebub (who is NB)
But the magician shopkeeper and his trans/NB spouse who wore a fancy early 19th century dress to the ball.
Job's son who was flirting with Aziraphale (hilariously played by Ty Tennant giving Michael Sheen heart eyes in front of his dad lmao)
Even the tough macho man in Scotland that Aziraphale borrows the phone from - using it for "Grindr".
Plus of course Michael, Uriel, Muriel, and Dagon also all being non binary/gender gender non-conforming characters.
With all this, there was no homophobia, no one batted an eyelid at any characters sexualities, sexuality wasn't even brought up, characters just are who they are and like who they prefer. Its a non issue in the GO universe.
AKA my favourite type of queer representation. The equal type found in The Sandman (show not comic).
And whilst there was plenty of drama and not everyone gets a happy queer ending (YET) there was no gender non-conforming trauma to be seen. No hate crimes, no "bury your gays", no stupid discussions about how HARD
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