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chintzwife · 1 year ago

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on a more serious note i do genuinely think at worst s2 good omens directly ripped off supernatural and at best supernatural set a standard for an entire genre of TV related both generally to a post-Earth afterlife and specifically to the christian bodies of heaven and hell. it's fascinating to watch shows like Good Omens, Lucifer, Miracle Workers, The Good Place all try to follow in Supernatural's footsteps and do what it did without ever attempting to harness the central tenet of the 15-year-long saga which is: none of it is on purpose. the show is about humans and organically, accidentally, contrary to the very explicit beliefs and aims of the showrunners, the story becomes about the very nature of the universe. it's not about angels in gray suits.

also i don't think that the british have anything very interesting to say, at this juncture, about human nature and the potential limits of christian mythology and infrastructure

#also good omens was clearly produced very quickly with a shit budget and exploited labor like the costuming was very weak #hair/makeup even more so #and the cgi idk we all know cgi is shit these days #like the true giant of this genre is Buffy who same thing #a show NOT about the afterlife in any way until they just kept stumbling forward so much for so long that they killed Buffy #and had to bring her back and from there they just kept going #the only other thing i can think of rn is beetlejuice which like doesnt really touch on heaven at all and i think even hell is like renamed #idk why i feel so strongly about this maybe i truly am just a hater #but i think that the great fascinating flaw of supernatural is that it stops just short of saying 'actually the reason all this heaven and #hell stuff doesnt hold up is because the true meaning of the universe is humanity'#and instead of taking that central unnamed idea and running with it alternate media are like.#'you know what yeah Uriel sounds like a black name' like come on #mio.txt #spn #good omens

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