tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post1020830671655654625..comments2024-03-22T12:11:58.453-06:00Comments on Michael Offutt: Good Omens nails its ending which in my book makes it exceptional in the unremarkable genre of urban fantasy.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-58321804394670969892019-06-05T19:19:03.914-06:002019-06-05T19:19:03.914-06:00Oh wow. Well endings are hard to write. It's v...Oh wow. Well endings are hard to write. It's very telling that Neil Gaiman had trouble ending it. Sometimes a collaboration just ends up working so well because its two against one. Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-52334402057668383462019-06-05T18:44:46.042-06:002019-06-05T18:44:46.042-06:00I think GOT tried to end it with things settled bu...I think GOT tried to end it with things settled but to get there it had characters act unnaturally. Good Omens was consistent the whole way so it didn't feel forced. Like when I watched Catch 22 on Hulu last week though I wish I still had the book to look up how much it changed. Since the book was from the late 80s I know they had to make some adjustments.<br /><br />Btw I think I read somewhere that the reason Neil Gaiman approached Terry Pratchett in the first place was he was having trouble with the ending of the book. Then they wound up reworking the novel into the final product.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-75711408059514207202019-06-03T12:26:57.390-06:002019-06-03T12:26:57.390-06:00I agree with you 100%. A bad ending will taint my ...I agree with you 100%. A bad ending will taint my entire experience. A TV show is less important than a movie, especially a show I've watched for years, but still, it'll influence how I think about it in the future.Liz A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16531953467834426316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-15526386014574757862019-06-03T09:40:09.907-06:002019-06-03T09:40:09.907-06:00Congratulations for getting caught up on GoT. I ho...Congratulations for getting caught up on GoT. I honestly hope that the ending gave you some peace. For me, GoT just left a sour taste in my mouth. I felt like they burned down the character of Daenerys just so they could make a white man the king. I feel like she deserved better to be honest. Or at least...if they were going to go the route of destructive PTSD...then it needed to be treated with more delicacy. PTSD is no laughing matter, and it's what Daenerys was suffering from in the end. Too much trauma.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-58728425349805891582019-06-03T04:45:51.722-06:002019-06-03T04:45:51.722-06:00I'll probably watch that this week.I'll probably watch that this week.PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495499100279472520.post-71622624759067235942019-06-03T00:25:07.679-06:002019-06-03T00:25:07.679-06:00First of all, as of this evening I FINALLY caught ...First of all, as of this evening I FINALLY caught up with GOT, so I understand why you may have been disappointed in the ending. But now I need to read your several posts about this final season to know if I agree or disagree with you. You always make very good points.<br /><br />When you talk about how important the ending of a story is, I flashed on Field of Dreams. But then it's now the 30-year anniversary of the film (gad, I'm getting old!), so trailers for it have been on TV. But too that story more than any other I can think of had an ending that was extraordinarily relevant to everything that came before it. How the story began dictated how it must end. And the ending was perfect. I still remember how powerfully satisfying that feeling was in a theater that was full of people who were pretty much crying.Helenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14967821142796562697noreply@blogger.com