Fandom

I think one of the reasons Good Omens is such a gift to fans is because it's so fannish itself. Good Omens inspires fanfic partly because it is fanfic. It's fic of the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation, and of Milton's Paradise Lost.

I mean, it's also breathtakingly original, but then so is a lot of fanfiction.

Good Omens: Lockdown is canon, but it also feels like fanfic. The whole fandom just contains so much possibility and feels gloriously permissive.

I love that they produced it during lockdown with Martin Sheen and David Tennant just recording their conversation from their respective houses. And I wonder whether the bookshop footage was leftover from shooting the TV show or shot specially for this, and if the latter, does that mean the set is still all put together, and does that mean they're planning a sequel? Otherwise surely they'd have dismantled it?

I just wrote my first fic and I was really pleased to get some positive comments on it. (I've got  the same username there as on here if you want to take a look). I'm working on another (which I started a month ago and is of course about C/A in lockdown, because that's one of the ways I'm processing what's happening) and now I have ideas for a third set in the Garden of Eden, which is sort of Good Omens fanfic and also sort of Bible fanfic. And so we come full circle.

I love the way this fandom encompasses ancient history and mythology and religion and cosmology and ethics. The scope is vast.