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I’ve learned that ‘wait and see’ in this cases is basically a yes 😂
Except in Good Omens 2 it isn’t. It’s our answer to questions. Think of it as the filmmakers equivalent of a reply to an infinite number of variations on “are we there yet?”
flawedamythyst asked:
When I was a child and we went for dinner at our Granny's, if we asked what was for pudding before finishing our first course she'd say, "Asquith," as a code for 'Wait and See'.
Years later I found out this was a weirdly specific political reference from 1910, but I thought you might like some alternative phrasing as the questions about GO S2 keep rolling in.
I didn’t know about Asquith and Wait and See… That’s fascinating! Here’s the article I found, and the cartoon it contained.
gilgamesh0-0 asked:
Mr Gaym'n,
At this point we're going to start considering "Wait and See" as a Yes.
Regards.
That might be a mistake.
thatstudyblrontea asked:
Hi Mr. Gaiman, hope you're doing well. I'm so excited for Good Omens season 2! I was wondering - how do you keep your temper when asked about its plot for the umpteenth time? How are you able to reply so politely, instead of simply ignoring those asks? I could definitely use whatever is your self-control strategy in life!
I’m glad people are asking. It means they care.
Curating Season 2 is a different sort of thing to Season 1. Season 1 (from what I recall) was mostly messages from people who liked the book either happy that we were making it or worried that we were doing it wrong (especially casting Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Aziraphale and Crowley. The things I was called for doing that… well, they weren’t nice things). But mostly people knew what to expect, or had no awareness of us at all.
And then Season 1 aired all over the world, and went huge. This was nice. It won lots of awards. That was also nice. It nurtured a huge and dedicated fandom for whom Good Omens and specifically Crowley and Aziraphale became their happy place. That was unexpected, nice, and a sort of responsibility.
Season 2 is being made for an enormous audience that didn’t exist for Season 1. And nobody in that audience has any idea what we are doing. So it’s natural for people to ask questions.
Meanwhile, I’m going, well, if this won’t get onto people’s screens until 2023, the last thing I want to do is tell you ANYTHING. Because I don’t want you sick of it by the time it comes out. Because I don’t want you obsessing about things I’ve said and trying to tease extra meaning from them. Because part of the joy of this story is you don’t know what’s going to happen in it. And if I told you, then I’d lose the fun of seeing how you all react when you watch it for the very first time.
So I’m happy for people to ask. And I am very unlikely to answer with anything other than a variant of “Wait and see” on anything.
haydenn asked:
I know that if you reply at all, you’re going to tell me to wait and see. I know that. I do. But there is a foolhardy optimist in me that feels compelled to ask anyway. So here goes:
Will there be more of Aziraphale and Crowley through the ages in season 2? Because the cold open of episode 3 was my favorite part of season one and I would like more. Please.
Wait and see?
And really, we don’t start shooting it until October, and it took over 20 months to get from shooting to screen last time. Mostly I don’t want to tell anybody anything because I don’t want people to feel that they know all about it, and get tired of it before they get to see anything.