# "Good Omens" - First look **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639 "2017-09-18T15:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/1 "2017-09-18T15:01:12Z")
[Link](http://www.darkhorizons.com/first-photo-tennant-sheen-film-good-omens/) Crowley and Aziraphale walk the Earth! Huzzah! I think they’ve got the look quite right. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/2 "2017-09-18T18:05:39Z")
I don’t think I could be any more excited about this! Tennant is my favorite actor, and _Good Omens_ is one of my all-time favorite books. I can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/3 "2017-09-18T18:43:43Z")
Jack Whitehall? Really? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/4 "2017-09-18T19:21:08Z")
McKean and Richardson will make a marvelous Shadwell/Madame Tracy. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/5 "2017-09-18T20:11:28Z")
> [@](#): > > I think they’ve got the look quite right. But is that “quite right” as in “very right”, or just as in “OK, well, right enough”? I hadn’t even heard that this was in the works, but the people involved make me optimistic about the outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/6 "2017-09-18T20:12:28Z")
Tennant looks astoundingly like a younger Bill Nighy in [Still Crazy](http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/_img/2943-2.jpg). I’d have gone for Colin Farrell myself, for that slightly furtive cockiness, but you can’t have everything. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/7 "2017-09-19T07:03:51Z")
[Adria Arjona](http://tvline.com/2017/09/14/good-omens-adria-arjona-cast-anathema-device-neil-gaiman/) is not who I would have pictured as Anathema Device (who I had down as very English - grown-up Hermione, basically), but I like her a lot and so am happy with this latest casting news. McKean should make a good Shadwell - especially if he has [the beard](http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2017/04/13/85cb8b61-e0a9-4e24-8aea-d101ce091c2f/a34c8c56449176560ac3ad8993ad2129/170413-michael-mckean.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/8 "2017-09-19T09:17:14Z")
Dunno, looks a little too “Doctor Who” to me. I’d rather they had gone with real-world outfits. This doesn’t put me off the show, at all, but it does make me feel like it’s going to be a bit more BBC and a bit less HBO. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/9 "2017-09-21T23:24:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Link](http://www.darkhorizons.com/first-photo-tennant-sheen-film-good-omens/) > > Crowley and Aziraphale walk the Earth! Huzzah! I think they’ve got the look quite right. Crowley’s been walking the earth ever since he helped the Winchesters take down Lucifer. Least the only Crowley I know about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/10 "2017-09-21T23:40:28Z")
Always good to see Miranda Richardson getting work. She was one of the best parts of Black Adder II. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/11 "2017-09-21T23:46:03Z")
I just found this book in my junk room - I must have bought it at some point, but I don’t recall when. I’m about halfway thru it and I’m loving it! So ya for the movie!! ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/12 "2017-09-22T09:56:29Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I just found this book in my junk room - I must have bought it at some point, but I don’t recall when. I’m about halfway thru it and I’m loving it! So ya for the movie!! I still have my 1991 Corgi paperback, complete with impossibly young photos of Gaiman and Pratchett. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-omens-first-look/796639/13 "2017-09-22T11:02:55Z")
Weirdly, I somehow feel that Tennant and Sheen should have been cast the other way around.