Good Omens Vid

[purplefringe]

Er, hi friends! *waves*. It's been a while! But I, like almost the entire rest of my friend group, have fallen MADLY in love with the Good Omens TV series. It's one of my all time favourite books, and I just, I just can't quite believe how wonderful this adaptation is??? I just??? I was expecting it to be GOOD, but I wasn't expecting to lose my fucking mind like this.

So, here's a vid! This one was a LONG TIME in the making. It first occurred to me...five years ago, I think? Well before the TV show was even announced. It was a hypothetical 'if they ever adapted Good Omens, this is what I would love to make' thing. And....and I can't quite believe I have now finally made it?? wtf.

I just thought, you know what, it would be SUPER INTERESTING to make a vid examining all the theological arguments, biblical concepts and questions of morality which are touched on in Good Omens. There's some really interesting metaphysical ideas in there, and it just struck me that someone should make a vid exploring that more closely - and of course, it would have to be set to a piece of suitably epic religious music. So, here's Bach's Mass in B Minor.

Huge, huge thank you to the *truly* ineffable thingswithwings for her amazingly dedicated beta-ing which made this 1000% better, and also to all my jerk friends (hi guys) who have also lost their fucking minds and yelled at me about this a lot.

Mass In B Minor
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Good Omens
music: Mass In B Minor by J. S. Bach
summary: Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy)
content notes: some fast cutting in a couple of places, around 1:33 and 2:18

download: 119MB @ mediafire

stream:

"Good Omens | Mass in B Minor" (Watch on YouTube)

Lyrics

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

Ahahahaha, I AM SO SORRY PROMETHIA! XD I am The Worst.
No, no, no, you are The Best. I am still thinking about it randomly and laughing to myself. It's . . . *kisses fingers*

If it makes you feel any better, such_heights, aka one of the best vidders I know, is currently having a lot of Ex-Catholic feels and is starting to ACTUALLY make the vid I claimed this was. So you will get it eventually.
=DDDD I too am an Ex-Catholic with a lot of feelings about this show, so I wish her good vidding. (I did kind of wonder, as I was reading your build-up, man, that is awfully fast to knock together a meta-heavy vid, but hey, if she's been thinking about it for years . . .')

But anyway I am delighted it won you over in the end :D It was very hard to vid with my eyes so full of hearts for them. (LORD HAVE MERCYYYYYY)
'S fine. We're all watching with eyes full of hearts too. I feel like the internet may never be coherent again; what a great time to be a fan.

[promethia_tenk]

Yeah, I had the same thing. It's very weird.

[elisi]

???? That is very mysterious! I suspect demonic work at play. I am delighted you found and enjoyed it though :D
An angel was looking out for me... :)

I have another Good Omens vid in mind which, weirdly, is NOT a Crowley/Aziraphale-centric one...might make a start on that tonight...
Oooh pray tell. Like, send me an email if you like? *puppydog eyes*

[hopelesse]

Aaaah, oh my goodness!! I love this so much <3 Every time I think "man, Crowley and Aziraphale sure spent a lot of time lovingly glancing at each other" I see a gifset that reminds me of an instance I forgot.

Whattt a sweet vid :D

[bironic]

Same! I didn't see either vid post until you x-posted to vidding, but now that I scroll back on my flist, they're there. P, you don't draft your posts in the DW window so when you're finally done they appear, like, an hour or more backdated and get buried behind people's newer posts?

[bironic]

Haven't seen the show, haven't read the book in ages, but your teaser and music choice lured me in, not to mention the recs... BAIT AND SWITCH! Heh. Cute, though.

[sanguinity]

You dork. I almost passed this by because of your vidder notes, and then I was like, "But it's purplefringe! Even if I'm not interested in Christian theology, it's still not gonna suck..."

[purplefringe]

I am still thinking about it randomly and laughing to myself.
YESSSSSSS :D Also - I have another vid idea (not a Crowley/Aziraphale one!) and it's ENTIRELY BASED on one (1) ridiculously literal lyric match, and I keep thinking about it and laughing to myself too. So I hope that will have the same effect. Going to make a start on it tonight...

HEART EYES ALL AROUND.

[purplefringe]

HMMMMMMM that is super weird! I do often draft my posts a while before actually publishing them - I know I did this time, because I wrote the post before exporting the final draft of the vid - but I do click the 'update date' button before posting! It says this was posted at 12:10am, which is correct. UGH, DREAMWIDTH, WHY. It seems even when I'm not doing the *actual vidding* part of vidding, I am beset by technical nonsense. Anyway thanks for letting me know - I will be aware of this for next time...

[purplefringe]

I might email it to you when I have a draft! It's a vid about Agnes and Anathema and is VERY SILLY. :D

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D :D THEIR LOVE IS SO PURE AND BEAUTIFUL I have lost my fucking mind /o\

[purplefringe]

Ahaha, oh no, I'm so sorry I lured you in and it was a trap.

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D Awwwwww that is the nicest comment! Thank you! To be clear, as a Jewish Atheist I also have very limited interest in Christian theology XD

[elisi]

*claps* Sounds awesome!

[bironic]

[colls]

♥

This is fabulous! And your bait and switch feels so very appropriate :D

[hopelesse]

I am SO GONE on this show. I'm absolutely lovinggggg the GO revival. Yesterday I read like, almost 7k of book meta I'm so happyyyyy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17899196#main

[facethestrange]

*here from colls's recs* :)

This post is sneaky! :D Adorable vid, though! And the show really is a perfect adaptation, isn't it? ❤ I've always been more of a casual fan of the book (except the ending; the ending makes me cry my eyes out in a good way) and I didn't know how ~real fans felt about it, but to me it seemed pretty flawless!

[purplefringe]

I HAVE LOST MY FUCKING MIND :D

[purplefringe]

:D :D Thank you so much! And thank you for the rec! <3

ETA: I hope you got home from Vidukon ok! Lithy was reporting on your airport woes :(

[purplefringe]

Hee hee hee, I am so pleased with my sneakiness XD I'm delighted you like it. The show is SO SO GOOD i am OBSESSSSED. I sometimes think I'm not a *real* fan because I read the book for the first time in 2011 and I have friends who were active in the fandom back in 2002...but also I think that is nonsense and we are all eral fans and gatekeeping, as Aziraphale shows us, is bullshit :D

[colls]

Traveling is exciting except for the actual travel time part. (LOL)
It feels like it took forever, but I did eventually make it home. Yay! Come to find out one of the pilots called out sick, apparently there is only one pilot in Cardiff (or something).

[laurashapiro]

BRB SOBBING

Oh god this was so great I am helpless before your skill at vidding and emotional manipulation whyyyyy do they love each other so much whyyyy

FLAIL

Thank you, yes, I needed this.

[laurashapiro]

Ok, I'm not gonna lie . . . I was really looking forward to your vid examining the theological underpinnings of the show.

Same! I had saved this to watch after I got sort of over my first gonadal rush of feelings, and was ready for some juicy meta.

What have you done to me.

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D :D

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER *SO MUCH* I CANNOT DEAL EITHER :D

Same! I had saved this to watch after I got sort of over my first gonadal rush of feelings, and was ready for some juicy meta.

Ahahaha, oh noooooooo I'm sorry!! I mean, I'm not *totally* sorry, I am a bit delighted, but I am a bit sorry that you were hoping for meta and got FEELS instead! I hope you are ok (none of us are ok)

Thank you for flailing at me!