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)

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Comments

[starlady]

Ah ah ha I LOVE IT.

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D thank you!

[laurajv]

*screaming noises*

[aurumcalendula]

I love this!

[skygiants]

What a truly perfect use of bebop!

[solo]

Wait, you kept this vid in the car??

Great stuff!

[musesfool]

<333

[fahrbotdrusilla]

<3 <3 makes me want to rewatch the series again lol.

[purplefringe]

heeeeee!

[purplefringe]

Thank you! :D (btw I am at Vidukon right now and we have already watched several of your lovely vids! <3)

[purplefringe]

love me some bebop! :D (nobody in the WORLD would call it that!)

[purplefringe]

heeeeee I think I kept it in my BRAIN too long, and it had the same effect

[purplefringe]

:D

[purplefringe]

OH NO HOW AWFUL WHATEVER WILL YOU DO

:D

[silverhare]

I watched it three times in a row. <3

[aurumcalendula]

<3

[promethia_tenk]

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

But I laughed super hard and then resumed the =DDDD heart-eyes face I've been making for the last two weeks, so I'm gonna forgive you. Well played. Well. Played.

Well, that's basically perfect. We can all go home now and watch it all again. Special love for the quick cuts of them next to each other.

ETA: just saw your 'summary' and broke down again. Lord have mercy, indeed.

[elisi]

WHY do you not show up on my flist? I mean, I saw this thanks to Twitter, so I am happy to be congratulating you, but I need to look into what's wrong with my flist.

Anyway, did you enjoy Doing Good? :)

ETA: The vid is FABULOUS and I will happy to help with any future endavours...

[rheasilvia]

What a lovely in-depth examination of the theological underpinnigs of the story! I think all such explorations should be scored by F. Mercury, if that would make them this fun.

The central relationship of the series in a fun bite-sized bebop version suitable for angel dancing! I really love it. Great work - thank you! :-)

[stellar_dust]

oh my, that was PERFECT, thank you!

P.S. 'Lord, have mercy' INDEED. XD

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D I'm so happyyyyyyyy!

[purplefringe]

Ahahahaha, I AM SO SORRY PROMETHIA! XD I am The Worst. 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.

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)

[purplefringe]

???? That is very mysterious! I suspect demonic work at play. I am delighted you found and enjoyed it though :D It feels so good (Good) to be vidding again.

I have another Good Omens vid in mind which, weirdly, is NOT a Crowley/Aziraphale-centric one...might make a start on that tonight...

[purplefringe]

Awwwww thank you so much! I am so glad you found my close examination of religious themes to be intellectually engaging! F. Mercury really does make some very good points.

[purplefringe]

:D :D :D Thank you!! And heeee I was v pleased with that summary.