Hm, yeah, I'd be surprised if I knew anybody personally who was unfamiliar with it! But it's obvious on AO3 so far that some complete neophytes are being drawn in as well.
They put less screentime, comparatively, into the Adam plot thread of the story, or at least it felt like it, I agree (although it didn't really bother me). I wonder if this was due to having more stuff to say about Crowley and Aziraphale, or concerns about child actors and so on, or something else, perhaps. In this area, as well as many others, they would run up against the fact that a great deal of what's going on as well as what's great about the book is contained in the narration. Not just because it's so funny and the jokes can't all be put into dialogue, although that's true, but also simply because it's an omniscient narrator whose commentary is both inside and outside points of view, and they quite rightly felt they needed to be sparing with how much voiceover narration they included (and they did leave in quite a lot).
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They put less screentime, comparatively, into the Adam plot thread of the story, or at least it felt like it, I agree (although it didn't really bother me). I wonder if this was due to having more stuff to say about Crowley and Aziraphale, or concerns about child actors and so on, or something else, perhaps. In this area, as well as many others, they would run up against the fact that a great deal of what's going on as well as what's great about the book is contained in the narration. Not just because it's so funny and the jokes can't all be put into dialogue, although that's true, but also simply because it's an omniscient narrator whose commentary is both inside and outside points of view, and they quite rightly felt they needed to be sparing with how much voiceover narration they included (and they did leave in quite a lot).