Signal Boost: good omens and the cold war (on Tumblr)

[cimorene]

itishypatiaofalexandria posted: ineffably-human: feoplepeel: ultraballantine: ...

I wonder if some of the bigger differences in the characterization of Aziraphale and Crowley from the books to the series are due to the shift from a late Cold War era to the current shitshow.

I read this whole post some time ago and probably reblogged it but I didn't save it anywhere at the time. Some on-the-nose observations about the temporal setting and cultural climate of 1990 vs 2019 from several different posters (as well as someone who has forgotten that Gabriel was invented for the tv series but nonetheless makes a good observation about him).

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[lazaefair]

Well, not necessarily invented from whole cloth. Gaiman has talked a lot about all the material he and Prachett came up with that didn't make it into the published novel, and it seems like most of the new things he put into the scripts were drawn from that material. He probably updated Gabriel for 2019, but I'd buy that he and Pratchett had come up with some version of Gabriel originally.