As a long time Pratchett enjoyer I thought it was pretty well done, it certainly wasn't a screen version of Guards! Guards! but it was pretty clearly inspired by it and, honestly, it managed to bring humor of its own right to the party.
I certainly wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to Pratchett but it is quite Pratchett adjacent.
No, thanks. There was a reason why Pratchett described his characters the way he did and this show didn't respect that at all. This show didn't get inspired by Discworld, it just used some character names to get some track that it wouldn't get otherwise.
Were there any specific character decisions you didn't appreciate?
I know the plot was a rather confused mismatch of several different Watch books - especially Thud! (The Summoning Dark), Night's Watch (The Carver plot line), Guards Guards! (The dragon summoning) along with several smaller references to other novels. But I do think it was rather coherent as long as you realized it wasn't following the books at all.
Lady Sybil for example was never meant to be the characterization they gave her in the show. She didn't need to fight crime because crime didn't happen on the circles she moved, what happened around her was the other type of crime: politic. She didn't need an Amazonian body and two axes to be listened because she had not only the influence of a noble woman but also the confidence of a whole life educated to be that way. She was a big woman with a bit of insecurity in her early days and that made her more human and more approachable. This show took all the effort Pratchett put into creating awesome characters and threw it through the window. So, no, thanks, this is a hard pass for me.
It's too bad Neil can't be persuaded to showrun a Discworld anthology series or something. The only video to really nail Discworld was Hogfather. (Going Postal had excellent casting but the script diverged way too far from the book.)
Yeah. I have heard that there will be a "Season Two" of Good Omens. Apparently, Gaiman and Pratchett were working on a sequel, when PTerry goot too sick to complete it.
That's not what happened. Gaiman and Pratchett outlined a sequel to the Good Omens novel when they were at a comic book convention together in 1989, were sharing a room, and couldn't sleep. Aside from that outline they were never working on it together as they were busy with their own projects. Gaiman dug up this outline and is turning it into a second season of the show.
I certainly wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to Pratchett but it is quite Pratchett adjacent.