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Christian Right Sent a Petition to Netflix to Cancel Good Omens
Amazon Prime Video has responded to the controversy brewing around its newest show, Good Omens.
The series, based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 fantasy novel of the same name, takes a comedic look at religion. It stars David Tennant and Michael Shannon as a demon and angel, respectively, who join forces to try to prevent the apocalypse. Good Omens' depiction of faith has touched a nerve with the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilization. Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition for Netflix to cancel the series, saying "this is another step to make Satanism appear normal, light and acceptable."
The only issue? Netflix has nothing to do with Good Omens.
News broke of the petition faux pas on Thursday, prompting a number of humorous responses. Gaiman himself tweeted about the controversy, cheekily saying, "This is so beautiful... Promise me you won't tell them?" Eventually, Amazon itself responded to the identity mix-up. "Hey![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
netflix," they tweeted, "we'll cancel Stranger Things if you cancel Good Omens."
Hee Hee. I wonder if they confused Good Omens with Lucifer?
[ETA: So, I read the Twitter thread...and well, people are truly clueless when it comes to reading information on social media or the internet.
Where Netflix UK & Ireland Promises Not to Make Any More Good Omens
My favorite tweets?
Elmo choosing between historical accuracy (rapidly decaying fruit) and aliens (cocaine) with the caption: "Now if someone could please tell the history channel to stop it with all the programs on aliens"). Elmo chooses the cococain (aka aliens).
My other?
"I wish people would stop bashing religious people."
Well, if you didn't make it so easy for us, we wouldn't.
Oh and Amazon's response to Netflix..."Hey, Netflix...we'll cancel Stranger Things if you'll cancel Good Omens".
Meanwhile people are tweeting that people shouldn't tell the crazy Christians about Sabrina or Lucifer (which are by the way much worse).
And others...are well, telling Netflix that it shouldn't cancel Good Omens, and fight for the show, while others are saying it definitely should and Christians have rights too. While the people who are in the know are laughing at these nitwits and trying (without much success) to inform them that it's not Netflix's show. Even Netflix tries to tell them that it's not their show...
It's hilarious.]
Amazon Prime Video has responded to the controversy brewing around its newest show, Good Omens.
The series, based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 fantasy novel of the same name, takes a comedic look at religion. It stars David Tennant and Michael Shannon as a demon and angel, respectively, who join forces to try to prevent the apocalypse. Good Omens' depiction of faith has touched a nerve with the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilization. Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition for Netflix to cancel the series, saying "this is another step to make Satanism appear normal, light and acceptable."
The only issue? Netflix has nothing to do with Good Omens.
News broke of the petition faux pas on Thursday, prompting a number of humorous responses. Gaiman himself tweeted about the controversy, cheekily saying, "This is so beautiful... Promise me you won't tell them?" Eventually, Amazon itself responded to the identity mix-up. "Hey
netflix," they tweeted, "we'll cancel Stranger Things if you cancel Good Omens."Hee Hee. I wonder if they confused Good Omens with Lucifer?
[ETA: So, I read the Twitter thread...and well, people are truly clueless when it comes to reading information on social media or the internet.
Where Netflix UK & Ireland Promises Not to Make Any More Good Omens
My favorite tweets?
Elmo choosing between historical accuracy (rapidly decaying fruit) and aliens (cocaine) with the caption: "Now if someone could please tell the history channel to stop it with all the programs on aliens"). Elmo chooses the cococain (aka aliens).
My other?
"I wish people would stop bashing religious people."
Well, if you didn't make it so easy for us, we wouldn't.
Oh and Amazon's response to Netflix..."Hey, Netflix...we'll cancel Stranger Things if you'll cancel Good Omens".
Meanwhile people are tweeting that people shouldn't tell the crazy Christians about Sabrina or Lucifer (which are by the way much worse).
And others...are well, telling Netflix that it shouldn't cancel Good Omens, and fight for the show, while others are saying it definitely should and Christians have rights too. While the people who are in the know are laughing at these nitwits and trying (without much success) to inform them that it's not Netflix's show. Even Netflix tries to tell them that it's not their show...
It's hilarious.]