In my bones there's dignityyyyyy....
I forgot to mention this in my review of Medici: The Magnificent, but in his childhood flashbacks, Lorenzo de‘ Medici is played by Sam Taylor Buck, aka the same kid who plays the Antichrist in Good Omens. Given the thematic relevance of Contessina urging him to „do good, be good“ in said flashbacks while realpolitic and then a bloody conspiracy aim to steer him in the other direction, and the whole thing climaxes on Easter Sunday, I’m wondering whether it’s just the tiny size of the English speaking Medici fandom to blame for no one having done the obvious Good Omens fusion yet. (Or perhaps AU more than fusion, i.e. an early attempt at the Apocalypse/ what would have happened if A & C would have mentored the kid they intended to.) Adam can’t love Tadfield more than Lorenzo loves Florence, Lorenzo, up to a point, is able to warp reality around him by sheer persuasiveness and charisma, and it just fits poor Piero de‘ Medici’s lot in life (having spent his youth as Son Of, and his middle age as Father Of) that his kid was swapped with the devil’s.
(Savonarola would also agree this happened, given how he had it in for Lorenzo later.)
Mind you, there’s an overabundance of candidates to cast as War. (Jacobo Pazzi? Gaetano Sforza? Montesseco?) Salviati would work a seither Famine or Pestilence (the future Pollution). Francesco, of course, is Death. Meanwhile, I’m really not sure whom to cast as Aziraphale and Crowley. Because Contessina and Aziraphale really are two very different personalities. And other than the Old Retainer Who Is Not Marco Bello in the martial arts practice flashback, there’s a distinct lack of Possible Undercover Demon Guidance figures. Giuliano, Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano get to be the Renaissance Them, obviously.
One key personality difference between Adam and Lorenzo, though: Adam wants to keep Tadfield just as it is. Lorenzo, like Cosimo before him, wants to change the world, which is even part of the lyrics in the show's theme song and thus really not up for discussion. And thus a fusion is foiled.
In another fandom, have a nice h/c story featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Graham O’Brien: 5 Times The Doctor Talked About River Song With Graham (+1 Time The Fam Finally Met Her)
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(Savonarola would also agree this happened, given how he had it in for Lorenzo later.)
Mind you, there’s an overabundance of candidates to cast as War. (Jacobo Pazzi? Gaetano Sforza? Montesseco?) Salviati would work a seither Famine or Pestilence (the future Pollution). Francesco, of course, is Death. Meanwhile, I’m really not sure whom to cast as Aziraphale and Crowley. Because Contessina and Aziraphale really are two very different personalities. And other than the Old Retainer Who Is Not Marco Bello in the martial arts practice flashback, there’s a distinct lack of Possible Undercover Demon Guidance figures. Giuliano, Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano get to be the Renaissance Them, obviously.
One key personality difference between Adam and Lorenzo, though: Adam wants to keep Tadfield just as it is. Lorenzo, like Cosimo before him, wants to change the world, which is even part of the lyrics in the show's theme song and thus really not up for discussion. And thus a fusion is foiled.
In another fandom, have a nice h/c story featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Graham O’Brien: 5 Times The Doctor Talked About River Song With Graham (+1 Time The Fam Finally Met Her)
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1349467.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.