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"No More Hotels"

Graffiti seen around Aruba in the Caribbean, denouncing the overconstruction of hotels and the extreme land loss the Indigenous people of the Island are facing.

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sweetest post ever??? 😭

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How does anything get done on the set of Good Omens when David Tennant look like THAT

We keep him in a box until we're ready to shoot.

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#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #good omens fanart #comic

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The War Ahead - Bleeding Heart

So it begins...

(I will never draw another wing ever again > immediately proceeds to plan another feathered piece)

#holy crap that’s gorgeous #good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #good omens fanart #good omens art #crowley fanart #anthony j crowley

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My silly Good Omens comic!

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Masterpost

This post will be constantly edited. It contains a description of the scenes and links to posts by other people who have conducted an interesting analysis or insights.

Bigger, more important things in pink.

Smaller and/or less significant in yellow (mostly gif collections or debunked hypotheses)

Episodes

S2E1

stage 1: before the beginning

stage 2:

S2E2 S2E3 S2E4 S2E5 S2E6

Events and themes

Memory loss

Crowley no.1

Crowley no.2

Crowley no.3

Glasses

sense of security

Why? (Answers, but also unanswered questions)

book vs TV series

coffee, communication and the obvious

because they can't

because tthey can't no.2 https://www.tumblr.com/zgredo/725582264627609600?source=share

decision

music in breakups s2 parallels

Where are the bullet hole stickers?

The Kiss

Aziraphale’s reaction

Just pics

gifs no.1

gifs no.2

I forgive you

Zira's hope

Book parallels and other allegories

Metamorphosis and Oz

omlas no.1

omlas no.2

Jane Austen

Coffe (I personally don't support the coffee poisoning theory, but the theme itself has a lot to offer)

jigger

theory

music and Metatron in the cafe

Book of life

Resurrectionists Minisode theory

Crowley’s Hair in Job Minisode theory

Crowley's sideburns change theory

Language

Smitten, I believe

Nightingales

pianist inside the scene

Cumulative analyses and s3 predictions

Everything Is Meant cz.1

cz.2

cz.3

ending the series as humans

on opposite sides

meeting in the middle

undestanding a character

fundamentally opposing philosophies

miscommunication

sides for s3

what they have and who they are on earth

Metatron as gaslighter

the ball is so dark: https://www.tumblr.com/zgredo/725581639500136448?source=share (i can't link it)

Persons

Husbands

gifs

understanding love (gifs)

understanding love (gifs) no.2

understanding love (gifs) no.3

misunderstanding of understanding love

parallels s1 and s2 (gifs)

parallels s1 and s2 (gifs) no.2

hands (gifs)

Crowley reactions (gifs)

old married couple (gifs)

random twitter posts no.1

miscommunication

miscommunication about good

showing affection

sitting next to each other (gifs)

meeting on the wall

reasons of love

institutional problem

on the same side but not

moment of confirmation

outdated hypothesis about living in a car

Azirafael

Damsel in distress

Enjoys being paired with Crowley

Gazing lovingly (gifs) no.1

Gazing lovingly (gifs) no.2

Gazing lovingly (gifs) no.3

How much Aziraphale has learned since season one

Was about to confess too before Metatron

Sweet Zira moments

have to stay in the shade

Crowley

Defensive (gifs)

funny (gifs)

Expressions of love (gifs)

Funny fanart

Hartbreaking speech (gifs)

looks - down through the ages (gifs)

angelic status (gifs)

calls Zira an Angel (gifs) no.1

calls Zira an Angel (gifs) no.2

book Crowley

jealous (gifs)

tool of creation

tool of creation (gifs)

being a little silly (gifs)

"oh" moment (gifs)

"oh" moment

I won’t be forgiven

demon who does the right thing

did he want to change the system?

Crowley's imagination

He’s too pure of heart

Poetic and cyclical history

debunked Lucifer theory

is blind to Zira's initiatives

Maggie

a demon?

Gabriel

statue

Other

hidden words in playlists

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Why There’ll Never Be Another Good Omens 2 Experience

The strangest thing happened after a few days post my watching of S2. I got a wave of real, bittersweet sadness.

Not due to the obvious – I was dealing with that too, but with more excitement than anything – but because I realized something, as a writer and consumer of media. I realized that it’s unlikely I’ll ever get a media experience close to what I experienced at the end of Good Omens 2. Because really, its setup was absolutely unparalleled – in general, and for myself personally.

I am currently writing my third romance, and what I’ve learned primarily about the genre, the way for it to really work, is that there needs to be something keeping the couple apart initially. The more things keeping the couple apart, the stronger the romance hits. The more the couple clashes with each other, the better it is. Societal norms, class issues, initial dislike, literal danger—all these aspects are what make a romance a story. It’s that conflict that creates the compelling narrative. No romance was ever popular because things worked out well from the beginning – it’s that “look at what we were, and look at us now” aspect that gives readers/watchers that satisfaction. It’s the “I can’t believe this happened” effect. The “I would never have foreseen this” effect. The “they’ll never be together” effect. It’s why forbidden romances are so incredibly popular.

Another aspect that makes a romance story really work well is the amount of time it takes for the romance to develop. A couple that gets together after a few days? Eh, it’s tricky. You better make it really dramatic somehow. A great example is Titanic – class differences, betrothal, and a huge amount of danger threatens this couple, so them being in love after only a few days works. But what really sells this one is because we can see how this romance has survived beyond those few days. We see it 80 years in the future, still there, in the memory of Rose. That is why it hits so hard. Romances that span over long periods of time (especially ones that are bittersweet/tragic) hit so much more than ones spanning a short period.

But wait! There’s more!

You can up this effect by not only having the romance take time in story…but having it take time in real life, for the viewer/reader.

This is why romances in TV shows that take years to finally work out are so compelling. It’s that “Pam and Jim” effect, that will-they-won’t-they deal. We are waiting right along with them, and we’re feeling that same relief when all those things keeping them apart finally fall away. This is harder to pull off, because there’s never that guarantee that the story will make it that far. TV shows get cancelled, creators lose interest or die, etc. So it’s not just “Will They, Won’t They,” it’s “Will They, Won’t They, Can They Even Try?”

This is also compounded by that fear that it won’t happen in-story after all, and while in romances you’re pretty positive that things work out (they kinda have to, for it to be labeled a “romance”) in other media, there’s always that possibility. Look at Community – there’s a forbidden/conflict-ridden romance that didn’t end up working out, even though it was “Will They, Won’t They”d for six entire seasons. You also then have shows and ships where fans are almost sure it won’t happen, but still hold out hope. (See: Supernatural, Sherlock, etc.)

Now. Now look at Good Omens. Look at that absolutely unparalleled, unbelievable set up. It’s unbelievable because it takes almost every single thing that makes a romance compelling, and not only uses all of them, but dials them up to 11.

Why are they at odds? Why are they forbidden from being together?

Because they are literally the most opposing forces you can imagine in Western Canon. They are the Angel Guarding The Gate and The Serpent of Eden. The literal only way you could’ve made this a bigger deal would’ve been to make it God and Satan, and even that would’ve not hit as hard, because it’d be like two CEOs getting together – there’s no fear of a higher power adding that delicious conflict. And to add to all this, in real life, the couple is portrayed as two men, which adds that second meta level of conflict.

And what fear/danger is keeping this couple apart?

Not just familial disappointment—but disappointment from God and Heaven and Hell. Not just moral guilt, but the guilt of potentially dooming the entire Earth. And finally, on top of that, the very real danger of being killed. Not only that, but making it as though you never even existed.

And in real life, they face all those roadblocks that queer couples in media have been battling for years and years, but I'll talk about that more in a second.

Okay, then Time. How long have they been kept apart?

For…all of it.

All of the time that ever existed.

They, quite literally, could not have been kept apart longer.

And this leads into those final two points, the ones that actually really sell it. Because I can sit down right now and write a story about an angel and a demon falling for each other at the beginning of time against all odds…but what I can’t do is to have already written it thirty-three years ago.

That’s how long this story has existed. Thirty. Three. Years.

I’m not even counting how this is using characters that have existed as opposing forces for thousands of years. I’m not even saying that, even though that’s also a part of it. But besides that, this story, this exact story started thirty-three years ago, and is still being continued by the author to this day.

Do you know how uncommon that is?

Yes, we have canon that has lasted for many, many years. Hundreds. We get new versions of beloved older stories ever year. But it’s so very rare that they are by the same creator. We get new Sherlock Holmes content, but it is not written by Arthur Conan Doyle. This, on the other hand, is actual canon content, written by the author of the original. That is unbelievably rare.

That means we’ve got a fandom where some people have grown up with these characters. People who read it at twenty are fifty-three. People who read it at fifty are eighty-three. Kids who saw their parents reading the book now have children of their own. It is a cult classic that has been in the hearts of so many people for generations. Me, personally, I fell in love with it ten years ago, at age twenty, at the very beginning of my own writing journey. This story means so much to people, because it’s stood that test of time.

And yet, this story was never explicitly romantic. So many saw it that way, but it was never something confirmed. Because this was a book from the 90s, at a time where this kind of romance just wasn’t in popular media if it wasn’t played as a joke. It was, back then, the same kind of “forbidden” as a romance between angel and demon. So people imagined, but they never expected anything more. And they’ve continued not expecting more, because even in the 2019 first season, there was never any true confirmation of anything, and people accepted it. You have a 33-year-old story here – it’s possible that this major change/confirmation could happen, but all things considered, it was unlikely. You would never blame the creator for not making major developments to a story they wrote with their late friend a lifetime ago. And no one in production was saying a word to confirm or deny, but we’ve seen all this before. It was a Will-They-Won’t-They…Probably-Not situation.

And then you have the end of S2.

And that's where that bittersweet sadness comes in for me, personally. Not at a huge level, not to the point where I'd have it any other way, but it's there regardless. Because I realized that this was a unique situation that could never be replicated, for me, and likely for many, especially readers of the book pre-show. In all likelihood, I would never again experience a romantic payoff like this one. Because it was the most forbidden of forbidden romances, the couple of which have been kept apart by the worst of all dangers and highest level of guilt for the longest amount of time literally possible, written over a real-life span of time where this kind of romance went from “completely taboo even in real life” to “finally acceptable in popular media,” written by the same creator, and not confirmed as canon until the story reached the age of Jesus Christ himself.

And the real kicker is, even after everything these two literally star-crossed lovers have gone through…they’re still being kept apart. They’ve still not taken down those final, seemingly insurmountable barriers between them. It wasn’t a “here you go 😊” move to make long-time fans happy – it’s being used as a perfect, painful plot point. After 33 years, we’re still having to wait longer.

Chef's kiss. Couldn’t have been a better set up if it was mathematically calculated. And yet, the best part is that it happened organically.

It just works.

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Neil Gaiman really said, friends to lovers, slow burn, 300,000 words, incomplete

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Really fucked up that we have David Tennant’s aziraphale voice on tape but have absolutely no idea what Michael Sheen’s crowley voice would sound like

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girl help the eldritch horrors are organising a pride and prejudice party and making us dance to mirror their forbidden and repressed love. yes there is a michael jackson thriller video reenactment outside trying to get in. no yeah i still want that rare doctor who annual

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What is the key to enjoying life? (x)

#screaming crying throwing up #good omens #Michael Sheen #David Tennant #Neil Gaiman

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Okay, so the excellent Magic Trick You Didn't See theory has been sent to me (thanks @ravencopper !) and it really almost has to be true because nothing else makes sense. It's quite a big risk though! It's dead certain that some of the audience will be lost along the way. There will absolutely be people who felt as dead inside as I did when the last credits roll, who will switch off and never tune in again, even with the gutpunching cliffhanger as a hook. This is why I think season 3 must already be greenlit, barring this season being an absolute flop. You couldn't take this kind of gamble with no safety net whatsoever. Obviously we should still rewatch to bring the numbers up, but you know.

The wrongness still stings, but being sure that there's acceptable method to the madness helps a lot. I never doubted for a moment that Aziraphale and Crowley together in that South Downs cottage was always the endgame, but I was really worried for bit how they would get there.

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My art of Good Omens! Looking forward to season 2 =)

In a few days my Etsy shop with prints will be open again!

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Wahoo!

so true bestie

#good omens

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I noticed something on a rewatch about the arc of Aziraphale's coat. When it gets hit by that paintball, he says, "I've kept this in tip-top condition for over 180 years."

So, since 1839. 20-odd years before the fight / breakup in St. James's Park, which is the earliest we see it.

But wait, I says to myself, he wasn't wearing that coat in the 1940s Blitz scene in the church. He wears a different outer coat in that scene, one that looks new, made of a material that's stiffer and slightly shiny.

[Of course, one typically wears nicer and more uncomfortable clothes to one's wedding, and Crowley also looks very sharp and more buttoned-up than his typical look in this scene, but that's neither here nor there.]

After that, after Aziraphale realizes Crowley still cares for him despite their fight, and realizes he loves Crowley too, he switches back to the 1800s coat for good. When he appears in the Bentley in the 60s, he's back in the old coat, and he wears it every scene after that. [He does have that other gray cardigan-like jacket, but that's for relaxing in the bookshop only.]

In that argument in the park, he feels such a strong need to push Crowley away, for Crowley's own protection. (Every other resistance to collaboration, from the Globe onward, his argument is that *Crowley* would be in danger if they were found out; only in the park fight does he argue that *he* might be in danger. He's saying to Crowley that they need distance to protect him, Aziraphale, because even in his agitation he knows that Crowley's #1 motivator is protecting Aziraphale). Maybe after that, he tries to move on, switch to a modern new coat. And maybe Crowley coming for him again in the church lets him know it's okay to be himself again, to go as slow as he needs to, because Crowley will always come back for him.

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AND ANOTHER THING

has to do with lapels.

Aziraphale's Blitz coat looks much more similar to the jackets worn by the other angels. Take a look at Michael and Uriel's jackets here. They are stiff and have that sheen to them, and the lapels point up.

Like Aziraphale's Blitz jacket.

Compare that to the lapels on his trusty old coat. This coat is soft, just like Az. And the lapels point down.

Okay, okay, so what about demons? We know they deliberately did the miracle gestures with Aziraphale's snap pulling something down from Heaven and Crowley's pulling something up from Hell. If the angels have upward-pointing lapels, it would make sense for demons to have downward-pointing lapels, if my theory is going to hold.

Yup, that checks out. Hastur and Ligur have floppy sad ugly lapels that droop down toward Hell.

So, the final piece to this puzzle.... how about Crowley's lapels?

Outrageously spiky upwards-pointing lapels. Because of course. I rest my case.

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[Okay, a couple of caveats. (1) I'm not an expert on fashion or clothes, so I welcome corrections and additions. (2) It's possible that Az's soft, favorite jacket is a summer jacket and the stiffer one he wears in the Blitz is a winter jacket. Not clear what season it is in that scene. (3) Stay tuned for a follow-up post about Gabriel and Beelzebub's lapels. (4) Also, I haven't compared any of the other outfits throughout history, and I only looked at Crowley's 2019 jacket. (5) Sorry if the gifs are weird, I don't really know what I'm doing. (6) Also sorry if this has already been discussed; I try to only post stuff that I haven't seen elsewhere, but I know I'm late to this party!]

#I think about those lapels Every Day #love the GO team #my favourite people

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A muppet version of good omens were everyone is a muppet except for all the angels and demons.

All angels and demons are play by humans but whenever they are on earth they carry around a little muppet version of themselves Avenue Q style, because those are their corporations.

So Aziraphale and Crowley are still Michael Sheen and David Tennant but they puppet around muppet versions of themselves.

Whenever they are speaking to each other or to other demons and angels they are just talking with their actual faces and normal voices but when talking to a human/muppet they put on exaggerated little voices and the muppet/humans will exclusively address their muppet corporation, not acknowledging the full grown human men puppeting them.

There are no muppets in heaven or hell

When Aziraphale possesses Madame Tracy he just starts puppeting the Madame Tracy muppet.

Adam is just a human child, he doesn’t even have a muppet version of himself. He’s just a human child in this world of muppets and no one ever acknowledges it, not even Aziraphale and Crowley or Adam himself.

Dog starts out as a real dog but then shapeshifts into a muppet dog.

#this is everything ive ever wanted and so much more thank you