#good omens 2 for example

[dont-offend-the-bees]

I would like to go on record to say that even though I don't agree with Izzy's death or the manner of it, I will not be reblogging posts about it that refer to it as bury your gays on principle. I am sick of the misuse of that term. It is not fucking bury your gays if he was one gay of an entire cast of gays who are still alive and kicking and being gay together. There's other more pressing reasons to be mad about that death; you could comment, perhaps, on how he was the most physically disabled of the crew, or the gay with no textual (current) romantic attachments and therefore 'expendable', or the most suicidal apart from Ed and how it leaves a bad taste in the mouth to see him succumbing peacefully to death (hello spn finale war flashbacks). There is no need to further dilute a once-useful term.

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd 2 spoilers #so... now that everyone's mad at the finale am i allowed to say this seaspn hasn't been vibing with me much? #i don't hate it! #I've loved particular moments #and my fondness for frenchie knows no bounds #i thought that it started quite strong #but it's felt messy and disjointed in ways that i find pretty jarring #I've had the same issues with a lot of stuff lately #good omens 2 for example #i loved it but it also felt weird #and i don't think it's the fault of writers and directors and whatever #i think a lot of it probably comes down to budget issues and meddling by higher ups #but I've felt a little stood apart from this summer of queer joy tv bc so much of it just feels rushed and unformed #idk is more stuff getting made badly atm or have my tastes just changed #anyway no one @ me about this #and if you enjoyed it that's fine and I'm happy for you and I'm not trying to argue with you!! #but either the show's changed or i have and the vibes aren't aligning for me currently so #back to sawposting i guess #mr. bees speaks #that being said i do think it's possible izzy is gonna get resurrected by button's sea witch magic in s3 so make of that what you will

[halemerry]

Thinking about how the 1941 minisode really sets the stage for the following two episodes. It establishes the mutual trust between them. It establishes Aziraphale finally coming to terms with calling Crowley friend. It establishes Aziraphale as someone who is capable of deceit under pressure and, frankly, as someone who works better under it. It nods at the idea of Crowley's angelic status being potentially returned and rejects the idea in the same sweep with Aziraphale's failure to turn a turnip into an inkwell. It even presents the whole crux of the way Aziraphale and Crowley interact as summarized by the aim for my mouth but shoot past my ear thing. And then there's the whole shades of gray conversation.

There's something interesting in that conversation in particular I wanna draw attention to specifically because. Look what happens in the conversation after they have discussed Aziraphale's magic and verbalized the trust Crowley has in Aziraphale.

Doesn't it sound familiar?

It sounds a lot like the least charitable takes on Aziraphale's actions at the end of this season doesn't it? But Crowley rejects the idea pretty much immediately. Saying nah, that's the trouble with you lot. You see something and think it's black or white. He presents the idea, just as he has in all three minisodes, that sometimes the edges need to get blurry.

And Aziraphale agrees. He out loud starts speaking of gray areas in morality and how Crowley's right here. It once again emphasizes this idea that all three minisodes have gone out of their way to emphasize - that Aziraphale is capable of growth and change and most importantly of stepping into that middle space, knowing sometimes it is the right thing to do.

The fact that this blunt verbalization of the lessons of all three minisodes happens right after Aziraphale muses about a potential scenario where someone leaves tells us a lot about Aziraphale's actions in the end. It's drawing stark attention to them and tying those concepts directly together. It doesn't matter which theory you favor either - whether Az is lying to Crowley in the end or acting to protect him or doing what he thinks is right - it doesn't matter because they are all morally complex choices. They all exist in the gray spaces and Aziraphale knows it and that's such a fascinating angle to consider with his decision making here.

#good omens #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #good omens meta #finishing this so my brain will let me focus on literally anything else oops #hilariously this is arguably another example of Crowleys temptations having a tendency to blow up in his own face #but i think that detracts from the point im making so in the tags itll live

[hummingbee-o0o]

listen:

Crowley gives away his happy ending the same way Aziraphale gives away his flaming sword

and their reactions to each other doing it are full of wonder

and they both did it for very much the same reason:

to give a brand new pair the best start in life they could give them. The first humans and the first demon and angel who ventured out on their own, in full view and defiance of the powers that ruled them up until that point. They offer them a form of safety, a form of protection.

They did it for love.

They did it because they care.

#Good Omens #Good Omens 2 #ineffable husbands #Aziraphale #Crowley #ineffable bureaucracy #yet another example of how Crowley and Aziraphale are the only ones who actually care #my posts #o0o thinks

[actual-changeling]

i think it's funny that whenever i post something about aziraphale not caring about individual humans—only humanity as a concept—the ONLY counter argument everyone always throws at me is 'he gave his flaming sword away'.

mate.

that was six thousand years ago. LITERALLY fresh out of heaven, to the only two humans in existence, who were the entirety of humanity at that point.

let's look at what he's like in more recent years, yes?

ah yes, telling a person living in an alley that her girlfriend is going to hell with a smile. what a kind person. and the wonderful follow-up which sounds like it is straight out of some conservative, capitalistic asshole's mouth.

and fun fact, someone like that has said THOSE EXACT WORDS to me at some point.

crowley asking the real questions here like always

but hey, that was 1827, maybe he was just having a bad year. or decade. or century.

what about the present day? see, crowley is terrified of gabriel and hates his guts, but do you know what he does? he answers his questions very patiently. he is kind. once he realises gabriel isn't pretending he makes him hot chocolate and tries to help him remember, he empathizes.

aziraphale's patient is non-existent. he yells at him immediately, gets frustrated with the most simple questions, refuses to interact with him and leaves crowley with him after crowley told him "what i NEED is for him to be nowhere near me". how considerate. but hey, maybe he was just having a bad time.

job! he was kind in job, right?

except that he doesn't care about job losing his house, his farmstead, all of his animals being slaughtered and only has a problem with the children dying; which he then tries to rationalize away with his fucking "that's not what god wants" shtick.

meanwhile crowley already has plans to protect the animals AND the children AND job and sitis as best he can.

the flood? perfectly alright to drown everyone, including innocent animals and children! it is god's plan, and what do a few humans mean in god's great big ineffable plan, huh?

then again, he doesn't show much empathy for god's son either when he's being nailed to the cross. french revolution and people being beheaded? oh yes, sure, dreadful—anyway i'm just here for the crepes, the dying humans are just background noise, let's not do anything about that even though it is literally my fucking job as an angel. but noooo. he got peckish and then had lunch. what a fucking hero.

'accidentally' killing a dove because he just had to shove it up his sleeve for a magic act.

someone getting shot and dying? because i was careless? don't care. anyway.

armageddon and all of humanity dying? don't care either until i realise what i personally would lose and then i suddenly give a shit.

centuries upon centuries of aziraphale piling up money and he rather terrorizes poor people than entertain giving them a single dime. crowley has to remind and talk him into it, and as thanks he gets dragged down to hell and tortured.

aziraphale is dripping kindness, isn't he? and all of this doesn't even take into account the ball—human puppet show for his own amusement, this is supervillain shit and you know it—or all the other times he ignored human suffering so he wouldn't be personally inconvenienced.

and ALL OF THAT does not take into account how fucking horribly he treats crowley before time even existed.

aziraphale is not unkind. on a big scale, he cares about humanity, he cares about being nice, being good. he wouldn't intentionally harm someone, but he does not care enough to not be careless—he IS careless, and does NOT care if it kills creatures or humans.

his own personal wants and comfort trump everything else, and that is canon, it is text, it is fact. if you have any canonical examples of aziraphale being genuinely kind simply to be kind, not to be selfishly altruistic, please do add them, i'm serious! if you think i'm wrong, prove me wrong. everything i just listed exists in canon, so please, do the same in return.

giving his sword to adam and eve six thousand years ago does not magically erase everything that came after and it does not give him a free pass to behave however he wants, no matter the cost.

#alex talks good omens #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens season 2 #go2 #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #ineffable husbands #ineffable wives #ineffable spouses #ineffable divorce #the final fifteen #good omens meta #getting ready for the hate in 3 2 1 #it's a monday and i'm being overly sarcastic but i'm fucking tired of everyone always yelling at me and giving only one example #as if that invalidates everything i say #just fuck off instead of harassing me babes

[lucradiss]

His only crime was loving the stars :(

#good omens fanart #good omens #go #gomens #go2 spoilers #go2 #go2 fanart #good omens 2 #good omens 2 fanart #crowley fanart #crowley #crowley as raphael #I will hold onto that theory for the rest of my days #his only crime was loving too much #and being too good #he asked god to spare the stars and the people who would see them #and got condemned for his devotion to creation #if that’s not a perfect example of the cruelty of god idk what is

[itsscottiesstark]

Okay but genuine question.

How do you think Crowley would respond to someone flirting with him? Like, we know Aziraphale would get all possessive and Eastern-Gate-Guardian on their ass but what would Crowley do, if Aziraphale wasn't there?

Would he embrace his demon tendencies and flirt back maybe? Nothing too serious, but just to rock the boat a bit? Or would he blush and look around for helplessly waiting for his angel to appear and smite them? Because this looks an awful lot like (yes, innocent, maybe just playful but) flirting to me:

Like, the smirk??? The drawl??? The head shake???

I'm all for Crowley being a total simp for Aziraphale but he must enjoy a couple flirty comments now and again.

#he's the first tempter anyway #and what's more tempting than himself #I'm not saying he acts on it #but come on #i think he's one of those people that are huge flirts when they are just tessing and not actually meaning it #and then they meet someone they're actually interested in #aziraphale for example #and absolutely fumble over their words and end up making a fool of themselves #but it doesnt matter because the other one #still aziraphale #is so into them they find it endearing #i rest my case #good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #david tennant #michael sheen #good omens season 2 #good omens season 3 #ineffable husbands #good omens season 1 #crowley flirts #ineffable partners #ineffable idiots #good ineffable omens

[patrice-bergerons]

Aziraphale says "nothing lasts forever" and means our circumstances may change as they have done time and again in the thousands of years we have known one another but we are so much more than a shop; we could be anywhere, be anyone, and it would still be us, while Crowley hears you don't matter enough to me and you never have. Fucking hell.

#good omens spoilers #good omens #good omens 2 #that last scene is such a beautiful example of characters talking past one another

[lunavastro]

i love it when villains are just fucking stupid. and their cronies are stupider. and the protagonists’ (who are also so unserious) relationship with them is me-and-my-coworker-that-i-fucking-hate

#i can’t think of many examples on the spot #character tropes #villain x hero #character dynamics #movie tropes #megamind #good omens season 2

[marauderswolf22]

hdc that crowley was sleeping when the times were boring or humans were really slow with finding new things and new technology, so he missed beggining of wars or big historical events a few times. like, he was waking up after 6 years and it's suddenly a war that he don't understand AT ALL, and other demons are like "damn he know what he's doing there"

#and sometimes when he needed to do something like take a part in a battle there were a few times were he for example killed the wrong guy #or didn't know who was who #canon #good omens #crowley #ineffible husbands #gomens #gomens 2 #aziraphale #aziracrow

[cloversome]

i reckon they need to coin a new term for all these queer ships that are ending the season on a break-up note. queerbaiting move over. queerlimbo here we come

#good omens #our flag means death #i say that like there's a lot but i can only think of those two examples right now #queerlimbo #good omens 2 spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #good omens spoilers

[ineffablelvrs]

let's start a fun game while we're waiting for go2 !!! rb and in the tags claim a random minute (0-54 ?? that's the average episode length in s1 im pretty sure) from a random s2 episode (1-6), for example: episode 3, 32:54. then when you watch the season come back and say what scene you got (make sure to tag spoilers though) !!

#i do that with shows i like a lot #for example a year ago i did that with season 4 vol 2 of stranger things and i got eddies munsons death LMAOO #anyway i just think it's fun so im sharing my game idea with others who may want to participate :p #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #maggie good omens #nina good omens #nina x maggie #beelzebub good omens #gabriel/jim good omens #gabriel good omens #ineffable bureaucracy #muriel good omens #michael good omens #uriel good omens #good omens season 2 #shax good omens #good omens s2 #go2 #aziraphale good omens #crowley good omens

[bugbugboy]

Couldn't've said it better myself Michael 💙

#robert downey jr in dr dolittle is the best example off the top of my headd #i couldnt stop laughing #i dont think ive ever properly watched dr dolittle bc his accent sends me up the walls on the floor out the window #lmao #michael sheen my beloved #welsh seduction machine #saraid cymraeg #cymru #michael sheen 💙 #good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #staged #staged 2 #staged 3 #michael sheen

[epicstageplayer1601]

You know what I think would be really cool? If a show that's really fan driven, did a competition, or something like that, to have a fan write an entire episode of the show. Maybe just a character? I don't know, it's just a thought.

#just a thought #good omens season 2 #neil gaiman #our flag means death #taika waititi #rhys darby #what we do in the shadows #stefani robinson #these are just some examples #ofmd #ofmd s2 #loki series #loki laufeyson #hannibal nbc #wwdits #interview with the vampire

[p4nishers]

aziraphale: his wet cat looks and loser behavior have captivated me

#no i will not stop making loser cat crowley jokes its the only joke i have #anyway its not like i have a place to judge im literally his copy paste neil used me as an example when writing him yk like one of those #bugs thats pinned under a microscope and inspected?? yeah like that but w my brain #im about to fall asleep dont listen to whatever i just typed down im not awake enough to be held accountable #good omens season 2 #good omens #inefabble husbands #aziraphale #crowley

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

So either Crowley got evicted from his flat pretty much instantly, which means that the lockdown phone call would have been Crowley literally asking to move in and not spend the next year hibernating in his car. OR. Crowley was still in his flat at the time and Shax showed up halfway through Crowley's nap and scared the life out of him.

#I was trying to find an example of someone waking someone up and then do that thing where they kind of scream at each others presence #But alas I found no example #You get what I mean though #But there are more layers to Crowley wanting to spend lockdown with Aziraphale now #good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #shax

[agent-snowflake]

Good Omens culture is reading, liking, reblogging, watching Gif sets, laughing and talking about the same stuff you‘ve already seen a thousand times over the past few weeks and still hoping that somewhere there‘s a new theory, analysis or just content in general you haven’t come across yet

#Never give up hope #and instead of finding new good omens post #you stumble across the 50th picture of #bildad the shuhite #not to complain about it tho #or #other shows that cause you pain #our flag means death #for example #good omens #aziraphale x crowley #good omens 2 #aziraphale #david tennant #michael sheen #neil gaiman