#good omens references

[aduckwithears]

Good Omens: A Matter of Life and Death

Easter eggs and references! We know from the obvious placement of the movie poster in the title sequence and Maggie's shop (and even from Neil's asks) that inspiration was drawn from this movie.

I'm not going to dive deep into a lot of meta connections, but I wanted to share some of the parallels. For a great summary of the movie (A Matter of Life and Death aka Stairway to Heaven by Powell and Pressburger) and some general info relating it to Good Omens pop over to this article. This will contain some spoilers for the movie - now on with the show!

This one is before the movie even starts - The Archers is the production company of Powell and Pressburger - their target logo looks a lot like the one in the magic show portion of the title sequence.

We open in space - looking at stars and supernova, talking about the big, expansive universe. Fascinating how our view of the cosmos has been changed by modern telescopes (Crowley is so proud).

June (our heroine) is an American radio operator and picks up British squadron leader Peter's plane as he is crashing into the channel. They form an instant connection. Her hair was the inspiration for the Starmaker's amazing do.

Peter's fellow airman dies and ends up in Heaven, waiting for him. The angel administrators are very serious, very organized, very well dressed, and Heaven as a whole is colorless.

But Peter doesn't die - in fact he washes up on the beach near June, where they meet and immediately fall in love. Conductor 71 (the heavenly employee who was meant to collect Peter but lost him in the fog) is sent to convince him to come to Heaven, stopping time and freezing June to have a conversation with Peter.

I'll stop here to keep this from getting too long... More to come?

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens parallels #powell and pressburger #a matter of life and death #good omens easter eggs #good omens references #good omens 2 #gos2 #gomens #a duck talks #stairway to heaven #filmmaking #good omens meta

[in-love-with-my-car-zine]

Some Actual 1926 Bentleys

To give you some idea of what book!Crowley might be driving around

They raced these things. Can you imagine doing the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in a car with no top? Even then, Bentleys could 80-100 MPH. That's some wind in your face.

#good omens references #good omens #the bentley #in love with my car zine #applications open see the pinned post

[embracing-the-ineffable]

A clue?! Oh my, I just went down a new GO Clue rabbit hole… apparently the Powell and Pressburger film “the Small Back Room” (which is of course the name of Maggie’s shop) has a plot element about a Nazi bomb which looks like a “common thermos flask” (no mention of if it is tartan!) I’ve not seen this film, but adding it to my list since that seems like it could have Clues. Wanted to share and see if you had any ideas. Keep up the great detective work!

I haven't watched The Small Back Room yet, but that's a VERY interesting parallel! @noneorother is working on a movie meta right now, so I'll tag them on this as well. Thanks for sharing!

#good omens meta #good omens analysis #good omens references #good omens season 2 #small back room #powell and pressburger #good omens #good omens clues #ineffable mystery

[megsgomensrefs]

The Bentley’s Interior

#good omens #good omens tag #Bentley #Crowley gomens #aziraphale #Bentley gomens #good omens photos #good omens references #good omens Bentley

[glitter-and-be-gay]

truly fantastic to have a difference of opinion with a friend and being able to go "Oh. Bebop" and move on

#sprintingfish you know what's up #bebop #good omens #good omens references #aziraphale #aziraphale and crowley

[ghostskyee]

DONT WATCH GOMENS 2 IT RUINED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #drawss #digital #procreate #2023 #i put too much thought into all the little references in this and composition. my mind is goo

[mrghostrat]

who am i to refuse a warmup crowley meme

#he lost his best friend </3 #twice </3 #yes i know his jacket doesn't have buttons but how else am i supposed to fit in excruciatingly subtle Fry & Laurie references without them #and yes those colours are intentional uwu thanks The Used #good omens #gomens #anthony j crowley #crowley #good omens art #rat draws #good omens meme

[plumbum-art]

Faith and Devotion

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #aziraphale x crowley #good omens fanart #digital art #someday I'll stop adding cheesy DM references but not today #pb art

[but-sometimes-im-not]

phoenix, 2024 post-s2. the Bentley has been left untouched for so long that a nightingale family has made a nest under her grille. nothing will ever be as it was, but something new will be reborn.

#good omens #art #my art #good omens fanart #crowley #aziraphale #the bentley #good omens bentley #nightingales #no nightingales #a nightingale sang in berkeley square #prompt: nightingales #digital painting #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce #ty to good omens reference library for the prompt and the reference images

[time-woods]

been thinkin bout how aziraphale can canonically draw and did this dumb comic

sighhh and heres the drawing

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #the fact that i to am embarrassed over it- i dont jam 2 well with realism/ i had to use myself for reference and it made me feel a bit sill #trying to make something look traditional while its digital is hard man

[biceratops7]

This, this fucking image...

It drives me insane, just activates something visceral, and I finally realized why. It's not just an appropriately placed close up shot to denote intimacy between Gabriel and Beelzebub, it's a fuck damn pov shot.

Gabriel is not dressed in accordance to his preferences, he is borrowing Aziraphale's clothes. And Beezlebub, well lets just say a black blazer is a black blazer, not exactly the easiest thing in the world to differentiate. Just looking at those hands joining, the individual identities of their owners melts away. The moment could have so easily belonged to Aziraphale and Crowley... and it's just- it's... it's just like the Rats of Nimh. They've seen this sign everyday for almost their whole lives, and have never once known what it says. They can make inferences, use context clues, wherever they are, it seems to be too so it must be about them, but they couldn't ever know for sure. Until one day, without warning, they looked at the words, and understood them.

And the sign communicated a way out.

Aziraphale and Crowley are the first of their kind. I don't think we really appreciate or understand how utterly unfathomable what they feel for each other is in their lived contexts, even to them. All this painful fear, all these lengths they go to, all to keep safe this precious experience they don't even have the language to name. It's not just unallowed, it's unreal. So then just imagine what the actual fuck they must be feeling when they see someone else... just fucking do it. Just like that. An angel and a demon. In love. Intimate, affectionate, in front of heaven, in front of hell, in front of humanity, in front of GOD, and She knows who the hell else.

For literally the first time, they’re seeing the things they feel for each other exist in others like them.

#so basically baby gays from Kansas seeing men kiss on cable for the first time lol #season 2 #good omens #2x06 #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #aziraphale #crowley #beezlebub #Gabriel #secret of nimh reference #meta #analysis #biceratops

[aduckwithears]

You know that shot from the magic shop in 1941? The one with the sword (and the “Excalibur’s Chest” magic trick) between them?

@myladycrow12 reminded me on my gif set post of the similarity to the visual in a scene from the movie Excalibur (1981 - check it out if you haven’t seen it - deeply weird and dark and rated R - fantastic music). There’s a scene where Lancelot and Guinevere have consummated their forbidden love affair in the woods, Arthur comes along while they are sleeping and leaves Excalibur in between them. I went to grab a screenshot from the movie, saw that it is pretty much the same sword, and was shooketh. Here you go:

Lancelot and Guinevere KNOW now they have been found out, that Arthur knows, and that he did not immediately strike them down but that consequences will happen. (There’s also a whole thing about Arthur abandoning the sword that gives him the right to rule, but we’ll leave that be for the moment… except to say that Lancelot freaks out about this issue, and runs off into the woods ass out which is actually pretty funny)

How does this relate to our ineffables? Well, at this point Aziraphale has realized what their relationship is (it’s love, baby!!!), Crowley’s been there all along (maybe not in the same words but you know), but they are still being watched, monitored and observed - literally by the nazi zombie yahoos in this scene but potentially at all times from above. That’s a great big sword keeping them apart.

#good omens meta #good omens s2 #good omens #good omens 2 #excalibur #good omens references #good omens details #good omens theories #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #a duck talks #Excalibur spoilers #I guess #but look the movie came out in 1981 and is the story of King Arthur so… #1941

[larkbunny]

A peek through a bookshop's blackout curtains

#created for the #GO reference library #for the study club #promopt was the blitz: 1941 #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #aziracrow

[eefaevie]

merry ineffable christmas ❤️

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #ineffable idiots #I saw the scarf reference and you know I had to do it to em #cosy #coszy #cozy

[girlasterisk]

date night

#neena.art #saw a reference pic and ​created this in last night in a frenzy….needed to display crowley neck kisses…. #good omens #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fanart #gomens #gomens fanart #anthony j crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #fanart #art #go fanart #aziracrow fanart #crowley fanart #aziraphale fanart #userdorksinlove #useranny #sirlampselot #should i post the version w lineart art too hrm #1k #3k #5k

[ennas-aesthetic]

If we DO ever get a Good Omens season 3 (and fingers crossed we will) then using the Second Coming as the narrative device to facilitate the final culmination of Good Omens' ideology and message is brilliant, actually.

Because the Second Coming IS NOT another Adam situation. And, contrary to the misconceptions I've seen, It IS NOT about Jesus being born again as a baby, etc, etc.

THE SECOND COMING. QUITE LITERALLY refers to THE LAST JUDGMENT.

As in. The SAME Last Judgment Michelangelo painted on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. As in - THE JUDGMENT of the Living and the Dead. THE LAST, FINAL, ETERNAL JUDGMENT.

It's the WHOLE thing Armageddon was leading towards. Book of Revelation speedrun: the world ends, everyone dies, and then they get resurrected again to be judged by JESUS himself. He will flick through the Book of Life (WINK WINK WINK DO YOU SEE HOW LOUDLY I'M WINKING AT YOU???), and if your name is there he will go "oh nice you deserve eternal paradise! :D" and if your name is ERASED from the Book of Life he will go "oh no, sorry, you go to the lake of fire for eternity now D:" (except apparently in Good Omens lore it'd just DOOM YOU TO NON-EXISTENCE FOREVER???)

And if you THINK about it, The Last Judgment is the ultimate manifestation of moral absolutism. No shades of gray, no chances. Just BLACK, and WHITE. Never mind that you're like Wee Morag and Elspeth, who are forced to do "bad" things because of circumstances. It's either you pass Judgment Day, or you burn (or disappear forever.) And the way THINGS are going in the Good Omens universe? I don't think there's ANYONE "good" enough to be "saved." Not Crowley, not Aziraphale. Hell, not even the Archangels themselves.

So it provides a PERFECT opportunity for Aziraphale and Crowley to UPEND that SYSTEM entirely.

I think that's what Crowley and Aziraphale would do in s3: establish a new kind of system in which angels and demons have free will to determine the right (or wrong) choice.

Giving them the APPLE, so to speak.

And then they'll go off to retire in a cottage, together at last.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #im sorry but i choke everytime someone refers to a baby jesus for the second coming #like i love yall and parent trapping aziraphale and crowley by the infant son of god would be amusing as heck #but also i rlly think this is about the Last Judgment guys KSLDSKDKLDS #thank you good omens yes this IS in fact how i use my collection of niche trivia on christian eschatology #putting my religious trauma into good use iktr