I can't get over the fact how similar angel Crowley is to Eden Crowley. Before we saw angel Crowley, we didn't have the comparison and continuity, but we do now.
Just look at his hairstyle; his Eden hair is longer, as it logically should be because the angel phase was before the fall, but it's still wavy, and the swirl remains the same... 🥺
Since I am always seeing posts about how lovingly (and lustfully) Aziraphale looks at Crowley, I decided to offer you the other perspective. Here are my favorite “Crowley staring at the love of his life” moments.
1- In the Beginning. Love at second sight, one might say.
2- Wishing he was the fork.
3- It’s the softness of this one for me.
4- This one makes me blush every time, he was ready to jump on him.
5- The “I knew you would do the right thing, you really are special” look. Bildaddy serving love and trust!
6- The “If we are both Godfathers together, does that mean we’re married?” look.
7- May I tempt you to lunch? (He is so flirty here I could die)!!!
There is no universe where you can convince me that Mr.Brown is not in love with Aziraphale.
Brown sits across from Aziraphale as soon as he sees him alone in the pub, and gets shooed away by a smug Crowley dressed like this.
Then he decides to go to a Meeting/Ball where almost everyone has a date, alone. And when his new outfit is revealed it is this:
Including the little hair swoosh! And the matching tartan vest. Upturned lapels on the jacket! People, he's wearing a turtleneck and a tartan vest. I think we need to find this man somebody to love before it's too late.
What will I do when the opening scene of Good Omens s3 is the fall? When all the angels are collected along the edge of a cliff watching hundreds of thousands of angels fall into hell and their wings are charred and there’s screaming and chaos and pain in the air. When Crowley reaches a hand out, trying to hold on to something, anything, because all he did was ask a few questions he just hung around the wrong people he didn’t mean to fall. When he looks and Aziraphale – that nice cherub who helped hold up the nebula designs for him and complimented his work but followed the rules a bit too much – is right above him, watching with a heartbroken face because he doesn’t like when anyone is in pain. When Aziraphale lifts his hand, almost reaching out to him, before pulling back and looking away, hoping no one else noticed his compassion for a fallen angel because they might punish him too. What will I do then?
Everyone is talking about Crowley's confession, but what about Aziraphale's? The way he looked at Crowley with his "perhaps you could tell me while we dance"...
He was so convinced it would work out, that they would do some formal dancing, and realize they had misunderstood each other, and were actually deeply in love.
Part two for my Crowley practices ♡ (Close-up's down below)
I did Eden Crowley, and he was SO fun to draw. I love how he turned out, and yes the hair isn't curls and it looks more alike Crowley's hair in The Flood, but I'm a lazy lad (as you can see with the wing)
Nevertheless, I look forward to drawing more and more! I really want to start practicing Aziraphale
As a film person, this is the most f*cked up thing that happened in all of Good Omens
Forget about the final 15. If there's anything that should convince you that there's something really wack going on in season 2 of Good Omens it should be this cut. I literally gasped when I saw it for the first time. It's SO BAD from a technical perspective. Because you've probably been watching TV and movies your whole life, you might instinctively feel there's something weird happening with this cut, but not be able to put your finger on what it is.
I am here to tell you: they sacrificed continuity of action to *change the main character of the shot in the middle of the scene*.
I won't do a full theory course on filmmaking here, but basically, when you want a fluid-feeling sequence of shots, especially when there's quite a lot of movement on screen, you have to conserve the direction and intention of that action to feel like it's all one take, and time is moving forward like we're used to in real life. Here, Crowley, Maggie and Nina all leave the Bookshop together, with Crowley and Maggie flanking Nina, who is centred in the shot. They are moving towards the camera as the camera is walking backwards, but at a slight curve camera-left. Crowley even turns his head and swings his arm left, making us feel like the camera will keep Nina center, and pan left or even cut wider to see more of the left of the street to watch them cross.
Well SURPRISE, idiots!
Forget everything you learned in film school because we're cutting immediately to a second medium length shot of the 3 characters from a slightly more camera-right perspective for no reason whatsoever, in the *opposite* direction of where the action is going, WHILE THAT ACTOR IS SPEAKING A LINE. This is so counterintuitive to the blocking of the scene that Maggie literally gets shoved out of frame while we're supposed to be reading her reaction to Crowley's dialogue.
I can't stress enough how weird it is on a fundamental level. When a camera is moving and a character is talking, conserving continuity of action is THE ONE thing you don't sacrifice. It pulls people out of the moment, and makes it extra obvious that multiple takes have been stitched together.
Which leads me to think that this is intentional, and sets up what I hinted to at the beginning of this whole "The More You Know" moment : Nina is the main character of the scene we're watching, until, suddenly, Crowley is.
If you separated those two moments before and after the cut and watch them as two different scenes, you can see the camera following Nina and keeping her center before, but directly following Crowley and keeping him center *after* the cut. We've switched narrators in this moment. And to top it all off, they're making it pretty obvious that, while Nina is listening and reacting to both Crowley and Maggie, Crowley does not give a rat's ass about the two humans (not either not really in frame, or cut off behind him).