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zeldahime · 2 months

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I did math on David Tennant's hands (so you don't have to)

EDITED WITH MORE ACCURATE PHONE INFORMATION AND A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION.

I swear all I wanted to know was what kind of phone Crowley has in season 1.

See, I have an iPhone, and one of my gigs shares a building with an Apple Store. I was taking a screenshot of his contact picture for Aziraphale, and noticed that the camera on the back of his phone is laid out horizontal. Most iPhones aren't! So, I fell into this rabbit hole: what phone does Anthony J. Crowley have?

(The bit where you can see the cameras, immediately before the cool heart-in-flames picture he has for Aziraphale's contact, is basically impossible to screenshot; the phone moves very fast and reflects the environment. But his contact photo for his angel is so neat and I love it ❤️‍🔥)

I figured out very quickly the only iPhone with that camera layout is the iPhone SE series, but there have been only three generations: 2016, 2020, and 2023. Season 1 of Good Omens was released in 2019. The iPhone SE first generation was also Apple's "budget" phone. It just didn't make sense to me that Crowley would have an old budget phone, but the new SE wasn't commercially available so it also didn't make sense to me that the prop department could have given him a new phone.

The main visual differences between gen 1 and gen 2 are threefold: gen 1 didn't come in black; gen 2 has slightly more beveling; and they are different sizes. The first two visual differences are basically meaningless, because it's trivial for a props department to turn a white phone black and the beveling difference only is obvious in comparison. So I had to figure out what size Crowley's phone was.

We see Crowley's phone in s1e4 and s1e5, but the only thing in its environment we can really measure to get an accurate read on its size is... Well. David Tennant.

More specifically, we get a fairly good shot of the phone in his hands, held level with the screen, and thumb easily available to use as a reference.

But if anyone has done David Tennant Hand Math before, they weren't on page 1 of Google and therefore may as well not exist. So I took up this quest myself.

So first, I had to find a picture of David Tennant holding something of known dimensions. I am, first and foremost, a Doctor Who nerd. There's only one answer to that.

Another Doctor Who nerd on the internet went and figured out 10th Doctor's sonic screwdriver was about 160 mm and the head of the sonic from tip to the joint with the middle section was about 40 mm.

I then got out my actual goddamn fabric tape and measured this man's fingers on my computer screen. After converting the measurements back to scale, first to second knuckle on his middle finger was 54.55 mm.

Then to figure out how long his thumb is, I needed a photo of his hands. This one is courtesy of the GO Reference Server:

His thumb came out to being approximately 68mm long. (My thumb came out to 55mm long. Not relevant, I just got curious while I was doing all this measuring.)

Finally, the data necessary to the main event: the goddamn phone.

Using the thumb as a reference, the phone came out to 136mm in length.

The iPhone SE Gen 1 was 123.8 mm long; the Gen 2 was 138.4 mm long.

Given that I rounded quite a bit during my calculations to keep things at 2 digits or less, I'm very comfortable saying: Crowley had an iPhone SE (second generation) during the events of Good Omens Season 1, a phone that would not become commercially available until April 2020.

I don't know how the props people got their hands a phone that wouldn't be released for a full year and change after filming, but they did that for us. It's a character note that practically nobody noticed, for a prop that gets barely a full minute of screentime. They could easily have used an iPhone XR or iPhone XS Max, which were the newest iPhones actually on the market at that time and which people would have recognized when the episode aired, but they knew Crowley would have the newest iPhone before anybody else had the newest iPhone and by Jove, he did.

After I posted this in Discord, @giveintomay pointed out that the iPhone SE second generation used the same build as the iPhones 7 and 8, which came out in 2016 and 2017 respectively. So, he most likely had an iPhone 8, which would have been the latest generation while filming (as generation 10 became commercially available over the summer and fall).

#my writing #good omens #good omens tv #crowley good omens #good omens crowley #good omens meta #neil gaiman #david tennant #this took me like three or four hours btw #all i wanted was a single screenshot and what i got was this goddamn rabbit hole

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fourseasonsfigs · 1 year

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Ace vs Ace - Flirting

Yesterday's Ace vs Ace Livestream warmup figs post could only be followed up by Ace vs Ace figs from the variety show itself!

Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun appeared together on episode 9 of Season 6 of Ace vs. Ace on March 14, 2021. Unfortunately, I don't have a link for the full English sub of the episode available, which is a real shame as this was a fun episode with a lot of cute moments.

The inspiration for these figs comes from a game on the show where the guests were asked to quickly act out a spoken word or phrase.

This scene depicts the two's frankly hilarious interpretation of "flirting". Here's the trailer video, which helpfully has a cut of their frankly quite inspired rendition:

I mean...why wouldn't flirting be slapping at each other's hands and looking like you're having a grand time doing it?

The fig maker got their expressions right on! Zhehan's mischevious eyes and big laughing mouth, and Junjun's equally as delighted big beaming smile. The hair is also really well done in that in captures Zhehan's buzz cut and Junjun's short but styled look. I really wish Tumblr would allow me more than one video a post, because there's another cute acting-out-action in this game where they are patting each other's heads.

These aren't my favorite outfits of theirs, but I think the fig maker did an excellent job with the details on them.

And here they are! Cutely slap fighting away. The fig versions are a liiiitle bit closer together than in the show, mostly because their fig arms aren't fully extended. It looks like they're playing smooch patty cake.

I just spun them around here so you could see from this side with them still flirting away. You can see the fig maker took special care to maintain Junjun's long tall figure and Zhehan's slightly shorter curvier one!

Both of these look like they'll stand just fine on their own, but they don't. I thought their tendency to topple over would be offset if I just had them leaning against their hands (it's most accurate anyway!) but they kept falling over.

I had to put Zhehan on a fig sticker because he just wouldn't stay standing no matter what. Junjun is a little more solid, but isn't super stable standing up either. For permanent display they're definitely going onto the little fig bases I have on the way.

Little bit of an overhead shot here - not too much detail really other than Zhehan's delightfully spiky buzz cut. You know how much I love my long-haired Zhehan figures, but it's nice to have some different looks too!

The figures also come with a gong standee. The first pic above has Zhehan leaning on the side of the gong, but it's mostly cut off from the picture. Here's a better pic of the two of them with the gong:

The striker was not included with the standee, but that's ok. We'd have had to have them posing different if they were modeling this moment instead of the flirting moment.

The gentlemen with the standee for size comparison purposes.

Bright and cheerful box cards. I can see the orange cheering them on from the audience!

Material: PVC (figs) and acrylic (gong)

Fig Count: 116

Diorama Count: 7

Snowglobe Count: 1

Rating: The hottest CP is right here!

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

#junzhe #zhang zhehan #gong jun #word of honor cast #shl cast #figthusiast

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