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It's dumb but I love it

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This is giving me 'Duck-tective" from Gravity Falls

Hear me out, good omens au where everything is the same but everyone is a silly little duck

Duck omens.

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Tired of the angst, now manifesting this attitude from Crowley when Aziraphale shows up next in S3:

"SuPrEmE aRcHaNgeL AzIRaPhAle"

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I'm proud of the concept I had here (despite lacking execution), while also feeling like a sick, sick b*st*rd for doing this. I realize this is barely edited, but I have limited experience and was seized with sudden inspiration I had to act on. I'm convinced someone else could do a much better job of editing the song over the whole ending and really drive home the tears.

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So I know we've been fixated on The Wall Incident for years now, and won't stop obsessing over The Breakup Kiss for the forseeable future, but... I feel like we aren't talking about this scene from the Book of Job minisode in S2E2 nearly enough? I see it as the precursor to the later two "face-offs". You can see Aziraphale's eyes flicker over Crowley's face. For the first few seconds, it looks like Aziraphale isn't listening to a word he's saying, instead distracted by his sudden proximity. It's very: "... Oh." My guess is that their faces have been slowly moving closer together for 6,000 years.

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Part 2 of my series: Good Omens meets The Little Prince

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The Garden

"It starts, as it will end, with a garden." - The voice of god

Did it, though? The Good Omens tv series began in the Garden of Eden.

The world *doesn't* end at the Tadfield Airbase. At the end of the first season, we see Adam escaping his yard and running through an orchard, but then we see Aziraphale and Crowley in the park and finally at the Ritz, before a nightingale sings in Berkeley Square and we go to credits. The second season ends with Aziraphale taking the elevator to Heaven and Crowley driving off to who-knows-where. Maybe the scene with Adam running through the orchards is supposed to tie up the prediction. But honestly? I'm hoping for season 3, as our final season, to end with Aziraphale and Crowley in a garden. Because who says the voice of god was referring to The World beginning and ending in a garden, and not the story of the Long and Winding Road leading an angel and a demon together?

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To be continued...

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So did I

When I first watched S2 E1, I thought Crowley yelling the "So did I!" at Aziraphale during their argument over Gabriel was because he was really mad about Aziraphale wanting to help Gabriel. For one, because Gabriel had treated Aziraphale so horribly ("Shut your stupid mouth and die already", etc.) and because sheltering him posed a great risk to Aziraphale's safety. I thought, how unusual, we've never seen Crowley get mad at Aziraphale like this before, to the point of yelling at him. He must be REALLY upset by this. Now, having rewatched the season, I think that the reason for the intensity of his outburst in that moment isn't about the Gabriel situation at all. It's an expression of the pent-up frustration he feels at the stagnation of his relationship with Aziraphale, but is unable to put into words.

For millennia, their growing closer was always impeded by them being an angel and a demon and the threat of Heaven or Hell finding out. Then, in season 1, they openly break with their respective "sides" for the first time to thwart the apocalypse, successfully. After escaping their executions, they are technically "free". How free they really are is up for debate, because the danger is still there in the background, but they aren't forced to maintain appearances any longer. This was the biggest opportunity they had ever had to be able to live as they choose, be close and be happy together, to be on "their side". So then why is Crowley homeless, living in his car with his plants, instead of Aziraphale offering him a roof over his head? As Crowley did for him when his bookshop burned down? It's one of several signs that all is not well. They finally have an opportunity to become closer, but it's not happening how Crowley hoped it would. THAT is why Crowley remarks to Shax on the park bench: "What's the point of it all?" Not because he's bored without Hell duties, but because he fought with everything he had to save the Earth and be able to be with Aziraphale. Against all odds, he succeeded... for what?

The life we see in S2 is not what Crowley's idea of "our side" was. Let us remain hopeful that S3 will make some dreams come true.