#*slaps analysis* this baby can fit so much hozier in it

[supercalisunshine]

A Good Omens meta wherein I discuss the choice to put a wall around Eden :)

I went on a hike in a pretty green place and ofc it got me thinking abt GO and specifically the implications of having a fortress built around Eden.

I was raised very Christian, and it just struck me as interesting, and certainly a deliberate choice, because in any illustrated Bible or retelling, Eden is just a garden, an oasis.

Sure, Adam and Eve are kicked out and an Angel with a flaming sword is sent to guard it, but there was never explicitly a wall.

I love love love the decision to put one in for GO’s Eden, because it adds so much imagery to the depiction of Heaven and it’s characterization. Eden might be paradise, but it’s also a prison.

Nobody gets in, nobody leaves unless they’re banished, and once you leave, your nature is fundamentally changed, your innocence is lost, and you’re separated. You’re no longer on the same side as those inside the wall.

A wall is divisive and decisive. It indicates a very intentional separation of two sides, two environments. It’s not just a symbolic separation of oasis and desert or a change you can see where the sand meets lush grass. There’s no way in and no way out.

So what happens when an angel and a demon meet on top of this divisive and intimidating wall?

The wall is meant to divide paradise and wasteland, but its creators forgot about the space in between. The wall itself. It’s a no man’s land, where they’re not in the garden or out of it. Aziraphale and Crowley first meet in a space without expectations that can simply hold their presence, and I think this sets a beautiful precedent for their 6,000 year relationship. They’re on their own side, for a moment.

It starts, as it will end, in a garden.

It starts, as it will end, with them on their own side.

(AKA an allegory of Eden/the wall/the desert and heaven/earth/hell and what it means for the husbands)