#GO s2e2

[abastardworthknowing]

Hm… This legit makes 0 sense. I also don’t believe in the team making mistakes at all, so respectfully does anyone have any ideas on why this extra changed clothes?

More clues for something being afoot… They’re only in 2 shots as far as I can see…

[bugbugboy]

I'll try my best to avoid posting spoilers for the first 10 days of Good Omens season 2 because I'll be in Greece (brag) but after those 10 days when I have nothing better to do with my time, BOY OH BOY YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

[pleasedontmakemechooseanusername]

There is something about the angels in s2e2. They don't know humans. They know the concept of them, but not them.

They don't know how humans are made, (except for Gabriel who has a very wrong idea), nor how their bodies work nor what they want nor how they feel.

They don't understand that if you kill a human's children, they're gonna be sad about it, even if you promise them more kids. They don't understand loss or the human concept of justice.

But Aziraphale does.

He has been down on earth for a long time already, and has been "tainted" by humans: he knows how they act, think, feel.

And he has started to feel that way too.

No angel feels bad for Job and his wife, because to them justice is what God says. Aziraphale does, because he understands human concepts and emotions.

He has been tainted by humans, and in this episode he gets to actually understand it and start to accept it.

Aziraphale eats, so he has actually 'physically' been tainted by human things. And he lies, (which I'm pretty sure other angels don't understand as a concept) which is an human act.

Crowley too has been tainted by humans, being down there for as long as Aziraphale. He lies (he's a demon, but still) and he drinks and understand justice as a concept. He has already accepted that he's tainted, but he has not yet spoken it aloud.

In s2e2, Crowley admits that he has been tainted by humanity, to an angel who understands at the same time, that the same thing has happened to him.

[gowextaivas]

Ahhahaha thats so qoddamn funny what-

would you care for a very stupid GO2 meta?

I would like to explain for you, the really dumb joke at the heart of the title Chapter 2: The clue featuring the minisode A Companion to Owls.

A companion to owls seems like a strange choice for a title to this episode, there are absolutely no owls mentioned in the episode, and besides birds being referenced everywhere in season two, why specifically a “companion” to them?

Well for one, these two very specific actors are acting as heroes to this episode.

Why have Peter Davison on “this” episode instead of say, being the bartender in the pub, or a Whickeber street trader?

Because then you don’t get to make this joke in the title of your episode : Aziraphale acts as a helper to both the fifth and tenth Doctors, basically making him a DOUBLE COMPANION. (Companion being the title of the sidekick in DrWho).

But don’t worry they are both BIBLICAL doctors as well.As we all know, Bildaddy the Shuite here is an OBSTETRICIAN/shoemaker.

And if you read the book of job, where the quote “a companion to owls.” comes from in the book of job, you will find that it’s usually interpreted as a metaphor for a doctor’s account of dealing with patients illnesses and death.

A(ziraphale) : Companion2Owls

But to OWLS? Here it is: the dumbest joke in the series. “What do you call two Doctors standing next to each other? Who Who.”

okay you can cart me away now.

[imvec]

Some more warrior nun screenshot drawings

[ducks-love-peas]

Good Omens s2 e2 | minisode A Companion to Owls

[hazel-callahan]

Favorite Aziraphale Moments 2/∞

The Clue 2x02

[tairona-is-taken]

She slipped up and called him Halbrand!

Gil-galad is having generalized visions of the future, but she's *specifically* having visions of Sauron/Halbrand!

SHE FLASHBACKED TO THE LOG SCENE AHHHHH

[massyworld]

Side-by-side together. For all time.

Always.

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando S2E2 - "Welcome Home"

[poniesholdingeachothertenderly]

[sammygender]

thinking about how one of the last things john ever tells dean is an admittance that the way he treated him was fucked. & of course this destroys dean and makes it so much harder for him to come to terms w his death right after and with his childhood in general bc he’s spent his entire life chasing after johns approval. he’s spent his entire life telling himself that the way he was treated was okay and justified and that their childhood was good because he could handle it and he was strong enough and that was how it had to be. he’s worshipped john as a hero and seen nothing wrong with any of it. because he’s had to. his entire life is built around this idea there’s nothing else. he’s his dads perfect soldier and punching bag and wife-replacement and suddenly his dads gone & he said he’s sorry and that he shouldn’t have treated dean that way. what the hell is he supposed to do now.

[bmpmp3]

hunter gatherer loid

[insteading]

Inspired by blakbonnet gifset from s2e2.

I've been thinking about how the showrunners decided Breakdown-Era Ed would be so hot. OFMD has things it is Looney Tunes about-- physics, abdominal anatomy, the historical record, the value of gaydar as a navigational device across large spans of ocean. But as many people have pointed out, it's pretty emotionally realistic, to the point where the fights Ed and Stede have are recognizable to many of us.

I don't know about you, but I find that crying all night on the floor results in blotchy skin, red eyes, a generally puffy face, a wicked dehydration headache, and a hoarse and adenoidal voice. The magic of fiction rescues Ed from some of that. But also: "I want my corpse to look fantastic" is absolutely a thought Ed would have at this point in his trajectory (and I think is one signal of how ambivalent he feels about dying). His depression hasn't blunted his emotions and convinced him that nothing matters: feeling abandoned still matters a great deal, even as he's starting to abandon the hope that he'll feel better some day. And he still cares about how other people perceive him-- which is frankly essential if he's going to goad crewmates into mutiny against him.

I've seen some great metas about how Ed wants someone to care enough about him to kill him-- or how he really wants to be talked out of wanting to die. Both those takes are even more plausible to me having watched season 2 in its entirety! In s2e6 Ed tells Ned Lowe "I don't respect you enough to kill you: you're not worth the poison." Ed thinks of killing as something that inextricably and intimately links two people. And at the beginning of s2e7 Ed credits the vision of mer!Stede with saving his life-- though I fully endorse the idea that Ed conjured mer!Stede up because of the persistent hope Ed so admires in Stede. Just as Ed's internal Hornigold pushes him off a cliff, Ed's internal Stede reminds him that he is capable of feeling something other than pain, and that there is reason to hope his life will not always look as bleak as it has been recently.

In this moment, though, before Ed comes up for air and life begins again, Ed goes to Izzy with a loaded gun. Why Izzy and not Fang or Archie? I think Ed sees Izzy as the QAR crew member with both the most reason to kill him and the most reason to talk him out of wanting to die, due to a combination of toxic masculinity and what I see as frustrated romantic obsession. In the "Izzy probably cares enough to kill me" column:

s1e10: Izzy threatens mutiny: "I serve Blackbeard, not Edward. Edward had better watch his fucking step."

s2e1: Izzy blames the "fucked" atmosphere aboard the QAR on Ed's "feelings for Stede Bonnet." Ed hasn't talked about those feelings because that's not the relationship he has with this crew. From Ed's perspective, Izzy is publicly calling him out for not having rid himself of those feelings. Which means somehow Ed hasn't watched his fucking step enough, despite throwing himself into raiding. Izzy's threat from the end of s1 still echoes.

s2e2: Izzy's gunshot wound has gone septic. Even if he survives having had his leg removed? Izzy lashed out at Ed at the end of s1 for being soft. He's got a very calvinist understanding of where human worth comes from, not just incompatible with a disability rights framework but also incompatible with accommodation and support from the crew. All Izzy's emotions convert to anger.

In the "Izzy might try to convince me not to die" column:

s1e10: The torture scene in s2e6 established in canon something that many viewers intuited at the end of season 1, when Ed lashed out and choked Izzy, and then again when he fed Izzy a toe: Izzy finds pain arousing. Izzy manifestly gets some satisfaction out of Blackbeard's attention even-- and maybe especially-- when the terms of that attention are painful for him. (It doesn't seem to matter to Izzy whether Ed enjoys causing him pain or whether the dynamic between them compounds Ed's suffering.)

s2e1: Izzy told Ed-- in a voice that made it absolutely clear how much he resented saying it-- "I have had ... love for you."

I think Ed's presentation in most of s2e2 sets up the scene where Ed hands Izzy the gun and plays on both his anger and his love. The Ed of "Red Flags" is simultaneously Peak Outrageous and Peak Hot, and that's why many of us reacted to the stills the studio released from this episode with variations on "s/he's so gender," long before we knew the context in which those stills would appear. Ed's wearing the leather that's his longtime crew's shared signature, calling to mind the history he shares with Izzy. But he's also wearing the pearls and the dangly sword earring, and he's got soft strands of hair framing his face that an early 2000s sorority girl would envy. And, well, we know that a silk gown to Izzy is like a Red Flag to a bull: he seems to find femme touches in menswear infuriating.

Seriously bbg, wild to say to someone who's romantically obsessed with you that *anything* they did in your dream last night was good for you, even if it was murder.

Ultimately, Izzy refuses both to kill Ed and to talk him out of dying. He acts neither on his femmephobia nor on his need for Blackbeard to stay around and satisfy some fraction of his obsession. "Clean up your own mess," from the person on the QAR who both loves and hates Ed the most, must sound to him like "You're not worth the poison." And coming from someone whose tolerance for poison is astonishingly high? Ouch.

[hawkyon-days]

Stancy literally gets brought back by dustin out of nowhere. Steve not wanting nancy to go off on her own is pretty canon behaviour since he's really protective. And it makes zero sense for either character or their development to actually reawaken this plotline>:(

[every-sanji]

what are some of your favorite moments where sanji just gets screwed over (like the hgeegh bit)

I'm not sure if that's like. Getting screwed over so much as just being made fun of for saying silly things. That said I do think his bit where he just starts talking in wing dings (here) is incredibly funny and given the fact that it has been one of my most popular posts this month I think most of you can agree with that. I do in general think the zoro and sanji dynamic is incredibly funny even if I'm just skimming for sanjis I'll keep an eye out for them for a giggle.