#flydown

[emmetofthestars]

also just really like that i made this the flydown pose. just headbutt into the first thing you collide with i guess! wont be a bad idea

[archangelween]

S2 overarching theory

Rewinds, memory and no god

I don't think the present in s2 are memories. It starts the same way that the s1 present-set times start: s2e1 begins in the clouds and zooms across the same landscape just like s1e2, the only difference is that there's more fog in s1 after the zoom into building-level. We literally go through a ton of white bullshit in s1 that isn't there in s2.

In s1, we were explicitly shown that what we were seeing was a recorded narration: the camera bumped into Newt's window, showing us that he can affect electronics, and we saw a pair of fast forwards/rewinds.

We did also explicitly see in s1 that there were different versions of the past/present, interwoven timelines if you will: Anathema's drawing on the title page of Agnes's book changes between when we are shown she made it and when Aziraphale sees it, and the "last" prophecy changes numbers. There is also a boat I cannot identify.

We did not have the fog in s2, and we did not have god's narration, and we had no ff/rw's. In s1, we also saw white mist in the paintball war, which appeared to make the office workers reenact the war in heaven: instead of seeing the ineffables as strangers, they saw them as people they knew.

I think the white mist, and the fog in the flydown to the present, was a "heavenly filter", god's POV. God sees "the truth", she sees things filtered through her demands, her rules.

Not having that in s2 means we are seeing reality as it appears to humans, not objectively, not "adjusted" so it's easy to understand. S1 was adjusted, s2 wasn't. That's why s1 was normal and s2 is a mess.

Imagine if we saw s1 without god's POV. What would it look like from the POV of the humans on the bench after armageddon who were told that their trade delegation got eaten by a mass hallucination?

It would look like timelines were intersecting and memories were being erased and you were reliving time loops. Because you kinda did. Except that's not what happened. It all happened, and it was changed post facto by Adam. That's not a memory wipe, but to the humans that's what it looks like. We are now those humans. Both realities are true: the trade delegation was eaten, and the monster that ate them never existed. That sure does look like a timeloop from the inside.

"Armageddon only happens once, you know. You don't get to go round again until you get it right."

Except they sure did. God shows us they did, because her ff/rw's show us things changed. God went round till she got what she wanted, but we only saw the last version.

Why else change the opening fly down? God said at the end of s1 after the reboot that "there was fallout in the nature of reality".

I think armageddon went round once, god didn't like it, so we went round at least once more, perhaps twice. You know how she likes threes. Maybe the first time Agnes wasn't there. Maybe the second time, there weren't enough prophecies to help. Third, perfect, and that's the one we saw: but there were echoes of the past two tries we didn't see inside the third that we did get to see. Much like how in s2, we see the dirty columns from the demons scratching it in the beginning, and people seem to appear and disappear as if there's sloppy Doylist editing and poor continuity. It got worse from s1 to s2 because we're not seeing the god's eye view, we're seeing things like those people on the bench bitching that a mass hallucination ate their trade delegation: people are literally there and gone between blinks.

God gave us a neat and linear Watsonian story in s1, because god was our Doylist editor. We do not have her anti-bullshit filter for s2, so now we are seeing what the humans in s1 saw: continuity errors.

So in s2, we don't get god's narration, we don't get her truth spell fog, AND on top of those, things are also "going screwy with reality" because of what Adam did.

Perhaps Aziraphale's and Crowley's powers go haywire: just like at the ball, people are now showing up as they wish to be, which would explain why people are dressed so haphazardly on the streets; and they now know something is wrong with supernatural events, instead of living in boring "reality" where they see them but make up a justification and forget. We're seeing what happens to Soho when A+C make it how they want it to be, just like Adam did to Tadfield's perfect weather. A+C never had to learn not to do that because they never had those powers before. The other angels have no idea what earth is like so they don't notice anything wrong.

If what we're seeing is A+C affecting reality, perhaps the people flipping around between blinks happens just like it did for Adam: Tibetan people not digging spy tunnels, then suddenly spying and having no idea why but compelled do to it. Maybe A+C are gaining powers akin to god's, and God is fighting them trying to control it, to put reality back to how it's supposed to be. A 14-second kiss feels like forever and the clock skips 15 minutes because that's how time feels like it's moving when you can MAKE your feelings into reality. Just as time doesn't move when you reminisce about when you fell in love and the days felt like they were melting together.

That doesn't explain Maggie though. She couldn't have bought the record store from its previous s1 owner and just lied about it, because Aziraphale would have said something (probably). Though perhaps she did just buy it, 8 months ago, and never paid rent. Nina is the only person she tells she was always there, but if it's true Nina only just arrived, Nina would not know she's lying. I do still think Maggie's god taken form, which explains all her weirdness: human heads aren't built for omniscience just like Jim's isn't built for remembering who he is anymore, you'd have to cut out a lot of stuff.

[lyjng]

no thoughts, no intentions, doubting words n second guessing thank god no ones around to stage me an intervention so just pick a way and flydown the road and speed as much as yr car'll go white knuckled, tipsy shaky hands dont make a plan :3 no thoughts, no intentions, please dont pay attention (please do please do please do) im taking every single path in life and all of them look like they'll lead me the wrong way but im hitting 90 and that feeling in my chest wont go away <3 do you wanna yell along with me? n fuck yr vocal chords up with me [insert BARELY a beat between these 2 lines] lets go :3 dont know where things will go but i feel like im just clinging on and o dig yr fingers in the train cars metal chains n dont let go just follow where the road will take u o [diff rhythm] coz no matter what u drive or the hill u choose to die /on/ go :3 [SAME as the "lets go :3" but 'on' takes the spot of 'lets' if that makes any sense. itdoes to me]

[ask-the-tiki-tak-tribe]

sorry tom!!! *I flydown full speed and punch him in the face*

Ouch hey I was joking

[archangelween]

Rosie the Riveter also reappears and disappears in front of the shop. Once Aziraphale opens the doors, she's there the entire time except the last shot. Nobody else has moved except her.

I don't think the present are memories. They start the same way that the s1 present-set times start: s2e1 begins in the clouds and zooms across the same landscape, the only difference is that there's more fog in s1 after the zoom into city-level. We literally go through a ton of white bullshit in s1.

Actually. You know what. If these extra clouds are the same "white mist" that was in the paintball war in s1--

--the mist that performed a "truth reveal", a "reenactment" type of spell on the real live people so that they acted out the war in heaven, treating Crowley and Aziraphale as if they were people from their office and not strangers--

--then perhaps these extra clouds in the present are doing the same thing in s1. Then that means, since we got fog in s1 but not in s2, what we were seeing in s1 wasn't how things actually are.

S1's fog in the flydown was a "truth" spell, it was god's objective reality. It was what God sees, actual reality. We were shown a filter in s1, just as in s1 what we saw was a recorded version as evidenced by the camera hitting Newt's window and the many rewinds. We did see what happens if you allow other entities to have reality-altering powers, Adam gave Tadfield perfect weather and created Tibetan mole people spying and all sorts of things we don't know if he was aware of doing.

Why else change the opening fly down to the present? God said at the end of s1 that "there was fallout in the nature of reality".

So in s2, we don't get god's narration, we don't get that extra truth spell fog, so now we see what happens when there is no god filtering things for us--keeping things controlled--AND perhaps Aziraphale's and Crowley's powers go haywire: just like at the ball, people are now showing up as they wish to be, and noticing supernatural events, instead of living in boring "reality" where that doesn't happen. We're seeing what happens to Soho when A+C make it how they want it to be, just like Adam did to Tadfield's perfect weather. They never had to learn not to do that because they never had those powers before. The other angels have no idea what earth is like so they don't notice anything wrong.

Who is Maggie? I do still think she's god taken form. Maybe the other weird people who keep popping up like that hawaiian shirt guy whose newspaper and drink change hands between scenes are angels and demons taken refuge in Soho just like Jim did, or they're Adam/Jesus/their crew. If what we're seeing is A+C affecting reality, perhaps the people flipping around happens just like it did for Adam: Tibetan people not spying, then suddenly spying and having no idea why but compelled do to it. Maybe A+C are gaining powers akin to god's, and God is fighting them trying to control it, to put reality back to how it's supposed to be. A 14-second kiss feels like forever and the clock skips 15 minutes because that's how time feels like it moves when you can MAKE how your feelings into reality. Just as time doesn't move when you reminisce about when you fell in love and the days melted together.

Thinking a lot about some memory parallels in season two...

About how everyone in Soho is dressed VERY ANACHRONISTICALLY, but not at all coordinated with each other. Clothes look pristine, brand new, unsullied, unworn. Caricatures of humans from the 40s, 70s, 90s, 2000s. Like an oversimplified idea of what Normal Humans look like.

Like uhhh excuse you white fur coat, leopard print skirt and platform shoes? Weird BRIGHT FUCKING YELLOW shirt, a flowy vest and leather pants? 70s crochet sweater with brown pants, crimped hair and chunky heels?

Rosie the Riveter over here is either wearing big flowy skirts or actual mechanic's overalls like the war posters. She's EVERYWHERE throughout the season:

Rainbow tie dye, big hat, overcoat with pinback buttons? Like the guys in the cemetery?

Lady why are you fully lurking behind a pillar and staring at the Hamm Hams

What's my point? Point is... point is...

Gabriel's memories are the same.

RUSSIA - big hammer and sickle neon sign outside, two guys in back playing chess, one with a big bushy beard and the other a flat cap. Background music sounds like traditional/folk Russian music played on a balalaika, but playback on a ratty old stereo.

USA - Route 66 sign, hubcaps, money wallpaper, budweiser neon sign, bar/pool table/pool cues, American flags fluttering in the wind outside, 50s style radio on the shelf, SAME TWO GUYS IN BACK but now playing cards, and the one on the right has a baseball cap instead. And I don't wanna be like "what modern bar would be playing Buddy Holly on the radio" but... after hearing the background music in the Russian cafe, that is a CHOICE.

Hell, check out Not-Billie-Piper back here and her GIANT 50s up-do:

SAME THING AT THE RESURRECTIONIST, YEAH? ALL THE SONGS ON THE JUKEBOX ARE SCOTTISH OR PERTAINING TO SCOTLAND. "Letter from america" by the PRoclaimers starts playing but it was released in fucking 1987

And of course we know this pub is COVERED in Pressburger references, which we know carry way more meaning than simple fun cameos or whatever. Barring that, this is the Scottishest-Pub-est-looking-pub I've ever fucking seen, and it's SO CLEAN.

A fly IN the movie playing on the screen while we watch Gabriel's memories being returned to him from the fly he receives in this memory? More likely than you think (I can't find the movie name! Not in the X-Ray apparently)...

Anyway all that to say I think the show is trying to tell us SOMETHING is wrong the entire season. There's evidence shit's out of order, everything is WEIRD and high saturation, even people's makeup (Crowley's bloody orange half the time), and it all feels Extremely Set up...

OR poorly remembered.

[pamelatheboss]

🪁 #me #girl #flydown https://www.instagram.com/p/CRgjDanrJ5T-iZuafoEaQKsCqh8Q4HwqliG7VE0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ubataclass]

Evito il pedaggio#creazyfly #✈️ #flydown 🛬 (presso Bosco Di Manziana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZE7ZSLp8j/?igshid=bx5pihc3qgma

[pagliachrismusic]

thinking of you upside down... 🌟🔝🦹‍♂️ . Ph @michelleelizabeth_gc . #aerialhoop #circle #byair #strikeapose #fly #freedom #mask #unknown #boy #strech #thinking #future #idyllicworld #mymind #beauty #work #flydown #fantasy #tattoo (presso Flight Club Milano) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxmGIeuI8Fb/?igshid=9r0ldkxlf10y

[wikkedscorpion]

#Repost @taliahwaajidbrand (with @report.for.insta) ... It going down @atlairport has @naturalhairshow up on the boards!!!! #wnhs #welit #atl #hartsfieldjacksonairport #flydown #TaliahWaajidBrand (at Duluth, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwaV1SguPJ/?igshid=1x9rs2to5lbox

[patinadoresoficial]

Se é patins está no ar @petrickhenry - Já falei diversas vezes que amo dar aulas para crianças sim sempre tem algumas particularidades , mas ja imaginou poder marcar a vida delas , la.na frente elas falar que quer ser professor por ter feito aula com você , ou pq sua aula era boa que a inspirou a ser algo na vida . Obrigado Deus por está oportunidade . . . . #squat #squatclean #agachamento #atletismo #ganhandoforca #king9 #personal #guide #run #runner #running #flydown #voandobaixo #motivacao #nutricionista #nutrição #suplemento #suplementos #saúde #saude #gym #work #workout #smartfit #smartfitalunos #tvsmartfit #smartfitbaixoaugusta #follow #shape https://www.instagram.com/p/BuB9SqShnZA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v78bpfu7hzhp

[n8man31]

I got a Re-issue lottery draw at OK Slough #osceola #wildturkey #flydown #nwtf #benelli #3.5 #supermagnum #instagram (at Central Naples, Naples, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQlvulhZMP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ru290mh4rrwc

[costalongu]

Comunque volevo dire una cosa a quelli che fanno tanto gli splendidi con musiche, opere e letture sofisticate... finché i creatori non siete voi avete poco di cui vantarvi. #flydown

Costantino Longu

[heyjadesprite]

strange,,,,, is the cal l of this strange man!!!! i wanna flydown and fe edat his hamd 😕😕

[ubataclass]

Nocovid #outfitinspiration #flydown #toscana#privatplace #onlyformembers #👣🍀 (presso Tuscany, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxu15boWn_/?igshid=1az0mfgl2azs5

[evelinkath90-blog]

Certe cose sconvolgo l’essere tranquillo che vorresti essere. #pertuttocèunlimite #tuesageri #flydown

[doing-life-17-blog]

When you invented RBF and didn't get any credit for it. Fly is down too, to really reiterate the fact that I was the HBIC at pre-k . I do what I want....🖕🖕🖕#doinglife17 #rbfinventor #minniemouse #flydown #hbic #rbf #blog #bloggingbitch #idowhatiwant (at Los Angeles, California)