#good omens easter egg

[foolishxprincipalitee]

SCOTLAND FOREVERRR 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🪺

This is a Good Omens 2 Easter egg I've yet to see anyone else point out.

When Aziraphale is in Edinburgh investigating the record mystery, he borrows a cell phone from a Scottish man to call Crowley.

The busted old phone has a Union Jack wallpaper.

Once Crowley hangs up, Aziraphale miraculously repairs the phone to say thank you, as well as putting blessings upon Twitter and Grindr.

The blessed phone also now has a Scottish flag wallpaper! 😇

I interpret this as a pretty clear statement from Neil Gaiman supporting Scottish independence.

Made a video about this for TikTok too.

[grey-and-green]

What does it meaannnnnnn????

In S2 E3 when Crowley and Shax are talking out on the street, the glasses she’s wearing in one of her weird little disguises look very familiar.

Sorry for the low photo quality, but these are the same sunglasses, no?

I don’t know what exactly to extrapolate here. Simplest explanation is that Crowley left things behind in the flat, and Shax is just taking his stuff.

But if that’s true, was anything else left behind? I don’t want to imagine Hell getting their hands on any important keepsakes (the eagle statue from 1941?) or, worse, any compromising evidence Crowley may have acquired or kept.

To be honest, I don’t know what this means, but surely it means something!!!!

[legbird]

GUYS i have Found something silly. Today in history class a guy known as The Scarlet Pimpernel was mentioned. He’s from a novel of the same name if I’m thinking correctly? But what he’d do was save aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution. This may be the brainrot talking but that sounds Awfully similar to what Crowley did to Aziraphale (saved azi as he was put to be guillotined due to how he was dressed like an aristocrat) - and don’t the outfits of Crowley and the dude look similar?? Aswell as the fact crowley is wearing RED when he barely ever wears anything besides black and greys. Maybe this is a lil reference to the novel or something!! (or i am just coping horribly) Hope i dont sound insane !

[yeahyeahno]

I love this little nod on Gabriel's sweater to the winged hourglass that is present throughout various versions of the book (section dividers, the Paul Kidby "Occult" version, the author photo of @neil-gaiman and Terry Pratchett on the back cover). It's just such a lovely detail. I wanted to point it out even if it was obvious to everyone but me because I think it points to how meticulously this whole version has been created. I kept noticing it and it made me smile every time.

Thank you to all who worked on making S2 so BAFFLINGLY wonderful. I look forwards to S3 (after several rewatches of S1 and S2 with much speculating by me and bruising if not breaking of my emotional kneecaps by Sirs Gaiman and Finnemore).

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Michael: There are what people like to call Easter Eggs hidden around in most scenes.

David: Yes.

Michael: And one of the things that I take a lot of enjoyment out of is seeing if David can pick up on what they are in any particular given scene. And I'll say to him, 'So in this café, there is a very obvious reference to... whatever.'

David: You should remember I have contact lenses and sunglasses on, I can't... I see very little.

[captainfantasticalright]

The Omen and Good Omens: side by side scenes.

Arrival/Birth of the Antichrist:

Arrival of the demonic nanny:

Birthday celebration of the “Antichrist”:

Arrival of the Hellhound:

Entrances to manors:

Discussing burnt records due to buildings mysteriously going up in flames:

*and some more.

[livhowlett]

I don't of anyone has notice but there's an 'Amazing Mr.Fell" poster in the magic shop

Right over Crowley/David's shoulder

[blainke-omens]

So it turns out getting positive reinforcement on a drawing every 10 minutes for the better part of a week really does wonders for my dedication to finishing it and pushing myself on the details. who woulda thunk. Anyway. Ive been having an absolute blast drawing this and slowly creating the studio space here and I can't wait to draw all the fun new ideas yall gave me !! Crowley does pottery !!!

[seventeenthya]

I made this awhile ago and it's silly and not that good but I'm also sad and I always miss them. also crowley is a drunk snake and aziraphale is so done with them

[nocterish]

Our side

My Good Omens brainrot continues and there will be more

Honestly my fav work after for so long

[PRINTS]

[portraitofalonelydyke]

ok I’m not a meta writer or an easter egg hunter but I’ve been waiting for someone else to talk about this structure that the good omens title leads to because it’s driving me bananas

when it first pans up, it looks closed off like there’s walls around the pillars

but the next time we see it we can see the four pillars and a domed roof

and i know it’s not a perfect match to the shape of the structure, but it’s pretty darn close to the bookshop layout

and the domed roof that we don’t really get to see in the show is very clear in concept art

and uh what could the bright white light in the middle of the structure that the figures are walking towards be?

anyway all this to say this concept image makes me really nervous

[grey-and-green]

Wait a second…

There’s a lot of talk about Crowley’s other sculpture, but it looks like holy water isn’t the only thing they wanted to steal from a church.

Seriously????

Smitten, I believe.

[miss-americanbi]

soul-crushing thought of the evening: what if aziraphale’s favorite color is yellow because that’s the color of crowley’s eyes

[blueskyandpudding]

Michael Sheen & David Tennant looking like an old married couple in Good Omens season 2 Easter Eggs

[youryurigoddess]

On love and sacrifices

There’s so much more to this scapegoating business and big sacrifices referenced in the Good Omens narrative than the literal goats. And they’re only getting bigger, louder, final.

But let’s take it slow and start with the beginning, quite literally — i.e., with the Good Omens 2 title sequence. As we follow Aziraphale and Crowley on their journey, the universe warps and their usual left and right side positioning switches during the magic show (not accidentally an act of trust and sacrifice required both from the angel and the demon). They stay so throughout the next scene, which is their little dance in the air, and after they seemingly get settled on the A. Z. Fell and Co.’s roof and back to normal, the flipped sky in the background suggests that something’s not quite right yet. In the central part of the shot looms a large, humanlike shadow of the Elephant Trunk Nebula.

The nebula is a part of a constellation called Cepheus, after an Ethiopian king from the Greek mythology who agreed to sacrifice his only daughter in order to appease the gods and end a local calamity started by her mother and his wife, Cassiopeia (talk about generational responsibility). With time and a delightfully ironic twist of fate, the name of said daughter, Andromeda, became more famous than that of her father. Although she was chained up to a rock and offered to the sea serpent Cetus, the girl was spotted by the warrior Perseus, casually flying over the sea — either on the back of the Pegasus or thanks to a pair of winged sandals — after his victory over Medusa. He fell in love on the spot, defeated the serpent (with the help of a magical sword or Medusa’s severed head, depending on the varying sources), and freed the princess. That’s not exactly where their story ends, but we won’t be getting into the rest here.

Not surprisingly, Neil has mentioned two parallel child sacrifice stories from the biblical context back in August. The first is one of the big ones — The Binding of Isaac. God's command to sacrifice Isaac, his only son, was a test of Abraham's faith. The angel of the Lord intervenes and provides a ram to be sacrificed in the boy’s place.

The second one isn’t nearly as popular, but you might have heard a variant of it in fairy tales or as the Law of Surprise invoked in The Witcher saga. In exchange for Israel’s victory over its enemies in battle, Jephthah had rashly promised God to repay the debt with the first thing seen on his return back home. The victorious warrior didn’t suspect to see his only child moving innocently "to meet him with timbrels and with dances" though. In horror, Jephthah covered his eyes with his cloak, but to no avail: ultimately, he was forced to honor his vow to God, and the girl was sacrificed. As grisly as it might look like in the Old Master’s paintings, it’s important to remember that human sacrifices weren’t limited to physical offerings only — Jephthah’s daughter might have been offered to God in the sense of officially shunning her family and dedicating her life to service instead, probably sequestered in a temple somewhere.

Interestingly, the main character of a big chunk of the Bible and the reason for the Second Coming happens to be THE most influential child sacrifice in the modern history. You know, a certain 33-year-old carpenter sent by his Heavenly Father to die on a cross for the sins of the mankind? Someone better call Aubrey Thyme ASAP.

Circling back to Aziraphale, he could be also seen as a representative of the concept of filial piety, since Eden willing to personally take a Fall not only for the humanity’s collective or individual transgressions, but the shortcomings of his Ineffable Parental Figure as well. Our favorite angel angel always fights for what is right and good, sure, but why would that be even a thing if God was truly omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent?

If Aziraphale’s medal is anything to go by, it looks like we might get an answer from the way it’s introducing another mythological narrative into the game, that is the story of Daedalus and Icarus. The most absorbing thing about this is the stark contrast to the recurring child sacrifice references for S3 mentioned in this post — Daedalus isn’t a father who wanted to sacrifice his son, it was his attempt to save him from imprisonment that ultimately drove Icarus to his death. The boy ignored his father’s explicit instructions, committing the grave and culturally universal sin of disobedience to one's parents that simply couldn’t go unpunished, one way or another.

But Icarus’s transgression could be seen both as high-flying ambition and striving for personal accomplishment as well as humanitarian sacrifice for knowledge and humanity’s advancement in general.

Similarly to a certain angel who left everything for what superficially seems like a work promotion, but is the ultimate act of love — both for his demon and the children they have been protecting and nurturing together for six thousand years. From the very Beginning, his white wings have been shielding everything he holds dear in this world.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Terry Pratchett painting in the Dirty Donkey pub ❤❤❤