#not a shitpost but its good omens babyyyy

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okay so i think it is almost definite that crowley and aziraphale do have a falling out right at the beginning of s2, and we have a time skip

people (understandably i guess) are getting vocal about crowley's aspect placement, but iirc mr g has said that the snake likes to be visible and therefore will move with his hairline. with that in mind, if we look at his sideburns (which btw, yum, dont @ me)

are way shorter here (and the aspect is just above his jawline), compared to:

plus his hair is shorter after the skip AND the glasses change

and yeah the skip may only be a couple of months/a year or so after the falling out, but so soon after agreeing to be on each other's side? after toasting to the world? im finding the nearest bridge

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no seriously a huge fuck you to michael sheen for having eyes

GOOD OMENS - 2.06 Every Day

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THE RASCALLY DEMON Crowley (David Tennant) and the neurotic angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) put aside their differences to pull off one doozy of a Hail Mary and prevent an impending Apocalypse in Good Omens' first season. The task cemented the pair's unconventional friendship. So what are divine beings who have fallen out of grace with both Heaven and Hell to do for an encore?

The answer lies with archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm), who shows up unannounced on the doorstep of Aziraphale's London bookshop. Suddenly, Aziraphale and Crowley are caught up in a caper of biblical proportions- but also a more intimate tale.

"It's a mystery" showrunner Neil Gaiman tells SFX. "It kicks off a story that doesn't have giant consequences for the universe, even if it does have consequences for Aziraphale and Crowley. We have a lot of the marvellous Jon Hamm, who is the angel Gabriel and turns up at the beginning stark naked, carrying a cardboard box with no memory of who he is. In the same way, it is about Aziraphale and Crowley having to get involved with humanity in a way that they haven't before.

"They get dragged in slightly against their will to try to sort out the love life of Aziraphale's tenant," he continues. "Her name is Maggie (Maggie Service) and she runs the

record shop next to the bookshop. You'll see the coffee shop over the road, which is Nina's (Nina Sosanya). The relationship between Maggie and Nina is one that Crowley and Aziraphale try to fix, and mess up, because they are not good at human relationships, even if they can do miracles."

Truth be told, Gaiman never originally intended this arc to serve as Good Omens' second instalment. The TV series was based on Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 novel. The two collaborators had partially hashed out the details for a sequel to the fantasy comedy, late one night in a hotel room. This, however, is not it. Gaiman instead plotted a new narrative that could provide the connective tissue between the first season and a theoretical season three, if it happens.

"Because the hypothetical season three exists, there is a story that is there, and I didn't feel that we could drive straight from season one into that," Gaiman explains. "I knew what the stakes were. I knew what the parameters were. I also know that I had David and Michael. I had the angels from plot number one. I had demons from plot number one. And with anybody that I wanted to bring back, but didn't have room for right now, I did not have to bring them back as themselves.

"I had absolutely nothing for Madame Tracy to do in this plot, but I would be damned if Miranda Richardson wasn't going to be in this. She is one of my favourite people in the world. She is hilarious and is so good. And I knew I was going to have a new demon replacing Crowley as Hell's representative in London/the UK. Miranda's demon Shax is the best demon you could want."

It's late February 2012 and SFX is in Edinburgh for a set visit. A soundstage in Pyramids Studies has been transformed into a street in Soho. The visible local stores include the aforementioned book, coffee and record shops, as well as a magic establishment. In the middle of them all stand Aziraphale and Crowley, the latter in close proximity to his classic Bentley. It's close to the end of the six-episode season, so exactly what the duo is discussing constitutes a spoiler. We can say, however, that Aziraphale has picked up the pace. Time is of the essence as Shax marshals her forces to descend on Aziraphale's store and retrieve Gabriel.

"This is really Shax's first time out on Earth," Gaiman explains. "She is working very diligently and very hard in Hell for a long time. Now she is on Earth, trying to figure it all out. She's just discovering what Crowley has known for 6,000 years, which is that if you're a demon and come up with a brilliant plan to screw up the lives of humanity, people will get there first and do worse than anything you could have imagined! She's coming to terms with that.

"She is having to deal with the first crisis on her watch, as well, which is the disappearance of the archangel Gabriel from Heaven. It would be fair to say that by the end of the story, she is leading as much as she can get from Hell's requisition department - a legion of Hell - in an attack on a Soho bookshop."

When audiences catch up with Aziraphale again, he's enjoying his time among humans. He owns most of the block in a Soho neighbourhood, and he's meddling in Nina's love life. Meanwhile, Crowley has been living in his car, with his plants sitting on the back seat. He's grumpy about his current status quo, but frequently hangs out at Aziraphale's. The duo began as antagonists, but their history and blooming relationship will be fleshed out in flashbacks.

"One of the enormously fun things I came up with in the idea of minisodes," Gaiman explains. They are 25-minute-long episodes within the episode. We have three of them over our six episodes. Each of them is like one of those chunks of episode three (in season one). Whereas the longest one of those was four or five minutes, if that, these are full stories.

"You get to have the story of (put-upon Biblical figure) Job and you learn Aziraphale and Crowley's part in the story. Then writer Cat Clarke takes us to Edinburgh in the 1820s for a tale of body-snatching and attempted murder that the boys get involved in," he adds.

"Finally, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman reunite the League of Gentlemen in a Nazi-period story that takes place very shortly after the episode in the church. That one was the only one I said had to be there, because I fell in love with our Nazi spies in the church I kept thinking, "What would happen if they essentially came back as zombies with a mission from Hell to try and investigate whether or not Crowley and Aziraphale were actually fraternising?"

Gaiman admits that one of the greatest challenges has been filming Good Omens simultaneously with his upcoming show Anansi Bays. The two shoot within throwing distance of each other, but are both time-consuming endeavours.

"If I could go back in time, I would go back to 16 September 2020, when Douglas Mackinnon (co-producer) and I got the phone call from the Amazon bigwigs to say, "We have

good news for you and interesting news for you," Gaiman recalls. "'The good news is we are greenlighting both Good Omens and Anansi Boys. The interesting news is you are going to have to do them both at the same time.'

"I would go back to then and I would throw myself on the call and say, 'Neil, don't! This is unwise.' That we are doing them both together is great. The amount of sleep I am not getting is monumental and monstrous.

"It's a little bit like childbirth, in that I managed to forget all the things that drove me nuts about the first one. Having said that, I managed to fix all the things that really drove me nuts making season one which is great. We just have a whole new set of problems making season two."

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so hang on you're telling me that crowley's idea of how you fall in love is to have two people caught in the rain, and shelter together under an awning? fuck OFF

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also presumably from the job storyline? the cinematography in this season is SERVING

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A beard of biblical proportions. 😈

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The fact that the Bentley does whatever Aziraphale wants and keeps inching towards him when he leaves the car. And the Bentley is an extension of Crowley, it's a part of him and he can feel everything going on in and around her. He's so completely in love with Aziraphale that even his CAR is absolutely whipped for Aziraphale. Michael mentioned in an interview that the Bentley likes Aziraphale best and, yeah, of COURSE she does. She's Crowley's. I am unwell. She turned yellow and gave him candy.

absolutely!!! i joke about it but bentley is absolutely a character in the show rather than just a vehicle, she's at least portrayed as having a subtle personality and i think it makes sense that she responds to aziraphale the way she does... he is who her owner (dad? who knows) loves and will do what she can to make him comfortable... plus, she's a diva but knows what she can and can't get away with - and i suspect that she knows to toe the line with aziraphale.

that being said, i think it must be difficult for crowley to see that; to see her respond to him the way she does, especially if he considers their bond to be pretty unique ✨

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You're nobody, and you'll live and you'll die a nobody.

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woahwoahwoah why am i only noticing this now

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this is a half-finished thought ive had in my head since michael forgot who the metatron was. michael is very clever and seems to pay attention to detail (special example being the job scene where they recognised the childrens' names). then, the miracle on gabriel seemed to falter slightly with them, where they were on the cusp of realising it was in fact Gabriel ("do i know you?" - paraphrased). so why... would they not remember the metatron, but all the other archangels did? what did michael potentially do, that would mean they suddenly don't recognise him?

Something something the way that Crowley introduced himself to Aziraphale the first time they met in the garden and reacted as if they had never met before. Something about him later behaving as if he did actually have those memories of their time in Heaven together and trying to pass it off as being someone different now. Something about Heaven's way of punishing angels that go against the plan by erasing their memories. Something about Crowley seeing Gabriel without his memory and saying "ask him properly." Something about "remember it now" "it hurts, to remember. my head isn't built for that" "I know. Do it anyway"

Something about "I know. Looking at where the furniture isn't"

Something about I know

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✨THOSE CROSSED LEGGIES✨

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so i will admit that my knowledge of the old testament (even less the tanakh) is dicey at best, so i did a little revision. book of job essentially is the test of job's trust and loyalty to god, satan buying into this by taking away all of his earthly comforts, wealth etc., to encourage job to abandon his beliefs and score a point for the Opposition

so what if crowley's involvement in this point of the story is to make job's life an absolute misery? bring him suffering because that's what he's been ordered to do? and aziraphale has to pretty much sit by and watch it happen? they just have to trust that this is god's plan and everything happens for a reason?

if this is the case, it would stand to reason that they both lament their roles on earth, having to watch humankind be tested in ways that are ultimately cruel and unnecessary. we know from the crowley clip that crowley later on ends up questioning the whole point of angels and demons and the structure of it all, what their purpose is... what crowley's (and by extension - aziraphale's) purpose is?

what if they realise that they can seek comfort from each other here? what if that line of thinking, and realising that only the other truly understands them, starts at this very moment?

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LOOK AT THEM

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oh i think god has definitely Left The Building, and i think possibly left around the time of speaking to job, perhaps:

do we know for sure frances mcdormand wasn't in s2 except for the job bit because she couldn't actually record her lines or is there a deeper reason to god only being present in the past and not tell us about the present. like, idk, for example, god being actually gone - for one reason or the other - and no one knows except, obviously, the metatron, who now is trying to... well. take control by doing whatever he wants to do in every shitty way possible.

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So there’s a faint miracle sound when metratron gives aziraphale the coffee. And he does ask if anyone has asked for death yet instead of coffee. I do not trust him.

YOU KNOW i just watched the last ten mins with my bf (he's weak, didn't do an all nighter), AND NOTED THIS EXACT THING IN MY DRAFTS. we know he's up to trouble, because of the look he gave crowley as he and aziraphale left the bookshop... plus:

"ah well! always did want to go his own way... always asking damn fool questions, too!"

im planning on rewatching the series tonight, bc i think in my excitement i missed a few bits from ep3-5 (watched ep6 like a mf hawk), to see if there are any clues that i missed. i felt it strange af that he gave aziraphale coffee in the first place, so there must be something in it... will be rewatch ep3 in particular very closely💀✨

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the thing is, season 3 is more than likely going to be greenlighted if that decision is solely based off of viewership, this fandom and the wider gomens community is going to absolutely obliterate prime servers it will be watched and rewatched so much

and that means that in a couple of years time, we get to do this ALL OVER AGAIN. i mean, ridiculous that im getting excited for a s3 when s2 isn't even released yet but it genuinely makes me so happy that this isnt the end, we'll have the opportunity to do this all over again❤️