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So this means it getting renewed right??

Ineffably amusing indeed! Cheers to Good Omens Season 2 debuting as the #1 Comedy on Prime Video! @neil-gaiman

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Angelic Bar Keeper. Why is the bar keep in The Resurrectionist is wearing the tartan pattern reserved for Angels?

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Shostakovich You Say? That's It Hold It Right Up To The Camera So We Can See It

There's something the creators of this show want us to see here. After being expelled from the Soviet Union for a work deemed corrupt Shostakovich wrote this piece to try and win favour with Stalin and gain entry back into the Soviet Union. It worked. Does this story mimic Aziraphale's arc of expulsion and then acceptance back into Heaven?

Even more compelling is when we look deeper at the lyrics of the song much of the Symphony is based upon and imagine Metatron as the artistic barbarian:

Rebirth English translation © Philip Ross Bullock

With his lethargic brush, an artist-barbarian Scrawls over a painting made by a genius, Tracing his own illicit sketch Over it without reason.

But with the years, these alien colours Fall away like decrepit scales; And the creation of that genius Appears before us in its former beauty.

In the same way, delusions disappear From my anguished soul, And in their place, visions arise within it, Visions of pure and primal days.

Could our Season 2 be Metatron's scrawl and Season 3 be the flaking off of the paint to reveal the truth underneath?

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Two Clues in the Original Text

Clues with a captial 'C'. There are two places in the Good Omens novel which mention changing the already written plan plus, that minds and memories could be altered.

Firstly at the airbase Beezlebub and our antagonist Metatron argue with Adam Young, Crowley and Aziraphale over the thwarting of the already decided upon Great Plan (or is that the Ineffible Plan?)

Adam outright suggests that this plan can be changed and just because it is written doesn't stop this fact. Metatron is absent from this scene in the TV production but in the book he's right there, listening.

The second clue from the novel comes only a few pages later while our Ineffible Husbands are chatting away on a bench in St. James Park. Crowley comes up with something that might be just a touch too close to the truth:

This tall stranger is confirmed to be Death (here). Shame it's not Metatron as that would have been very neat and tidy! What it does demonstrate is that the minds and memories of Angel and Demon can be messed with as both forget what they had been talking about after Death interrupts them.

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This is where it started. Good Omens 2 left me fairly confused. Reading this was an introduction to the idea that Metatron is much more of a major player in events. That he could be manipulating not just others in person but actually rewriting parts memories and history to get the outcome he wants.

The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

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