#I'M SO WORRIED FOR MICHAEL

[slushieplanet]

[hugs-and-stabbies]

sorry for disappearing lol Happy new year!!

[arthursfuckinghat]

Do. Do you. Do you ever think about John reading Arthur's journal. Do you ever think about it. Do you think about John reading all the things Arthur never spoke about. Do you think about John holding the last months of Arthur's life in journal form. Do you think about John learning his brother's secrets. Do you think about it.

[ingravinoveritas]

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I have to say it and here seems to be a safe place, so here goes:

With the exception of Bildad and the final 15, Season 2 could have been an email.

Literally. Crowley walks into the bookshop looks at his phone, says to Aziraphale "Apparently Gabriel and Beelzebub ran off together."

Que the metatron and the entire meltdown from there, and the rest of season 2 is finding out wtf and the 90 minute thing is just domestic life at the south downs and smut.

But that's just me.

Hi Anon. Well, I'm glad that you feel my blog is a safe place to share your opinions--that truly does mean a lot to me. I'm not sure how unpopular your opinion is, though, as I've heard others express similar sentiments/dissatisfaction with the second season. (Also "Season 2 could have been an email" just flat-out made me laugh, so thank you for that...)

I think part of the problem with GO 2 is the difference that we see when thinking of GO season 1. Because even though we know who wrote the script, GO 1 is still the product of the book, and so much of that strong voice and world-building feels like it came from Terry Pratchett. There was a unity of vision and place, and the plot (however occasionally convoluted) made sense and advanced with each episode.

With GO 2, though, that unity and voice were noticeably missing. We know that season 2 was meant to be a "transitional" season, to bridge the gap between S1 and the sequel that Terry and NG had planned (that would then become S3). But multiple writers were brought in to write the "mini-sodes" in each episode of S2, and it created a shift in tone that left the season feeling wildly all over the place. These mini-sodes ended up feeling like little more than filler as the larger plot (which was arguably a lot less interesting) plodded on in the background, and the whole season suffered as a result.

The overall problem was that pacing issues meant that it took much too long for us to get essential information, and the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley was almost relegated to the back burner in favor of focusing on Beez/Gabriel. And that, perhaps, is the most egregious issue with S2--that NG had this incredible chemistry between Michael and David that had absolutely made S1 what it was, and all but wasted it with certain writing choices. In fact, much like S1, it was Michael and David who elevated what they were given far beyond what the writing might have allowed.

I am not trying to diminish whatever direction Douglas Mackinnon may have given them, of course, but so much of what we saw--1941 (which is still one of my favorite Ineffable Husbands eras), 1800s Scotland, and everything in the Bildad sequence--came so brilliantly to life because of Michael and David. And in spite of other plot lines and characters (in the case of 1941, the zombie Nazis) threatening to drag it down. So yes, the overall challenge with season 2 seemed to be information being delivered unevenly, over too long a period of time, with too many characters that did not prove consequential to the main story, and with too little payoff in the end.

As for the 90 minute movie, I think now we'll have to have a resolution to the situation with Metatron, which unfortunately will cut into the limited time that we now have. But I would also love to see a focus on domestic life/smut at South Downs, or at least something that takes the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley seriously--which is very much the main thing that is important to so many of us--and uses Michael and David's chemistry to its fullest effect.

Those are my thoughts on season 2, and in response to your ask. Again, I am sure you are not the only one who has felt this way, and hopefully folks will now feel more comfortable sharing their thoughts as well. Thanks for writing in! x

[bananapolice4ce]

i cant stop thinking about these 2 scenes

[bardic-irritation]

...hey haha. sincerely, my bad.

[beastsovrevelation]

The Hell now, I'm drooling over the Good Omens version of Archangel Michael, too?..

The tag's about Lady Crowley, not myself, but still...

I mean..

She does seem like she'd take and rail you.

[trivalentlinks]

complicated feelings/negativity about 911 (which i've seen the first 6 episodes of), and the character chimney in particular, below cut

so i started watching 911 after some friends from my tumblr dash told me that one of my favourite minor characters from my dash, chimney (the east asian firefighter emt guy who's besties with the black lesbian) was actually a major character on the show

....... and i now see why he's only a minor character on my dash

like does this guy get some serious character growth at some point? Or has my dash just been cherry picking his best moments?

because (spoilers for the first six episodes of 911) so far this guy who's been passing off his boss's cooking as his own and pretended to be a whole different person to try to impress a white girl is not the quite the quietly confident, kind, genuine, and loyal character i was expecting from my dash lmao

but who knows maybe he'll be older and wiser now after this rebar incident

(or maybe now that i have a 3/4 east asian baby boy at home i've become too sensitive about depictions of east asian masculinity in us media)

[kindahoping4forever]

5SOS: Lisbon & Madrid, the warmest of welcomes as we kickoff our Europe run. Obrigado! Gracias!

[rollingwiththecheeses]

So I get back from my mini semi-hiatus because in a few days there will be WWDITS s6 premiere and I can't miss the craziness of tumblr about the last season, and apparently I missed: - S3 of Go almost definitely cancelled cause ˚.✦.˳·˖✶⋆Rumors⋆✶ .˳·˖✦˚ - S3 of Go suddenly alive again (but what about booting NG out?) - Now it's a movie called The Finale (so new script???) - But it's all ˚.✦.˳·˖✶⋆rumors⋆✶ .˳·˖✦˚ and they're all contradictory - A bazillion of sexy backstage photos of our comedic Duo

[yumienikkie]

bllk chapter 267 spoilers

[offthewall1979]

trying not to say anything disparaging about music just bc i'm not in the mood for it atm

[that-girl-glader]

Guys.... I just did the most fanficcy thing😭

I am quite literally about to confess my crush on someone and ask them out with a scavenger hunt at school. OMYLORD. IDK HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS. I'M SCARED.

[elastica1995]

okay last post about my deer children. finally finished painting them <33

[awaywithjay]

Obviously don't know if it's gonna stick the landing, but I'm on episode three of SAFE right now and I don't think I've ever been so neutrally intrigued by this kind of tv show before. No second hand cringe or dread, just constantly and increasingly intrigued by every new revelation.

[lohstandfound]

Dumb deities au concept

Someone comes up with the brilliant idea to put Jake and/or Brooke in charge of some social media content, especially around this new exhibition

The problem?

Brooke has almost zero idea how to even work a phone properly and Jake doesn't understand social media

It becomes clear very quickly after watching Brooke and Jake attempt to make videos that maybe the 'youngest' out of them are not actually the best option