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LET THERE BE LIGHT

This was brought to my attention earlier today, a library, how very fitting.

(Motherwell library)

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Good Omens Gifs Masterlist

!!! Because Tumblr has a link limit in one post, the list is divided into two.

This is part 1, part 2 with Collections, BTS, Promos, Interviews and other is here.

Show:

(general tag for show gifs is goodomensedit)

Episode 1

Earth creation

Crowley tempts Eve

Didn’t you have a flaming sword?

I do hope I didn’t do the wrong thing.

It’d be funny if we both got it wrong, eh?

The first rain starts and Aziraphale shields Crowley

Hastur and Ligur meet Crowley at the cemetery

Crowley signs the contract

Crowley cursing after learning about Arrmageddon

It’s sushi

It’s miracle he hasn’t spotted you yet

Crowley’s ‘Yup’

Sister Mary Loquacious examines the Antichrist

We need to talk

Celessstial harmoniesss

Aziraphale saying no

Aziraphale is invited to lunch and remembers 1793 crêpes

That was scrumptious

Get thee behind me, foul fiend

My point is… dolphins

What are they putting in bananas these days?

Eternityyy

The Sound of Music

Crowley and Aziraphale become undrunk

See a wile, ya’ thwart, am I right?

We’d be godfathers

Godfathers, I’ll be damned

The Nanny

A and C entering the Heaven/Hell office building

They don’t suspect a thing

A and C meet very inconspicuously on a bus

AC on the bus - what if he comes into his full power

Michael’s fluffy hair detail

Aziraphale’s coin trick 

Harry the Rabbit

Crowley complaining about memos

Episode 2

Pornography

Sandalphon - Sodom and Gomorrah

I didn’t mean to fall

Agnes - Thou art tardy

Anathema arrives to Tadfield

Crowley and the plants

Crowley’s hips in his flat

Crowley and Aziraphale bicker about driving speed

Bebop

Flawless

For my money it was just an ordinary cock-up

Big spooky fan, me

A and C are shot

Crowley scares the paintball guy

Crowley removes the stain on Aziraphale’s coat

Don’t your lot disapprove of guns?

Crowley changes the painball guns into real ones

The wall slam

Crowley uses a miracle on Mary Hodges

He had a lovely little toesie-woesies

Let there be light

Oh Lord, heal this bike

Whatever water slides off + ducks

Crowley glaring glarefully

Aziraphale’s shortbread tin

Mind how you go

Episode 3  

Eden - God asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Noah Ark - The animals

Noah Ark - Crowley’s eyebrow

Noah Ark - Not the kids, you can’t kill kids

Noah Ark - How kind

Noah Ark - Are you going to say ‘ineffable’?

Noah Ark - Oy, Shem! 

Crucifixion - Crawley changed to Crowley

Rome - What else I’m going to be, an aardvark?

Rome - Aziraphale tempts Crowley

Arthurian - Sir Aziraphale wants to meet the Black Knight

Shakespeare - Crowley pushing the pull door

Shakespeare - What does your friend think?

Shakespeare - Come on, Hamlet, buck up

Shakespeare - Toss you for Edinburgh

Shakespeare - Hamlet needs a miracle

Bastille - Aziraphale sees Crowley

Bastille - Aziraphale was peckish and has standards

Bastille - I was reprimanded last month

Bastille - Crowley removes Aziraphale’s chains

Bastille - What about if I buy you lunch?

Victiorian - I like pears

Victorian - Do ducks have ears?

Victorian - Obviously

Church - Aziraphale finds out he’s been played

Church - Aziraphale’s surprised face detail 

Church - Sorry, consecrated ground

Church - Aziraphale finds out about ‘Anthony’

Church - The famous Mr. Crowley?

Church - What does the ‘J’ stand for?

Church - You won’t enjoy dying or what comes after

Church - It’d take a real miracle for my friend and I to survive it

Church - Crowley saves the books

60s - Young Shadwell asking Crowley if he’s a witch

60s - You go too fast for me, Crowley

60s - Aziraphale’s tartan cravat detail

Anxious Aziraphale rehearsing what he’ll say to Heaven

The Witchfinder Army

Crowley and Shadwell

Gabriel’s eyes detail

Elvis

I won’t be forgiven. Not Ever.

I don’t even like you

We’re on opposite sides

Bandstand breakup

Have a nice doomsday

Nuclear reactor acting weird

Episode 4  

Gabriel insists about the War - otherwise how would we win it

I’m soft

Gabriel asks Aziraphale about the flaming sword

Michael shows Gabriel the Earth observation files

Michael’s conversation with Ligur

Crowley and the astronomy floating pages

I only ever asked questions

Newt sees the UFO

Pepper muses about whales

Newt faints

One big avocado

Crowley invented selfies

Warlock - You smell like poo

Hastur - He said that I smelled of poo

So long, sucker!

Aziraphale dancing

Demons dancing

Oh… fuck

Episode 5 

Do I look like I run a bookshop?

Crowley in the burning bookshop p1

Crowley in the burning bookshop p2

Aziraphale appears in Heaven

Aziraphale in Heaven realizes that he can posses people

Crowley in the pub - Aziraphale appears

I lost my best friend

Look, souvenir!

Aziraphale waves at Tracy in a mirror

The southern pansy

If you’ve got to go, then go with style!

Aziraphale, Tracy, Shadwell flying

Dog in the basket

Episode 6

Nice dress, suits you

Army human

Bentley explodes

I’m having a moment here

Lick some serious butt

Aziraphale tries to shoot Adam

Dagon encouraging the troops

Book girl, catch

Aziraphale starts telling everybody how he met Crowley

Gabriel and Beelzebub appear at the airfield

Lord Beelzebub, what an honour

God does not play games with the universe

Gabriel and Beelzebub compaining to each other

A and C’s cheeky grin detail and separate details

We are fucked! + detail

Come up with something or I’ll never talk to you again

Aziraphale and Crowley with wings in the time bubble

You’re human incarnate

Aziraphale, Adam, Crowley hand holding

Adam rejects Satan

Anathema asking about Dick Turpin

Hastur calling Michael wank-wings

I’m the Archangel Fucking Gabriel

Shut your stupid mouth and die already

A in Hell asks for a rubber duck

C enjoys the Hellfire in Heaven

Adorable nose scrunch detail

Swap back

Let me tempt you to a spot of lunch?

Aziraphale’s wiggle

Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing

To the world

Ritz ending

Opening title

Dining and flying

Good Omens logo

The flying saucer

Deleted scenes

Crowley being cool and throwing his jacket on the railing

Disposable Demon wants to hit the angel

Crowley thanking the rats in the BT Tower

Aziraphale saves a baby

Parallels and annotations

Subtle clues about the switch

Miracles gesture system and wings

The Them vs. the Four Horsemen - sword, crown, scales

Crowley cuts across the lawn

Aziraphale and sarcasm

The empty flower pot

Aziraphale’s raised wing vs. piano raised lid

Wing cover - AC vs. Eve and Adam

Gardener vs. Nanny - Don’t listen to her/him, listen to me

Eve and Adam vs, Aziraphale and Crowley - Leaving the garden

Neil Gaiman at the cinema

Bentley’s broken door

Aziraphale vs. Crowley dancing

MS face at church - is he trying not to laugh?

Mary Poppins vs. Nanny

AC vs. Victorian swans

Crowley and Aziraphale travelling mirror reflections

David Tennant and Daniel Mays in Good Omens vs. Des

Manips

Crowley realizes that he can’t call Aziraphale

Crowley taps Aziraphale’s shoulder

Janthony

Can I hear a wahoo?

Get this demon a wahoo

Gabriel is a wanker

Heart

When someone starts talking about books or shows

If you make a vow to shield someone

Boop Crowley

Fixed dove scene

Crowley angel flashback

I smell someone spending too much time on social media

Continue to part 2 :).

(last updated 1.1.2021)

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Good Omens season 2 opening sequence

I've been studying the gos2 opening credits/title sequence. Is there a place where people are dissecting it? If you know, please share, because I can't find it! And the sequence is a rabbit hole. Seriously, WHY all the rabbits??!? In space, in the audience, raining down on Jesus(?) and someone wearing a traffic cone hat(?), like you do. And who's the dancing person with blue hair and jacket? And the Aziraphale lookalike with headphones(?) over his hair? Plus so many more not in these particular rabbit photos. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS.

I do know about the s1 bunnies - both in the theater and in Aziraphale's magic show - but this is a lot of rabbit references for a season without any rabbits onscreen, even just to imply the magic tricks going on where we can't see them.

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I haven't seen anyone else say this, but it occurred to me when I rewatched s2 that in episode 6 when The Metatron said Crowley "always asked damn fool questions" that it was glaringly obvious who really threw Crowley out of heaven. It wasn't God. It was The Metatron.

In s1, after the bookshop fire, when Crowley is drunkenly rambling about Lucifer and the guys showing up one day, I feel like he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Perhaps he had already been asking The Metatron questions--things that The Metatron realized would threaten his own standing in heaven.

Maybe Crowley discovered something terrible about The Metatron, but either had that part of his memory wiped after he fell, or didn't know how bad the "terrible thing" was so he hasn't yet connected those dots.

What if The Metatron was the one who originally wanted to take over heaven? What if he's patiently biding his time, disguised as the benevolent voice of God, shaping heaven into what HE wants it to be? What if he framed Crowley, Lucifer, and everyone who "rebelled"??

Consider. By the time Crowley shows up with Lucifer and friends, The Metatron is supremely pissed that his plan might be in jeopardy due to a few nosy angels. But if those angels and other free-thinkers like them were no longer around, The Metatron could relax and continue to direct his puppets as he pleased--all under the guise of doing God's will, of course.

Crowley just wants to ask some questions and make some suggestions. Next thing he knows he's fighting angels because The Metatron sounded the alarm. "Renegade angels are challenging the authority of God!" That's all that needed to be said for all hell to break loose. There's so much confusion. Halos are flying all over the place, weapons are clashing, and through it all I feel like Crowley would be... stunned. He can't see Aziraphale, but his pals Lucifer, Furfur, and others are there so he defends them. In doing so, he's chosen his side, so he's cast out with them.

But he was never on their side to begin with.

The Metatron didn't care. All those damn fool questions got Crowley in trouble. Serves him right. If you watch ep6, you'll see The Metatron clearly has a hatred of Crowley. Did you notice the look he gives Crowley before he has the coffee talk with Aziraphale? That was a pure death glare, with menacing music and all. Watch it again.

The Metatron knows Crowley would never come back to heaven because Crowley thinks God abandoned and rejected him for asking a few questions. The Metatron knows Aziraphale still believes in goodness, in the system the Metatron has crafted, making Aziraphale the perfect angel to manipulate.

What The Metatron doesn't know is the lengths Aziraphale will go to for Crowley's sake, but he's going to find out in s3, big time. The Metatron was so concerned about angels like Crowley he never realized angels like Aziraphale are the most dangerous. I believe the reason why Aziraphale smiles in the elevator is because he knows exactly what he's going to do in heaven. He's going to wreck The Metatron's shit--and The Metatron will never see it coming.

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Are demons really the bad guys?

I mean sure, some of them positively enjoy their jobs and the power, just like some humans do, but they were angels, they were created doing good.

Are they now doing the devils work because they have to and not because they want to?

They have no power to refuse, but what if there was no oversight, what would they choose to do I wonder? What is their true nature?

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CROWLEY + CALLING AZIRAPHALE ANGEL

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It's been 50 days.... I've been suffering from 50 days. Been unwell every single day.

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Is the Book of Life already in the bookshop?

Remember when Jim was telling Aziraphale about how heavy that box was that he was carrying and how tired his arms were? Perhaps he stole the book of life and ran away with it. I imagine the book of life would be a pretty weighty thing.

When Aziraphale opened the box and it was empty, was that a parallel to Crowley in heaven having the clearance to open files and he simply couldn’t see it because he didn’t have clearance?

Is the book already on the shelves after Jim tidied away based on what the first sentence, or name, in the book is? Who is the first name in the book of life?

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Unpopular opinion time.

Seen this tagged lots as when Aziraphale realises they’re actually friends after the books in the bombing incident or it being the first time he calls them friends but it looks to me that there’s just that wee bit more to it than that.

Feels like there’s some regret behind the words friends here, the way his face changes and drops just a touch, that he wants to be able to say something more and that friends most definitely does not adequately describe what they are to each other.

We know Aziraphale finally felt all the feels when he was handed those books and now he’s got to repress and deny it for the sake of their side, keeping up appearances and protecting Crowley.

I’m not saying he would have used a different word or even anything more romantic, just that it would have come across differently, freer.

It’s not just a sweet moment where they get a step closer, it’s a reminder of the chains that bind them.

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Romantic expectations and the story we didn't see: A magic trick hiding in plain sight

Here's a hopeful meta for all my fellow celestial brainrot sufferers out there. Cheers! :)

This idea started as a dead end, trying to track the movements of Crowley’s sideburns/tattoo because I thought time travel shenanigans were afoot. I had to abandon that theory when it was pointed out that David was simultaneously filming as the sideburns-having Fourteenth Doctor, and in-universe Crowley can do whatever he wants with his facial hair whenever he feels like it. But hey - null findings are still findings!

On the bright side, pausing the show to make notations in a spreadsheet forced me to slow down and notice other changes I'd overlooked the first time around: acting choices, costuming choices, references to book lore. And possibly a few surreptitious flicks of the wrist, in places where we’re meant to be focused on the magician’s other hand.

@amuseoffyre and @ineffablefood had a great exchange recently about romance and “the significance of misdirection and three-in-one (magic) tricks” throughout the show. I suspect Neil has done something brilliant with the audience’s long-standing expectations (since the 1990s, really) for the love story between Crowley and Aziraphale to develop. And while it is a wonderful story indeed, playing to this expectation lets Neil distract his audience from the blink-and-you'll-miss-them seeds he's planting for the final chapter.

Continued below the cut...

Let’s start at the beginning of Episode 2. First, context: In the previous installment, Crowley stormed out of the bookshop, was whisked away to Hell by Beelzebub where he learns about the Book of Life threat to Aziraphale’s existence, then returned to the bookshop to dance a little apology dance and hide Gabriel with an unintentionally massive joint miracle. In S2E2, we and Shax catch up with Crowley as he's snoozing in the Bentley.

Shax: “You’re in trouble”

A. J. Crowley, cool as a cucumber: “Obviously. Former demon, hated by Heaven, loathed by Hell. How will our hero cope?”

Interesting! Sarcastic? Yes, absolutely; but that’s also a good 4500 years and an averted apocalypse away from “I’m a demon. I lie,” wouldn’t you say? Someone is sounding a whole lot less depressed and aimless and navel-gazey (do snakes have navels?), and a whole lot more like he’s got a project to focus on, since his "what's the point?" ruminations on the park bench in E1.

And of course we all noticed the costume change right away. Hello, black turtleneck. Feeling cute today, thought I’d cover up my graceful long neck? That sounds unlikely. Let’s put a pin in this one.

There’s also an interesting acting choice going on here. Crowley speaks to Shax in a funny, drawling, too-cool-for-you voice that we haven’t heard in a while. Specifically, not since 1967. If you go back and give the S1E3 scene in the Dirty Donkey a listen, you’ll hear it (and if you know of another instance of it that I've missed, please let me know!). In S2E2, he keeps up this odd voice (if anybody knows what kind of affect this is supposed to be, please do tell!) throughout this dialogue with Shax, except for the brief moment when she first surprises him about the joint miracle having been detected.

1967 was a fun year. Crowley masterminded a heist! And seemed like he was having a ball doing it, right up until his little caper was called off after Aziraphale brought him the thermos of holy water. Crowley spoke to his co-conspirators in that same funny, very 60’s-caper-film voice. He wore a hip 60’s turtleneck. He bought petrol for the only time ever, so he could get those sweet James Bond bullet hole decals for his car (per the book, seen on the Bentley in the show).

Those James Bond bullet hole decals would of course have been part of a promotion for this 1967 release, which you just know our film-enjoying demon went to see in the theater:

Starring this suave, be-turtlenecked guy:

And now - begging your forgiveness - a brief rant.

There are a number of posts out there that refer to Crowley’s S2E2 turtleneck as a flirtatious sartorial choice - actually, ‘slutty’ seems to be the favored accusation. There are even a few posts floating around commenting on how sweet it is that Crowley swaps out his slutty, kinky, throw-me-over-your-desk-and-take-me turtleneck for a more dressy and appropriate collared shirt specifically to attend Aziraphale’s Jane Austen ball. 

Now this is all in good fun, and Crowley does indeed look fantastic here, and I do love a good fangirling sesh as much as the next person. However, fandom’s collective tendency to interpret what we are seeing on the screen through the lens of romantic expectation can, at times, give rise to a kind of blinkered enthusiasm that obscures the original text in a haze that is part Mandela Effect, part unrestrained horniness, and part in-group code talking and identity reinforcement.

Respectfully, Crowley’s black turtleneck does not appear at all in S2E5: The Ball. In fact, it never appears again after the end of S2E2.

For Someone’s sake, let’s collectively pull our heads out of the romantic fog/gutter for a moment and focus on what we are actually seeing in the book and on the screen. For Crowley, this is an uncharacteristic within-period costume change. There is a surreptitious flick of the wrist happening here, out in broad daylight, and we are all missing it.

So here’s a thing. Aziraphale appears to have settled comfortably into life on Earth, his neighborhood, his books, using Crowley as an outlet for sharing his good deeds that he would once have reported to Heaven. Meanwhile, at first glance, Crowley appears stuck in a rut. There he slouches on a park bench with Shax in S2E1: a guy who lives in his car, stagnantly clinging to old familiar habits, mulling over the pointlessness of it all.

Setting aside the bit about living in the Bentley (I’m going to attribute this to well-documented issues between him and Aziraphale, discussed in many other excellent metas, and move on), Crowley has at least two very good, proactive reasons for maintaining his contact with Hell through Shax. First and foremost, it’s a source of information he can use to keep ahead of potential threats to Aziraphale and himself.

But also, I would posit…he kinda likes it.

Recall that book GO was first conceived as a parody, with Aziraphale and Crowley as spy-against-spy (but not really) field operatives in an ages-old cold war between Heaven and Hell. Their entire book dynamic is rooted in the trope of two opposing agents who have been in the field for so long that they now have more in common with each other than with their respective head offices. Their St. James’s Park meetings among other spies and ministers trading secrets are a sendup of what was once a well-known Cold War-era cliché. 

Our contemporary Crowley still likes slick outfits and hellaciously expensive watches and high-performing vintage cars and pens that write underwater while looking like they could break the speed limit. He coaches Shax on how to blend in as a demon on Earth, and he helpfully redirects the wayward contact looking for the Azerbaijani sector chief. He loves improvising and getting away with shenanigans under the institutional radar. And boy golly was he impressed with Jane Austen: master spy, brandy smuggler, and mastermind of the 1810 Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery. 

And if you look at it a certain way, for as long as Crowley has considered himself to be on “[his] own side” - going at least as far back as Job - he could almost think of himself as a sort of double agent. It’s actually a very romantic sort of notion, befitting our hopeless romantic of a (professedly former) demon; but it’s romantic in a very different way than we, the audience, have been primed to watch for.

In other words, in a very “on my own side” kind of way, Crowley really gets a kick out of being a spy. Or at least, dressing up and accessorizing as one, and moonlighting as a good-doing double agent when he can get away with it. And also being a plotting criminal mastermind. Two sides of a coin, really. Just look at Jane Austen.

My point is: No, Crowley did not wait around for Shax to come find him in a turtleneck so that he could go flirt with Aziraphale later. He’ll flirt with Aziraphale no matter what. No, this:

is actually this:

Much like the one he wears to the Dirty Donkey in 1967: 

whilst holy water heist-plotting. Here's a clearer shot with gratuitous Bentley, because I love them:

…and which he'll wear again, with appropriate camouflage, while infiltrating Heaven in S2E6:

That is the 1967 planning a HEIST turtleneck for committing ESPIONAGE and STEALING THINGS in. Because turtlenecks are what modern human master spies wear to get their hands dirty - after all, he saw it in a movie once. 

Crowley dons his tactical turtleneck sometime during the first major break in the action (which doesn't happen until after the joint miracle to hide Gabriel) after he learns about the threat the Book of Life poses to Aziraphale. Loverboy started mentally preparing himself to go after that book immediately upon learning that it was in play as a genuine threat. 

Now let’s pick up at the S2E2 Dirty Donkey scene, reading the story from this angle. Of course, Crowley enables Aziraphale’s delusions about Heaven by hiding information from him, and does not disclose the Book of Life threat when they meet again. They go into the pub, Aziraphale shamelessly paws Crowley’s chest like the seductive Bond Girl he is, and Crowley gets to act all smooth and suave and intimidating as he chases off the interloping Mr. Brown (or Mr. Collins for the Pride & Prejudice fans, take your pick).

Ergo, theory: beginning in S2E2, Crowley is already thinking of himself as a Jane Austen/James Bond action hero (“How will our hero cope?”), psyching himself up to rescue Aziraphale by getting his spy game on and stealing the Book of Life.

Now, watch closely...This is where Aziraphale and Crowley brainstorm their plans to solve the problem they both know about: getting Maggie and Nina to fall in love and thereby get Heaven off their backs. Crowley’s vavoom plan is drawn from yet another movie (“Get humans wet and staring into each other’s eyes - vavoom, sorted. I saw it in a Richard Curtis film.”). But Crowley also implicitly shares his solution to the problem he hasn’t told Aziraphale about. And true to form, Crowley’s Jane Austen solution isn’t the same as Aziraphale’s Jane Austen solution. 

Two solutions that fail by the end of Season 2, and a secret third one that might still work...and there's our magic trick of three.

‘“I’m lost. Am I doing a rainstorm?” Yes, babe. And a heist, too - just not until season three. Can I get a wahoo!? 

I won’t spend time on A Companion to Owls during this meta, except to note that in all three minisodes, we get to watch stories that involve Crowley acting as a double agent on “his/their own side” - successfully making Hell and Heaven think he’s fulfilling their will while saving Job’s goats and children; failing to fool Hell when he does a good deed in Edinburgh; and of course, collaborating with Aziraphale whilst evading detection as an infernal turncoat during the Blitz.

(Because this is getting long, I'll also skip over Crowley's interrogation of Jim in this episode - I'll probably come back to that in another meta. But interrogating is a rather spy-ish thing to do.)

When we catch up with Crowley again later, he’s already slipped out of the bookshop, having left Aziraphale to his biblical reverie about Job. He saunters snakily down Whickber Street as usual, but with a very pointed and swift glance over his shoulder (see pic above). This demon is up to something - possibly something we didn’t get to see, something that may have happened offscreen while he stepped out. In any case, knowing there’ve been unfriendly angels in the neighborhood that morning, he’s rightly concerned about being spied on.

From this point until the beginning of episode six, there isn’t a whole lot of opportunity for Crowley to make any next moves. He babysits the bookshop, during which time he manages to wring some crucial information out of Jim; he follows his Crowley’s Angel around like a puppy, and downs a bottle of red like a good old fashioned lovesick boy once that’s been pointed out to him. If any plotting or scheming is underway, this occult being is keeping stumm for now.

This has been a long one, so I’ll wrap up with Crowley’s infiltration of Heaven with Muriel. The turtleneck disguise works (Archer fans, be vindicated!) long enough to gather some information that will be crucial not just to the denouement of S2, but also to Crowley’s journey in S3 (previous post on Crowley's Fall, Saraqael, and memory wiping). And Aziraphale gets to enjoy that view exactly zero times. The point isn’t oh, a turtleneck! How flirty! So cunty! So cute! Y’all. Everything matters. The costume change was a deliberate choice. In-universe, Crowley’s decision to wear his special spy turtleneck for spying in is a signal that he is out doing spy things, even as we watch.

In sum: Beginning in S2E2 and continuing through the end of the season, Aziraphale and Crowley are actively living out the scripts of two parallel, concurrent, and completely different Jane Austen stories. But you and I, dear fellow audience member, we came here for a comedy with a hefty jigger of romance, and that’s what Neil gave us to focus on. And right up until the Final 15, that was the only story we saw.

Meanwhile, Special Agent A. J. Crowley doesn’t have time to mope around at the end of S2E6. He’s kicked down, but he’s not out. He's got a Book of Life to steal, a very serious bone to pick with a certain memory-wiping angel, and his Angel and the world to save. 

“‘Heigh ho,’ said [romantic, optimist, former demon, hero, master spy] Anthony Crowley, and just drove anyway.”

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So heaven has the archangels and the archangel supreme all of whom are overseen by the metatron.

Hell just has the dukes of hell headed up by the archduke and no-one above them overseeing them? So Beelzebub was the one giving orders in hell?

You see where this is going?

The archangel supreme position has now gone to Aziraphale. Where would we find a demon powerful enough and clever enough to step into Beelzebubs shoes? Certainly none of the mob who showed up in the bookshop.

And whoever gets the job can run things as they see fit, no oversight.

Someone who could perhaps use their position and power to try to stop what’s coming….

Beelzebub and Gabriel leaving has quite neatly cleared the way for the two ineffable idiots to stand in positions of power, parallel and opposite to each other, funny that.

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A demon downs a vial of poison in order to save the life of a stricken human. A human who had just seen their partner get shot and killed as a result of how they were forced to live. The demon mocks the idea of offing one's self, and effectively takes the bullet out of the human’s gun. Later, he swears off laudanum, claiming to never want to try it again. But then Crowley is sucked down into hell and taken away. Time passes and Aziraphale is alone.

A demon asks an angel for holy water, and is shot down. The angel sees the danger in this, and cannot be convinced that handing over a loaded gun, a pill, a small vial of laudanum would be safe for the demon. He does not trust what Crowley would do with it, despite his promises. They walk away from each other. The crumpled note floats on a body of water yet it combusts. Time passes. They are both alone.

During the blitz, at the church. We see Crowley eyeing up the holy water as if thinking of stealing it. After the books are saved from burning and they’re driving away—bathed in orange firelight and speeding through the blitzed city—Aziraphale asks if there’s anything he can do for Crowley. Neither of them mention holy water. If they had, that bubble would have burst like the bottles of liquor in the back and that fragile thing they were eking out would have spilled, quite dangerously for the demon, all over the two of them. Instead, hours later, the demon has a gun leveled at the angel’s head and is asked to trust him, to pull the trigger with the knowledge that it won’t hurt him. There is a bullet in this gun but be not afraid i will not let it hurt me. You need to trust in that, trust in me, trust in us. The trigger is pulled. Time passes.

An angel sits in the passenger seat of a demon’s car, much in the same way as he did decades prior. The car is not moving but there is an orange glow about the street they’re parked on, illuminated signs advertising love or an approximation of. He hands the demon a thermos—a silly object, one that is as sturdy as it is branded with Aziraphale’s colors, personalized, a reminder of who it came from. This one, at least, can’t shatter. He loads the tartan bullet into the gun and hands it over to Crowley, apologizing in his obfuscated way for taking so long to trust him with it. Apologizing for not keeping up. Blaming Crowley for going too fast. The car is not moving as he exits the Bentley. Crowley has no way to test if it's real holy water, other than trust. Time continues to pass.

An angel and a demon save each other’s lives by taking a bullet for each other—one spilled out and splashing in a bathtub, the other standing still in a pillar of orange flame. This time, neither of them shot the gun. They committed to robbing the grave knowing it would be rigged to shoot. Time passes but they run alongside it, doing their best to carve out some peace together after everything. Time passes but they pass it together.

Time stands still. An angel and a demon are facing off in a bookshop, flanked by a looming unticking clock and the lack of birdsong. They are both looking down the barrels of their trust in each other. The demon fires first, but lands somewhere off to the side of the angel’s head. That had been the plan once, but not anymore.

The angel shoots. As it turns out, the angel’s aim had always been better.

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I think it would be better for everyone if I were to be left alone in the future. Don't you?

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Good Omens 2 - Glasses Off

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So what do we think about the title sequence? We know it includes lots of easter eggs and nods to bits within the season which I'm sure have been pored over and dissected plenty but the simplest thing on show during the titles for me is Crowley leading the whole way.

Even right up to heaven. Why would Crowley be leading the way to heaven and not Aziraphale?

We know in S1 they swapped places in the intro repeatedly, is S3 going to be Aziraphales turn to lead the way?

Anyway, no fully formed thoughts on this, just needed to write it down and I’ll hopefully revisit it later.

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Maggie, Nina and the book of life

Reading all these theories about the editing and metatron and the book of life and I get to wondering what if it really is, as its title says, the book of LIFE.

As in those names written therein are given life, human life.

To an angel this may be seen as a punishment, life on earth is dirty, messy, difficult and actually quite short, and of course you only get one go at it.

They effectively become erased from their old existence and in what is a blink of an eye to eternal beings erased from human existence too. But it is a mercy, a punishment but not total damnation or hellfire.

And then this leads me onto Maggie and Nina, who don't quite fit in, who can't be influenced by Aziraphale at the ball.

I'm less convinced about Nina's part in this, I haven't worked it all out in my head yet, but Maggie has a lot of angelic qualities, Nina even calls her angel and Maggie is the one who could invite demons into an embassy of Heaven.

Was she put next door to Aziraphale so he could watch over her? Does he know more about the book of life that we realise?

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I just love how even in a busy soho street, we frequently see cars passing by, there is always a single empty parking space for the Bentley. Almost miraculous one might say.

Sorry/not sorry for the gif I used

Little extra:

I also love how Aziraphale parked it on double yellows on the return for Edinburgh, naughty!