Michael and David have jokingly talked about doing a stage show of Good Omens where they switch roles every night. I really want to see this happen after season 3 🤗
I suppose I should tell you that last week I saw Nye and got to meet Michael Sheen at the Stage Door.
First off - yes, he is a literal angel. I can see why Neil Gaiman has said this and casted him the way he did. Does he have to do Stage Door, night after night? No. But he does, and with so much kindness.
For example, after he had spoken with each and every one of us, given each person the full light of his attention (there were about 30-40 people there that night) he scanned the crowd to be truly sure everyone had had their moment before walking off into the street.
But the moment I want to tell you about is this. After being mortified by a friend telling MS about my Aziraphale cosplay (the cosplay wasn't that great and I was trying to play it cool about the GO obsession geeeeez), I watched as MS lifted his hand and lightly touched the beige blazer I was wearing.
"Well this is a very Aziraphale colour," he said to me he said.
I met my hero on Saturday after getting the chance to watch him perform in this fantastic play. MS is literally the only person on earth I'd go to such lengths to meet and he's the only celebrity I'd ever want an autograph from or an interaction with. So grateful to this wonderful man for giving me one of the very best experiences of my life 💜
MS is every bit as lovely as everyone says. He's a goddamn delight and so gracious with his flustered fans. He smells divine too 🤭
Just out of curiosity I checked my Fitbit stats for that magical night. You can literally see the spikes ... The pre-show anticipation, the moment he came out on stage and the moment around midnight when he was at the stage door. Be still my heart 😊
I think that Crowley and Aziraphale’s “home” settings say a lot about their relationships to heaven/hell and morality.
Let’s start with Crowley’s flat. He’s more of a minimalist in terms of style.
In the original description it was described as all white, and I believe @neil-gaiman once answered a tumblr question and said it’s because of all white was the height of chic interior design in the 80s, but it was changed to reflect a more modern chic design.
But I think it’s also related to the fact that Crowley didn’t “fall” and instead “sauntered vaguely downwards.” The minimalism is a lot more like the style of heaven than it is hell. And maybe it’s not all white anymore, but it’s still keeping the minimalist design. There’s a little piece of heaven still sticking around.
This analysis gains more traction when compared to the design of Aziraphale’s bookshop/hell.
The bookshop is cluttercore. It’s warm and full of personal things. No one would ever describe the style as minimalist.
And while the set of hell lacks the warmth and love, it IS full of stuff and things and items that don’t quite have a place to be but are there anyways.
I think the similarities between Crowley’s flat/Heaven and Aziraphale’s bookshop/Hell perfectly illustrate where Aziraphale and Crowley find themselves in terms morality.
Crowley may have fallen, but this is just one more way that he hasn’t succumbed to the ways of hell.
Aziraphale may still be an angel, but he can’t help forming attachments to earthly objects and is perfectly fine to “sully the temple of [his] celestial body.”
They really are on their own side. And this is just one subtle way of showing that visually!
On Privilege. I know that there is a lot of love for Michael here, but I want to talk for a minute about one of the things that makes him such a spectacular human being. (there will be a video linked below). Michael came from a working class family, in a blue collar town. The fact that he became one of the most formidable and beloved actors of our generation is no mean feat. But he came to realize that the support and structures he had along the way were a privilege that is not afforded to many, and even less now than when he was a child. Moreover he did the work to understand the systemic issues that arise from racism and classism and how those things shape our society as a whole. The fact that he did that work, and acknowledges those issues is already a big deal, so few people ever do. Most especially not the ones for whom it is no longer an issue. But he did, and he does. And then he decided to turn around and invest his own time and money into addressing the root causes of inequality in whatever way he can. The idea being to create a future where people of all means are given the ability to have a voice, so that our respective societies are a more accurate reflection of us all, and made more equitable by doing so. Fucking bravo man. Seriously
Michael's up on the wall. I have to look at this picture everyday to remember it wasn't just some wonderful dream. Can't wait to see Nye again next month!
Lots of fellow GO fans waiting at the stage door. CLK.ig made these fab stickers and gave them out to everyone 💜 And MS was so adorable.. he did a little jump of surprise when he walked out to find all of us waiting to meet him, even though it happens every night 🤭
(Pics by the lovely Courtney, whose camera was far superior to mine own)