#we NEED more long hair crowley in s3

[something-something-goodomens]

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[madtophatter2]

good omens S3 prediction (S2 SPOILERS!)

so I was thinking about how aziraphale is taking Gabriel's position now he's run off with beebub.

I have a feeling Crowley's going to think of az saying "of course you turned down the offer to be a duke of hell you're the bad guys!" And have a "fine....I'm the bad guy" moment and take beebubs position in hell.

Imagine super snake-ified Crowley with pointy ears, fangs, scales, long hair (pls gaimen, we need more long hair Crowley 🙏🏻). we saw what shax got to wear to fight a bookshop, I wanna see Crowley decked out and looking miserable (full on Our Flag Means Death "kraken" mode).

Then Crowley and az can meet like they're going to fight or initiate the war between heaven & hell (and....jesus?) But they can't do it cus they love eachother.

or Crowley has a "too late, we're fighting, we could have just run off to bloody space together, but you left me"

or have Crowley use "don't worry, I forgive you" if az tries to talk him out of fighting for extra pain.

All this definitely won't happen but I'm fanfic-ing to fill the empty hole left by S2 of good omens (and our flag means death)

[umbel-weed]

thoughts on 12x15

(wow this got long, I’m so sorry, I didn’t think I had that much to say)

the YAS

CROWLEY. Oh my god this is like the best Crowley stuff we’ve had in ages. I have a friend who’s a Crowley girl and that just seems like such a rough time? It’s like being a Cas girl except that rather than his plotlines being inconsistently good, they are consistently terrible. I adore early-show Crowley, but he’s been so painful for me to watch since the trials that I’ve been starting to wish they’d just wind this up and give him a decent death?

But this, this storyline has me sitting up in my seat. This is something for Crowley to do other than ennui, and something for Lucifer to do other than aimless tantrums. You know the s10 finale when Sam tried to kill Crowley and Crowley went all badass on him? It fell flat for me because right from the start it didn’t seem to have any momentum - Crowley might want to be a badass, but he was still headed back to the exact same dead-end Hell situation. This, though, feels like it could last, and I really hope it does. I want a season or two/rest of the show of Crowley-Lucifer chess matches, Crowley flirting with the promise of tragedy and Lucifer gaining a grudging respect for this ridiculous demon before Lucifer finally manages to beat him.

And bonus, Crowley finally gets a proper thank you from the boys (both of them, even more remarkable) - tacit acknowledgement that the nature of their relationship has fundamentally changed in the last few years, and that treating him like a straightforward enemy is getting both unproductive and grating.

CAS. If I have time and nobody beats me to it I’m gonna make a post and/or gifset about Davy Perez and Cas and family, because no way is it coincidence that Cas tells the Winchesters “you’re my family” and then angels show up saying “we’re your family, your real family.” I think this is why I’m thrilled about this development rather than dismayed that we’re falling right back into the same depressingly repetitive storyline. They’ve actually got me believing they’ve reopened it in order to give it a conclusive resolution.

JOSHUA. I spent a good chunk of the rest of this scene flailing at my screen and screeching JOSHUAAAAAAAAA, I am so excited for this development. Just like, don’t kill him please. He honestly seems like the most plausible candidate for endgame angel leader - an isolationist caretaker who’d encourage the angels to stay upstairs and focus on Heaven running smoothly.

the MEH

The SLEDGEHAMMER to the face that is the Sam-directed subtext in this episode. It’s just, there is no subtlety at all. (I may also be a little tetchy because I appreciated the story behind Grace and her boyfriend, but gaslighting “for your own good” is pretty much the only trigger I’ve got, and it makes absolutely zero sense to me that they even tried it. You’d think Sam would be sensitive to somebody doubting their own perceptions, not... actively trying to make them do so.)

HELL is sort of an ongoing issue I have with the show, not so much Davy’s writing here because technical constraints and he’s basically just following everyone else’s lead. I love getting a peek at the weird and/or horrifying nuts and bolts of running Hell. I love the “which I think we can all agree isn’t enough babies for a decent meal,” and the tort reform, and the idea of demon deals big enough to require the king’s stamp of approval. 

But also this stuff is like bringing a suburban lawn dispute to the President of the United States. Even more so, because Hell is huge. Hell is every damned soul since Cain, minus the couple hundred or so killed since season 2. There’s gotta be some sort of hierarchy in place - for Crossroads if nothing else, because it has to appear organized and reliable - and Crowley is both a crossroads demon and a businessman. How the hell has he not learned how to delegate?

The only thing I can think of is that all of Crowley’s reliable middle management people are dead and he hates his job so much he puts less and less effort into finding effective replacements (and is then validated when they turn out to be borderline incompetent scheming backstabbers, perpetuating the spiral). 

KELVIN. I am v intrigued by this guy and hoping he doesn’t immediately die, but like... what the fuck kind of angel name is Kelvin. “These are my associates, Barachiel, Raziel, and Celsius.”

I always appreciate WINGPRINTS but it seems odd to have them given the visuals of their actual death? ‘Cause like, wingprints I assume are caused by the angel burning out and searing their afterimage onto the nearest surface, but these angels got poofed and yet their wings kept structural integrity long enough to burn out? …Why? (answer: because Cas needed to know it was angels so he’d check it out :/ )

(also I hate that we get all these visuals of sad broken wings again and then Lucifer gets such a nice shiny old-school wingspan. But y’know. Hate as in “this is killing me, make it stopp”)

Less organized thoughts about siren guts, Beyonce, and a disappointing lack of demon smooches below the cut:

Thinking about it, the bunker scene would have been equally/more funny if Sam was the one covered in monster guts just like *shrug* and Dean was the one being like “jesus christ jesus freaking christ if you touch any of our nice clean things like that I will buy a freaking bathtub just so I can drown you in it.”

(Sam’s hair is of course perpetually perfect, and Dean swears he’s gonna salt and burn Sam’s hairbrush because there were actual siren brain bits in it, seriously, Sam, did I raise you in a barn)

aghhhh creature cam. This isn’t an absolutely terrible example of it - the coloring is fitting, but the edge distortion drives me friggin’ nuts, like I know it’s a convenient visual cue for the camera being monster POV, but every creature cam gives the monster weird shitty vision - including ones who are predators, including ones you’d think would rely heavily on vision. There’s gotta be some way to do it where you can tell the monster has heightened senses rather than spectacularly poor ones. More saturated colors, or particular colors popping? A low-light scene that’s suddenly bright as can be?

I mean at least Solange appears to be a real last name. But like, Cas. Beyonce and Beyonce’s sister? Please, please tell me we get footage of him driving down the road listening to music at some point. Or getting into the Impala and being like, “hello I HAVE BROUGHT TAPES”

Poor Cas has no fucking clue how to deal with this guy. None of the human/hunter scripts he’s learned have prepared him for this. He knows it’s angels and he should be coaxing more evidence out of him, but he just loses his nerve entirely and is like GOODBYE SIR I CANNOT

guy: NO WAIT I HAVE PROOF

cas: *sags with utter despair at ever being allowed to rejoin the land of the sane*

*whispers* they said it. they said the name of the show. I thought there was a rule against this? No seriously, there definitely was at one point, it was on one of the DVD commentaries.

Bless this girl for standing up to two male FBI agents a foot and a half taller than her and twice her age and kicking them the fuck out of her house when they tried to gaslight her. Bless the shit out of this girl.

And bless Davy Perez for managing to put a gloss on Buckleming’s terrible OTT Lucifer-Crowley scene, because now in retrospect it can absolutely be Crowley being OTT and playing all the tropes on purpose. Lucifer hates losing, but he’s gotta hate it even more when he thinks he’s losing to a second-rate comic book villain who just hangs around and monologues at him.

The door to Lucifer’s room just says FACILITIES. Crowley’s keeping him in the facilities. Who did this. Get out.

Uh. Demon knife kills hellhounds? Didn’t they have that at the end of s3 when Dean’s deal was due?

*Dean rolls his eyes and makes a ‘blah blah blah’ gesture while Crowley’s ordering executions*

Winchesters meet Gwen: “your boyfriend was killed by a bear, definitely 100% a normal visible bear, invisible dogs are not a thing”

One hour later: “The devil? oh haha yeah don’t worry about him, we put him back in the box.”

I don’t know how the hell these demons think they’re gonna make a binding contract with Lucifer. He’s not a demon. He’s not bound by Hell’s rules. Even Hell isn’t bound by Hell’s rules - the only thing that makes Hell honor its contracts is the knowledge that breaking them will keep humans from making more contracts.

…gdi WE COULD’VE HAD DEMON 1 negotiating a contract hell-style like a throwback to Crowley and Dick, and Lucifer playing along because if he doesn’t they won’t let him out, and then Demon 1 sealing it with a kiss, and letting Lucifer out, and Lucifer being like “Yeah about that, you just forgot one thing: I’m not a demon” and exploding him.

WE COULD HAVE HAD DEMON 1 MAKING OUT WITH LUCIFER