hey, I may be stupid, but when Metatron is speaking to the council of Angels about removing Gabriel from status, who is the other high rank Archangel that was removed? I’m pretty sure it’s Lucifer, right?
Right.
why is this surprising to people? do y’all genuinely not know the story of lucifer???
Hello! I was wondering if you could explain what Crowley meant by “…no nightingales.” Aziraphale seemed to not be happy to have Crowley point that out.
I think it must have something to do with the song that played in his car, and I remember the narrator mentioned a nightingale singing, but that no one heard it, at the end of season 1 as well. However I didn’t understand why it was mentioned by Crowley right at that moment, nor at the end of season 1 actually.
If it won’t spoil anything coming in future would you mind explaining that line please? (Ps. I am completely smitten with this show and the characters. powerful television, bravo.) Thank you
The song is from Season 1. It was playing in the Ritz when they dined:
And the lyrics of the song may help to explain things.
more specifically a literal nightingale sang in berkeley square because their love shifted reality. so he’s saying because they’re not on the same page the reality shifting power of their love wasn’t taking effect…i think
i mean, not really a theory, but an analysis aka statement lol.
Many people say that the combination of Crowley and Aziraphale was too powerful and that's what caused the heaven alarm, but i belive it has nothing to do with Azi, but it was all Crowleys work, CROWLEY IS A FALLEN ARCHANGEL, all that power came from him, i feel its obvious at this point, and my bets are that Crowley is no other than Lucifer.
Because yes, there´s is a Satan, but he's never refered to as Lucifer. But many signs indicate that Crowley could be him. From the first episode, Crowley as the serpent, the serpent is who tempted Eve, and the serpent personality is usually assigned to Lucifer, then there's also the fact that he is probably one of the first few demons to roam the land taking in account that he was fallen from the begining.
Second sign, the fact that he had the power to stop Armageddon for just a few minutes. I don´t think even Gabriel or Belzebub could've done that, and nor i belive it was just the power of love for Azi (it's probably both tho)
Third, The Metatron stated that sending Gabriel down would be a second failure, making it OBVIOUS that there was a fallen archangel before him. And the fact that Crowley was able to open the book to check the files of gabriel, like WHO ELSE COULD HAVE THE POWER TO CHECK THE FILES OF AN ARCHANGEL? ANOTHER ARCHANGEL
And Lastly, it would make sense he has such a beef with heaven, because in many stories is always shown that Lucifer's fall is due to his many questions to heaven, which at the very begining of the season 2 it's stated that crowley was very against the plans of heaven and just wanted to have his own opinion.
So yeah, my boy is an archangel and ill die in this hill ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ thank you for your attention and sorry for my bad english <3
(PD: my second guess is he could be Raphael, but idk it wouldn't have the same impact, and my man Neil loves some drama)
satan literally is lucifer though.
uh so i never do this but maui is quite literally on fire and there isn't nearly enough care or consideration for. you know. Native Hawaiians who live here being displaced and the land (and cultural relevance) that's being eaten up by the fire. so if ya'll wanna help, here's some links:
maui food bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/
maui humane society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/
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hawai'i red cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html
please reblog and spread the word if you can't donate.
Just learning about this (!), and reblogging for visibility.
Also sending worried love to all my friends and all the people I don't know in Maui.
has anyone brought up the relevance of claire being an emergency medicine resident?
emergency medicine is literally about the immediate treatment of a patient. they don’t take on patients for long periods of time if a patient needs more care they will end up in the hands of another physician.
claire is there for a short while, but she won’t stick around. dude…
Oh that’s an interesting thought.
Personally, I also don’t think Claire was ever meant by the writers to be a permanent partner to Carmy. Narratively, she’s a device to show us that even with a girlfriend who’s potentially perfect for him (kind, easygoing, draws him out, knows his history enough to understand him without him having to explain it, works a high-stress job with inhospitable hours and so understands his own unholy schedule), Carmy cannot get it together.
Because it’s not her, it’s him. I think they went as blameless as possible with Claire to avoid an “everyone hates Skyler White” situation, and so she wound up a little bland, but I think the point was to make it clear that the stumbling block was always going to be Carmy’s own self-sabotage. Or, really, how actually fucked up he is under the surface, and how out of touch he is with his own emotions.
The thing about Carmy, as the target of emotional abuse his whole life, is that he’s now on some levels a people pleaser. He doesn’t say no easily to people he likes. He makes promises he can’t keep, not because he doesn’t want to keep them but because he fears disappointing anyone he cares about. So he says yes, even when he knows he shouldn’t. He promises his time to Sydney, but in the moment he goes along with whatever Claire wants to do, because saying no would disappoint her. He says yes to any challenge he’s pointed at even if it makes him have panic attacks and throw up every day before work.
I may be projecting here a little because I recognize the pattern in myself, as someone who also has CPTSD from emotional abuse (by a former partner in my case, his mom in Carmy’s). But I think Carmy has so locked himself off from processing his emotions that he barely knows himself, and I think it’s likely that he experiences the same thing I have, which is a deep seated kind of fear that if you disappoint the people you love they will stop loving you. And on a more practical level, if you say no, what if it causes a meltdown from the other person? You don’t want that. You can only control the situation by “yes and”-ing your way through, ignoring your own misgivings to prioritize the other person— whether that’s something they would want you to do or not.
That is unfortunately no way to run a relationship. Certainly not when you’re also trying to open a restaurant, and have angry bees where your brain cells should be. Now, I’m not saying Carmy could never have a functioning relationship or should deny himself that at all— that’s all or nothing thinking, which Carmy excels at. But this one was never going to work with Carmy as he is right now. And that’s in spite of Claire being, on paper, perfect for him, not due to any flaws of her own. And that’s intentional.
Anyway there are my Claire/Carmy thoughts, brought to you by being woken up at 4 AM by a really loud thunderstorm.
Cannot stop thinking about this, now that I’ve started reading more in this fandom. I see a lot of Claire loathing, and I don’t get it, aside from people wanting Carmy and Sydney to end up together, which is another thing entirely.
In addition to all the excellent points above — externally, Claire makes sense for Carmy. She’s smart, beautiful, available, from the neighborhood. She makes him laugh, sort of. She’s pretty pushy and she tracks him down; it would be harder for him to say no than yes.
Most importantly, Richie adores her, and Michael either did or certainly would have too. And she KNEW Michael, before his addiction, back when things were closer to okay. Imagine how important that would have been to Carmy.
A character like him, who endlessly sought and never got the approval of his older brother, and now will never have the chance to seek it again… of COURSE he would want to be with a known quantity whom Mikey would have approved of.
But a dude who googles “fun” and is this trapped in his own still-recent trauma, and who was raised in a household that fucked up? He can’t be Normal Guy doing Normal Guy stuff like having a cool hot doctor girlfriend. It was doomed from the start.
(Aside: it does bug me that she just so happened to hear that part of the conversation, and that Tina had stepped away without saying goodbye. I also can’t imagine that a woman who is privy to even a tiny part of this guy’s brain would be surprised to hear him say what he did, or would refuse to ever speak to him again afterward. I kind of want a fix-it fic in which, I don’t know, he deliberately breaks up with her and says something WAY more hateful, or she understands that he’s saying those words in a moment of extreme frustration and fear and guilt — in an apology to a person he believes he’s hurt. But also I don’t really want to fix it because Syd is vastly more interesting, sorry Molly Gordon, I still like you but I’m glad we’re done!)
people don’t like claire because she’s a cardboard cutout of a character. it’s actually appalling how every other character on the show regardless of how much or little screen time they had, had a bigger impact on the show than she did. she is a manic pixie dream girl but without the fun just the weird showing up out of nowhere and saying bizarre shit.
people also don’t like claire because the writers of the show were talking about not wanting any romance in their show and wanting it to be about “friendship” to shut down people who shipped syd and carmy, just to then turn around and set him up with claire. i don’t think she’s meant to be there for the long term that much was clear from the start. doesn’t make it less fucked up and it kinda shows the writers bias if anything. claire is just boring and i don’t know why people are trying to convince us she’s interesting. like y’all can keep saying it that doesn’t make it true.
claire set herself up seriously because why are you tracking down a guy who gave you the wrong phone number? she was also being weird and mad that carmy during his restaurants opening night wasn’t coming to see her. then she got mad because he was having a mental breakdown in a freezer thinking he’s a terrible person and a psychopath which is just strange. like remove syd from the equation, claire’s addition to this season was basically only so carmy could feel like shit about himself and be at his lowest when the season ended. she’s just a weird character
i know everyone is mad at aziraphale right now but in the grand scheme of things…did he not make the right decision?
For his relationship, no. He chose wrong and he definitely said some things that implied some things that were very mean. But as far as going back to heaven he had to go. Mind you at this point Crowley is the only one who knows the Metatron and the other archangels are still planning a second armageddon. The only person holding them back was Gabriel. Now he’s gone. If Aziraphale didn’t take over who would have? Michael???
Now granted Aziraphale doesn’t know armageddon two is still being planned, but the reason he went back to heaven at all was so he could “fix it”. He won’t be able to, but they can’t just run away from the issue at hand which is heaven or hell is going to destroy humanity if Crowley and Aziraphale don’t step in.
do you know how much i hate when people take your words and assume the worst possible interpretation of them? especially when they know exactly what the fuck you mean?
is there an explanation as to why shax looks like madame tracy, or is that just something crowley and aziraphale… didn’t notice?
The explanation is that they were played by the same actress. Beyond that, I don't think Aziraphale and Crowley pay too much attention to human faces.
... except it took Crowley a split second to recognise Mary Loquacious whom he last met 11 years ago for only a few minutes. This makes it even less likely that he couldn't recognise someone with the same face for the third time only 3-4 years later. Or that the same actress who "became a different person" in-universe (literally changed her identity and started a new life) was picked to play yet another, third, character, by sheer coincidence. Come to think of it, Madame Tracy also sort of "played a different character" in her own life in S1 too, by having two jobs she'd put on a very different persona. And you could say she "played" Aziraphale when he possessed her.
*puts on tinfoil hat* looks a bit like too much of a coincidence to me...
to be fair he only handed over the antichrist to one person doubt he’d forget that. world ending and all that
Ineffably amusing indeed! Cheers to Good Omens Season 2 debuting as the #1 Comedy on Prime Video! @neil-gaiman
Hello Mr Gaiman!!!
I just wanted to say that good omens 2 reached number 1 in Greece too!!!
Thank you very very much for this wonderful second season and I really hope that we will see a third one soon!!! (our favorite angel and demon need a happy ending as much as we do)
I hope we do too. Let's hope the studios see reason and the strikes are settled soon.
y’all are so annoying actually
because why can’t we have hot people in relationships anymore? you don’t want to see them make out?
Saw someone online say they didn't like Sofia's hair after the time jump in 3x08 because it was "too similar" and "basically the same" as how her hair was styled in season 2...AS IF THOSE WEREN'T HER BEST HAIR LOOKS?!?!
Like how often do we ever get to see interracial couples on TV where the Black girl isn't styled after eurocentric features so as to make her more appealing to her white, romantic counterpart? Gina/Sofia is literal hair goals, I won't hear anything different.
what does that even mean? her hair is just picked out into an afro. do they get mad when the girls with straight have straight hair every damn episode?
y’all are so annoying actually
because why can’t we have hot people in relationships anymore? you don’t want to see them make out?
my friend who doesn’t have tumblr wanted me to ask you about good omens s2
“I have to know why at the garden of eden, aziraphale doesn't know crowley when they would've already met at the creation of the universe.”
Why does your friend think he didn't know him? Aziraphale didn't know what the demon was calling himself. But they knew each other.
upon rewatching the first season it does actually seem like it too! because crowley mentions how aziraphale had his flaming sword. and they never say “oh it’s nice to meet you.” or “i’ve never seen you before.”
Hey there,
Not sure if you've heard, but the employees at Powell's City of Books in Portland are sharing a petition to get Powell's to pay them fairly.
Seems pretty pathetic that an establishment that is considered iconic, a destination for so many visitors, won't treat their employees as a valuable part of that reputation.
Anyway, I'm sure it'd do nothing but help their cause if could give them some support?
To make sure another book store doesn't go down in flames.
https://www.change.org/p/tell-powell-s-books-workers-deserve-a-fair-contract-with-a-living-wage
Absolutely. That's
And as they stress, Please note: this is not a call for a boycott; it’s a call for signatures! Please sign and share!
We know that demons aren't good with grammar and spelling. In the first episode Maggie spells "urgency" wrong. Is it just a coincidence or... ?
...or is every Ask I reply to with a misspelling in it an indication that the person sending it is a demon?
yes. also, suspiciously not an answer
Hello!!
First of all, THANK YOU!!! The world has been feeling harder and more hopeless to me in recent years, and individuals like yourself help more than I will ever be able to express to bring light and hope back into my world. Loving and obsessing over gems like Good Omens, and American Gods (the novel at least, I must admit I never saw the show 🙈) have always given me motivation, sparked my creativity, and made me feel so much love for this, often unfortunately cruel, world. I can't express the solace it brings to me when the creators of the things I love are thoughtful and decent human beings. So, again, THANK YOU 🫀🫀🫀
I just finished my second viewing of Season 2 and have a question for you (my apologies if it has already been asked and/or answered and I missed it)!!
How did you select the song "Everyday" by Buddy Holly? It is absolutely perfect on so many different levels, and for so many different threads and characters, all while still encompassing the perfect feelings of this show. I always include playlists with the stories I write, and often agonize over which song is the best choice for certain moments. You had to pick one song to encompass the entirety of it, and it truly blew me away!
Thank you this Season and for everything you do; it really does mean the world to so many of us 🫀🫀🫀
In February of 1991 (I think) Terry Pratchett and I were staying in the Chateau Marmont hotel in LA. These days it is a very fancy hotel but back then it was pretty manky and run down. We were being put up by a film company and each morning we would fax over an outline for a new version of Good Omens the Movie and each afternoon we'd go to the studio for a meeting and we would realise that nobody had actually read what we had sent over that morning. Then we would go back to the hotel and work on trying to incorporate the studio notes on the outline they hadn't actually read into what we were doing.
We worked up in Terry's room because it had heating, and it was incredibly cold in LA that February, especially cold because I was in a chalet out in the grounds and there weren't heaters or extra blankets or anything in the chalet.
And at some point in there we were talking about music, and I suggested a few scary and ominous songs that might work to signal the end times. And Terry said "What about Buddy Holly's song Everyday? It sounds so upbeat and cheerful. But what if it was about the end of the world?" And I got all excited at the idea of Everyday being the Good Omens theme song.
So it's really just there to make Terry happy.
like a reverse grand budapest
So this is a question for those who ship Sydcarmy in season one only? What was that moment when you knew there’s was something between them?
when they were cooking together and carmy helped syd drain the pot cause she asked. the way he looked at her in episode 1 tho also set off alarm bells
Now, good friends, it’s your turn. Share your artistic take on the three pieces of art that have debuted thus far. @neil-gaiman
still confused on what the blue feather represents
