It's kind of amazing how much this is the identical strategy. Focusing on the distress and harm of parents over the trans or autistic person themselves. Pathologizing the condition treating it as an epidemic, including calling it a social contagion causing a worrying "explosion" of diagnosis because it is "trendy."
Ignoring the experts on the subject while also appealing to "common sense" and dismissing all research that contradicts them while also appealing to "basic science."
Plus it's all the same quacks and bad actors behind previous medical and social moral panics saying the same things in the same ways and no one seems to acknowledge that.
The same man who invented ABA to stop autistic behaviours also invented conversion therapy, which was explicitly to 'stop adult transsexualism', so this feels less surprising than it should be.
Rachel Talalay discusses working alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen to honor the Good Omens legacy in the series finale.
Good Omens Season 3 is in safe hands, namely those of Rachel Talalay.
The upcoming ninety-minute made-for-television movie marks the end of this beloved fantasy book adaptation.
Led by David Tennant as Crowley and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, the series finale follows the angel and the former demon as they prepare for the Second Coming.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with the director and executive producer of Good Omens Season 3, Rachel Talalay, about the finale.
With an impressive directorial roster that includes shows like Doctor Who, Talalay was the perfect choice for directing the series finale.
She had previously been contacted to direct Season One, but had to pass at the time. However, even before then, she has been a lifelong fan.
“I read the book and been completely taken by the book. So, I’m a hardcore fan from the very beginning,” she said.
In addition to her love for the source material, Talalay also credited her adoration of “British offbeat humor” for her feeling drawn to the project.
She importantly mentioned being drawn to the “love story” between Crowley and Aziraphale, as well as to the “universality of the angel-devil” dynamic, which she also attributes to why the show is the source of so much fanfiction.
Given that the Good Omens universe literally spans from Heaven to Hell, Talalay thoughtfully considered the scale of the series finale.
“We fought quite hard to make sure that there was the opening that was outside the rest of the story,” she said. “Having had to compress it into a shorter period of time, we still felt it was really important to open up that world.”
Squeezing an entire season into ninety minutes still required some sacrifices.
According to Talalay, most of the “tangential” storylines and characters unfortunately ended up on the chopping block.
“There’s a whole storyline that came out when it got condensed,” she clarified. “And some of it was people weren’t available, and so we couldn’t do them anyway.”
Luckily, most of the original Good Omens production crew returned for Season 3, and Talalay cited their support in getting the ending right.
While the finale operates on such a large scale, she never lost sight of the essential question: “You always come down to, what is the story about?”
Her answer to that question is Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship, or, as she referred to, “Aziracrow.”
I loved how enthusiastic Talalay was to talk about the two beloved characters.
She dove into the process of crafting their arc, particularly how she felt the “safest” with the Aziraphale-Crowley storyline thanks to Tennant and Sheen.
Talalay gave the actors credit for helping the show be as strong as possible, even during the rehearsal process.
“They are the keepers of their characters and the storyline,” she said. “They were very specific about how to mold each scene so that the growth and the trajectory of the storyline were as strong as possible.”
After going over scenes on their own first, Tennant and Sheen frequently came in and offered their input.
Talalay added, “They would come in and say, ‘Can I change this? What about this?’ And we would massage it even further.”
She also pointed to their “incredible ability” to portray subtle shifts in emotion, as they deliver memorable performances that drive the storytelling home.
An important priority for Talalay was balancing humor and heartfelt emotion in Good Omens Season 3.
“It’s such a specific humor, but there’s no guide to that. You just have to go with your instincts, your understanding, and what you like, and then what you feel has worked for the show,” she said.
Talalay has many fond memories of working on the Good Omens series finale, but one of her favorites is the ice cream truck moment.
In the scene, Crowley is holding two ice cream cones. Talalay recalled Tennant asking, “Do I do a Crowley thing where I just chuck them?” to which she answered, “That feels right.”
On the first try, Tennant threw the ice cream cones into the air, but the camera caught only one landing.
The other one? Well, Talalay heard Tennant scream before she saw where it landed.
Chuckling, she recalled, “The ice cream had come out and hit him smack in the back!”
By the end of the interview, I was more than certain that there’s nobody I’d rather have directed the finale than Talalay.
As a long-time fan of the series, I could tell that her fondness for the story and the characters meant that her approach to the finale was one fueled by care and a desire to make sure Crowley and Aziraphale get the ending they deserve.
Just like to warn everyone of this account, which has a ton of fandom-related posts and follows and thus seemed legit enough to me to reply to the message
Pro tip: if @boyishflame DMs you, just ignore and/or block. Might be a normal account that's been hacked/hi-jacked by scammers, might be a straight-up scammer account, idk. Either way, not trustworthy.
(And if you don't know what this is about, "I accidentally reported your account in error" is an increasingly common scam. If I understand correctly, they tell you to go to some page or other to, like, get your account un-reported or whatever, and then you're tricked into revealing your login details and they steal your account. So. Don't do this)
It may not even be the same account. I got a similar message. Not realizing it was a scam, I kept trying to reassure the person. "My account seems fine. Haha, reported the fishey_me account for phishing, how silly. I'm sure I would have heard from Tumblr by now."
So the person tried to escalate. "I told all of my friends to report you too."
I see now that they were trying to get me to panic. My response of "Well, I kind of understand your zealotry, but maybe next time, don't try to start a dogpile." was probably not what the person wanted to see.
Fortunately, I mentioned this weird interaction on a discord server with some friends, and they told me that the scam was that this person would try to direct me to a discord server to reset my credentials for Tumblr. Fortunately they hadn't gotten that far, so I just reported and blocked the messages.
So always remember: if someone is trying to create urgency for you, especially if they want you to think you or someone you care about were in trouble, and then they ask you to go to a secondary location, don't go.
Tumblr will not have you use Discord or any other third party to appeal your account anyway. And if they "email" you, triple check where the email is coming from.
Thanks to my friends in @goodomensafterdark for telling me about the scam.
Had one of these just the other day with the new attempted "I told some of my friends to report you too" escalation. Just said "Oh dear, another of you poor deluded fools..." and blocked & reported them.
Any time someone starts some bullshit about how humans are hyperindividualistic and inherently selfish and exclusively motivated by self-intetest, I'll just tell them to go ahead and go do it then. Go live alone. Fuck off into the woods to make sure that no society ever benefits from your presence. See if you can teach yourself how to make a spear out of a rock or a shelter for one from nothing but your own wits and the nature around you. Go see how natural that feels, how happy it makes you to know that you don't need nobody and that nobody's life is improved by your presence.
So how come you don't have that skillset? Solitary animals that don't meet other members of their species outside of mating seasons tend to just fuck off from the nest and be completely fine on their own. Rattlesnakes don't need instructions for how to rattlesnake. Needing to be taught human survival skills implies you would need other people.
Yeah running water is cool but uuh. You do know that if you use it to pour enough water into a container you can put your head in it and drown and DIE??? Yeah this is crazy and evil and sad. What if a kid does that. This is why I propose the idea to make it so people pay 200000$ every time they use the sink!!! This is because no child has that much money so they are physically unable to harm themselves <3 Wdym this is insane and we shouldn't be paying 200000$ just to get a glass of water. There are no ulterior motives. No it's not about taking your money. This is for child safety. Don't you want children to be safe??? You evil sicko freak. What's wrong with you for thinking this is wrong and won't work.
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