Aziraphale [about Job being talked to by God]: I don't suppose he's getting any answers.
Crowley: No. But just to be able to ask the question.

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Aziraphale [about Job being talked to by God]: I don't suppose he's getting any answers.
Crowley: No. But just to be able to ask the question.
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Who is your favorite character in good omens?
how many times will you guys make me post this picture /lh
So this was the unanswered messages in my ask box a couple of days ago:
and this is the unanswered messages in my ask box today,
and I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has said such nice things about the season, and I'm sorry to everyone who had emotions they weren't expecting, and I'm impressed that so many of you have theories and don't plan to answer, validate or really even comment on any of them, but mostly I'm just sorry because I probably won't read whatever you've sent, not because I don't want to but because if I was doing nothing but reading Tumblr asks as a full time job I still wouldn't catch up with the thousands of asks coming in.
I'm glad you care.
The Magic Trick You Didnât See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2
(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)
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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off.Â
Yes, itâs long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatronâs deal is (Iâm like 99% sure of this and itâs EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekovâs Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse?Â
Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me Iâm an insane crackpot, and u know what, i wonât even be offended
In case you donât know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, Iâve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOBâ
Seguir leyendo
Crowley's expressions of love in season 2
Bonus:
do we have to watch all the episodes of the new season to make amazon happy and get season 3 ? i dont think my heart can take watching ep 6 again anytime soon âčïž
If you've watched it once I think it will have counted as a complete viewing. So future viewings where you skip the last 10 minutes should count as rewatching and count for time watched. (That's my best guess.)
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(S2 Teaser)
A compilation of contextless sounds made by Peter Serafinowicz as Crowley
Remember that one post from last year pointing out that Crowley would actually have to be very smart to know the technology and strategy to take down the entire London mobile phone network?
But then we get the deleted scene and it's literally just him going up there to pour coffee into a control panel that looks like it's important, and it works, because of course it does.
How many more years could they possibly spend avoiding to talk about their feelings, I wonder
I get the sense that show!Aziraphale and show!Crowley are way more devoted to Heaven/Hell than their book counterparts. They feel sort of bad that they donât act like a proper demon or angel, they still buy into their sideâs ideologies and seem to struggle with dropping them, and they are almost embarrassed to hang out together. The book boys, though, have LONG since given up caring about whateverâs going on in Heaven/Hell. they just want to be left alone to hang out on Earth. whenever they talk about, idk, âtemptingâ each other, or doing good deeds in âheavenâs name,â itâs almost like a sarcastic joke. Book!Aziraphale wouldnât be caught dead (discorperated?) angsting over how they could never be together (the way he does in the show), because in the book, neither of them give a hoot.Â
Murielâs gonna have a time with these cringe nae nae boys as their mentor
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Folks let me talk about Crowley and sunglasses, because I have a lot of emotions about when he wears them and when he doesnât, and Hiding versus Being Seen.
Weâre introduced to the concept of Crowley wearing glasses even before weâre introduced to Crowley, by Hastur: âIf you ask me heâs been up here too long. Gone native. Enjoying himself too much. Wearing sunglasses even when he doesnât need them.â
Honestly Crowleyâs whole introduction is a fantastic; we learn so much about his character in a tiny amount of time. The fact that heâs late, the Queen playing as the Bentley approaches, the âHi, guysâ in response to Hastur and Ligurâs âHail Satanâ. I like this intro much better than the one originally scripted with the rats at the phone company, but I digress.
Crowley wears sunglasses when he doesnât need them. Specifically, he still wears them around the demons, and when heâs in hell.
You know where Crowley doesnât wear glasses? At home.
We never once see him wearing glasses in his flat, except for when he knows Hastur and Ligur are coming. Thatâs an emotional kick to the gut for me. Hereâs one of the only places Crowleyâs comfortable enough to be sans glasses, and when he knows itâs going to be invaded he prepares not just physically with the holy water, but by putting up that emotional barrier in a place where he wasnât supposed to need it.
An argument could be made that Crowley actually never needs glasses. Weâre shown that itâs well within the angelsâ and demonsâ powers to pass unnoticed by humans. Crowley and Aziraphale waltz out of the manor in the middle of a police raid, and going unnoticed by the police takes so little effort that they can keep up a conversation while they stroll through. Even an unimaginative demon like Hastur apparently doesnât have trouble with the humans losing it over his demonic eyes. The humans in the scene at Megiddo are acting like âthis guy is a little weirdâ and not âholy shit his entire eyeballs are black jellyâ
That means that Crowleyâs glasses are a choice, just like Aziraphaleâs softness. Sure, he could arrange matters so that nobody ever noticed his eyes, but he doesnât want to. Crowley wants acceptance, and he wants to belong, and heâs never, ever had that. He didnât fit in before the Fall in Heaven, he doesnât fit in with the demons in Hell. With the glasses, and with the Bentley and his plants and with the barely-bad-enough-to-be-evil nuisance temptations, heâs choosing Earth. This is where he wants to fit in, perhaps not with the humans, but amongst them.
Even after Crowley is at his absolute lowest, when he thinks Aziraphaleâs dead and heâs on his way to drink until the world ends, he takes the time to put a new pair on when the old ones are damaged. He needs that emotional crutch right now, even with everything about to turn into a pile of puddling goo heâs not ready for the world to see his eyes.
Which is why I swore out loud when Hastur forcibly takes them off.
Itâs about the worst thing that Hastur could have done. Rather than leading with a physical threat, his first act is to strip away Crowleyâs emotional defences. Itâs a great writing choice because god it made me hate Hastur, even more than all the physical violence we see him do.
Itâs also the moment that Crowley really truly gets his shit together, and focuses all of his considerable imagination on getting to Tadfield and Aziraphale to help save the world. Heâs wielding the terrifyingly unimaginable power of someone whoâs hit rock bottom and realised it literally could not get any worse than this. He doesnât put another pair of glasses on after discorporating Hastur, and he spends the majority of the airbase sequence without them.
He puts them back on again, I think, at the moment that he really lets himself hope. When he thinks âshit, there may be a real chance that we get through this to a future that I donât want to loseâ.
The vulnerability is back, and he needs Adam to trust him. In Crowleyâs mind being accepted by a human means he needs to have his eyes hidden. Someone give the demon a hug, please.
Interestingly, thereâs only one time in the whole series that we see Crowley willingly choose to take his glasses off around another person. Only one person heâll take down that barrier for, and even then heâs drunk before he does it.
Dear God/Satan/Someone that makes my heart ache. Crowleyâs chosen Earth, but heâs also chosen Aziraphale. Heâs been looking for somewhere to belong his entire existence, and itâs with the angel that he finally feels it.
When the dust settles and the world is saved and they finally have space to be themselves unguarded, I like to imagine Crowley takes off the glasses when itâs just the two of them; the idea of being known doesnât scare him quite so much anymore. Â
I reblogged this post this morning, and Iâve literally been thinking about it all day. (I mean what a good analysis @theladyzephyrâ!!)Â
In particular, Iâve been thinking about how this idea applies to the sunglasses in the Aziraphale as Crowley scenes. On one hand, maybe the rule of sunglasses as a way to create an emotional boundary doesnât hold up in these scenes, because weâre dealing with Aziraphale.Â
Now, personally, I think Aziraphale knows Crowley well enough to knows when and why Crowley chooses to wear his sunglasses. Maybe he doesnât get every individual reason as to why, but we never see Aziraphale push the boundary with the sunglasses. He doesnât joke about them. He doesnât force Crowley to take them off. He just accepts the sunglasses, because he understands and respects that they are important to Crowley.Â
So we then we have the swap, and Aziraphale!Crowley is brought to Hell.Â
During Crowleyâs trial, Aziraphale chooses to keep the glasses on. This is very in line with Crowleyâs character. Heâs in Hell, surrounded by demons who want him dead, and heâs just watched the archangel Michael pour him a lovely bath of holy water. This is to say, in this situation Crowley would 100% be scared and need the security of the glasses.Â
And then we see Crowley in the bathtub.Â
No sunglasses. This is where we see Aziraphale breaking from Crowleyâs character.Â
Why is this breaking character? Because Crowley, when handling holy water in ep5 to set up for Hastur and Lingur, has his glasses on. Yes, heâs in battle mode, but the directors could have decided that he put on his glasses after Home Alone-ing his apartment. They donât. Instead, we have this scene with Crowley in his glasses pouring the holy water into a bucket, and I think that itâs partially because Crowley is aware that he could screw up here. He could end up in a puddle of goo before Hastur and Lingur turn up, and part of dealing with that potential reality is by hiding behind the sunglasses.Â
So back to the bathtub. If Crowley was about to face his extinction in front all of Hell, he sure as fuck wouldnât take off his glasses.Â
But Aziraphale chooses to take the glasses off.Â
There are a couple reasons he might have done this. He might have wanted to keep the glasses free from holy water, like the coat, not wanting to risk potential harming Crowley when they switch back. This is a cute idea truly, but we also know that Crowley has back up glasses and, honestly, Aziraphale would have bought him new ones anyway (again, like the coat).Â
Aziraphale might have also removed the glasses, because maybe he doesnât know when or why Crowley wears his glasses. This seems unlikely, because, I mean, this is Aziraphale weâre talking about. He knows Crowley better than anyone.Â
So that leaves us with the idea that this was a deliberate choice. Aziraphale decided that the sunglasses needed to be removed. And, in doing so, he creates a tremendous amount of power for Crowley. Taking off the sunglasses is a louder fuck you than any ask for a rubber duck or a towel could have been.Â
By removing the sunglasses, Aziraphale!Crowley has essentially said âI am not afraid of you. I am comfortable as myself. You cannot hurt me.â Itâs powerful.Â
And then thereâs one more detail.Â
Aziraphale!Crowley has also chosen to go full demon eyed, instead of the human/demon eye that Crowley uses throughout most of the series. And I think that this choice was to further reinforce this idea of Crowley taking his power back. The full demon eyes take away the humanness of Crowley (which we, as viewers, know is a good trait, but the demons of Hell see humanness more negatively), but it replaces that humanness with an incredible amount of self acceptance/ confidence. In other words, this is Aziraphale saying âTry me bitch,â while all the other poo their pants.Â
Aziraphale!Crowley survives, and our bois get back together.Â
And the sunglasses are back on. This was also Aziraphaleâs decision, and, to me, this is Aziraphale acknowledging that Crowley still needs that emotional barrier. Heâs back in character. Back to understanding and acting as Crowley, because he knows that his display would be enough to keep Crowley safe for the time being.Â
Anyway, if I donât stop here, Iâll never stop talking about Crowleyâs sunglasses. But here! Have a gif of Aziraphale walking like Crowley. My treat. Thanks for reading!
Oh I missed this one and it is excellent. Taking off the glasses to get in the bath is a key component of Aziraphale playing Crowley as he sees him: the cool badass. Itâs mind-bending what the two actors are doing here. Now I want to go back and, as well as the slightly rolling walk, look for details of how Crowley plays Aziraphale (as an officer, a gentleman, and a badass).
I had seen the first part of this meta but not the second, and the whole thing is absolutely excellent â€ïž.
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