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Johnathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton you have competition for yearner of the century and his name is Walker Scobell as 13 year old Percy Jackson telling his crush/girl best friend Annabeth Chase THIS

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#Literally the same energy, i'm gonna be sick

OFMD 2.08 // Good Omens 2.06

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FUNNIEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THIS SHOW

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GOOD OMENS SPOILERS.

So I've been thinking a lot about Muriel. About how they're sweet and naive and sort of dumb, and they're a 37th class angel.

In fact, Muriel’s level of naivety is nearly the same as Jim-level naivety/dumbness. And Jim was supposed to be a 38th class angel, after being demoted from Supreme Archangel and having his memories removed.

And when this was revealed Muriel says 'I didn't know there was a class below me', what if Muriel is just a demoted angel? What if Heaven just keeps demoting any angel who goes against God’s (the Metatron’s) Plan and making a new, lower class for them? Instead of making them fall, they just keep taking memories and demoting angels so that there wont be a perceived ‘institutional problem’. Which there isn’t. Right?

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Oh shit I need to reblog this again because I love it so much like literally no other meta has made me GASP with recognition of the possibilities hidden in plain sight quite like this one.

So if I may violently YES AND this gorgeous meta, may I just add:

This is how you get a homogenous society of yes-men.

Literally SO MUCH of this season was spent establishing the angels are dumb as fuck. Like cartoonishly dumb. How in the world do you get a functioning society if everyone at the top is this dumb? I mean it’s a comedy so it’s a little hard to parse if it’s in-universe or just a gag on corporate culture but STILL.

But the thing is, corporate culture has incentives. You don’t just tear capable people down for funsies, you do it to advance some goal. And Metatron gave us that goal: hiding institutional problems.

One Prince of Heaven questions God and Falls? That’s a great story! A great cautionary tale. But if you have two? We’ve got a systemic problem. So what do you do? The angels aren’t stupid. More and more have got to question things over the years. And unlike Aziraphale, they don’t have a savvy demon to tell them to keep their mouths shut and help them cover up their questioning.

But you can’t cast these angels out! That would swell the ranks of Hell! That would make it look like maybe there’s a bigger problem at hand. So what do you do? You mind wipe and demote them.

But the long term effect of doing this is that the only people left are stupid. They’re not curious. They never question. They never strive. Now there you’ve got your stagnant corporate culture metaphor. It’s not that everyone smart gets fired, they get demoted or never advance. You get literal brain drain.

Gosh sorry I’m just so excited about this meta and its possibilities because yes. If we take Metatron’s words at face value then that means we’ve had this philosophy ruling heaven for a while. So where are all the new demons? Why hasn’t there been another rebellion or fall? Aziraphale can’t be the only Angel questioning things.

They didn’t go anywhere. They’ve been right here the whole time.

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I’ve been gnawing on this as well, because they make a big thing of the significant numbers in the Bible this season. Seven is mentioned, but there’s another big number that is all the way through as well: 12 and all the multiples thereof.

36 is, for example, frequently mentioned as one of the multiples of 12, so it always pinged my ol’ noggin that there was something specific about the fact they’re a 37th level Scrivener. That number seemed oddly specific. And then the reveal that Gabriel would be dropped down to 38th level makes me think that Muriel was one of the first to ask questions and get punted down the ranks, especially with how fascinated they are when they get to earth.

Also the angels aren’t necessarily stupid all the time, but they are 100% conditioned to behave a particular way, especially in the eyes of Heaven and even more so when they’re in the presence of the Metatron. It’s worth watching how differently angels behave when they’re on earth and how they speak to each other and to other people.

In Heaven, there’s always this verbal dancing going on where no one is asking anything that can get them into any trouble or trying to say the Correct thing to make sure everyone knows they’re toeing the party line. Everything is done with smiling through their teeth and making sure to adhere to the status quo, but on earth, Michael directly questions Gabriel’s authority and knowledge and Saraqael openly scoffs at people.

Muriel and Jim are the blank slate of angels. They’re kind and curious and where Gabriel would have been brash and abrasive, Jim apologises and expresses gratitude to the people who show him kindness. It says so much about the nature of Heaven that shaped him to behave like that.