Primarily: Good Omens and David Tennant. Rarely: my orig OTPs JohnLock and Gahore. My Tumblr: https://martinsharmony.tumblr.com/ My Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/martinsharmony
Like anyone cares about little old me and what I think but I just wanted to say the things on my mind.
I took the day off to watch. I had my breakfast, attended to a little business and then when I was ready, darkened my room, silenced my phone and my computer and settled in. It was finally time.
I have to admit that I'm disappointed. I don't want to admit that though because I wanted it to be everything I always wanted it to be. All the promise that we were....promised.
I wanted a kiss. You have no idea how badly I wanted it (ok I know my audience - maybe you do know). An undeniable testiment and show of their love. No queerbaiting. I thought everything was leading up to that. Genuinely. I'm sad we didn't get it.
But I thought that about Sherlock too. And with Sherlock I felt the fans had been literally slapped in the face with that last episode. I don't necessarily feel that way about this.
I'm seeing some posts pointing out things and yes I have to say I agree to an extent. It could have been so much more. In fact, it was so much more. I really have to wonder what was changed? What was taken away? It does feel rushed and...unfinished.
There were lots of points that I feel went unaddressed: the whole allegory of queer love conquering adversity for example. The fact that them doing miracles together was SO powerful (because of their love for each other?) Or the entire basic premise of Good Omens being a satire on organized religion. Actually now that I think about it the resolution feels a bit too on the nose there.
Maybe this is just a big universal hint that something like this is so built up over so long it can never be what we want. We want too much.
The entire premise was just too powerful. Too perfect. It was the ship that could do everything. It was too much.
We were bound to be disappointed. I wanted it to be perfect but it was never going to be.
But, I'm also genuinely trying not to be disappointed.
I want to find the good bits. The hopeful bits. The bits that I can love. Mostly because I don't want this community and this fandom and my investment in it to be soured. I want to still feel a connection to it - somehow. I want to find a way. I need to find a way.
I want to believe everyone did the best job they could with what they had.
One thing I did love was what Aziraphale said about Crowley being the best Angel. Emotionally, that was the most satisfying part for me. All the while up until then I kept thinking that Aziraphale was being a bit too casual and flippant with Crowley and not acknowledging his pain and even taking a bit of advantage of him or taking him for granted. I kept hoping and waiting for them to really talk. For the truth to come out - for some kind of real confession or heart to heart. Some vehicle for them to make their mutual love known to each other. That confession bit came the closest for me, and Crowley took it to heart and was clearly touched by it. (although I did notice the tears were CG (can anyone confirm?). And yes I'm dissappointed about that too. I know David can summon the tears if he wants to). I mean yes God (where was Frances McDormand?) did literally say they loved each other but I wanted THEM to say it TO EACH OTHER. WITH WORDS.
The fact that Crowley literally said he was heartbroken, and was a drunk depressed mess but also sticking close by the bookshop continuing to protect it for YEARS even though Aziraphale wasn't there says volumes about Crowley's true deep love for Aziraphale, and how much pain he was in. There is a beautiful sadness in that.
And Aziraphale said Crowley was the best Angel. That right there says he loves him. But dammit I wanted it to be a bit more literal. And demonstrative. With tongue.
Even with all of that said I refuse to say it was awful or that we were robbed, etc. I have complicated feelings. I sort of think the minute that Season 2 came into existence where they came up with the love story - breaking them up in order to get them back together again - it became doomed.
Will I stop watching? No. Will I continue to obsess? Yes - for now. I know that my hyperfixation will eventually fade.
For now though I'm very much looking forward to what my dear fanfic writers will do with all of this. What fixits will they come up with? How will all of this information be incorporated into new fics and artwork? What new theories will people come up with about what Clues we missed? How things are maybe not as they seem? What easter eggs will we find? How will this finale be changed and expanded upon in ways that we will love?
The best way I can explain why Asathony is not Aziracrow to me without getting into the "soul" argument or whatever is: imagine them at a Chili's.
Aziracrow? That would be funny as fuck. Aziraphale discovers all the food is premade and just reheated and nearly goes into a fugue state but then unfortunately really enjoys the cajun pasta. He also orders a bloomin' onion and it shows up even though that's an Outback thing. Crowley complains that the only reason he agreed to this is because Panera is dead to him after they stopped serving the heart attack lemonade. He however then realizes that the Chili's takeaway menu features gallon-sized margaritas and promptly orders six of them.
My mom was a fourth grade teacher, which meant that she did multi-subject education. And she used to do what she called the NFL Project. The NFL Project was when students were randomly assigned NFL teams.
They had to write a letter to the NFL team they were assigned to, they had to do a research project to find out where the teams practiced, they had to write a letter to the mayor of the city the teams practiced in, they had to keep track of their team's statistics, they had to do research about the state history of the team they'd been assigned to, and they had to do a presentation.
It was a big project. She provided all the materials, she made sure there were copies of the newspaper sports section in her classroom so the kids could stay on top of stats. The students got this project in their first week at school and it wrapped up right around winter break, so it wasn't like it was an all-day "today we are doing statistics" thing or "today we do research, today we write a letter, today we make a presentation" one-week project, it was five to ten minutes a day in various subjects that got organized into a presentation at the end of the semester. The kids could work together, they could work independently, they could ask my mom or the librarian or their parents or their older siblings for help. They just had to end the semester with a report on the team's history, the stats for the season organized into a chart, copies of the letters they'd sent (and copies of any of the responses they'd gotten), a two-page social studies report on the state where the team played, and a presentation to the class about their favorite thing they had learned while doing the NFL project.
The kids fucking loved it. And for years I spent my winter break going to the classroom and organizing the bulletin board with a huge map of the US and materials from each student's report, showing the work that the students had done that semester. It was a way of getting kids engaged with classwork, because who cares about statistics at 10, probably nobody, but if you get a set of pencils from the Jets NOW you want to learn about the team. The Jaguars sent one kid a jersey one year. The city in Minnesota where the Vikings practice sent postcards for every student. Part of this was happening when Schwarzenegger was governor in California so one kid got the Terminator's autograph for part of his project.
I think maybe the thing that I admire the most about it in retrospect was the way that it taught actual project management to young students. I don't actually know of that many schools that have projects more than a month long for 10-year-olds, and I think it's a great concept. I didn't get something like that until I was a senior in college, and it would have been a great skill to learn younger.
Anyway, in 2006 my mom had to stop doing the NFL project because the district wanted to focus on raising their test scores. She was specifically told that if she kept doing the NFL project she would not be rehired at her school.
She even wrote up what standards each part of the project worked toward - the kids had to make graphs because "organizing information into a bar graph" was a specific standard for students that age. "Writing multiple paragraphs on the same subject" was a standard, which is why the letters to the cities and states were multi-paragraph. The project WAS standards based.
But the administrators wanted to make sure that the students had more practice with reading the kinds of questions that would be on the tests because most of the student body spoke Spanish at home.
My mom taught at that school for another ten years; the school's test scores never showed any marked improvement with test-based lesson plans.
My mom's project wasn't the only thing like that that got cancelled. There was another teacher who had a craft-based thing that was similar, and a 7th-grade teacher who did a kind of history/social studies Magic Schoolbus LARP thing who was told not to do that anymore. Eventually my mom was told to stop having her students write journals for ten minutes a day because it wasn't being taught from the textbook and wasn't being taught to the test.
People joke (haha, it's funny, it's a joke, right?) about American education being used to prepare students to be good employees instead of to be critical thinkers or independent people, but legitimately it seems like NCLB directly incentivized "students sit quietly in a box filling out bubble sheets and have no unsupervised or creative work time."
I think it's great what this teacher did and I applaud her. It's really sad that they made her stop.
I want to key into a line that OP said: "I don't know of that many schools that have projects more than a month long for 10 year olds"
I went to a private school. Also mom put me in school early so I entered 6th grade at 10 years old. 6th grade at my school is when you started changing classes instead of being in the same classroom with the same teacher all day.
For English, my school had a thing called Contracts. They lasted 6 weeks. They gave us a book to read (according to your reading level-there were 3 levels) and we had a variety of assignments to complete for each book. We knew all of the assignments at the beginning (basically a syllabus) with assignments due every week.
The work was entirely self paced.
My school was known as a "college prep" school but it wasn't till I actually got to college that I realized what this meant.
I did not do very well with these contacts because they did not *teach us* how to manage all of the work we were given.
I was *never* done with my homework. My dad would always ask me if I was finished...never. I'm never done.
The teacher that OP mentioned seemed like she did this right. She explained that the kids had a lot of freedom in how they completed their projects and that help was readily available. There was a lot of guidance.
I think this is a great skill to teach but for me I feel that it wasn't *taught* to me. I was thrown in the deep end and expected to learn how to swim.
As an adult I've had to learn these types of skills and I have to say I do fine but It wasn't due to anything I "learned" in middle school about project management because they didn't *teach* me anything about it.
My grades were terrible if I didn't like the book (because I didn't want to read it) but spectacular if I loved it because I would complete everything right away. I never did learn how to pace myself. Never did learn the discipline of it. Not until I was much much older. And then it was because of necessity.
I think at 10, if these were the skills that they wanted us to learn, they should have taken the entire 3 years of middle school to TEACH us these skills. Guide us slowly. Help us to understand the purpose of learning these skills, and give us the time to learn them, and with tons of help.
This has been a rant. I do applaud that teacher though. I would really like to know how those kids are doing now as adults and how learning those skills has helped (or hurt?) them.
I don't understand why they would do that. It's entirely possible that an author would completely disregard the televised ending and come up with something new (yes please)...or come up with ideas based on S1? And AUs are based on zero rules whatsoever.
This post is going to be long and is going to dive into my (non-scientific) thoughts about the Good Omens Series Finale and the subsequent fandom fracture, including thoughts on behaviors of fans and specifically a call to action for fandom community leaders (server owners, event organizers, Tumblr Community creators, etc.). It will touch on some of the more triggering head canons that have come out of the Good Omens fandom regarding the series, but we will not be diving into those.
This is going to be long, and anyone who comments without reading the whole thing with takes about how I'm wrong/condescending/stupid for liking the finale/whatever is going to be blocked on sight. This is mostly me just getting my thoughts out and frankly I'm not interested in debating with the kinds of people who have been crawling into my ask box with hatred. I have better ways to spend my time.
So, I've been thinking thoughts since May 13th, but recently these thoughts have really crystalized for me. I largely have to thank whatever anon(s) keep sending some really fascinating takes plus the sock puppet account screaming on one of my posts, as well as watching folks interact and behave in large Good Omens Discord server spaces.
I think there's currently this thought process that there are really two main GO camps in the fandom: those who loved the finale, and those who did not. And somewhere there is a middle of group of those who are "unsure." I would like to challenge this idea.
And in challenging it, I am specifically going to talk about the death of nuance in how people relate to stories and media.
What I've realized is that a lot of folks seem to think that those of us who like the ending, or have positive feelings towards it, all think it's a happy ending. This is not true. I know this is not true because, frustrated by the state of fandom, I started @gomens-timeaftertime, a Discord Server (TAT) for folks who liked the Series Finale. This is a "small" server of 100 people only because I have put a membership limit on it. Otherwise based on how we've had to kick people who were not active, the number of requests I have to join, and folks who were interested in participating in our Warm Close event but hesitant to join a Discord Server, TAT would be a lot larger if I had the bandwidth to moderate more people. Which I don't. So.
But the point is, in TAT the takes on the Series Finale are wildly varied. There are several people who found the ending to be a happy one (lots of reincarnation, snow globe, multi-verse, sort of head canons there). There are as many people who found the ending to be a sad one (Aziraphale and Crowley as we know them are gone, the world as we knew it is over, and similar head canons).
And these are all people who still enjoyed the ending and are having a great time Slorching about. We are picking apart details, putting together fan events, screaming, analyzing and when we complain, because we do complain, our complaints are largely focused on the loss of 6 full episodes. Because I think no matter what you thought of the ending, we can all agree that that deserved 6 episodes and fuck NG and fuck Amazon for all the shit that took that away from us.
The conclusion that one can draw from such a varied group is that the ending of Good Omens S3 is complicated. It can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways, and it is, in the most Good Omens sense, an ending steeped in shades of grey.
Which I find, personally, to be beautiful.
Anyway, "sad" has not been equated to "bad" within this community. We leave space for those who are mourning, but they still jump on the "Ice Cream Truck Bentley's eyes FOLLOW HER PAPA" excitement train.
Therefore it's my belief that the issue amongst the larger fandom is that there are some people who are of the opinion that sad/uncomfortable = bad. Bad writing, bad production, bad directing, bad. These are the folks who hurl accusations such as S3 being a "bury your gays" ending when the finale explicitly ends with a married queer presenting couple sitting in a house they presumably own and being sweet together. They also are writing break downs of how the ending is an abusers final gotcha, ignoring years of interviews and comments from NG, STP, Rob Wilkins, Rhianna Pratchett, and more all confirming that the ending has existed for a long time, and that it is a collaborative ending between the two writers, and that the goal had always been between NG and the Pratchett Estate, to deliver. Also it ignores that said abuser wrote the ending before his abuse was made public, so he had no reason to write a final "gotcha" when at the time he was still working under the assumption he would not be found out and he would still continue to create more and more series (Sandman comes to mind, but also fuck NG).
Folks are picking and choosing what interviews to include in their defense of "this is clearly a Bad Thing" instead of coming to terms with the fact that the ending was not what they expected, and that is disappointing. They point at the genre labels (a deeply flawed labeling system of stories across media types meant to promote marketing and sales and not actually indicative of the story content itself). They point at specific quotes and ignore full interviews (specifically interviews where the contradictions are addressed as information previously NDA'd or unpromised was intentionally kept under wraps). They invent thoughts on how the entertainment industry works (there is no secret cabal trying to personally victimize you in the writers room, and frankly if this was a cash grab, they would've gone with a less divisive ending). They applaud someone for taking an illegal recording of an unaware actor who is making a glib remark (and let it be known, having worked in the industry: actors know what you're looking for pretty quickly when you ask them questions and will not hesitate to say whatever they think will keep themselves safe, "on your side" and make you go away faster, especially if they are under the impression that they are not be recorded).
In sum, these "fans" are using their personal interpretation (aka: head canon) of an intentionally complicated ending, and justifying the vitriol and disrespect they are spilling on other fans, the cast, the crew, the creators, the Estate, and more, by saying that the ending was, unequivocally "bad" and anyone who doesn't agree with them is wrong, stupid, an abuse apologist, and more.
Because why? Because it wasn't a clear cut happy ending? We know that the finale was already adjusted to fit the times (Jesus showing up as a celebrity on a giant plane has very different vibes in 2026 than in 1996.) So we know that this ending was conjured during a different time. And while the time we are currently living in is harder, increasing the desire for more uncomplicated happy endings, that doesn't mean we are entitled to such endings.
So okay, there's all of that.
Let's talk more about the fandom fracture.
Because the thing is, when the finale came out, I was a community leader in some large fandom spaces. And as someone who truly loved the ending (I love how complicated it is, I love that it is both gut wrenching [Michael destroyed their universe, and they decided to accept it to free themselves, and that means they are gone] and uplifting [fuck me am I a slut for soul mates and reincarnation tropes. They found each other again in a different life, a real life, without the movie framing, the found each other and got to make their own choices, and fuck that's what it is to escape a fucked up system and live, truly live, wow, does this mean they keep going and keep finding each other again and again? It must]) it was incredibly difficult for me to sit and watch people not just be sad, but be angry.
And this is where I think as a fandom we fucked up.
In trying to give space to those who were grieving a complicated ending, and the end of an era, and a show that should've gotten 6 hours, not 90 minutes, we legitimized those who decided "sad" and "not what I wanted to see" equals "bad writing/production/directing." In doing so, we gave them the space to come up with conspiracy theories ("not STP's ending", you know, a dead man who can't speak for himself, and I guess we can say fuck you to his living loved ones who fought for this ending?, "NG wants to abuse us all", I cannot even with this one it is so deeply insulting to his actual assault victims. Stop., "NG actually had a different ending in mind, and the six episode script will prove it", ... what.)
In doing this, we harmed the rest of the fandom, both those who enjoyed the ending and fell more towards the bittersweet to happy interpretation of the ending, as well as those who actually needed the space to process and just thought it was a sad ending, without ascribing bad to it.
So when I say things like "you're allowed to just...not like the ending" this is not me saying that the ending was happy, actually, get over it. Nor is it me saying you gotta buck up and smile. Its me saying you should take a step back and look at this ending more objectively. Do you actually hate the ending? Or did it just make you sad? It can be both! You can hate the ending because it made you sad and you wanted to be happy--but then that's on you to grapple with. No one went out to "do" this to you. No one went "You know what, let's make this a sad ending specifically to ruin this person's life." It's just a story, and sometimes stories have sad endings. And frankly, this is why I often tell people I don't "do" in progress media. My anxiety struggles with cliff hangers and I absolutely read the wiki summary before committing to a thing to make sure the ending is going to be what I want it to be. Good story telling can hurt and sometimes I'm into it. And sometimes, I'm not.
And maybe if it just made you sad, you should think about distancing yourself from communities where people are mad. Because it's okay to be sad about an ending meant to be complicated and at least a little sad (if not more). But that doesn't mean you've gotta throw the whole thing, including your fandom community, in the trash too. It does mean that maybe you need to take a more active stance against those who are insisting that their head canon is the only "correct" interpretation of the ending, are throwing around incredibly triggering topics around without care because that's part of their head canon, and are, at the end of the day, disrespecting and hating on the people who made a story.
Frankly, those aren't the kind of people you should want to be in a community with anyway. Misery loves company, and if you're sad, maybe don't hang out with the folks who are mad, they aren't going to help you feel better. And I say that as someone who is mourning the end of some incredible friendships because people who I thought would never have been absolutely engaging in some frankly disturbing behaviors.
In sum: there are so many ways to interpret the Good Omens ending, whether you're looking at the Television Series ending or the Book ending (I mean come on the book ends with them discussing the "big one" and it is not clear which side Crowley thinks they are on, humans or not humans). This kind of shades of grey, wait 20 years and come back again and see how it's changed, ending is precisely the kind of story telling I'd expect out of either STP (GNU) or NG (rot).
And if we're going to preserve the community that has become so important to us, then yes. We need to stop letting the loudest (not the majority, just the loudest) people trample the joy of our community. We need to hold them up to better fandom etiquette: no yucking other people's yum, kink-tomato, all that doesn't just apply to NSFW works, it also applies to "My head canon is different than yours, and you gotta stop shoving your deeply triggering take down my throat without a content warning." We've got to be more firm in that the very existence of Asa and Anthony is not, actually, something that should be spoilered because they are the result of suicide because that is a head canon, not a fact.
And frankly, if you want your communities, your big servers, your whatever, to live on, you've got to take this seriously. Your mod teams have to agree that, personal feelings about the ending aside, the ending is open to a multitude of interpretations, there is no space for conspiracy theories that are harmful or disrespectful to cast, crew, actual NG victims, etc, in these spaces, and that these spaces are meant to come together in celebration of the story, not to complain about how much something sucked. If you want your spaces to survive, to not become cesspools of the worse kind of feedback loops, you've got to make sure there's more joy than hate.
And if you're "in the middle" maybe take a step back from the loud voices and ask yourself: Are you in the middle? Or did something make you sad and the loud voices are trying to convince you that means that thing must not be any good at all?
I know I already reblogged this once. I didn't think I had anything to add, but it turns out that I do.
CW for discussion of mental illness and suicidal ideation below the cut.
One of the most disturbing reactions I saw to the GO finale, was people who felt suicidal over it.
I struggle with mental illness. I'm medically diagnosed with anxiety and major depression. Self-diagnosed with PTSD, possibly cPTSD as an abuse survivor. I have experienced suicidal ideation.
At 40 years old, after a lot of self-help and a string of therapists, I finally saw a pychiatrist and started medication.
I'm USAmerican. I know the shithole that is our medical system, the price-gouging of the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, and worst of all, actual hospital billing of uninsured patients.
As fans or former fans of the show, we have a duty to care for each other.
And yes, that duty of care includes giving people space to be sad, and room to grieve in all of its myriad emotions. Anger is a legitimate part of grief.
We ALSO have a duty of care to push back against harmful headcanons.
So, as someone who experiences these things, here is my advice:
If you have access to therapy, even a hotline / help line, please use it. If you can, talk about how you feel about the finale with a professional.
If you have a prescription for medication, stay on your medications. If you need to call your psychiatrist to adjust the dose or add a supplemental med, DO THAT.
To the extent that you can, practice self-management. Tumblr and AO3 are full of actual, legitimate grounding exercises (perhaps most popular is the 5 senses one). Any of us who have experienced intrusive thoughts, have experience resisting them. Challenge yours. Ask yourself why. Consider other (less-traumatic) interpretations. Keep a mind open to these other possibilities. Tweak your block list as needed for your mental health.
To the extent that you can, when you feel up to it, look after each other. It's legitimate in fandom to acknowledge: "Yes, that is one way of looking at it, but consider these others..."
Honest questions and genuine dialogue are great ways to interact. We do not have to think alike to care about each other. When you are open to listening, please do ask genuine, open questions, and consider what people say. When you do so, recall that as split as fandom currently is, it may take more than 24 hours for someone to have a good, different perspective for you. Do not give up immediately.
Gosh! This is such an incredible addition to this post. Thank you so much for sharing!
I do also want to add, regardless of where you live in the world, if you are two months out from watching the series finale and are still struggling to eat, sleep, stop crying or otherwise function normally because of the things the finale made you feel, this is not healthy or normal. I'm saying that because I'm seeing far to many people admitting to that online.
And I DO care for you as a human being which is why I am begging you to step away from the people who are screaming anger, and use the resources above to get help. Just talk to someone IRL about how you're doing and why. It is so, so, so important. We live in a hard fucking world, and it sucks when something we love doesn't go the way we expected it to.
I need you as a human to still be in this world though, because you matter. So I need you to take care of yourself and find support.
I'm one of the ones who is sort of in the middle. At first I didn't like it but tried not to hate it. Then I read metas about plot holes, things not making sense, etc. I've also read metas such as these that lean the other way.
I can appreciate nuance such as this.
I don't like it but there are some aspects that I did like and think can be salvaged in the realm of fanfiction.
Some good mental health advice here in the reblog thread.
I feel strongly that NG never liked the idea of crowley and aziraphale as a romantic couple. I believe he originally just wanted to write crowley and it was TP who convinced him to split that idea into two characters who were foils of each other?
He went along with fans and their fantasies and shipping in the past because he is an expert at getting people to develop parasocial bonds with him. Then, once those bonds have been broken, he turns back on his fake aziracrow enthusiasm and destroys the relationship AND the characters as revenge.
Good thing media belongs to its audience. He may have created these characters, but he does not control them in the minds and hearts of those who have grown to love them. So for me, the official canon ended in S1 (with the flashbacks from S2 included) and the story continues in my mind how I want it to continue.
Hi, Anon!
I just kind of rambled my response to this out, so forgive my scattered thoughts.
While we can’t know his motivations and reasoning for sure, I [sure as heck] see no obvious refutation to any of these statements.
Whatever GO3 was, it will be very hard to convince me it wasn’t done as an act of malice. I think he likes hurting people and I think he mistakes people being upset with his writing for being a good writer.
I believe he wanted to make the story his very own, even if it meant annihilating it. There may have been jealousy involved. I think the weird ways the characters are developed away from their book-selves suggests this.
To me, it’s infuriating to think that we were given an intricate and intriguing S2 just to set us up for being gutted, but I think that’s the case. I’m pretty sure he was heading for the nihilistic ending all along because nihilistic endings are his lodestone. He wanted to be very sure we fell in love with the characters, understood them to be in love, and to expect a triumphantly happy ending before dashing subverting our expectations. (What he thought would happen with his Adoring Parasocial Fanclub after that, though, I have no idea. Maybe he wanted to be the calm soothing voice of wisdom? Shudder.)
I believe there were statements that were made that were against shipping the Ineffable Couple (though if that was going to be a problem maybe they shouldn’t have held hands and been referred to as a “couple” in the book), though I don’t know what they were, exactly, and I’m not gonna look for them. Since I strongly believe he was going for the universe reset ending from the time he decided to do an S2, the question in my mind is, was it made worse or more brutal as a punishment to an “unfaithful” fandom?
It is entirely possible. The careful reactions we’ve seen from the actors (who knew the projected ending from the start) suggest to me that it was, somehow, altered to be more hopeless—but that may also be an artifact of the clumsy editing from 6 episodes to one.
At any rate, in the end, I too believe S1 was the real thing and everything following was fanfiction. And you’re right: there may be legal rights to those characters, but the entire human history of myth and legend says they’re OURS. They broke the bonds of fiction and have the sort of autonomy that great characters like Sherlock Holmes and Fionn mac Cumhaill andThor have achieved—they are greater than the stories their authors originally told and can live beyond the time and means of their invention.
I won’t make this uber spoiler-y for those of you waiting to see it. All you need to know is that it is hysterical and, frankly, not nearly as awkwardly racy as I thought it would be.
Yes, your Friendly Neighborhood Ace™, who can sometimes be squicky about sexy things, did not squirm one iota during THE notorious hospital scene (or other scenes)…in fact, I died laughing.
ALSO, DJ’s monologue at the end? 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 So hilariously relevant. And I’m willing to bet that was ALL David speaking those lines.
The special effects? 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
The singing and dancing? 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 YES. YES YES YES. HOOOOOOOOO MY GOD. It’s all I’ve ever wanted out of life, to see David to sing and dance. Bye everyone. 👋🏾 I’m going with that statue off stage.
David deliciously slouching in a chair…..quite a bit.
David’s deliciously rumpled hair……leave me here, please.
They misprinted the cast list. David’s thigh made a very strong cameo, as did his chest hair. David in a suit….that boy is fucking FINE.
Those of you waiting to see it…bring your smelling salts, because I’m not sure you’ll make it through.
Spend the £4 on the program and the £9.99 on the script….WITH DAVID’S SEXY FACE ON IT.
I know people want to see him play nice roles, and I acknowledge what you’re saying, but David is right in his wheelhouse. He loves playing sadistic arseholes and he does it SO well and you can tell he loves it and he’s having so much fun. And to see him play it in person…god, it’s a thing of beauty.
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I did go to the stage door, and David did make a brief appearance. Unfortunately, I did not get a signature or selfie because people pushed to get in front of me, though it was waaaaaaay tamer than other stories I’ve heard.
I’m just happy I got to hear his voice and see his hair and eyes and profile and turquoise sweater and brown pants and his everything up close and in person. Surprisingly, no leather jacket or black ripped jeans.
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Someone behind me, as we were waiting, said, “Come on, David, we don’t have all night.” If I had no self-control, I would have turned around and tore into her.
This man just acted his ASS off on that stage. The man at the door just told us not five minutes ago that they’d been there since NINE OCLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING REHEARSING FOR THE FUCKING SHOW YOU JUST WATCHED and had to get notes from the director AND he had to clean up so he can show his fucking hot face to you and sign your damn program. SHUT THE HELL UP AND LEAVE THE MAN ALONE FOR FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, OKAY?
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Aaaaaaanyway, if you’re seeing it in the future, I wish you luck, because like I said, he’s SOOOOOOO damn sexy in this role.
If not, you can message me and ask for more specifics.
This was a review of Don Juan in Soho I found whilst pouring through my archive. I had to share it, because DJiS is my favorite of all the plays I’ve seen David perform live. And I couldn’t agree more with this assessment….
hey so does the #ForTerry shit by finale defenders piss anyone else off? like the endless refrains of “this was for terry! this is the ending he wanted! this was what he planned all along!” in addition to being a pointless argument it’s also exploiting a dead man’s name and reputation to distract from the reality that GO3 was a product of Neil Gaiman and two of his friends. it was right there in the end credits. three writers were listed for the teleplay and only Gaiman was listed for the television story. that’s it!
like whose word are they taking for GO2/3 being from plot discussions for a never-materialized sequel to the book? Neil Gaiman?? Pathological liar and serial abuser Neil Gaiman?? give me a fucking break. as if his general character isn’t enough to make it clear he is not a trustworthy source, the man already lied through his teeth about S1 being the totality of show!omens and switched up the story to justify an obvious cash+attention grab. and some people are still taking his word that this is what he and Pratchett supposedly planned? without a shred of actual concrete evidence? i need them to expeditiously get a fucking grip
and quite frankly I don’t give a shit what anyone on the production team or from the Pratchett Estate has said on the matter. because to be blunt i’m sure it eases the discomfort of having helped produce a Gaiman creation post-2024 to focus on the other co-writer of the book and pretend it was for/inspired by him. as for whatever the Pratchett estate has said, shockingly enough being the executor of an estate does not grant you moral authority nor divine omniscience into a dead person’s thoughts. but i do think Pratchett’s whole “bulldoze my works-in-progress after I die” request sent a pretty fucking clear message that his estate ignored in favor of making money. and they got monkey paw’d by allowing Gaiman to continue writing for, and thereby forever tarnishing the legacy of, something that was at least 75% a Pratchett creation.
it’s whatever if people liked the finale but liking it AND spinning a narrative that obfuscates the ginormous rancid elephant in the room is just plain fucked up. like i get this is a “why were YOU at the devil’s sacrament situation” but at a bare minimum i think being in fandom where the source material’s creator did/does terrible things requires honesty and accountability about that fact, but apparently that’s too much for some good omens fans. this is like the final boss of the internet’s misuse of Death of the Author as a way to ignore difficult issues and pretend a creator’s opinions/biases/ideologies don’t influence their creations. turns out you don’t have to navigate complex moral dilemmas if you just distort reality and refuse to acknowledge said moral dilemmas! who knew!
is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
David Tennant picked 12 Angry Men as one of his Criterion Collection Closet picks, and...
...you cannot believe how ridiculously happy it made me to see that!
The Criterion Collection just shared David Tennant's Closet Picks video, and one of the films he chose was Twelve Angry Men!
If you've been following me for a while now, you'll know that choice didn't surprise me in the slightest. David has called it his favorite film more than once over the years, after all.
But did you know that during drama school, David played Juror #8—the role made famous by Henry Fonda—in three separate productions of the stage play in 1990-91?
Early last year I spent months digging into those productions, piecing together their history through newspaper archives, theatre programmes, and interviews I did with David's former castmates and teachers. The whole process was really fun for me, and I ended up publishing a three-part series for A Tennantcy To Act about David's involvement in the play.
So if David's pick got you wondering about Twelve Angry Men, and his history with it, go check out my series below. I'll link the first part here, and links to the other two parts are at the end of the first.
...and his performances at the Third Eye Centre (now the CCA)
The reason why McConnell is currently ambiguously dead is because KY law was recently amended to state that a vacant senate seat must be filled by a special election, but previously, the duty to fill a vacant senate seat was by appointment of the current governor. The present KY gov is a Democrat, and has the means to challenge the special elections rule in the state supreme court, under the argument that it is unconstitutional to governor's power as outlined in the KY state constitution. So given the risk of a Dem appointee who would become an incumbent to challenge, or a special election race in the middle of the Mamdani Endorsement DemSoc run on congressional seats, McConnell will remain in quantum superposition between life and death until there is no longer a risk of his republican power being challenged.
Which... you know, really is life in the American Fascist Era in a nutshell: a questionably dead or dying racist lich refusing to reliquinsh the ability to make all our lives miserable
