Your analyses are always interesting. What are your thoughts on David’s expression in the latest pics?
(Grouping these together since they’re about the same subject.)
Well, it truly is the end of an era (for now), isn’t it? I’m definitely sad to see David de-gingered and Michael un-blond. I suppose I should put the new pictures posted by AL in here, too, since those were just posted:
I just...I feel like there are a lot of things going on here, and I’m not sure all of them are good. I’m not even sure I would use the word “recreating” to describe this new post from AL, so much as copying almost verbatim what Georgia posted two days ago, right down to the hashtags (nevermind that #exhumed doesn’t really seem to make much sense here). It feels contrived and calculated, like something that was done on purpose to elicit a specific reaction.
For me personally, what I see in David’s expression is what I also now see in Michael’s: That Georgia/AL are celebrating the end of filming GO 2, but David and Michael are not. I have no doubt that they’re both glad to return to their regular hair colors/be done with a grueling filming schedule, but I also think the shoot meant a great deal to Michael and David. They were together almost every day for nearly six months on a hugely emotional shoot, and that has to be a difficult thing to say goodbye to.
So to see these posts and Georgia/AL using David and Michael as props in them and seemingly lowkey emphasizing the fact that the boys are “theirs” again just sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, in that regard. I think that’s also what ultimately keeps me from finding this as cute as some folks do--that David and Michael probably are having feelings about the shoot being over (especially Michael, given how attached he is to Good Omens and the character of Aziraphale), and that’s sort of being plowed over in favor of these orchestrated posts.
All that being said, I still think David is a beauty, but that color on Michael isn’t really the most flattering (though I imagine it must be difficult to go from blond to his natural color, and he’ll probably look more like himself as time goes on and his hair grows out). I think what I miss even more than the blond curls is how happy Michael seemed when he had them, because he got to play Aziraphale again.
Hopefully a third season of GO isn’t too far off in the distance, and Michael won’t have to say goodbye to the blond (and David to the red) for too long...
