Phew! I just finished up so very many Good Omens customs! I would have posted sooner, but after hanging out a bit with @neil-gaiman and hearing that there would definitely be some awesome new outfits for me to make, I made sure to wait until after S2.
I hope you all enjoy these, as they were indeed a labor of love. Thanks again, Neil, for inspiring so many of us! Here’s to season 3 😇 😈 ❤️
I’ve seen a lot of talk about how Aziraphale was wrong and why but we also need to face the fact that Crowley’s solution is also a mistake.
He keeps going on about running off to Alpha Centauri because he’s a romantic but in reality that has never really been the right option for either of them.
The whole reason this solution works for Gabriel and Beelzebub is that neither of them gives a flying fuck about Earth. Leaving it behind, along Heaven and Hell, means nothing to them.
But Crowley and Aziraphale love Earth. They stopped the entire Armageddon just because they wanted to stay here rather than go back to spend eternity in their respective realms.
Leaving, even for love, even for each other, is never going to be right for them. Just like trying to fix broken systems from within will never work (but that’s a whole other issue).
The answer, the only real answer, is to stay and fight back and chose Earth and life and maybe even mortality… together. They were close to the answer during s1, but it still took some pushing. Especially for Crowley (who has already faced awful consequences for daring to take a stand) compared to Aziraphale (who is far more naive and therefore inclined to an ‘I can fix it!’ mentality).
But they never really settled on that choice. Not yet, anyway. Which is why, at the smallest hint of trouble, they each reverted to their instinctual answers (flee vs fix it). Starting with their answer to Gabriel and building up to the ultimate consequences in their final break up.
The thing is… THE THING IS that Crowley, by ways of recognizing and acknowledging his feelings for Aziraphale, is maybe closer now to the correct approach (“You can’t leave this bookshop”) but neither of them is entirely there yet.
I have thank god now recovered from my most recent bout of mental illness. Somehow, in the middle of it, I was able to drag myself to BritSciFi con at Leicester’s National Space Center and meet some people I’d always wanted to meet. Chief among them being Danny John-Jules:
We also got to talk to him a little and he sang part of the “Da-Doo” song he sings in Little Shop of Horrors. (Yes he was a background singer/dancer in that movie before landing Red Dwarf!)
We also got to talk to Peter Davison, David Bradley, and Norman Lovett, all of whom were lovely and humble. (Lovett said he didn’t even expect anyone to turn up for him, aww.) I asked Peter Davison if he was definitely going to be in Good Omens season 2 and he said yes, but under a lot of makeup so he might not be recognizable!
Here’s the autographs I got from them:
I also met some Daleks who were trundling about the place. The National Space Center did a really good job with this con!
What glorious (and dangerous) trouble will our favorite angel and demon find themselves in this time? 😇😈 Good news! #GoodOmens is returning for Season 2 on @PrimeVideo. pic.twitter.com/cFJQMo0Vkj
Neil Gaiman posted the above today and the internet went wild, WILD I tell you. I wasn’t expecting it at all and after a few punsome exclaimations of surprise (“What the HELL?” “What in GOD’S NAME?”) I started wondering, what do I actually want from a season two? Well, honestly…
…what I want them to do is make the Aziraphale/Crowley “bromance” an actual romance, like everyone thinks it is. And it’s not because I’m a Shipper, I’ve been doing shipping totally and utterly wrong for literal decades at this point, I just feel like it would be a better story if what we were seeing here was romantic love. IE… not something that Amazon can point at and go “No, they’re just friends!” And because said Ship has been so important to and so rewarding for so many people… Why not just go ahead and do it?
Well, that’s my main thought anyway. The other thing that occurs to me is that season one contains a pretty intriguing sequel hook as it is… “Next time, I reckon it’ll be all of us against all of them.”
