Parallels - Good Omens Seasons One & Two - Part One

Did you guys notice that Crowley and Aziraphale are on the wrong sides in the end credits of season 2?

Crowley is always on the left of Aziraphale in every single frames - except for the scene when they had switched bodies - so we know it's important.

But here, their frames are on the wrong sides of the screen. What does that mean? 😱

I'm curious to hear your interpretations!

(Erratum: They're in the wrong positions during the kiss scene and then stay on the wrong side of the frame until the end! 🤯)

Really love Ineffable Divorce from the perspective of the other shopkeepers... to them, one day, some gorgeous guy showed up naked on Mr. Fell's doorstep and a couple of days later, Mr. Fell had disappeared and so had the naked guy... so the whole neighborhood thinks Aziraphale ran off with Gabriel and that's why the bookshop is now being operated by this odd little person hired by its sad and distracted owner-- Mr. Fell's abandoned ginger goth husband with the gorgeous old car. Nothing has been this juicy on the street in decades...

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when Metatron gave Aziraphale the coffee, Aziraphale drank it after little prompting, when Aziraphale tried to convince Gabriel sushi was good Gabriel said he didn't 'taint is ethereal body with gross earthly matter', angels don't eat or drink food. Crowley tempted Aziraphale into eating and drinking, so when metatron offers aziraphale a coffee and he takes it I'm thinking that could've been his way of seeing how "far gone" Aziraphale was from the heaven lifestyle, how sinful, or how corrupted earth and Crowley made him. The coffee wasn't mind control the coffee was a test and Aziraphale failed it.

I don't normally post photos or talk about the protest actions I participate in, but I was at the Chicago Stand Up For Science rally on behalf of my job recently and this sign took me out at the knees.

I just realised that, if we accept the fairly common idea that the Bentley is an extension of Crowley, that means that Aziraphale had already tried to change him once during season 2, when he made the car yellow, and Crowley already had the opportunity to tell him that he didn't want to be changed... 😭

Oh! And what was Crowley doing while Aziraphale was pimping his car? He was tiding the bookshop - the extension of Aziraphale - and putting the books Jim had moved back to their original places. Because he also didn't want Heaven to change his angel...

I'm gonna go lie down...

P.S : Don't get me wrong, I don't think Aziraphale wants Crowley to be someone else. I think he just wishes that Crowley were happier and he expresses it in a clumsy way.

P.S2 : This is a symbolic reflection, I'm not making a statement about their relationship here. They both care for each other and change each other because they share things with each other. Crowley is obviously not doing a good job at tidying (but point for trying though). All I'm trying to say is that we had all the elements in this scene to know how Crowley would react at the idea of being changed back into an angel and at the idea of Aziraphale going back to Heaven.

Just rerewatched the burning bookshop scene. Am I crazy or is the phonograph in the bookshop playing the same song that the Bentley was playing at the same time? 😱

What does that mean? I feel like it means something important 😅

Because we have most of the story from Crowley's and Aziraphale's points of view, we all internalised that falling is a bad thing. Crowley seemed very sad when he said he didn't mean to fall, and Aziraphale seemed devastated when he thinks he's going to become a demon.

So I absolutely can't get over Gabriel reaction...

He's like "Oh noooo! I have to go to Hell? You mean all the way down to the basement of the same building? To live with the person that I love? Well that's just too bad, let me pack my things, see you soon, bye."

Gotta love some DGAF Archangel!

Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson is literature's best King.

'But he ain't the king!' I hear you cry. Even though everyone knows better. He's the King of Ahnk Morpork, by birthright and fact. It's hard to deny, given all the evidence.

But what makes Carrot the best King isn't that he sits on a throne or makes proclamations or wears a crown. He does not, in fact, DO any of that. This is remarkable, given the number of Kings you can find on the Disc that go all in on the usual trappings of the job.

No, what makes Carrot the best King is HOW he, for lack of a better term, rules his people.

He does not rule the city. The Patrician does that, and quite well. But Carrot does rule his people, and he does it with a touch so light, so soft, many of them barely realize he does it.

Part of this is his upbringing. Dwarfs, by and large, do not wring their hands and worry about what tomorrow will bring because, down in a mine, getting to tomorrow is certainly not a guarantee. There is only what is in front of you, and what you can do about it.

Carrot brings this attitude with him everywhere. He shares it with others. He shows his people, by simple dint of a fresh perspective, that what they can do about what is in front of them is not limited by the concerns of tomorrow or the grudges of history.

Yes, lad, you could absolutely stab this other lad because he broke your mate's nose that one time when you were all scrapping over who got what rubbish from the pile. OR, you could put the knife down and join in this game involving the ball I happen to have right here because what lad doesn't like a bit of sport.

Yes, sir, you could try running all of those foreigners you dislike so much out of the city with threats of violence. OR, you could come along with me to this cozy little curry shop that, would you look at that, has been here for ages because the owners are every bit the Morporkian you are, they just handle direct sunlight a tad better by tanning.

Yes, my lord, maybe you should call the guard and have this impudent troll removed from your property. OR, begging your pardon sir of course, but since I AM a guard and that particular troll is Seargeant Detritus, perhaps you should assist us with our inquires regarding this seemingly innocuous murder Commander Vimes seems quite invested in.

And the magical part is that his people DO what he tells them. Suggests to them. They can't help it. And Carrot, despite appearances, knows it.

He KNOWS the power he has over people. And THIS is how he chooses to use it: domestic disputes, police work, and helping out where he can. He doesn't want a throne or a crown. He just wants to help. He wants his people to BE better, not because he says so, but because he knows they CAN be, and they just need to recognize that for themselves.

Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson is literature's best King, because the best a King can be is a servant to, a champion of, and a cheerleader for his people. And Carrot would rather die before he failed at being all of those things, simultaneously, and all the time.

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."