David Tennant at The Assembly 2025 ❤
Q: What made you want to start work, like become an ally to the community? What prompted you to say, do you know what, this injustice has gone on long enough.
David: When I was a teenager, there was this thing that Mrs. Thatcher's government introduced called Section 28, which was about stopping the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools, which was a weird umbrella term, which was basically saying it was illegal to talk about being gay in school or to suggest that that might be a normal way of behaving. We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say. And I think the way the trans community is being demonised and othered is exactly the same.
"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard ...
But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
David Tennant at 21, already knowing he was going to be a time lord 11 years later!
You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?
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I can never be Aziraphale bc there's no way i would have resisted that
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.
he has a problem