There's A Really Cool Point In This If You Will Bear With Me, Okay!

Alright, since I'm 80% sure Doctor Who starts tomorrow, I'm locking in my crazy guesses on who Mrs. Flood is for the season. This is based off of nothing but vibes.

1. The White Gaurdian

My reasoning? Eldritch being in white. We've seen last season that Davies is pulling from Classic Who a lot, so why not someone pretty important to some of the otherworldly aspects of old Doctor Who?

2. Kronos

I'm still really bitter about the whole Sutekh and Ruby's mom thing tbh. I convinced myself that there was evidence that Kronos was Ruby's parent (they're a God, they don't really have a gender.) And since Sutekh called himself the God of Death, it would be funny if Davies brought in another being from Classic Who that was more neutral in their title of God of Death. And as you can see above, their form while on this plane of existence is white.

Also, it's almost 100% a thing that Flood's the one that took the gold tooth that housed The Master. In The Time Monster, Kronos was about to torture the Master for all eternity if the Doctor hadn't pleaded with them to show mercy. So maybe there's still some hard feelings?

And yes, both of these rely heavily on the fact that Flood was wearing all white for about thirty seconds in the Season 1 finale.

Just two girlie's prophesied to destroy the world.

Bold take:

As an avid watcher of Columbo, I think if I were sucked into the show and killed someone I would get away with it.

I have the advantage on all of the other killers because I know Columbo. I know how he thinks, and I won't let him drive me crazy like he does everyone else.

So thaaaaats why I should have kept doing the updates. My bad.

I loved your Mid-Nite Shade story! It made my shipper brain happy.

Yoo!!! I'm so glad! I was gonna answer your comment today as well! It's so funny because you're occasional Swift/McNider posts are what keep me thinking about them.

Inhaling sharpie fumes trying to finish a class project while watching a sad Quantum Leap episode rn.

Life is good.

I had the weirdest dream last night, so I thought I'd share it here before it's completely gone from my mind.

It was set in Ankh-Morpork and there were two people from the future. One was a dude who was a private detective, and one was a woman who was the patrician. The city had moved out of the Victorian Era style and now everyone was dressed like it was the 1920's.

So, these two people travel back in time and they're like "cool, we can meet the people who made this city great". So they meet Sam Vimes and he follows them around since they are acting strange.

They make it to the Patrician's palace, and the woman is in awe about every little thing. Birdbaths, benches, everything.

She makes it to the Oblong Office, and a woman opens the door. The time traveler asks if she can meet Lord Vetinari, and then everything loses sound as this other woman (who I guess is a nurse?) mouths that Vetinari has just died. The future patrician walks away in slow motion as cameras click like it's an emotional scene in a movie. She's wide eyed and in shock.

And then it ends with dude doing a Benjamin Button and aging backwards until he dies for some reason. Kind of weird considering I haven't watched that movie since I was in 9th grade but whatever.

Fin

No JSA thing today because I was cuddling with my poor old dog to fend off the cold. Thank you for your understanding and I'll see you this time tomorrow.

This post said it would like to spark some critical discussion and that opinions are welcome. While my last English teacher would agree that I'm awful at critical discussions, I would like to share my opinions if that is alright. I get everyone feels differently about things, and I'm not trying to start anything.

I can definitely see where you are coming from when you say that this season didn't have as much momentum. There was no REAL world ending stakes like the last season. This seasons story was more about solving a mystery and exploring personal relationships among all of the characters.

There isn't a lot I can say about Nina and Maggie. I agree that they weren't really fleshed out characters. They were more like little side projects for Crowley an Aziraphale to use to deflect their own feelings. However, they might be fleshed out more if we ever get a season 3. Or they might not.

I also don't feel like their story is suppose to show the power of love. They aren't fully together in the end. I think their story was more meant as love endures or is always present. It's not always the right time for true love.

And since this season is all about love, I don't really see a problem for Beelzubub and Gabriel. They fell for each other, and it was the right time for them to be together. It's meant to be sweet and show what Crowley and Aziraphale can have when the time is right.

As for the soap opera thing, well, to each their own. I totally get it, but I personally love a little 💫drama💫. Makes the reconciling all the more touching. I'm not familiar with many soap operas, but as long as a secret twin and comas don't come into season 3, I'll take as many emotional scenes as they want to spoon feed me.

I'm not smart enough to say anything about the themes you want to see more of, so moving on from that part please and thank you.

Lastly, I would like to say that I think I might have preferred this season to the last one. I feel like a heretic for saying that since reading the original Good Omens is what introduced me to both Gaiman and Pratchett writings. However, this story (until the very end at least) was cozy. It was meant to be comfortable and enjoyable. What's better than love? Than finding at least one person who can be on your side and take away the loneliness? And, it was original. It transformed something preexisting in a way a simple adaptation, no matter how great the source material was, could do on it's own.

Good Omens 2 Criticism

Real talk: I’m glad this sequel exists, but let’s not pretend it’s as good as the first series/season.

Hoping to spark some critical discussion - opinions welcome!

The plot itself lacked momentum. Sometimes the Gabriel plot line, which ostensibly is the MAIN plot, felt like a distraction to the getting Nina/Maggie together plot, which really is a side quest.

The Nina and Maggie characters are shallow, and their whole thing was unconvincing. Before the first ep, there’s no evidence to suggest that the two had ever even talked! How in the world am I supposed to believe that within the course of days these two are supposed to wind up together?

Gabriel…. So the idea of an amnesiac Gabriel is intriguing, but the resolution felt rushed and out of left field. That Beelzebub and he are…. in love(??), after just a few one-on-one meetings, strains belief. I don’t see it. I’m not a shipper, I watched the first season and they barely interacted. So we need an infodump/retcon in order to make it even remotely plausible.

Overall the season felt smaller, the stakes were lower, the themes less grand and less cohesive. If the first season was about trusting humanity with their own future (BIG IDEA), season 2 is about… getting two randos to fall in love, which is supposed to show the power of love?? Ierno that’s kinda thin to me.

Aziraphale and Crowley. These are the two I’m actually invested in. I ship them, like everyone else. I am sad about the ending, like everyone else. And I do think the scenes between them (both in the minisodes in the past, and in the present day) are the best parts of the series.

But I don’t want to reduce their love affair to a soap opera. There are some big concepts in the original Good Omens. Stuff like free will vs design, good vs evil, whether good is possible no matter the circumstance, whether one can find/create meaning in a world without meaning.

I want to see those themes played out in Aziraphale and Crowley. I want those discussions about dolphins and eternity and God. The Job episode delivered some of that, and it’s my favorite because of it. But overall I don’t think this season cared too much about big ideas.

And that’s sad to me. That may be fanservice and enjoyable for what it is but it’s not good.

Me reading Darwin's On the Origins of Species in a desperate attempt to study for my Midterm that's tomorrow:

"Ha. He said cock."