NEEDED to tell you i'm so relieved you posted your thoughts on s2 i feel so freaking vindicated. your honour he wouldn't say that!!!!!

i am more than happy to vindicate you darling! the season was not good, imho, and that’s all there is to it. there were however so many fun and delightful Aziraphale moments this season, mostly coming through in Michael’s acting choices and delivery rather than brilliant writing which was notably absent throughout. and i am simply going to cling onto those and anything else, well

#good omens season two #gos2

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The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

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Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off.

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse?

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Keep reading

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#we will always end up here etc etc #can’t believe we did a speedrun of secret good fourth Sherlock episode in literally one single weekend #i need to preserve this essay on my blog I’m going to study it like i studied the 85000 word M theory essays #worried I haven’t made it clear enough that I think this essay is hot garbage #reblogs do not equal endorsements #i am fully dunking on this take #good omens season two #gos2 spoilers #good omens #Youtube

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Anonymous asked:

okay hi just came across your go2 post cause i was looking for a more critical opinion on the season and it was hard to find...so thank you so much!! i thought it was just.. meh. i expected so much more.. the last episode got pretty engaging, but the whole season i was thinking that the plot was super disjointed, the writing could've been way funnier, and the new characters really were flat 😬 didn't get the maggie & nina stuff, they had no chemistry to me.. idk. so weird. so it felt great to read your little take on it. hope you're having a lovely day 🥰

hey anon! i pretty much agree with everything you’ve said here. we spent so much time farting around in flashbacks (trying to recapture the magic of the s1e3 cold open) that everything happening in the present day just seemed not to matter, or had absolutely no time to matter. all the new characters felt like they were introduced to do one specific thing and they weren’t characters outside of a particular function so had no depth or exploration. the ‘plot’ was a mess and i’ve seen people saying that this season was just a bridge to get from season one to season three, and season three is where the real ‘meat’ will be and i’m just like [regina george dot meme] so you agree? this season had no meat?

neither crowley or aziraphale grew at all this season, which whatever okay if this is the second part in a three parter that’s… sure, but it’s not even just that they didn’t grow. it’s that, despite the ending of S1 being both of them being like ‘oh we were wrong and being here and saving earth and being together is what’s important’ they still both made the exact same choices they made in S1 before they’d learned that lesson!

i had some fun, some bits were brilliant, but most of it was decidedly not. in my opinion. you’re not alone, anon, and it’s fine that you didn’t love it. it’s frustrating when you wanna be genuinely interrogating what was actually presented but are worried about coming off as a WAAH WAAH THE THING I WANTED DIDN’T HAPPEN GOOD type. i hope you’ve got some good pals who you can chat critically about it with! a balm for the soul. and that you get to read some good fix-it fic, or write some if that’s your jam. that’s what i’m doing. fixing literally the entire thing for fun and because spite is a motivator i can work with xxx

#don’t even get me started on the useless lesbians [derogatory]#good omens #good omens season two #gos2 #gos2 spoilers #good omens spoilers

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good omens season two: he would not fucking say that

#[Marge Simpson voice] look how they massacred my boy #release the Spanish dub #but actually don’t #there’s only so much we can expect from translators when the core material is such a crock of shite #this is not a joke #the writing in this season… Roblox oof dot mp3 #we love a complete character backslide for no fucking reason #we love all the new characters to be completely useless and with 0 real personality #yes girl go give us nothing #good omens #gos2 #good omens season two #gos2 spoilers