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gothikmausI watched Good Omens 2 and wrote a meta post for tumblr. I might write more, because there were some scenes I simply loved, but I'll be travelling soon, so I don't know when I'll have time. For the moment, I'll post this here as well.
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I don't usually write meta posts, but I watched Good Omens 2 and I don't know how to feel about it. I think now I understand what Neil Gaiman meant when he said the series was meant to be watched slowly, not binge-watched, so people would have the time to think about the story and what's going on. But I'll be travelling next week and was afraid of spoilers, so I watched the first 4 episodes last night and the last 2 this morning. And yes, I feel that was too fast.
I'm going to put the rest behind a cut so people can skip it, because it's going to be full of spoilers.
I want to focus on love. I think season 2 wasn't much about plot, but was rather a dissertation on love in its different forms.
Maggie is the classic shy woman pining for her love interest, finally finding the courage to make the first move, only to find out the other person is already in a relationship.
Nina is apparently in a toxic relationship with a very controlling partner, but either doesn't realise it, or is afraid of ending things.
Aziraphale's idea of human love is based on classic romance novels, and he thinks that a "romantic" setting is all you need to make two people fall in love with each other.
Crowley's take on love is more modern, but just as stereotyped as Aziraphale's if he thinks a sudden downpour forcing two people to take shelter under an awning is the thing they need to finally realise they're in love. If Aziraphale's idea of love comes from Jane Austen's novels, Crowley's comes straight out of a rom com.
As for Gabriel and Beelzebub's relationship, it left me a little perplexed: it felt rushed and out of nowhere, we only see 3 little scenes in which they meet and go from being heads of opposite sides to two people who have an "agreement" to... something more. It's like a high-speed version of Aziraphale and Crowley's story compressed into 3 years instead of 6 millennia. But maybe that was the point: if Gabriel and Beelzebub realised they loved each other after only 3 years, then Aziraphale and Crowley could do that too.
But their stereotyped ideas of love come back to complicate things: Aziraphale still believes in the Greater Good and thinks he can change things from the inside. And now he can do it with Crowley by his side. It's like the grand finale of a romance novel, where good and love win. But Crowley knows better, knows Aziraphale will never be able to really change Heaven. So he presents his counter-proposal: to forget all about Heaven and Hell and finally be an "us". If Gabriel and Beelzebub could do that, so could they. And when Aziraphale doesn't accept, Crowley does something we've all seen in countless romantic films: he rushes to Aziraphale and kisses him. KISSES HIM. I literally gasped, I was NOT expecting that. A hug, yes, a desperate hug with Crowley clinging to Aziraphale and begging him to run away together, but an actual kiss? Never in a million years was I expecting to actually see that.
And now... We wait. We all know there might be a third season with a potential happy ending in the South Downs, but it's still very much up in the air, so we can only hope.
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I don't usually write meta posts, but I watched Good Omens 2 and I don't know how to feel about it. I think now I understand what Neil Gaiman meant when he said the series was meant to be watched slowly, not binge-watched, so people would have the time to think about the story and what's going on. But I'll be travelling next week and was afraid of spoilers, so I watched the first 4 episodes last night and the last 2 this morning. And yes, I feel that was too fast.
I'm going to put the rest behind a cut so people can skip it, because it's going to be full of spoilers.
I want to focus on love. I think season 2 wasn't much about plot, but was rather a dissertation on love in its different forms.
Maggie is the classic shy woman pining for her love interest, finally finding the courage to make the first move, only to find out the other person is already in a relationship.
Nina is apparently in a toxic relationship with a very controlling partner, but either doesn't realise it, or is afraid of ending things.
Aziraphale's idea of human love is based on classic romance novels, and he thinks that a "romantic" setting is all you need to make two people fall in love with each other.
Crowley's take on love is more modern, but just as stereotyped as Aziraphale's if he thinks a sudden downpour forcing two people to take shelter under an awning is the thing they need to finally realise they're in love. If Aziraphale's idea of love comes from Jane Austen's novels, Crowley's comes straight out of a rom com.
As for Gabriel and Beelzebub's relationship, it left me a little perplexed: it felt rushed and out of nowhere, we only see 3 little scenes in which they meet and go from being heads of opposite sides to two people who have an "agreement" to... something more. It's like a high-speed version of Aziraphale and Crowley's story compressed into 3 years instead of 6 millennia. But maybe that was the point: if Gabriel and Beelzebub realised they loved each other after only 3 years, then Aziraphale and Crowley could do that too.
But their stereotyped ideas of love come back to complicate things: Aziraphale still believes in the Greater Good and thinks he can change things from the inside. And now he can do it with Crowley by his side. It's like the grand finale of a romance novel, where good and love win. But Crowley knows better, knows Aziraphale will never be able to really change Heaven. So he presents his counter-proposal: to forget all about Heaven and Hell and finally be an "us". If Gabriel and Beelzebub could do that, so could they. And when Aziraphale doesn't accept, Crowley does something we've all seen in countless romantic films: he rushes to Aziraphale and kisses him. KISSES HIM. I literally gasped, I was NOT expecting that. A hug, yes, a desperate hug with Crowley clinging to Aziraphale and begging him to run away together, but an actual kiss? Never in a million years was I expecting to actually see that.
And now... We wait. We all know there might be a third season with a potential happy ending in the South Downs, but it's still very much up in the air, so we can only hope.
