Good Omens
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What ineffable wisdom they have!
And Sir Terrys dead, so … how will they pull this off?
The episode begins with an angelic meet cute flashback.
Az helps Crowley make a nebula, and my guy already has the sin of lust in him.
He is just drinking Crowley in.
As Giles once said onBuffy,the subtext is rapidly becoming text.
TheIneffable Husbandsshippers will be pleased.
Youll find it at the top of the Apocrypha section, just like in the real Bible.
Turns out Crowleys big contention with Heaven was anthropocentrism, and girl, same.
Flashback sorted, were now in a post-non-apocalyptic London.
The record shop is eight months late on rent, but he doesnt care.
He just wants someone to source rare classical vinyl for him.
Jon Hamm as Gabriel in season one ofGood Omensdid very little for me.
Now Hamm gets to go full himbo, and its glorious.
Most things are fine in the end, he says, and he really believes it.
Gabriel comes to Aziraphales bookstore fully nude and holding a box.
As he always does when in trouble, he calls on Crowley.
Crowley had heard something weird was going on in Heaven from his infernal successor.
Somethings going down in the up, she says, in some very Pratchett-y prose.
Its a classicprinciple-basedethics versusethics of careargument.
Hes so mad at Az for lacking backbone/reason that he discharges an EMP?
I guess thats what happens.
Apparently Heaven is looking at extreme sanctions against anyone who helps Gabriel while hes on the lam.
That means not only will Az not exist, he will retroactively never have existed in the first place.
No interstellar meet cute, no shaky alliance at the gates of Eden, no really good dinners.
Its no wonder that Crowley comes back and decides to help Gabriel uh, Jim.
Only it backfires in classicStreisand Effectfashion.
Thats when trying to hide something only makes it more apparent.
Heaven can see that some big, lavender miracle has been done.
Whatisgoing on with Gabriel?
In the Book of Isaiah, the Leviathan is said to be killed at the end of time.
The Book of Job itself describes a weird prank/goof/bet God and Satan have over the mans piety.
Its God at peak ineffability, doing some truly wack shit and not really explaining why.
Biblical Apocrypha
Gay-O-Meter is atDefcon 4: DOUBLE TAKE.
Nothing explicitly queer is happening, but weve got two sets of same-sex couples full of one-way longing.
Also Hamm ass, which counts for something.
If youve only encountered Terry Pratchett as a co-creator of this series, I have good news.
Pratchett wrote shittons of books, both in hisDiscworldfantasy series and in other, more discrete chunks of narrative.
A bunch of theDiscworldseries just gotnew audiobookswith Peter Serafinowicz as Death.
(The same Death as in season one of this show.
They borrowed him forGood Omens.)
Was anyone else triggered by Crowley constantly calling Aziraphale Angel and sent into a wholeThe IdolK-hole?
No, just me?
If Maggie soldTaylor Swift on vinyl, her record shop would be doing better, jussayin.
Seriously, Emmy for Jon Hamm.
I dont think itll happen.
Look at him dusting!
Im glad we dont have to suffer through multiple episodes where Crowley and Aziraphale are mad at each other.
I dont like it when my dads fight.
The three years Aziraphale did the Im Sorry dance were 1650, 1793, and 1941.
1793 was the beginning of the Reign of Terror, which wesaw these two atlast season.
And1941is a bad Spielberg movie.
