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portraitofalonelydyke · 3 months

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ok I’m not a meta writer or an easter egg hunter but I’ve been waiting for someone else to talk about this structure that the good omens title leads to because it’s driving me bananas

when it first pans up, it looks closed off like there’s walls around the pillars

but the next time we see it we can see the four pillars and a domed roof

and i know it’s not a perfect match to the shape of the structure, but it’s pretty darn close to the bookshop layout

and the domed roof that we don’t really get to see in the show is very clear in concept art

and uh what could the bright white light in the middle of the structure that the figures are walking towards be?

anyway all this to say this concept image makes me really nervous

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miss-americanbi · 9 months

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soul-crushing thought of the evening: what if aziraphale’s favorite color is yellow because that’s the color of crowley’s eyes

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aduckwithears · 5 months

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Good Omens: A Matter of Life and Death

Easter eggs and references! We know from the obvious placement of the movie poster in the title sequence and Maggie's shop (and even from Neil's asks) that inspiration was drawn from this movie.

I'm not going to dive deep into a lot of meta connections, but I wanted to share some of the parallels. For a great summary of the movie (A Matter of Life and Death aka Stairway to Heaven by Powell and Pressburger) and some general info relating it to Good Omens pop over to this article. This will contain some spoilers for the movie - now on with the show!

This one is before the movie even starts - The Archers is the production company of Powell and Pressburger - their target logo looks a lot like the one in the magic show portion of the title sequence.

We open in space - looking at stars and supernova, talking about the big, expansive universe. Fascinating how our view of the cosmos has been changed by modern telescopes (Crowley is so proud).

June (our heroine) is an American radio operator and picks up British squadron leader Peter's plane as he is crashing into the channel. They form an instant connection. Her hair was the inspiration for the Starmaker's amazing do.

Peter's fellow airman dies and ends up in Heaven, waiting for him. The angel administrators are very serious, very organized, very well dressed, and Heaven as a whole is colorless.

But Peter doesn't die - in fact he washes up on the beach near June, where they meet and immediately fall in love. Conductor 71 (the heavenly employee who was meant to collect Peter but lost him in the fog) is sent to convince him to come to Heaven, stopping time and freezing June to have a conversation with Peter.

I'll stop here to keep this from getting too long... More to come?

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cataclysmic-cathexis · 9 months

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Teeny tidbits from Season 2 that are references to the book

1. Milton Keynes

There's a joke in the book, when the Arrangement is being described, that neither Aziraphale or Crowley were responsible for the building of Milton Keynes but both reported it as a success to their superiors. In the footnote, it describes Milton Keynes as a new city "built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing."

When Crowley and Aziraphale enter the Dirty Donkey, Aziraphale miracles this man so he gets up from his table. He's reading a newspaper with a headline about Milton Keynes - "Modern, Efficient, Healthy and Pleasant living accommodation in Milton Keynes".

2. Shakespeare's Lost Plays

When describing the publishers that printed Agnes Nutter's book of prophecies, Bilton & Scaggs, the book enumerates their three great publishing disasters. The second disaster is that they obtained one of Shakespeare's lost plays called The Comedie of Robin Hoode, or, The Forest of Sherwoode - but then they lost it. Another of the fictional plays is Golde Diggers of 1589. Both of these plays can be seen in the box of Gabriel's stuff when Crowley is looking into it.

(The Trapping of the Mouse = The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, and Golde Diggers of 1589 = Gold Diggers of 1933, a film by Busby Berkeley).

I'll update if I find any more :)

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jimmy-boy-and-hot-chocolate · 8 months

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Guys. Let's talk about the Eccles cakes. Shall we?

When Crowley orders six shots of espresso, Aziraphale considerately asks for something that "calms people down". Nina then suggests him to get Eccles cakes.

Now the word, "Eccles" originally means "The church". It foreshadowed the season finale where Aziraphale asks Crowley to join heaven. It is a callback to Crowley being the (sauntered-vaguely-downwards) fallen angel. Crowley was given a choice to join heaven again. To eat the Eccles cake. But he doesn't. He doesn't want to be calmed down and hushed. He has found his voice, his own side. He knows the truth about Heaven and Hell and God.

The Eccles cake is also called the "squashed fly cake' because the inside is filled with black currants. This could be a metaphor for hell. How Crowley was also asked back to hell and he said no.

Aziraphale ordering Eccles cakes shows the inner struggle that he is facing. He cares for Crowley. He wants to be there for him. But at the same time, he believes whole heartedly in heaven. He still thinks of God's plan as ineffable. As indubitable. He believes that Crowley and he will be happier in Heaven. He fails to see that even if heaven seems to be the side of "truth and light", on the inside it's all squashed flies. It's just as bad as hell. That when heaven ends life on earth it will be just as dead as hell ended it.

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embracing-the-ineffable · 3 months

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Good Omens and the Tiled Sink

Remember the painstakingly recreated hand-painted tiled sink from the bookshop in s1? It burned in the fire and Mickey Ralph (Good Omens' graphic designer) lovingly painted a replica for s2. Wait, what's this??

It appears that they also used the sink in season 1 in the hospital, with a different surround! It shows up in room 4 (Dowling, above) and also in room 2 (nuns playing cards), and room 3 (Young):

These different "rooms" were probably all filmed on the same set, so they put the sink there and then left it for the various hospital scenes.

Here's a comparison of the tiles from Mickey's post, with the bookshop sink on the bottom left, and the pink hospital sink on the bottom right:

The sink might just be a cute little Easter egg/red herring, but it might also be a Chekhov's gun we haven't seen fired yet. Could this sink be important?? I'd love to know what you think!

With thanks as always to the @ineffable-detective-agency! Want more clues and metas? I have a huge collection from all over the fandom, here!

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sconesfortea · 9 months

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A look at the S2 title sequence:

Crowley lights a match "Let there be light"

As with the first season, all (nearly all?) the faces of these figures are made up for David & Michael's faces

Gabriel & his box

We see Job's goats, his children's house, the permit, & crows with goat legs

In the graveyard we see a tomb with 'Archer' on it, graves with 'Everyday', 'Peter Paintball', 'Jane Austen', 'Left early to avoid the rush', 'Here lies the former shell of Beelzebub', & 'Here lies Adam "I do not understand surely your very existence requires the ending of the world" '

In the last image from the graveyard you can see the blue lizard in the parade

Gabriel's box can be seen again behind the cross on the left

In hell we see the n**i eating spider, desks & office chairs, a pentagram, unicorn (?) skulls, a guillotine & buildings in the background

In the bombed out London streets we see a gents toilet sign, an tube sign, a double decker bus with 'Wings For Victory' on the side, a 30 mph speed limit sign & a poster for 'Stairway to Heaven'

In The Windmill theatre we can see the turnip in the background. It's raining rabbits & there is a large bronze rabbit on its side on the ground

The backs of the seats have plaques with book titles on, they are: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Crow Road by Iain Banks, & Good Omens by Terry Pratchett. All of these books appear in Aziraphale's shop, being organised by Jim. There is also another bronze rabbit sitting in a seat & a green hat hanging on The Crow Road seat, this is the book we see Muriel reading in ep 6

We see another bronze rabbit, this time in a spacesuit, as Aziraphale & Crowley dance around each other

This is possibly Alpha Centauri between Crowley & Aziraphale, slightly closer to Crowley

'Thy Kingdom Airways' and tartan grass

Piles of records surround the coffee shop & jukebox, as it rains hearts that smash on impact with the ground. Some of the records have things visible on them but I can't make them out

We see the parade pass lifts, with angels descending from heaven

Leading the parade is Saraqael, followed closely by a dark figure carrying a giant coffee cup on their back. idk about the coffee theory but there's no denying that coffee cup [Edit: the coffee cup appears at least 3 times, only from modern times on though]

Each episode the marquee and posters on the cinema change to match the episode title. The cinema is called 'The Parousia', parousia refers to the second coming

Inside the cinema there is a duck playing the accordion (or possibly half duck/half accordion hybrid idk) under the seats, on the left. [ETA: as @straphangerr has pointed out this is a reference to Mr Brown's newspaper that's on the back of his clipboard throughout the series] There is also a duck headed figure in one of the booths in the wall. Above which there seems to be a Crowley/Aziraphale couple kissing (maybe?)

Again we get a different screen for each episode here

The ship below them here says 'P.A. Resurrectionist' on it. It is the same ship sticking out of the "mountain" as the title comes up

All through the titles we see the parade carrying flags & banners

#im sure i missed loads & there are mistakes but its 4am so be kind pls #good omens #good omens spoilers #gos2spoilers #spoilers #|#long post #good omens easter eggs #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #queued

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libraearthtravelco · 8 months

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Asked a friend who is into plants what kind of plants she thought Crowley had...

"Looks like a WHITE BIRD OF PARADISE"

[gulp] Im dying... Im dead.

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polywomp · 2 months

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‘Lose a friend’

‘Surprise coming’

Gah!!!! Those are my kind of Easter eggs

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inspector-constable · 9 months

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Enjoying a couple of details from one of the Good Omens Easter Eggs videos:

"Travel to space as soon as 2040" with text from the book about Crowley (and how he can do weird things with his tongue)

The Wheel of Misfortune featuring our favorite angel and demon. Aziraphale appears to be in the clouds in Heaven fighting with his Flaming Sword, while Crowley is chilling on a bench with a lamb. The bench is still reaching into Aziraphale's part of the frame, maybe he not quite as far away as he seems. Any hints about who the lamb might be?

Reading the options clockwise:

Fortune Ahead

Make A Friend

Going A Journey

Lucky Win

Surprise Coming

Lose A Friend

Lucky Find

Urgent Miracle

Pleasure Ahead

Blessing For You

Good News

Going Abroad

Can't help but read plot points into those. Maybe the last few are hints as to what is coming in Season 3?

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #go spoilers #gos2 #gos2spoilers #gos2 spoilers #good omens theory #good omens easter eggs

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casuallydelulu · 2 months

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So I was rewatching good omens last night and had the realization that queen doesn't actually start playing until e5 of s1. I think that funny because it was mentioned in the book that all the tapes in Crowleys car eventually turn into queen tapes after about a week or 2. And e5 of s1 marks a week since the show started in the timeline and I think that was clever. However, thanks to my friend @not-soph she got me thinking what the tape was before? Now does anyone remember when someone asked Neil gaiman what TVU songs wo7ld be crowleys favorite and Neil said "pale blue eyes" and "ill be your mirror" WHICH IS BASICALLY A LOVE CONFESSION TO AZIRALHALE. Hence why when aziraphale asked about TVU crowley, without any explanation, just says "OH YOU WOULDNT LIKE IT" because bro was HOLDING CROWLEYS LOVE CONFESSION IN HIS HANDS. Now back to the point I was trying to make but got into a side tangent, I think that before the tape turned into queen it was that love confession of a song. Boom, evidence destroyed.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #THANK YOU SOPH #good omens theories #good omens easter eggs #idiots in love #so in love its physically sickening

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beaniegaebie · 2 months

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time for some tasty bonus detective content from my agatha christie easter egg/mystery post, explaining how i figured out what books they were

checking my work is extremely welcome so have at it brainrot gang!

(WELL i was gonna put something here about finally having decent screenshots, but now i look at them i think the highly cursed picture of my tv screen that i used originally is actually the clearer one? so fuck it, i guess Feralmode is the one true path)

anyways, onward to madness!

the book on top (on the right for rotated pics) was the slightly more complicated one to figure out so we'll start there, I've blocked out the gold lines dividing the titles to make it somewhat clearer-

as you can see the middle title is just one line, so when we take a look at the whole set we can immediately rule out all but five of them-

(this is the best pic i could find of all 24, still kinda blurry but the lighting on the gold is similar enough for a good comparison imo)

then taking into account that the top and bottom titles both have two lines of text, we're down to three possibilities-

here it starts getting unhinged SO I've stuck some scribbles on our source pic to help give you some idea of the formatting; circles on the clearest spaces, and lines for the rough length of the lines of text-

now if we'll focus on the top title first we see a smaller line on top that seems to be just one word and a longer line underneath that has one visible space, and only one of our three choices has a single space on that second line... BUT its entirely possible that there's multiple spaces that just aren't very clear so lets check out that bottom title to be sure shall we?

both lines are roughly the same length so we can ditch the book with "After The Funeral" right away, the space that we can see on the top line is fairly central so i don't think the "A" from "A Murder Is Announced" would give us such a long blob of gold (and i think the middle title on that one is too short to be a good match either) which finally leaves us with this bad boy right here-

looks like we have a winner to me, but lemme know what you reckon!

and finally

the other book looks like it should be harder but you can narrow it down pretty quickly just by the arrangement of lines in each title-

so first off we can cross out any that don't have two lines in all three titles-

then, checking the middle titles we remove any that have either a top line shorter than the bottom line, or lines of similar length-

next up, the top and bottom titles should both have a slightly shorter line on the top-

and boom, the last book standing! but just to be extra sure, here's the side by side to check if it all matches up-

and there we fuckin have it folks, the complete and utter shenanigans that i will apparently put myself through to find a single crumb of detail in this beautiful show

let me know if you spot anything I've missed or gotten wrong here and azi bless you if you've actually made it to the end of this mess 💚

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #good omens speculation #good omens theories #good omens easter eggs #ineffable mystery #agatha christie #hercule poirot #miss marple #FUCK ME now that its all written out i can't believe I've done this #hyperfocus is a wild ride huh #but hey what else am i gonna do? enjoy things a normal amount? ew

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goodomens-girlie · 6 months

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does crowley ever eat in good omens?

even in the second episode when he offers Aziraphale the Ox ribs, he doesn’t eat any of it

he drinks all the bloody time but he never eats

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th3-ineffablehusbands · 5 months

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IT'S A TERRY PRATCHETT BOOK

JIM WAS SHOWING IT TO SARAQUEL WHEN THE OTHER ANGELS WERE ACCUSING AZIE OF CAUSING THE MIRACLE

#good omens #aziraphale #jim #jimbriel #archangel gabriel #terry pratchett #saraquel #good omens fandom #good omens easter eggs

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tartanbowtie · 6 months

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Good Omens || Secret Record, Season 3 Clue || Fan Theory

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Not gonna spoiler anything, but @sendarya reveals an easter egg so cleverly hidden that it blows my mind!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #good omens analysis #good omens easter eggs #good omens clues #good omens music #the record is the clue #good omens fan theory #sendarya videos #sendarya #neil gaiman #Youtube

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fiercebb · 8 months

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I was relistening to the Good Omens audiobook (the David Tennant and Michael Sheen version, of course), and I can't believe I'm just now realizing that Shadwell's Thundergun belonged to a Witchfinder-Colonel Dalrymple. AAAA I will be discovering Easter Eggs in season 2 for years to come. Brilliant.

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