Kinda Sick Of My Body Waiting Until My Roommates In The Room So It Can Make The Most Ungodly Stomach

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.

Were orcs ever mentioned again after Unseen Academicals? Like, we got to see golems and goblins civil rights expand throughout multiple books, but I don't remember orcs ever making a return appearance. Granted, I still haven't read every book in the series, but still...

There's a really cool point in this if you will bear with me, okay!

Peter Serafinowicz voices Death in the new audio books and in the new The Amazing Maurice, right? He's kind of like the new official Death in productions now like Christopher Lee was.

BUT guess what other show he was on that is a complete tonal shift and I didn't even realize it was him? He was The Tick in the Amazon Prime show!!! I absolutely LOVED this show!

(The bastard hid his britishness)

And now get this!

Sir David Jason played Rincwind in the Colour of Magic adaptation, okay? Well he also played Albert in the Hogfather Adaption!

There were a few other actors that where in both as well.

My point is:

Actors play in different things and everytime I discover this I get really excited for no reason 🙃.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

Oh God, I'm so scared. I'm rooting for Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, James Stewert, and Peter Falk. I know at least one of them will fall in this next round, I just hope none of them are pitted against each other. :(

congrats to our round 3 winners!

James Dean

Omar Sharif

James Shigeta

Sidney Poitier

Jeremy Brett

Cary Grant

Buster Keaton

Gregory Peck

Paul Robeson

Sessue Hayakawa

Vincent Price

Toshiro Mifune

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

Kisses and hugs also for every hot man loserboy who didn't make it through. Have fun in the shadow realm!

Like last time, additional propaganda for me to add to the poll posts can be sent to my ASKS in the interim between now (Sunday night) and the night of the 30th (Tuesday night). I will take video links, photos, and text propaganda, but not gifs. You can also save your propaganda until round 4 begins and I will post/boost as usual.

Round 4 will be up on Thursday, February 1st, and last one week.

The background has changed, the passions have shifted. It's Quantum Leap time y'all.

The ghost writers chained in his cellar confirmed it when I snuck them some bread.

neil gaiman is this true???

It is true. The yellow-skinned four-fingered version of me from The Simpsons claims not to be able to read.

The fandom for the 1776 movie (and the musical in general) are some of the funniest and horniest people I've seen on this platform. Keep up the good work! ❤️

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.

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