#crowley and aziraphale meeting in heaven

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David and Michael interview with Vanessa Armstrong and Valerie Ettenhofer for SlashFilm, 10.7.2023

Film's Vanessa Armstrong got the answers in an interview with Sheen and Tennant, which it should be noted took place before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike began. When asked about how and when Gaiman, who created and showruns the series, pitched the second season, Tennant revealed that "it gradually came into focus over a couple of years, probably." The actor notes that "the initial idea that there might be more story to tell" might have actually "had its genesis way, way back as a sort of fantasy idea, really, where we were shooting [season] 1." Like many a TV show these days, the show was initially marketed as a limited series, but that didn't last; it was officially renewed in 2021, two years after it aired.

While it sounds like Gaiman and the cast perhaps daydreamed about keeping the fun going with another season during production on the first, Tennant says the pieces still didn't come together until after it aired. "Then [season] 1 came out, and I think from that point, there was a slow realization that actually there might be more to come," he told /Film. "Neil was clearly excited at the idea, and I think Amazon were keen to do it." Some limited series clearly have aspirations for a sophomore season, but Tennant insists that he and Sheen "always thought it was a one-off," having signed contracts for one season and only been pitched on one season. When they got the go-ahead for another, though, he explained, "Michael and I were thrilled that we would get to return to [these] characters."

"When we started off on that journey, there was never a sense to go further, but what a treat that it was going to," Tennant explained. It took a long time for the full season 2 picture to come into focus: "I think Neil would drop us little nuggets down the months and years, really," he told /Film. Sheen, meanwhile, says he has "no memory whatsoever' of how Gaiman told him about the plans for Aziraphale in season 2. He did, however, have an inkling based on conversations Gaiman had described having with Pratchett about a continuation of the story before the author's death in 2015. "I know what we wanted to explore," Sheen said, "and I always remember what he was aiming to get to by the end of the second series, because of ideas that he and Terry had talked about with where the story might go."

Sheen says he thinks the first thing Gaiman told him about season 2 involved "the idea of Gabriel coming into their lives again in a very unexpected way, and then that eventually building to the point that they get to at the end of this series." Tennant, meanwhile, remembers being in Romania on a shoot for "Around The World in 80 Days" when Gaiman shared the first scene of season 2 with him and Sheen over Zoom. "Neil read us the first scene, the opening scene, which is, if you've seen it, you'll know we meet a very youthful Crowley and Aziraphale, very much way back at the beginning of time." (fygo: NGK FUCKING NGK!!!) Tennant says Gaiman "then gave us a quick sketch of what the rest of the series was going to be." Though both actors are understandably trying to keep mum about the ending of season 2, they note that Gaiman told them what it would be early on.

"That was all worked out, and it just felt delicious, really," Tennant says after recalling the Zoom meeting. "I mean from that moment on, it just felt like it was always meant to be. It felt like it was such a perfectly formed idea. I think it's fair to say that Michael and I didn't need much persuading." That's great to hear, because we certainly didn't need persuading to sign up for a season 2, either. The new "Good Omens" adventure begins on Prime Video on July 28, 2023.

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #david tennant #michael sheen #interview #david interview #michael interview #s2 opening scene #angel crowley #good omens spoilers #spoilers #crowley and aziraphale meeting in heaven #s2 interview #slashfilm #slashfilm 2023

[princip1914]

A little hopeful moment which I missed on the first watch, but which I think is so important. Nina and Maggie come to have their talk with Crowley. Now, we all know that Crowley is Maggie—yes, sure, Nina is sarcastic and suave and cool and calls Maggie angel—but it’s obvious that Crowley is Maggie and Nina is Aziraphale. Crowley even admits it himself in the very beginning of this conversation when he tries to justify meddling to get Maggie and Nina together:

“Nina needed rescuing.” Yeah, you know who else always “needs rescuing”? Anyway, moving on.

Nina says she just got out of a relationship and it would be a disaster to get into another one right away. And then this happens:

Nina says she hopes Maggie will still be around, but she knows she can’t ask Maggie to just wait while she figures out her own baggage. There's no guarantee. And then Maggie interjects—

The parallel between Maggie/Nina and Crowley/Aziraphale is so intentional as to feel heavy handed. So what does it mean that we get this exchange in at this particular moment in the script—buried within the conversation which is the catalyst for Crowley confessing his feelings, occurring in the lull immediately before the spectacular dissolution of everything the first two seasons were building towards?

“We could have been us,” Crowley says. Crowley walks out of the bookshop. Crowley turns off their song in his car. Whatever tentative blooming thing has been building between him and Aziraphale for six thousand years appears to be very clearly over. Aziraphale presses the kiss to his lips and knows there is no guarantee they will ever have a chance to be together. There's no guarantee that Crowley will ever want to forgive him, that he will keep on waiting for him.

But.

There is.

#good omens #good omens meta #gos2 meta #gos2 spoilers #reaching for crumbs to tide me over in lieu of a promise of s3 #in this case the crumbs are pretty textual though #Neil Gaiman never did meet an instance of parallelism he could resist #I have hope #but Aziraphale is going to have to figure out who he is first #away from Crowley #away from heaven #and he’s going to have to work on himself until he is ready #for the gift of Crowley’s love #ineffable husbands #forgive my super crappy screenshots I don’t have a download of the show #yet

[ineffectualbookseller]

But if Aziraphale is memory wiped in s3 I think "you know what it's like when you don't know anything at all and yet you're totally certain that everything would be better if you were just near one particular person" is going to be so relevant... memory wiped!Aziraphale protecting Crowley despite not knowing who he is would mean the world to me

Their love is so deeply engrained into who he is that it's not a part of him that anyone can take away

#heaven is going to go after Crowley #and as soon as Aziraphale “meets” him he knows he needs to protect him despite not having a clue who he is #good omens #good omens spoilers #ineffible husbands

[wraithee]

Very happy to know that my headcanon that Aziraphale would keep coming down from heaven to steal kisses from Crowley because he wants more is not only alive and well in myself but also still a confirmed possibility now as well.

#aziraphale faking a cold in heaven to miss meetings and make out with Crowley #good omens

[mikafromhell]

Supreme Archangel Aziraphale visits the Prince of Hell 🔥

#heaven meets hell #good omens #good omens 2 #michael sheen #aziraphale #crowley #david tennant #mikafromhellart #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #fanart #supreme archangel aziraphale #bearded aziraphale #long haired crowley #prince of hell crowley

[thatlonelycactus]

We all know that Aziraphale is in massive trouble in heaven- but how much?

The Metatron is obviously setting him up for failure- trying to separate him from Crowley because the two of them are pretty powerful when together. Plus we know two main things a) Gabriel lost his position (Aziraphale’s new position) by trying to stop Armageddon 2.0 and b) Aziraphale is going to try to stop Armageddon 2.0. Aziraphale doesn’t know that that’s why Gabriel was cast out. The Metatron almost definitely knows that Aziraphale will do anything in his power to stop Armageddon and so, if and when Aziraphale tries to stop the end of the world, the Metatron will try to do what he tried the Gabriel. That is wipe his memory- take any memory of Crowley away from him thus separating them forever. Anyway this has probably been suggested before and I just haven’t seen it so sorry and sorry for blabbering haha.

#But if this happens #It’s gonna break our hearts #Like could you imagine them meeting for the first time after s2 #And Aziraphale doesn’t remember Crowley #The look on Crowley’s face #As he finally realises #That Heaven can’t just TAKE everything he loves from him #But that they have to make it impossible for him to ever reach them again #aziraphale good omens #good omens fandom #crowley and aziraphale #aziraphale #crowley #go s3 #go theories #good omens

[chernozemm]

The angry horny divorcees? Best thing I've ever seen in my life. I'm dying. I'm reborn. It's perfect. 😩😩😩

Is it a plausible take? Mmmmh. Is it an inspired take? My hubris tells me yes.

There's something so inherently sexy abt "I'm so angry at you please fuck me silly"

#and the juicy implications #the whiplash contrast of a sweaty physical rendezvous and the sterility of heaven #aziraphale feeling his collar press against the tender skin on his neck where crowley scratched him while coming #while sitting in yet another meeting and understands how immovable and coldhearted heaven is #would crowley find Aziraphale’s new getup good looking? on the one hand confidence suits the angel on the other he looks so unlike himself #the way crowley fell in love with him #as i said #juicy #and so very hot #good omens

[vibinwiththefruits]

the lighting in this shot is going to send me into an early grave

#the windows casting dark and light on their respective sides #in most scenes they're basked in their own colors #but here #with their lips meeting aziraphale's face is cast in shadow #in contrast to his hair which is still being lit up like a halo #a visual representation of his love for crowley not being enough to overcome his ties to heaven #good omens spoilers #good omens

[rollforjackass]

"unstoppable force meets immovable object" is SUCH a fun way to think about crowley and aziraphale bc my first thought is always 'oh crowley's unstoppable force ("you go too fast for me crowley", literally speeding and ignoring traffic laws in the bentley, very modern) and aziraphale is immovable object ("i forgive you", has a particular set of clothes & pastimes he likes, very stuck in time)' but in a way they're both Both?

like yes crowley is all those things, but has he budged from aziraphale's side At All in those 6000 years? they'll go off and do different things, but he's been aziraphale's Adversary the entire time. he has nothing in his life but plants and aziraphale. friends? aziraphale. love interests? aziraphale. does he spend time with literally anyone else? just aziraphale. also, his main coping mechanism is to drop everything, sit in place, and nap for a century. in that way, crowley's immovable. he knows what he likes and he sticks with it, and what he likes is aziraphale.

and yes, aziraphale is also immovable, but he's also Damned dedicated and Constantly getting himself into trouble because he can't leave well enough alone. he's the first one to find the location of the antichrist, when inconveniently discorporated he simply sprints off to earth and body-snatches his way to tadfield, he lies recklessly to heaven without a second thought, he's the one who runs off with the bentley to edinburgh to play detective on a whim, and he's the one who makes a snap decision to run around convincing people to come to the market association meeting that he has also, on a whim, decided to host. the ball is the best example of this, because he tramples all over everyone else's free will and dismisses crowley's warnings trying to get that fantasy happy ending for nina & maggie (and have an excuse to dance with crowley). he's Constantly and Unstoppably sprinting from task to task, often getting himself into hot water in the process, and leaves it to crowley to keep up with him.

crowley's immovable because he's decided who he is, what he wants, and what he likes, and settles with it. aziraphale's unstoppable because he's been running away from his true thoughts & feelings for centuries and doesn't know how to stop.

#they are both immovable And unstoppable because they are two halves of the whole #and that kiss was no exception #both unstoppable: crowley trying to move closer to aziraphale and aziraphale trying to move heaven #both immovable: crowley refusing to entertain an existence he knows to be a sham even if it's for someone he loves #and aziraphale unwilling to accept that anyone is unworthy of redemption. especially angels. especially heaven #the Real unstoppable force-immovable object quandary is gonna be s3 #when heaven and hell learn that 25 lazarii was a Minor miracle to the two of them together #unstoppable gays meet immovable establishment #sometimes two immortal queers are just bullet trains and bombs at the same time #good omens spoilers #go2 spoilers #good omens #aziraphale #crowley

[boydykewannabe]

aziraphale you fucking idiot

#why. why are you like this #WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SIDE #this really is the one and only time to admit that aziraphale is in fact a fucking bootlicker #trying not to take this one too personally cause jesus #he gave up everything. for you. way before you even knew to ask it. he was willing to change it all just to be w you #and you were just too stuck up in not being ready to give up what you thought was holy #whos gonna treat you better than this huh #oh yea sure heavens gonna protect you youre “gonna change things from the inside” #crowley sweetheart you deserve so much more than this. you deserve someone as willing to run away w you as you are #AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON GABRIEL GETTING HIS HAPPY ENDING AND EVERYTHING AFTER 3 MEETINGS #good omens #im just yelling its fine

[mlentertainment]

i know it's been inferred (and semi-substantially proven) the demons had their memories erased when they fell, but do. do you think. the remaining angels might have had theirs modified too. easier to prevent the risk of more falling and joining their ranks if they don't remember who their friends used to be.

#not super well thought out i'm just hurting myself thinking about aziraphale making an archangel visit to that nebula #and recognizing that he was THERE when it was BORN but can't for the life of him remember who was there making it happen #and we know how fucking bad they are at communicating so like. you Know crowley's never figured out that aziraphale can't remember angel!hi #just assumes that's who aziraphale's referring to when he says come back to heaven with me #OGH but aziraphale thinks he's gonna get to meet this whole new side of crowley. he doesn't even KNOW #and because none of the angels (except probably the metatron) KNOW any memory mod has happened they've never put the WORK IN to BREAK OUT #like crowley said i know it hurts do it anyway. at some point he figured it out. do you think it was just because of his imagination? #anyway. :) #omens #personal

[keep-dreaming-killjoys]

From what I gathered (I might be wrong tho) angels and demons are not omniscient, so, this is the system Crowley deviced to keep track of Aziraphale's whereabouts, right? He just has every demon on earth on the lookout for his angel and love him for that <3333

#demon a: whe have noticed that recently the angel known as aziraphale has been meeting with n*zi spies. what is heaven up to now???? #Crowley. in the verge of breakdown: Aziraphale!!!!!!!!!! #good omens #good omens 2

[cheapasheck]

i often think about how Crowley can never get enough of Aziraphale.

since the beginning of time, they’ve been together. in heaven and on earth. and despite that, Crowley still finds Aziraphale “unpredictable” and can’t seem to go a single day without his “best friend”.

i don’t think i’ve seen a sweeter thing than them.

#good omens #good omens 2 #crowley x aziraphale #don’t even get me started on how azirphale had a small crush on crowley in heaven #when crowley just follows aziraphale around when he’s inviting shop owners to the annual meeting #when crowley keeps all his secrets from heaven because he knows how toxic they are #i love these two shut uppoooo

[evilasiangenius]

“Duke Legion, would you be so kind as to fetch the model?” Aziraphale made a gracious gesture, and the Duke of Hell known as Legion seemed to suddenly blur and split into three separate demons who stepped away briefly and came back, hauling a massive scroll of papyrus that had been drawn all over it with squiggles that represented the Earth and all its environs. The demons began unrolling it just partway, setting it up upon a table that appeared miraculously before them, a table that grew as the large sheet of papyrus was spread out over it. Both delegations began to step back, in order to accommodate the growing table and the papyrus upon it.

“Now, here we have both representatives to scale,” Aziraphale raised his voice in order to be heard. By now, Aziraphale and Crowley were standing far away from both delegations. The table had grown so large that they had to move and Crowley found himself at Aziraphale’s side, looking at the distant figures of the Archangels and the Princes of Hell. “We will start by searching the Pacific,” Aziraphale continued, nodding to Legion, at least, one of the Legions, who produced two diminutive figures and set them upon the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, mostly blank but for the outlines of some islands and atolls. Crowley had to lean in to look, and there he was in miniature, with his wings and his robe and a harp in hand.

Crowley swallowed; the figures looked so small, lost among the empty expanse of what was called Ocean.

“Seems like a daunting task,” Gabriel said loudly from the other side of the room.

“Oh, it won’t be so hard once you see what kind of a task this will be...the model Leviathan please, Duke Legion.”

Legion bowed...all three of them, and they split once more so that another three stepped out of the room to fetch the model while the original three held onto the partially unrolled papyrus. This time the other three Legions returned with a massive sculpture of a sea beast, carried by two while the third one directed their obscured view.

“Careful, careful! Two spans to the right! No, not my right, your right!” Legion called out to Legion, as Legion and Legion groaned under the weight of the massive sculpture, several cubits high and even more cubits long.

The demon Duke(s) hefted the gleaming black sculpture onto the table where it settled with a metallic clunk. A monstrous multitude of glowing red eyes made of rubies glittered in the bright light of Heaven. Both delegations walked over to take a closer look at the model Leviathan, and the angels recoiled when they realized its grotesque horror, faces contorted in disgust.

Crowley’s eyes widened. As the Duke(s) of Hell had set down the sculpture, both tiny models of the Representatives on Earth had been crushed under it, forgotten. He could see little black and white wings sticking out from beneath the foot (or would that be tentacle?) of the great beast that was the Third Prince of Hell.

Actually, he decided, it was perhaps something more like a toe...or a little nub of callous sticking to the edge of a toe, or no wait a minute, perhaps that really was a tentacle, the black on black carving made it hard to tell even in the bright light of Heaven, which then logically would make that the edge of the tiniest sucker? Or some kind of fin or flipper?

“’I am one of the meanest creatures that inhabit the sea. I am three hundred miles in length, and enter this day into the jaws of the Leviathan,’” Gabriel read the banner that hung from the sculpture’s massive curling horns out loud. “Well, that is...a thing.”

“Yes, rather. Leviathan was the head of Marketing,” Aziraphale explained. “Quite good at it, if you must know. After all, even the humans know about Leviathan.”

x

#demon aziraphale #angel crowley #archangel gabriel #reverse omens #good omens #the seventh prince of hell #aziraphale is the seventh prince of hell #leviathan is a prince of hell #a management meeting with heaven and hell

[nerdythangs]

Not me writing some more of the fic that I keep going back to every six months or so 👀

—

“Ah, hello! This is the Principality Aziraphale. I’m calling to follow up on some missing Incident Deed Reports from the Demon…” he checked his notes again, “Crawly? Crowley?”

He paused for a confirmation, but received a bored sigh instead.

#canon divergent AU #Crowley and Aziraphale never met #Crowley’s on earth and Aziraphale’s in heaven #Crowley is delinquent on docs that Aziraphale collects for auditing purposes #and office space hilarity ensues #I LOVE office vibes AUs for good omens #and also canon divergent modern day meet cutes #this is so specific to my tastes #and I’ve been writing it on and off for like 2 years now #mostly not writing #anyway got a burst of inspiration #hoping to keep that motivation going and maybe get more than a few paragraphs #good omens #good omens fanfic #Crowley #Aziraphale #fanfic #my post

[moonyinpisces]

i think you’re all vastly overestimating aziraphale’s self control. you’re telling me he’s gonna be in heaven w no food no wine no books no bitches for YEARS and he’s going to see crowley in s3 and just be? kinda sad about it?? no girl all his hungers have mixed together and the moment their eyes meet again he’s gonna be devouring some meat alright. out of crowley’s ass

#out of his cloaca if you will #good omens #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #azcrow #moonyinpisces