Good Omens stupidly brilliant pun #4211
Crowley : "AHHHH, Gabriel"
Gabriel : "See? I told you I looked like a Gabriel!"
I can't even.
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My new hobby is buying plants from yard sales and today i bought one from a charming woman with a very thick accent
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Of course I love how Benoit Blanc is so shamelessly, fabulously, himself. How he’s gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide [GNU Terry Pratchett]. How he doesn’t hide that his brain is peculiar, for better or for worse. How he picks the cases he likes.
But I also love that in Glass Onion Rian Johnson shows us that Blanc can choose to be himself because he’s protected by his privilege of rich, upper-class, white man.
Which in turn leads me to notice how in both movies Blanc uses his privilege to protect a working-class woman and a Black woman, but he always refuses to be their saviour. He just creates the conditions in which they can choose to be themselves and save themselves—and punish their oppressors.
[Edit: A couple of people pointed out that Marta is actually white, even if the Thrombeys would probably disagree. I’d add that Helen isn’t exactly working-class, she’s simply less rich than the Disruptors shitheads. Anyway: I apologise—I’ve edited the post.]
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Because it’s been weeks, and people forgot what happened earlier, I occasionally get corrections on this- So for those of you who will read Night Bright as Day over the long stretch of weeks, a note that I’m misspelling pear as “pair” on purpose. Sure the pun payoff isn’t going to be a life changing event, nothing to write home about, but it will happen. So for now, our little Eden bois call this a “pair” ❤️ 😂
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NOW I CAN FINALLY SAY THAT AZIRAPHALE FELL FIRST BUT CROWLEY FELL HARDER
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One sun pun : Gabriel's tomatoes
Hello there tomato-wonderer @scottishmushroom. I saw your post about tomatoes and I come bearing fruit answers!
I was also wondering about the tomatoes, and it led me down a spiralling path of tarot cards and visual puns. I'm pretty sure Gabriel's entire entrance scene in season 2 is based on tarot card 19: The Sun. Allow me to explain...
Here is the Sun tarot card in the Rider-Waite deck, which was used as visual inspiration both season's 1 & 2 of GO. Notice anything familiar?
All of the elements of The Sun card are hidden in these opening shots quite cleverly. I am suggesting here that the red banner (that the sun carries on the card) is represented by the spill of red tomatoes because: it's a sun pun!
You see tomato in English & French from the Spanish word "Tomate" that took over in the 1850s, but there's also an older expression for tomatoes that was used since it's import to Europe, that is still the origin of the word in Italian : Pomodoro.
In French we used to call it pomme d'or: just like in Italian today, the French (and the normans who were the reigning class in England) would have called it a Golden or Sun Apple, due to it's need for extreme sunshine to grow.
Which is a great callback to Gabriel's character in season one because of this iconic line:
But that's not all: Tomato was also called "Pomme D'amour" or love apple, due to how it looked like a human heart. So Gabriel walking into Soho triggering a spill of bright red sun-apples also has a double meaning as he steps on one : crushing a heart.
Still not enough sun for you? Well, there's more! While Gabriel is marching into Soho we get a musical number called "Into Soho" on the Prime video series soundtrack. However, once Gabriel gets to the door and knocks, it quickly switches to a preview of a theme we won't hear until episode 6, when Gabriel opens the fly and remembers : it's a track on disc 2 called "Gabriel Revealed".
Yes, haha they made a secret "Gabriel is naked" joke in the soundtrack when he is revealed. The bonkers part comes when your realize what number the track is in the list....
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So. I found myself suddenly in the grip of these two, and made a thing. Time to show you, then .. 🥰
insta
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