Neil Gaiman: The truth is that Michael was meant to have played Crowley. That was where it all began: was me going, 'Who do I know who could be Crowley? Michael Sheen loves the book, Michael would do it.', called Michael, do you want to do it, and he's like, 'Yes!', I thought, 'Great, I have a Crowley.'. So when I started writing the scripts, I was writing them going I know I have - at least I have my Crowley, I have Michael Sheen. And around the middle of Episode 3, I was going, 'This Crowley doesn't really feel a lot like Michael Sheen.', and I wrote this sceen when Crowley comes down the center aisle of a church hopping like a man on a beach on a hot day 'cause it's walking on holy ground and I thought, 'David Tennant would be really good at that, I could get David Tennant.', and then when it was all done I figured I had to break it to Michael, that he wasn't going to be Crowley, that I wanted him to be Aziraphale, and he read the scripts, and we had this really really awkward dinner, that because I was trying to pluck the courage to break it to Michael that I wanted him to play Aziraphale, and Michael was trying to find the way to break it to me that he did not want to play Crowley that he wanted to play Aziraphale having read the scripts. So it was an awful dinner until the end where we just like, 'Oh, you too?! Oh! Oh, good! Well I'm thinking of David Tennant, oh good you like him. Okay.' So it became a lot easier at that moment.
Season 2 is kind of quiet and gentle and romantic as opposed to season 1. And if we ever get to hypothetical season 3 it will probably not be quiet and gentle and romantic either but this is the soft, gentle, romance in the filling of the sandwich. 👀 ❤ 🥰
your dad's best friend said you can work in his company during your summer break, he would do anything for you and your family, but what would your dad say about his little girl sleeping with his best friend? and also your boss now? that's so wrong and unethical but it feels so right... dbf!bucky's face between your legs, his lips on your lips, fucking you over his desk... summer of your dreams; (fanfic for this mb)
I do not care what the poster is implying, no one gets to call out the new season of GO for queerbaiting if aziraphale and crowley don’t end up being a traditional love story.
Queerbaiting has been used time and time again for marketing purposes, leaving queer watchers desperate for some kind of identification with the people they saw on screen. Queerbaiting creates, bathes and feeds off the drama, controversy and hype it creates. It’s a vicious and insidious way to make sure that audiences stay steady, season after season, hoping and wishing for the illusion that mainstream media cares about them too.
Good Omens needs neither the hype nor this kind of influence on the ratings. Neil has said over and over that the love is there, that it’s been in plain sight all along. For all these iconic lines of S1, every single one of them screams i love you. Good Omens (and Sandman too for that matter) don’t shy away from complex, wonderful characters that broadcast love in all its complex, wonderful reality. Isn’t that what we’ve wanted all these years? Queer characters which are flawed and messy and brave in the way they love ? Not just bc they kissed at the end of the movie, but bc they’re a vessel for all these emotions which never had a place on screen before now ?
We shouldn’t let the (albeit justified) distrust for queer representation in media stop us from enjoying these kinds of portrayals of love. Not when they so openly, so wholeheartedly present themselves to us.