You would think Castiel’s “heaven” being filled with badly edited half-naked pictures of Dean Winchester is from some spn fan account shitpost from 2015 but no it’s from season 9 episode 22 Stairway To Heaven draft script.
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one, and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Hello! It’s not a question but I thought you might find this interesting. You may want to fact check it, but I read somewhere that Micheal Sheen’s fav movie is “A Matter of Life or Death”. Heaven in this film looks VERY MUCH like the one in Good Omens. Just a thing. Thank you so much for you blog.
Hiya! :) Ooh, thank you! :) I found this article:
And guess what! This is the American poster:
And!
Michael's favourite movie's poster is in the S2 Opening Titles! 👀🥰❤
The post on that part in TSRTS when Jonesy appears to say "Oops" reminded me of one of my fav JPJ moments. He was 99.9% perfect....except for this time in STH live where they did that dramatic Complete Stop...but poor Jonesy accidentally nudges his piano in the UTTER silence...and is greeted with a massive tactless ROAR from Bonzo to highlight his faux pas.
#Bonus pic of Robert from same year cos he wasn't in the vid and don't like to leave anyone out
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?
I was reading the draft script for 9x22 Stairway to Heaven and I found this part in it hilarious. Castiel opens the gates of heaven and finds shirtless pictures of Dean plastered everywhere. The next page cracks me up the most because it sounds like Sam is implying that this is Castiel's ideal version of heaven. Is he too ashamed to admit he's got a schoolgirl obsession with Dean? If they actually included this in the episode, it would be the most wildest thing ever.