#the mystery deepens

[embracing-the-ineffable]

Ineffable discontinuity and the Bentley's roadtrip transformation: new back doors and other changes (after it was yellow), and Crowley... didn't notice?!*

*Also, as a side observation, did he leave the Bentley window open during the ball and everything that happened after? Why?

Have you been longing to be even more perplexed by the ineffable discontinuity of Good Omens season 2? Do you love endless data in the form of screencaps? If so, then please join me on this wild ride! Here are some highlights:

Top photos: Season 1, episode 6, after Adam reboots reality; S2e2, before Aziraphale's e3 road trip. The Bentley is a gray and black 2-tone car with 2 doors (only 1 handle is visible on each side).

And on the bottom is s2e5, while Crowley is driving, it's a solid black car with 4 doors and smaller silver hubcaps.

(edit: For those of you thinking about the different Bentley models used in s1 vs s2 (discussed in detail below), or the difference between the full car and half car set, just those three full car pictures above demonstrate that the new s2 Bentley model is NOT the reason for this mid-season shift. For more details about the half car set plus other ways to tell the Bentleys apart - without talking about color - see my newer post with handy diagrams, here.)

And the s2 interior?

Here's e1, after Crowley talks to Shax, and e3, as Aziraphale arrives in Edinburgh (which is also when the Bentley debuts as a 4-door). And look at this blocking - how both characters are posed so similarly with their backs to us in these shots!! It's so deliberate! :

And look at the seats! In e2, Crowley is talking to Shax again, and in e5, Crowley just parked the Bentley before the ball:

When Crowley, who is so tuned in that he senses the car is yellow and driving too slow even from a distance, sees the "new" Bentley in e4, he doesn't act as though anything has changed, he just happily and purposefully walks up and opens the back door that was never there to put his plants inside.

THE BACK DOOR THAT WAS NEVER THERE

For that matter, Crowley and Aziraphale both seem to be unaware of the changes! This feels like both a metaphor and a functional plot device for season 3. There's more discussion at the end of this post!

Thanks to comments and observations awhile back from @bbbitchvibbbez , I did some careful searching for s2 scenes featuring the Bentley, and this post is the labor of love and irrational obsession result!

If you want to see lots more Bentley screencaps and discussion, including Crowley nonchalantly using the new back door, and possibly also leaving the Bentley window open during the ball and everything that followed, please keep reading:

Some background and context:

Ok, so there was a different Bentley "actor" for s2. The s1 actor was a 2-door, the s2 actor is a 4-door. If you look carefully, you'll see that in s1 the backseat side windows are smaller than the front side windows. In s2, they're the same size. I talk more about the windows - with handy diagrams! - in my newer Bentley post, here.

There's also been some controversy about the interior color of the s2 Bentley, black vs brown, and how that could relate to the s2 body swap theory; here are details about that from @lonicera-caprifolium and @picturesque-about-it. I don't think my findings support (or disprove) that theory, but take a look at what I found and see what you think!

(*Please don't ask Neil about any of this, he's already given us the answers he wants to give, and he's not going to spoil the surprises in s3 now by telling us what's really going on!*)

Here's the episode/scene breakdown:

S2e1 on the street with Shax - gray, two toned, two doors (one visible door handle on a side), brown interior - both the seats and the inside panel of the door. Notice how the door is hinged at the back, and opens opposite the way most modern cars do (this is called a suicide door):

More s2e1 photos, the Bentley is in a lot of scenes this episode and as far as I can tell it stays the same gray 2-door for the whole episode, but it's frequently in dark lighting to make it harder to tell it isn't actually black (I've brightened most of these shots). It also has larger silver hubcaps, and I notice consistent brown seats (these interior pics are from three different scenes):

In s2e2, the Bentley is only in two scenes, and it's the same as s2e1. Now, you can see in the larger photo below that it's obviously not the SAME as s1 - the backseat side windows are too long - but the production team DID try to make the new Bentley "actor" look the same as in season 1. It's a gray 2-tone car with 2 doors (1 handle visible on each side) with larger silver hubcaps. As an aside, what's with the red lights on the car in this shot?? I mean, yes, it's a reflection of another car's brake lights, but why put that onscreen?

Also, in case it's relevant, Crowley is wearing his turtleneck throughout this episode, and still has the silver-sided glasses from e1:

Ok, now we have s2e3, and as Crowley meets Muriel and gives Aziraphale his car keys, we see he's no longer wearing the turtleneck, AND this is when his glasses change to black-sided ones:

Outside, we see the Bentley looks the same as the rest of s2 thus far, as Aziraphale sets off for Edinburgh. Gray 2-tone, brown interior (with window bullet hole decals very visible), with larger silver hubcaps. There's only one handle visible, so it's still meant to look like a 2-door:

Ok, here's where things start to change! Azi is driving and the Bentley is yellow. The seats might (?) be black, there's still only one door handle on the side, the silver hubcaps are still larger. But when he "changes it back", NOW it's black:

And by the time he pulls into Edinburgh, Transformation Complete. (Did Something Else Happen?? Or is this an effect of Aziraphale finally being welcome to take care of this extension of Crowley? More speculation at the end!) It's a black 4-door, two handles clearly visible on the side, with smaller silver hubcaps:

And the interior? The door panel, at least, is black now - and it has a texture that wasn't there when it was brown. Here's e1 next to e3 (and appreciate, again, this very intentional parallel blocking of the two actors!):

In s2e4, we see the Bentley in two scenes; at the beginning when Aziraphale meets Shax-as-hitchhiker, where we see the bullet holes and the black door lining, and at the end when the Bentley is reunited with Crowley:

When Aziraphale parks the Bentley back at the bookshop, we see the bullet hole decals and that it's still a black 4-door:

So he goes to meet Crowley, they come back with the plants. We can see that the camera is to the rear of the car, and the front of the car is to their left. They're standing on the left side of the car. If Crowley opens the door, we won't see the interior door panel, right? Because the Bentley doors are hinged on the back, instead of the front, so the door will open towards us:

WELL. Mx "I can feel when you drive below the speed limit" and "change it back!" Crowley very eagerly walks up to the BLACK car, greets it with some sweet baby talk, and then opens the suddenly-existing BACK door with a hinge on the front (so it opens away from us) as if this is All Perfectly Normal, and we can (barely) see the door lining and it's BLACK and textured:

A few more shots of Crowley, standing at the brand-new back door of the Bentley, still wearing those black-sided glasses:

And in case you're wondering, in s1e2 when Anathema gets a ride in the Bentley, she climbs into the backseat from the front driver door, and she climbs out through the front passenger door. There wasn't a back door on either side. Here she climbs into the Bentley, and you can see Crowley fold down the front seat, and there's clearly only one door on that side, and it's hinged at the back. (When she gets out on the passenger side, it's harder to see, but you can tell that door is also hinged at the back.) :

In s2e5, Crowley drives the Bentley to the bookshop, and then we only catch a few small glimpses of it while Aziraphale is recruiting shopkeepers to the meeting/ball. Here's Crowley driving the black 4-door Bentley with small silver hubcaps, and here he is getting out of the car with black seats. The front door is still hinged at the back, as it always has been. The window is open - his hand is reaching through to open the door - so we can't see the bullet hole decals:

The next time we see more than a hint of the Bentley, it's the end of s2e6 and Crowley is standing next to it, watching Azi leave with the Metatron. It's still black, with 4 doors and black seats and smaller hubcaps. We don't see the bullet hole decals, but perhaps the window is still open from when he parked it in e5? (And WHY would he leave the window open? Was someone supposed to come by after he parked it to deliver something to the Bentley, or take something out?) Emotional photos ahead:

I over exposed that last picture, to make the colors really easy to pick out. The seats are absolutely, definitely black.

So... what does it mean? Why did it happen, and why didn't Crowley notice or react?

I love the metaphor that Aziraphale subconsciously created a back door for - or into - Crowley, especially with all those references to the "back channels" of communication between heaven and hell. I'm thinking it could represent - or actually be - another way for them to communicate, or like another entrance to his heart; it's something that Aziraphale doesn't realize he changed or added and that Crowley hasn't noticed yet either, even if he's making use of those changes on some level. I'm sure other metaphors could also fit!

And I'm reminded of something @theeminentlyimpractical said, "Crowley, despite his whining, fully accepts the idea of "our car," which fundamentally transforms the Bentley". That post was liked by Neil, so there could definitely be something to this "our car" transformation line of thinking.

So, was the transformation a subconscious effect of Aziraphale finally being welcome by Crowley to drive the Bentley, and caring for and taking responsibility for this part of Crowley? Or did Aziraphale consciously do this, or did Crowley? Or maybe the Bentley is sentient, and it chose to be bigger/different now, to accommodate both of them. Or did the change happen in response to Something Else We Didn't See?

Is Crowley's (and Aziraphale's) apparent non-reaction another example of an unreliable narrator or some memory tampering? Is manipulation of the Book of Life involved? Are there multiple timelines? Is someone time traveling? Or is it just that Aziraphale and Crowley already discussed the changes off screen, before Aziraphale left Edinburgh?

If Crowley noticed the changes, I would have expected a comment about them. Either, "change it back!" or a reluctant, "those are changes I can live with", or... Something. But instead, the production team went to some trouble to make sure the hints are there, but hard to spot (you can review the similar, careful s1 hints about the appearance swap here, from @fuckyeahgoodomens); as opposed to, for one example, the way they very clearly pointed out Maggie's mysterious spelling mistake, both on screen and in the dialogue. So I feel reasonably certain the Bentley's transformation is a careful, subtle hint about a Secret Something Important That Will Be Revealed In Season 3. I think it's both a metaphor and a plot device*.

What are some of your favorite metaphors? Your most reasonable theories? What about some of your biggest, wildest, most improbable theories?

*And if you enjoy Good Omens metas, theories, clues, etc, I have a big pinned collection of those from the fandom, here!

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[br1ghtestlight]

analyzing their christmas decorations 🔍🔍🤔

#first of all WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE sending them christmas cards every year. like they have a wide social circle #but not of white suburban families sending christmas cards. WHO ARE THEY??? #second I absolutely cant read the names on their stockings but i think the one closest to the camera says dad ??? #we know what their names are im just curious of the order they hung their stockings in and which designs they got #two of them are in green and the rest in red?? possibly bob and linda are in green or gene and bob. hmmm #EDIT WAIT THERES CLEARLY SIX STOCKINGS HUNG UP who is the sixth stocking for?? teddy? #the mystery deepens #txt #bob's burgers #bb spoilers

[diazevan]

So, the Chimney nickname still didn't exist in 2010? 🤔

#the mystery deepens #911 #911 spoilers #chimney han

[badlydrawnjohn]

Poisoned potato from Batman says ‘red’

EB: dude what?

EB: am i missing an in-joke?

#homestuck #john egbert #ask #i tried googling what this meant and nothing came up #the mystery deepens

[misskattylashes]

The Holiday Photos Saga continued ...

So yesterday I wanted to show my non fandom friend the love-fest that was Alex and Pauline in Italy. Go onto Google to search for it. The above set of pictures was my result. I thought maybe my algorithm had gone a bit funny so I asked several people and we all got the same result. The article has completely disappeared.

Now there could be several reasons for this. The most unlikely one is that there was a 1% chance it wasn't staged and they requested it be taken down. But given the whole article was a puff piece for Pauline we will put that theory to one side in the 'No Way' basket.

The most likely reason imo is that it failed miserably. I am still going with the make or break holiday theory. The publicists thought it would plant seeds of doubt into fans heads about their relationship due to them both looking miserable in the main pictures in the article. However the main thing fans noticed was that the photoshoot was done with Backgrid using the same location and very similar shots to a previous one with Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde. People were straight away calling it out as staged and fake. It had done enough to damage Alex's reputation as it was so they requested it be taken down immediately.

Another theory is that she organised it without him knowing. But given that Alex is looking in the camera in several shots I think we can add that to the No Way pile.

My last theory is the wildest, so please bear with me. One of the theories is that Louise is a beard contracted to last until the end of The Car Tour. Alex, especially during the last leg of the European tour has been more flamboyant and dare I say camp on stage. Maybe he is getting tired of hiding behind a straight persona. Maybe between them they cooked this up. She gets a few grand for selling the pictures - plus publicity to help her move on to whatever her next venture is, and Alex has planted a seed of doubt in the minds of the fangirls about his sexuality.

Already I have seen numerous posts from teenage girls going 'Stop saying Alex is gay 😭' even some of the comments on the Daily Fail were implying he would have preferred her to be a bloke.

Maybe they realised the article would only be up briefly before the record company/publicists took it down. But knew darn well by then the damage would have been done because everyone took screenshots, and besides that, you cannot unsee things. If by chance Alex is either planning to come out after the tour, or just stop having beards, then this was all part of a plan to help the more deluded fans (you know, the ones who think him and Miles behaved like brothers during the EYCTE tour) adjust to his sexuality.

I hope for his sake it is the last one because it means he finally gets to stick two fingers up to the 'inevitables who pushed him around' as a kid, pushing him to become something he wasn't.

#alex turner #milex #alex and louise staged photos #daily mail #backgrid #the mystery deepens #this is becoming a soap opera

[saengak]

#koji shimazu #john wick #kojijohn #weeeee another chapter #the mystery deepens

[quantumshade]

ok so i’m checking iplayer and 43:17 doesn’t really seem to be anything???? it’s the first shot we see of the blue lorry as it passes donna and sylvia and A Pressing Need to Save the World is what’s playing in the background, which i Highly Doubt is what rtd was referring to. i believe 41:35 (on iplayer) is your 43:17, because that’s when A Dazzling End transitions into The Doctor’s Theme. so rtd most likely got the timing wrong or is also watching a pirated version 😭

hmmmm interesting… back to square one. thanks for checking!!

#i’m not sure where the site got its copy of the episode from #like if it’s ripped from a dvd or from a streaming service or what #the mystery deepens #doctor who #delia.txt

[nocturnalazure]

#sims story #simblr stories #sims 3 #sims 3 story #tteot story #shu wong #anh wong #the mystery deepens #anh does look like someone who needs a massage #laurie arc

[multicolour-ink]

Hi! :) Not sure if the advertisement someone has mentioned is the same as the one I saw, but there were some French advertisements for each character like character cards with descriptions on them and their ages were mentioned on those (matching up to the cannon game ages of 15, 8 and 16). Again, not sure if that’s also the advertisement they are thinking of!

Oooh! Do you perhaps have a link, or know what they were called? I'm very interested in finding them!

I just tried to look it up, but the only results I could find were Valentines cards that were on the Sonic Movie 2 website in February

Let me know if you have any luck!

#caz answers #sonic the hedgehog #anonymous #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #sonic movie 2 #sonic movie #the mystery deepens

[suparhythm]

The Rooster, the Donkey, and the Egg-cellent Adventure: A Quest for Answers, Laughter, and a Plate Full of Scrambled Mysteries

Cock-a-Doodle Doo, Hey-Haw, Who Came First?: A Feathery Fable of Friendship, Fowl Play, and the Eternal Egg-cistential Conundrum. (Click link to read the full story)

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#adventure stories #and cunning foxes who offered cryptic clues for the price of a juicy goose #nature #short reads #short Stories #stories #the chicken or the egg? #The Mystery Deepens

[embracing-the-ineffable]

The ineffable discontinuity of time in ALL of Good Omens season 2?

There's Something Strange About Time, and it's not ONLY the end of the last episode, where the clocks are mysteriously jumping ahead faster than what's playing out onscreen... Look at this scene from season 2, episode 1:

The time is visible on Crowley's phone AND watch, as he stands in a very similar way as he did at the end of the season. We've seen parallel blocking like this used in other scenes to highlight common themes, Clues, etc.

Let's look closer at the times, and enjoy the way Shax's contact icon blinks at Crowley:

My technology could be fancier, but I adjusted the exposure and sharpened the pic of his watch to make it easier to read. If someone can get a better shot, that would be great! I'm pretty sure, though, that the watch says 11:35; the phone says 10:35. Why are they out of sync??! Are there time discrepancies woven throughout the entire season? WHAT DOES IT MEAN??!

The season 2 bookshop clock - which is not the same as the season 1 clock - is frowning for a reason...

And here's what I mean about the parallel blocking, or the way Crowley is positioned and filmed in a very similar way in both scenes. It seems meaningful that the season started and ended like this, with the time on his watch (barely) visible in each scene and offering evidence of Something Strange About Time:

Is Crowley manipulating time somehow? Something is definitely UP.

Want more Clues and metas? I have a huge collection!

#Ineffable discontinuity #the mystery deepens #Something Strange About Time #Clue with a capital C #good omens meta #Good omens mystery #good omens clues #Good omens time #Good Omens clock #good omens #renew good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #crowley good omens #Crowley's watch #Crowley's phone #good omens analysis #wibbly wobbly timey wimey

[nunciative]

So, uh, whats this new great feature called Tumblr live that everybody on my dash is talking about

#the mystery deepens

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

What could it mean?

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#themightoftheinspector

#Inspector Spacetime #Centenary Special #The Might of the Inspector (special) #hidden message #secret code #in plain sight #what could it mean #why would a Blorgon summon the Inspector #Blorgon #the Inspector (character) #the mystery deepens #hexadecimal code

[redwinterroses]

Grian: So we'll do that again because everyone failed at breathing--

[hermit laughter and indistinct bits of conversation.]

Grian: --so take a deep breath in... and out... [gently taps gong]

[moment of hermit silence]

Doc: Where's... my... diamonds.

Martyn: [aside] Is that the tone I leave a message after?

Ren: Just breathe, Doc.

Doc: It doesn't go away! I'm about to get TNT! I'm gonna get TNT... [suddenly shouting] I'M GONNA BLOW YOU ALL UP!

[hermit laughter, especially Cleo's]

#hermitcraft charity livestream #docm77 #tangotek #inthelittlewood #grian #rendog #hermitcraft #the diamond mystery deepens #super fast clip mode #edit: cleo has the diamonds. everything just got funnier.

[sleeplesssmoll]

More Loading Screens confirming humans "can't" use arcanum.

According to this Humans like Ezra and Schneider don't have Incantations and Arcane Skills per say, but they command scientific technology in place of real arcanum.

BUT While we know Schneider had a special gun, Sonetto explicitly explains that she was "a human who could use arcane skills". In my opinion the fact they emphasized this means Schneider was special.

Especially in hindsight. Arcanists and Humans are biologically different in many ways. Also, it seems like humans can't sense arcanists, but arcanists can sense other arcanists? Yet Schneider slipped under the radar. This is speculation of course but food for thought. So far, arcanists have no problem recognizing other arcanists when they're in the same room. At least, I think that's how it's gone so far?

#reverse 1999 #reverse 1999 lore #the Schneider mystery only deepens

[socksandbuttons]

So

Today's tsams episode kinda wild

WILD INDEED. Oh i love the drama Ruin bby im so sorry man. This doesnt solve anything even tho *stares at the one episode ruin wasnt there*. But i do wanna believe our cured ruin is telling the truth (doesnt discount a split personality tho!) BUT OH MAN MOON AND ECLIPSE DRAMAAAA beautiful. confrontation but the past clinging to both of them that they cant even shake it. Whoever brought eclipse back is applauding the show!

#KC MENTIONED ONCE AGAIN!!! oh mannn the mystery deepens. i still believe he'll return #'Maybe Killcodes back! YOU SURE CAME BACK' like yeah thats true yes #but i love that its more like them going 'OH SURE no' but *cackles* but it doesnt disprove it #sun and moon show spoilers