So this was the unanswered messages in my ask box a couple of days ago:
ALTand this is the unanswered messages in my ask box today,
ALTand I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has said such nice things about the season, and I’m sorry to everyone who had emotions they weren’t expecting, and I’m impressed that so many of you have theories and don’t plan to answer, validate or really even comment on any of them, but mostly I’m just sorry because I probably won’t read whatever you’ve sent, not because I don’t want to but because if I was doing nothing but reading Tumblr asks as a full time job I still wouldn’t catch up with the thousands of asks coming in.
I’m glad you care.
sunshineandchemistry asked:
Hi Neil, thank you so much for s2 (even though my heart is broken).
I did notice that in the Job flashback Aziraphale calls Crowley “Crowley”, while in the S1 flashbacks Crowley hadn’t told Aziraphale he changed his name from “Crawley” until the crucifixion. To be fair, Crowley also talks about lead balloons in the garden of Eden so I assume chronological order has limited meaning to ethereal or occult beings, but I was wondering if this was intentional.
Thank you!
Aziraphale calls him “Crawley” all the way through the Job sequence.
The subtitles say “Crowley”. But I promise Aziraphale has it right.
gaytoddanderson asked:
Do you know anything about why the subtitles for Good Omens 2 were so poorly done/inaccurate?
I don’t know. Probably I won’t know, at least as long as I’m on strike.
This probably happened because I’m on strike. On S1 I checked the closed captions that the BBC made and I checked the scripts that went out to foreign countries to be dubbed or subbed. For S2, Amazon did that stuff directly, and I was on strike and unable to do a final check and correct it.
Having said that, whoever does the captions is meant to refer to the scripts, so I don’t understand why they were so off. I feel guilty, because it shouldn’t have happened: it’s not fair on the hard of hearing or anyone relying on the closed captions for aid. Nobody relying on the closed captions knows about Mrs Sandwich’s hatpin, for example, or knows that Shax brought Crowley’s mail to the bookshop, or that the first Doctor Who Annual was cover-dated 1966.
I very much hope it will be corrected soon.
iona--blog asked:
Hi Neil, I just finished watch season two, and apart from emotional devestation of the plot (thank you I hate you I love you), I wanted to say how emotional the sheer Pratchett-esqueness of it all made me. Obviously the easter eggs were a pleasure (CMOT Dibbler, six-inch tall angry scottish men, seamstress humour and the countless more I'm sure I'll pick up on on repeat viewing.) But the street traders meeting felt like something straight from the Discworld. Terry had such a keen eye for the beautiful humour in mundane, silly, regular people. Of course the apocalypse might happen. But people have things to say about the Christmas lights. Of course they do. I started reading the discworld books when I was 8, and the supply was so great (our library would order books in if you asked nicely and had it no limit on how many books you could borrow), I quickly became addicted. I read them all, too quickly, looking back. And then one day there weren't any more new books to read. And today, watching Good Omens s2, it was almost as though I got to revisit a new chapter. And I wanted to thank you. Because Terry's spirit is so present in season two its hard to imagine you didn't come up with it together while eating sushi.
Thank you! That put a huge smile on my face.
fouroddapples asked:
This may very well get lost in the flood, but if you see this, I just wanted to say that there were a lot of things I thought I wanted for good omens 2 (a happy ending for one, of course!)
But my favourite thing that a writer can do to my experience of a story is to make me go "okay forget EVERYTHING I said before, this is the outcome I didn't know I needed." This show took my hopes and said "no u don't actually :) i got something better" and it had the audacity to be SO RIGHT.
The finale I *thought* I wanted would have probably had me giggling and kicking my feet and then moving on with my day while in a bright mood for a bit.
The finale I got had me absolutely devastated, inconsolable for maybe an hour, and then just...immediately rewatching. And talking about it behind a fortress of spoiler tags. And writing, and drawing, and being invested in theories and trying to find all the easter eggs and just...falling in love with the story and the characters all over again. And I can tell that feeling will stay with me for a whole lot longer than a couple days.
I'm bad at brevity, I apologize! This is just a very long-winded way to say thank you (and thank you to everyone else on the team) for giving us these idiots (affectionately) to have Way Too Many Feelings about!! Thank you for sharing them with us.
I'm running GO in the background, crossing my fingers and looking forward to a season 3—whether or not it'll be what I'm *hoping* for, I am just beyond excited for whatever story it is that you want to tell us, and I trust that whatever it is, it will be wonderfully told! 🩶🩶
(But also, please, for your consideration...I am in fact soft and innocent, I can only take so much damage before I cry myself to critical dehydration—do with that what you must, I shall leave my electrolyte balance in your hands and hope for mercy. You did say everything would be okay, and thankfully we all know a writer would never lie!)
I wouldn’t lie about that, anyway.
marina12sstuff asked:
Hello Mr Gaiman. I’m not sure that you’ll answer this question but it least I can say that I’ve tried.
So I’ve been rewatching season 2 today and I noticed that there was no holy water during the battle in the bookshop. Aziraphale can’t make any water holy? Or is he too good to use it against demons?
Why would he have holy water in his bookshop? It could hurt Crowley.
fowjiyo asked:
Hello ☀
First of all, a huge thank you to you, the cast and the entire crew for this second season. He's amazing, he's great, even though he crushed us in the end. But it was also beautifully done. Secondly, I wanted to ask if you currently read reviews from critics and track ratings on sites like Rotten Tomatoes? We keep, as viewers, we keep the figure of 99% :)
And do you read, just look through the fan theories, which already now, after only two days, have poured in a stream? Especially when you already know perfectly well how everything will happen next and how it will end?
I read the first few reviews and was happy that they seemed to like it, and then I was done. I’m glad about the Rotten Tomatoes rating. I’m not planning to look at the theories, no.
wishingtoflylikeabirdinthesky asked:
Hi Neil(can I call you Neil?)
I really loved the mini episode about the book of Job in episode 2. Is there a reason you wanted to adapt that particular Bible story and are there any others you might want to show in the future?
Thanks for this season, it was amazing!
That was John Finnemore’s story. But the story of Job is pretty central to the whole Good Omens conversation, including Aziraphale’s bit of it.
pigeonmilk117 asked:
Hey Neil,
So, mid season, Crowley suddenly changes his glasses and for one episode has a turtleneck
Will this be explained in season 3, has no explanation or can you give a reason?
Just curious! And I support you on strike
He changed his clothes that day.
anything-that-makes-my-brain-rot asked:
hello mr. gaiman,
first of all, fantastic job on the second season. it was really good and i really liked it!! :)
secondly, when nina is asking crowley if the bookseller (aziraphale) is his ‘bit on the side’, does he say “he’s just an angel i know”? or “he’s just an angel. i know.”?
sorry if it may sound like a silly question but the the tone of the “i know” made it kind of difficult for me to understand.
thank you again, and great job on the season again!
The former.