After. It’s for and by demons. There weren’t any demons before the Fall.
amyshrift asked:
Hi Neil! My partner and I both watched good omens season 2 and loved it. The only part my partner did not like is the unrealistic portrayal of Magie's record shop. "That place would be very busy in Soho! Especially with hipsters" were his words. I told him I would ask you if there was a reasonable explanation for the lack of business in Maggie's shop?
I’m sure he’s right. But still… I’ve watched so many wonderful established Soho record shops go out of business in the last thirty years, and I’ve gone into shops that used to be bustling that were pretty much empty because people had stopped buying music on disks or tape or vinyl, and seen several amazing specialist shops I thought would last forever close their doors that it seemed to me pretty likely that a vinyl-based shop that had been in business since about 1930 would be struggling.
Here’s a wonderful article from the web (from 2015) about all the record shops that have closed in Soho – especially in Berwick Street, which inspired Whickber Street.
And here are the record shops of Soho from 1946-1996:
Reckless Records is still in Berwick Street, so is Sister Ray. Sounds of the Universe in Broadwick Street is lovely. And there are others. But I’ve not often found them “especially busy” although they are never as empty as Maggie’s shop.
lcvleyday asked:
hey, I may be stupid, but when Metatron is speaking to the council of Angels about removing Gabriel from status, who is the other high rank Archangel that was removed? I’m pretty sure it’s Lucifer, right?
Right.
Now we just need him to clarify that Satan and Lucifer are not the same demon when either name is mentioned
Satan in Good Omens used to be Lucifer when Satan was an angel. Crowley wasn’t Lucifer. (Is this a new fan theory I missed?)
crackheadhalos asked:
Hello😁
Am I mistaken or is crowley able to see the contents inside gabriel’s box and aziraphale isn’t? Because at the beginning we see az looking inside and it’s empty except for the fly, and when crowley looks it’s not empty and az looks quite confused when crowley tips it out, squinting at it on the floor.
Seems odd, am I reading into it too much or was this intentional?
Thanks!!
Aziraphale had been using the empty box to store things in.
moonshinemagpie asked:
Hello Mr. Gaiman. In GO2, Steve Pemberton's character calls Aziraphale "a real sissy type, a proper fegelah." The subtitles falsely read as "a proper fear girl" before, which confused me, but now I'm confused in a different way. Why is the Nazi zombie using a Yiddish word?
You’d need to ask Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson about that.
nnyuu2 asked:
Hello,
Silly question, but I'm curious - when i was watching the Resurrectionist minisode I loved the inclusion of the conversation between Crowley and Aziraphale about people having free choice and being good or bad because they want to be. It ends with Aziraphale saying that's ineffable. That said, in the book that conversation happens in 1020 and 1023, around when they started the arrangement. Was the choice to move that conversation to a completely different time period done for a specific reason, or just the way things worked out?
We didn’t have any scenes in 1020 or 1023, but we had that one where they were talking about the same thing.
thedreammweaver asked:
Hello, Mr. Gaiman. I just wanted to say how very much it meant to me to see disabled angels in the show.
I grew up in an oppressive religion that preached everyone would automatically lose any disability in heaven, which sounds nice if you don’t think about it, but to a disabled person who wouldn’t even BE me without them, I was terrified. Even when I still believed in it, part of me thought it wouldn’t be too bad to go to hell because at least I’d be myself.
It was to the point where when I mentioned something about my disability, unprompted, a member said “Well, you’ll be perfect in heaven.”
So after all that nonsense it really meant the world to me to see a powerful angel in heaven who was allowed to be disabled, it has been healing my heart and making me smile for weeks. 💝
I’m glad.
I’m happy to answer. Come back when you can make a whale, and we’ll talk.
starstruck-atticus asked:
Hi Neil! Firstly, thank you for s2 I really enjoyed all the bits, even the painful ones as they show nuance within your characters. I did want to ask, while rewatching the series, during the riffle sequence where Crowley shot a gun for the first time at Aziraphale, I can see the bullet wasn't pre-planted and miracles were obviously blocked so was it put there by Crowley's imagination? We know it manifests itself outside of his mind like in season one when he kept his physical body and his car from melting driving through the M20 motorway, did he imagine that the bullet would show up in Aziraphale's mouth in the time it took for him to shoot the gun? Thanks and hope you're having a lovely existence!
Traditional bullet catches worked with trick guns. The 1941 bullet catch worked by firing past the head of the person performing the bullet catch while they appear to catch a (previously palmed and then placed in the mouth) bullet in their teeth. It was miracle free.
crowleyandaziraphaleforlife-dea asked:
I have a question, why does Crowley not react or do anything when Micheal is talking about how she has power and will be removing aziraphale from the book of life? How can he be sitting calmly?
Thank you if you ever answer this and I loved the book and the series. 😊
I suppose he could have got up suddenly and rushed around the room, but it might have been a bit out of character.