dynamitegelatine asked:
Hi Neil!
I was just wondering if the actors had any input on what their wings were doing in seasons 1 and 2?
Many thanks for the awesome show!
Not exactly. I mean, their wings are animated. When I saw the first animation tests of the wings, for Season 2, I asked for the animators to think of the wings as being half way between arms and eyebrows, and to be acting along with our angels. So the animators used the performances they had already given us.
deyogee-deactivated20190228 asked: Neil, are Crowley's wings black or white? In the book it says 'the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels', but in lots of illustrations in the books Crowley's feathered wings are black. I'm taking into account this could just be an artistic liberty, but I wanted to know for sure.
In the book it says “Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they’re often better groomed.” It doesn’t talk about feather colour, so I think anyone could argue their position with enthusiasm on the matter of wing feathers.
On TV, Aziraphale’s wings are white and beautiful, and Crowley’s are grey and a bit ragged.
I always read that sentence as if it were demon wings that were better groomed, did I misinterpret it? So I’ve always imagined that Aziraphale was the one with the unkempt wings, haha.
(Ahh, I can’t wait to see! Thanks again, Neil.)
No, you didn’t misunderstand it at all. In the book, demons definitely have better-groomed wings than angels.
On TV, we will do things we didn’t get to do in the book: we spend time with angels in their offices, and we visit Hell. Which meant we needed a visual shorthand for angels, and for Hell.
When, a month or so after the book was published, Terry and I talked about how we would do Heaven and Hell in a Good Omens film or TV adaptation, we decided we wanted it to be a skyscraper, with Heaven on the beautiful floors on the top with the amazing view of the whole world, and Hell in the dank basements that nobody would ever want to work in. (They did lose, after all.)
So when it came to actually having to make that a reality, that was the way I went. And so our Angels are (except for Aziraphale) very smartly dressed, and our demons are (except for Crowley) rather shabby.
And it was probably unfair to describe Crowley’s wings as “ragged”. They just aren’t as pretty as Aziraphale’s wings, probably because Crowley is a lot less interested in wings than he is in things like Bentleys or clothes.