YER ON FIAAA!!?? Good Omens 1x05 Episode 5: The Doomsday Option Reaction

[@AmandaBee]

No spoilers exactly, but it might help to know that things that frustrate you about this season are not an issue in the next season

[@rob.3143]

It's funny you mentioned how it was okay that the call center people died because this is actually part of the book too. I don't recall the full quote but it comes down to the fact that Hastur sort of did the opposite of Crowley. Crowley brought down the telephone network to spread a large scale, low grade evil which would cause affected people to take it out on others and thus make everyone's day a little bit worse. Hastur, by killing all those people, stopped those little annoyances of people having to answer the phone and deal with these calls and thus made their day a little bit better which they in turn spread to other people by also being a bit friendlier and nicer.

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

But also doesn't the call center call Newton at the end, implying that they all got revived with the reset?

[@rob.3143]

@@cawareyoudoin7379 True. But in the book they are merely cold calling to sell people double glazing.

[@emilymoran9152]

If you're annoyed by the M/F romances...those characters aren't in season 2! Also, re. the possession: In the book Azi possesses several people trying to find England, one of whom is an American televangelist who he tells off!

[@ViviFuchs]

Oh my god, you're right! It has been ages since I've read the actual book so I had forgotten.

[@martymcflown3707]

Hastur accidentally doing a good thing by taking out the telemarketers is called out in the book as well, if I remember correctly. Kind of a funny little detail.

[@jimballard1186]

One of my favorite lines from the book occurs in this episode's events. From memory, it's something like: "Crowley's car had become a beam of black light, which is not a contradiction in terms. Its scientific name is infrablack, and you can actually view it under experimental conditions. To conduct the experiment, simply select a sturdy brick wall, lower your head, and back up enough to get a good running start. The color you see exploding in your eyes before you die is infrablack."

[@Envy_May]

LOL THIS IS SO DERANGED

[@CalliopePony]

Under ordinary circumstances Crowley would get angry-upset. Losing Aziraphale is enough to make him go-cry-in-a-corner upset. I get the tea joke. I'm American, and I have friends in the UK. One time a couple of them were visiting, and I offered to make tea. We had the exact same conversation: "What kind do you want?" "Tea" "But what kind of tea?" "Just tea." "Do you want black, green, herbal?" "Just tea!" I've also discovered that the same problem arises when talking about cider and preserved fruits. Brits just have cider and jam. Americans have soft, hard, and mulled cider (and soft apple cider is different from apple juice) as well as jam, jelly, preserves, fruit spread, and fruit butter.

[@georgiak8803]

13:35 the book actually jokes about this! "As a result of Hastur's action a wave of low-grade goodness started to spread exponentially through the population, and millions of people who ultimately would have suffered minor bruises of the soul did not in fact do so. So that was all right."

[@myphone4590]

The Queen song playing as he drives into the flames is called "I'm in love with my car."

[@ComicIssue97]

I love the fact that Crowley basically became Ghost Rider in this episode. Also, who's ready to see Satan be revealed as a politician?

[@NuttersIncorporated]

Crowley’s devilish tricks against humanity often end up backfiring and in inconveniencing him. In episode one, he brought down all the London mobile phone towers. He then couldn’t call Aziraphale using his mobile and had to find a pay phone. He made the M25 the shape it was and then, when it caught fire, he got caught inside it. I once read a funny headcanon where Crowley went around sticking coins to the pavement only to try to pick one up the next day. You laugh but, in the book, it’s specifically said that Hastur killing the cold callers led to a wave of good. All the people who would have been annoyed, inconvenienced or lost money, didn’t. Fake spoiler! The whole series so far has all been a dream. The customs officer, at the airport, is in a coma. She wakes up next episode and tell everyone about her crazy dream.

[@Kroiznacher]

I really can't wait to see Moscos reaction to the world saving dance of battle in the final episode

[@theowinters6314]

Yeah, never knew God could dance the funky chicken like that.

[@Marchesa-ku9fx]

When Aziraphale says that the town of Tadfield feels like love, it's because Adam lives there and he loves it. (This is called out more explicitly in the book.) The show does call out how the weather is always perfect in that town, because that's what Adam believes weather should be like. It makes me wonder if Adam has a child's view of relationships. He was there when the witch and the witchfinder met, and in his mind it would be perfectly appropriate for the two of them to immediately fall in love, because that's what happens in children's books. Makes you wonder how much influence he has.

[@tired_lazarus]

I adore how the four horsemen are just like besties squad

[@arkansaninva]

So excited for the finale!! The song and dance sequence with God and Satan is EPIC and lives rent-free in my mind

[@ProdigalDaughterAlice]

Two things from this section of the story that I understand why they cut for the show but that I miss enormously: first of all, in the book, the bookshop fire is the *first time the reader ‘sees’ Crowley’s snake eyes*. His glasses get knocked off and melt and his eyes have never been described before and it’s this intense vulnerability and despair and I love it. Second, there’s a sequence of Aziraphale bouncing around possessing various bodies until he finds one in England he can steer to Tadfield- and one of them is an American televangelist. He takes him over halfway through a speech about doom and Hellfire, very calmly reads him and his ideology for absolute filth, then ends it with “…gosh… am I on television?” it’s GREAT and I did it as a monologue for Honours Theatre in high school

[@Miroslava_Ivanova]

The first thing that burst from my mouth when I saw that angel yelling at Aziraphale was Shut up, Anderson, you're lowering the IQ of the entire Armageddon 😅😅😅 I always giggle when Aziraphale says the vampires and werewolves lines, cause Michael Sheen has played both 😅 This episode has one of the prophecies we see earlier coming true: And the four shall ride and three shall ride as two and one will ride in flame (or something along those lines) with the horsemen, Shadwell, Tracy and Zira and Crowley in his burning car. Crowley getting stuck in his own magical motor way is another example of "evil contains the seeds of its own destruction" that Zira was talking about back in ep 2 😅 When Death is playing the arcade machine they put sir Terry Pratchett's initials as having the highest score, even over Death. The army base guard is reading American gods by Neil Gaiman 😅 One more to go and then we're off to s2, I can't wait to see your reactions 😊

[@Sammacias5]

Hey everyone! Remember to keep the comments free of any spoilers of future episodes for Mosco. Have fun & be creative with fake spoilers! Also, make sure we’re keeping the comments cool & comfortable for everyone here. Enjoy the reaction y’all!!!

[@gabsrants]

Yes, the music is a pain for copyright, but also it's just fucking awesome - give me all the Queen

[@dz1_randomviewah]

Love drunk Crowley. XD

[@crbliese]

I forgot how loaded this show is with songs. Must make editing these videos a nightmare.

[@SilverGallowglass]

I love Death's motorcyle and design, so much! I also like that he is the only one of the horseman to understand the man when he is speaking. 3:03 The "Somebody to Love" in the background of this moment 🥺😭

[@TimPays]

My favourite part was when Crowley breaks out the M25 and gives the old bill a wave

[@purpleirken1529]

Heyyyy... don't be mean to Newt. As a worry-wart myself, his fears of randomly getting shot is perfectly valid, especially with his bad luck.

[@SkillsLoading]

I think the loading the gun with bricks thing is a Discworld reference where the preferred weapon of one of the recurring "heroes" of Ankh-Morpork is half a brick in a sock.

[@apm77]

"Preferred" has nothing to do with it. But yeah, probably a nod to the climax of _Sourcery_.

[@SkillsLoading]

@apm77 I think it says that he'd rather have it than any magical sword you'd care to name, but fair point.

[@ciscoralmazora289]

Newt calls his car "Dick Turpin" , in a long-burn joke that only drops its punchline at the very end. He literally waited years for someone to ask him why. 😄

[@curioushybrid]

Yeah, as much as I do love this series, it certainly seems that Azi/Crowley was the part Gaiman was most invested in and is really heavily driven by the chemistry between Sheen & Tennant. Newt/Anathema is one of the bits that works least well for me, for a similar reason. The book is very much worth reading if you haven't, and just about everything that struggles in the series works much better in text IMO (see also the unusual amount of literal-voice-of-God narration, an artifact of adapting a 30-year old book with a very particular style of prose, which Gaiman was trying to handle very faithfully in tribute to Pratchett).

[@briceysweeney81]

The book is rather long with even more characters than this series. And every time someone proposed making a film out of it, they planned on Aziraphale & Crowley being the stars. Probably due to the difficulties of having child actors carry a film, especially an expensive one based on a novel for adults, and the fact that the majority of fans of this cult classic book have been fascinated by the angel & demon for over 30 years. Neil said he had to give them more to do in the series since it's now built around Aziraphale and Crowley so he structured this as a rom com.

[@HuntingViolets]

I'm not sure Newt and Anathema are not a bit better on the show. Mme. Tracy's séance certainly is improved. Shadwell is just . . . not my favorite, let's say. There are also some other issues with language, let's say. There are a lot of things not in the show that make the book a worthwhile read, though.

[@Lightice1]

​@@HuntingViolets Back in the 1980's people were still optimistic that bigotry was starting to degrade into a matter of sad old men and wouldn't have a real power to trouble people any more. Shadwell is a sort of amalgamation of that idea, a bigot so ineffectual and powerless that he invokes pity and outright nurturing instinct in the people he supposedly hates. The series doesn't really do him any favours by watering him down, either, in the book he was suitably exaggerated to be comical and eventually forces him to face how horrible people the witchfinders really were compared to the witches, real or imagined. It also subtly implies that he's had a very tragic life that he only managed to make sense of by blaming it all on witches.

[@curioushybrid]

@@Lightice1 That's a good point about how toning him down kinda makes him _less_ likeable, and I was forgetting about his moment of introspection in the book.

[@purpleberry3564]

Aziraphale & Crowley: Do you know what happiness is? Aziraphale: It's bright May sunshine. Crowley: It's the warmth of family. Aziraphale: It's fried eggs for breakfast. Aziraphale & Crowley: But there's nothing like that in Heaven. Aziraphale & Crowley: Do you know what happiness is? Crowley: It's having your name called by someone. Aziraphale: It's calling someone's name. Crowley: It's when someone is thinking of you. Aziraphale & Crowley: But an angel alone cannot have any of this. Crowley: A snake took pity on the angel… Aziraphale: …so the snake tore the angel in two, and kidnapped one of his halves to Earth from Heaven. I always find this abstract and metaphorical conversation between Crowley and Aziraphale in the future episode very fascinating, especially with all the future episodes after that.

[@KelliFranklin]

I don't really have a problem with Shadwell and Madame Tracy. She is interested in him while he insults her constantly to try to cover up his feelings for her. That's how I see it anyway. I wouldn't mind Pulcifer and Anethema if they actually had chemistry together. There's just no chemistry there the way it is with MT and Shadwell and Azi and Crowley.

[@boiledcrap]

You really should check out some of Terry Pratchett's books, especially his "Discworld" misadventure series. Anyone of them at random; except his first "Color of Magic". DEATH is generally the same. This is only the second time we've seen DEATH waste time in front of an arcade game. Which isn't a lot but the fact that it happened twice makes you concerned. PS I love that your gf have a discussion over tea in the same way I feel about coffee. "Coffee doesn't need a menu; it needs a cup!"

[@JohnTalbane87]

Oh man I can’t wait until you see shadwell headbutt Adam. It just comes out of nowhere! I laughed so hard.

[@mandysmiles5222]

Funny that you point out the similarities between the kids on there bikes and the four horsemen. They are mirrors of each other. Each of the kids is represented as one of the horsemen, with Adam being the "leader" of both groups.

[@XanderLars2]

i know it's not normally what you do, but i'd be interested in you reading and reviewing the original novel. It's not long, and can be read pretty easily in a day or two, and if you're good with audiobooks, there is a cast version which came out not too long ago.

[@HuntingViolets]

If she likes radio/audio plays, there is also a radio show (available on the Internet Archive).

[@MalachyBalson-pc4en]

The 400 horsepowers of the apocalypse

[@HuntingViolets]

Everybody knows a John! Miranda Richardson is impressive in this episode, but she is generally impressive.

[@Taizu314]

My cousins married to a John and I’m pretty sure I went to school with at least a couple.

[@livb6945]

I'm Swedish but I completely agree on tea.

[@Sammacias5]

Tea is tea, I can relate to that lmao 😂

[@Tm-dn9ob]

9:05 probably doesn't help that the tea we drink is referred to as English breakfast in the us

[@HuntingViolets]

Agnes foretells what will happen, although she might have kept that to herself about Anathema and Newt. It could have been something that would have happened later. I kind of like them, but I question the whole thing too.

[@FrostyTheSnowPickle]

Just out of curiosity: Have you already seen Amphibia? If not, I'd love to see a reaction to that.

[@maxdon2001]

Great reaction!

[@hothotheat3000]

The first time I saw Crowley walking away from his car, looking sexy as all hell, I made a noise that can only be described as inhuman. God bless David Tennant, meow!

[@peteramaranth85]

love the vids keep those epiosdes comming, also some one found a lost original pilot for owl house , The Owl House - Original Pilot Episode (Storyboard) (Found Media!)....im watching it and its amazing apparently amity was originaly in it from the begging of the first episode

[@hoshitatsu]

ain't no way I got here 3rd for the first time ever in my life

[@Luzarioth]

wait... you people have tasteless tea ?

[@HuntingViolets]

Even black tea has a taste unless it's different in England, so . . . inquiring minds want to know.

[@Eocarcin]

No its not tasteless lmao. Its just that almost all households and cafes stock black tea, so unless you specify some other type of tea, that's what is assumed as default if you just say you want tea. A lot of people don't even know what type of tea it is, hence "its just tea". There's a few various blends/brands of black tea that some people have preferences with, but most people can't really tell the difference much so they just have whatever's bought by where they're getting it from.

[@HuntingViolets]

That would have been funny, if he's inhabited War.

[@ciscoralmazora289]

Oh, and when Satan shows up, be warned...that's Benedict Cumberbatch. 😉

[@brianl8481]

I wish they didn’t cut the Riders sub-plot.

[@DavidCookeZ80]

3017. I see Four Riding, bringing thee ende; and thee Angells of Hell rise with them. I can understand why they did, but I do miss Pigbog, Greaser, Scuzz, and Big Ted. Definitely worth reading the book just for their (brief) appearance.

[@brianl8481]

@@DavidCookeZ80 Also Death mentioning that Elvis wasn’t dead, or at least that he didn’t take him. “I DON’T CARE WHAT IT SAYS. I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.”

[@Neha-sk1um]

Can't wait for the dance battle between satan and God!

[@sanmeiwolf]

You say "just tea" but I'd still be wondering between Tetley or Yorkshire or what? Here in the US, even generic bagged tea has differences thanks to how bloody cheap the production process is for half our companies. You don't wanna drink the stuff that's made by using a hairdryer over freshly picked leaves before tossing them in a sack!

[@ilesalmo7724]

Aziraphael and Crowley are not in love. Love is a human term. They have seen Empires rise and fall together. What they have is so much more than love. How can a mortal term define something which no mortal has ever experienced.

[@HuntingViolets]

So black tea, then?

[@nathanclarke2777]

Ok not a comment about the show but did you change the lighting a little? I swear this is the first time I noticed how cool your eye color is!

[@nathanclarke2777]

Also near the end your eyes start looking a little like Crowley's!

[@HephaestesVulcan]

The witch finder sergeant and his promiscuous neighbor doesn't bother me, at least they sort of did some ground work there; they've known each other for years, she's clearly attracted to him even though hes a bit.... Odd. But pulsifer and the witch bothered me for the reason it did you. Just seemed like 'Oh we have two young attractive people in a room together that we need to have trust each other, guess they need to "get busy"'. Not a great trope.

[@Lily_Loves_Cows]

Hi! Can you please react to the owl house pilot? It jusy got released to the public and it's fun to see how much it's developed

[@davidwebb4451]

Spoiler (fake?). In the final episode Aziraphale gets upset when Satan turns up and Satan and Crowley get into an argument over how he is treating their son the Antichrist. It seems that Crowley had an affair with Satan and was lying earlier when he/she said she didn't really deliver the Antichrist - she was Adam's real mother which was why she had really wanted to be involved in raising the kid.

[@IceMetalPunk]

"An author tells a character to do something, and they do it." Yeah, and that's what we call "bad writing" 😁 I'm a hobbyist writer, and in my opinion, an author's job is not to make characters do anything. It's to figure out who your characters are, then simply report on what *they* choose to do in the situations you create around them. The second you have to force a character to do something, it means they *wouldn't do it* on their own, which makes it inconsistent and therefore poor writing.

[@armie4172]

Unless it’s satire/ parody , which is the case here.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@armie4172 I mean, yeah, I guess... but now that's getting meta, forcing characters to do dumb things in order to draw attention to the stupidity of forcing characters to do dumb things 😂 Where does the hall of infinite mirrors end?! 😂

[@klemminguk]

This is true. It's how Vimes became the main character of the Watch books, actually. Pratchett said he just wrote him to be a viewpoint character until Carrot showed up, then Vimes took over the book through sheer force of personality. Pratchett realsied that he couldn't *not* do it.

[@AnnekeOosterink]

@@IceMetalPunk I mean, it also makes sense for the character. Anathema was raised with the idea that she was the one who was going to have to live the prophecies, her family always consulted the book, so she lives her life by the book. Her following the instructions given to her makes perfect sense with that background, AND it's a parody of characters doing the thing the author tells them to do.

[@armie4172]

@@AnnekeOosterink Agreed.

[@ninab9969]

No, please don't walk away from this show because 1) The hetero romances are legit not important for the show's development at all. 2) You WANT to watch this season through to the very last minute, no matter what happens otherwise you'll miss all the best bits. 3) There are literally NO straight romances in S2. It's all gay all the time from that point onward.

[@LuzOhCramity]

If makes you feel better theres three couples in s2 and none are straight

[@Meritania]

Err… how can I say it without spoilers, but the honcho of heaven and honcho of hell one.

[@LuzOhCramity]

@@Meritania what about them?

[@briceysweeney81]

@@Meritania As Neil has said sooooooooo many times, angels and demons are not human and don't necessarily pay any attention to gender or sexualities as humans do. Their bodies are just for show, so to say. And NG refers to all as they/them in his scripts.

[@alexiscardillo3206]

Don't worry season 2 is all gay! no m/f "situations" at all.

[@officiallyjan8596]

You seem to hate M/F romances with a worrying amount of passion... like, just as a principle...

[@WeeLassReacts]

I'm bisexual, I've had better developed 1 night stands with men than the MxF ships in this show. What I hate, is that the moment there's a woman on screen she NEEDS to pair off with a male character. Always. It's tiring, boring and annoying.

[@officiallyjan8596]

@@WeeLassReacts That's fair, I just didn't catch that motivation during your reaction so it stood out a bit. In all fairness though, in specifically Good Omens the standing implication is that the two of them are destined to be together because they will work out and the prophecy isn't "forcing" them together as much as it's just stating to them what they're going to end up choosing to do regardless of anything.

[@mxumbrella9103]

The forced straight romances in this really are annoying, i agree. But if it makes it any better season two is A LOT more gay and a whole lot more aziraphale and crowley focused

[@woozzy7872]

First?