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okay but i want to talk about the post-everything bus stop bench scene more because.

it’s just SO amazing. i cant stop thinking about it.

aziraphale’s ‘i suppose i should get him to drop me off at the bookshop’ followed by a long pause from crowley, who just turns and purses his lips before quietly murmuring ‘it burned down, remember?’

and then that look of realization on aziraphale’s face, followed by an even longer pause from crowley

who then, quietly, gently, delicately almost whispers ‘you can stay at my place, if you like’

just. the wording. the ‘if you like’. the uncertainty. the knitted eyebrows and the genuine concern mixed with something akin to HOPE. the softest crowley has ever sounded in 6 episodes.

and then another pause but now it’s from aziraphale. he’s processing. the temptation is there. but he also realzes the implication.

and so he says ‘i don’t think my side would like that’

now why would his side not like ‘that’? obviously they know he’s been ‘fraternizing’ with crowley for a while now. he’s sitting with him on that bench right there and then, how can a house visit be much different than they’ve done so far. unless it is, of course. very different indeed.

and. crowley realizing that this isn’t a ‘no’. how he gently reassures aziraphale that they no longer are tied by their affiliations. that it’s okay. it’s fine

and then the shot of them sitting together on the bus, side by side, without fear of being seen by anyone or anything.

they’re on their own side.

i’m rambling so much but that scene was SO important to me and i just. i have so many feelings guys. so. MANY. feelings.

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that bus ride is where all the fanfic lives. that strange liminal brightly lit and moving place where anything is possible.

once you get to london, there’s a shop. there’s a bentley.

but they aren’t there yet.

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'Good Omens': The Story Behind What's Possibly the 'Longest Cold Open in the History of Television'

The third episode of Amazon's Prime Video adapatation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens" features possibly the longest cold open ever.
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The third episode of Amazon’s Prime Video adaptation of Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett’s “Good Omens” starts off with the longest cold open in the history of television — as far as TheWrap and the stars and creative team behind the series can tell.

“I have no way of measuring that, but there can’t be many that are longer,” director Douglas Mackinnon told TheWrap of the segment, which is comprised of several scenes telling the story of how the demon Crowley (David Tennant) and the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) became friends over millennia on Earth.

Counting from the beginning of the episode until when the title sequence kicks in, the cold open accounts for 28 minutes — half of the episode’s 57-minute runtime.

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Mackinnon says the lengthy window without titles wasn’t planned from the start, but kind of just happened serendipitously while they were editing the co-production between BBC and Amazon.

“I was the one who put the title sequence in the middle to start with and we had a screening with Neil and he didn’t say anything about it, so I didn’t say anything about it,” he said. “We sent it over to Amazon for them to have a look at and make a comment on. I think it was a complete understanding, from both the BBC and Amazon execs, that the title sequence in the middle of the show was a temporary thing, and eventually we would see the light and put it at the normal place in the front.”

“Then eventually, we were starting to finish it off and, I cant remember which exec said, ‘So when are you going to move the titles into the right place,’ and we said, ‘They are in the right place,‘” Mackinnon said. “To be fair, all the Amazon execs immediately said, ‘OK, that’s cool. That’s just funny.'”

Tennant and Sheen told TheWrap they had as much fun shooting the scenes throughout Crowley and Aziraphale’s history that make up the lengthy segment (which Tennant is for sure calling “the longest cold open in the history of television” and “trying to get that to take off as a meme”) as Mackinnon did with the credits placement.

“It was definitely one of the most enjoyable parts of filming for me,” Sheen said. “First just reading it on the page, it was incredibly satisfying there, and you think, ‘Well, I can’t wait for us to do this.’ And then to see David walking out of the trailer every day with different hairstyles, that was so enjoyable for me.”