Crowley Traps Hastur in the Answering Machine | Good Omens | Prime Video - Duration: 5:38. It was obvious they hadn’t, but this wasn’t cruelty of the whip and the chain. This is the Episode 4 thread, "Saturday Morning Funtime". To do that, he has to do some truly demonic things from time to time – not just claim credit, but be seen to walk through the halls of Hell, dripping with blood and whistling a jaunty tune, and drop a damned soul at Lucifer’s feet, and then walk away to drink himself to oblivion for a week. These are tiny little cupboards set into the walls, and opened with a touch in just the right place, or the click of a switch elsewhere, or only at a certain time and day. He had gone to the bookshop every day and paced up and down the worn carpet, planning all the ways he could storm Heaven to get Aziraphale back. Good Omens Season 1 "Saturday Morning Funtime" A. Aziraphale could not possibly have said those words, to his machine, to be recorded for all time, forever. All Crowley could do was be gentle and be kind and show Aziraphale was love really was and hope, one day, the angel would turn away. He is a straight-up demon. One fragile golden thread of hope to hold them up and bind them together. He wound to the end, and listened, for only the second time, to the message at the very end. That was before I read "Good Omens" (back then, I … It felt warm. He hated that he was so soft and weak about the angel, even as he burned with love. Wouldn’t it be boring if we all were exactly the same?I am not fan of this so I think we would not be watching this. Over the years he has mended it with sellotape and played it only if absolutely necessary, careful of its fragility, reluctant to taint it with a demonic miracle.

He has snake eyes — and a penchant for designer sunglasses. The whisper he thought he had misheard. Who uses landlines any more or leave messages on the answering machine? Surely, I must have missed something, I wondered.

5:38. Why, oh why is there a narration? Perhaps he only imagined what he wanted to hear. A whisper. I tried so hard to like it. He had. Is it for those who haven’t read the book? The words that could never be spoken to his face.

I once had the fortune to attend a lecture held by Terry Pratchett.

It was best if Crowley delete them rather than listen to them.Crowley did not. Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and David Tennant as Crowley.

If he does, he might realise it doesn’t say what he thought he heard, and then he would shatter like glass.He came home the morning after the night he had delivered the Anti-Christ to find a message on the answering machine. But my 86-year old, working class, staunchly catholic grandma enjoyed it, too.Try to beat that. Find out here which shows are worth watching.I tried. He hated how it would beat for the briefest touch of a hand. A damned – blessed – sentimental, emotional heart, that beat for only for one purpose – for love. Or those who have no idea what apocalypse means? That, at least, was worth fighting for.tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply" He sat in the dark and listened to his angel pour his heart out to his answering machine.

Hell destroyed quickly, in blood and fire. It was for those moments when he thought all was lost and gone. He couldn’t bear the sob in his angel’s voice. Heaven destroyed slowly, with words, eating away at the spirit achingly slowly like water on stone, and called it love, and made their victims be grateful for their own destruction. Episode thread index: ... and how that played off Hastur getting trapped in the answering machine. No reason, just a bit of fun on someone’s part. The words of a despairing angel, thinking the demon would never hear them.He paused before he pressed play.

He had gone to the bookshop, to find a pale and very still angel staring at his books, but not reading, barely moving.You don’t need to know the conversation. In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, there are jokes about Elvis Presley that clearly relate to at least three of the four apocalyptic horsepersons.. When he needed just an iota of hope to get through the day, one tiny pinprick of light in eternal darkness.Hell had called Crowley back with no notice. He had said the words. Whatever it took, whatever they were doing to Aziraphale was going to end. He had become a little worried, he said. No-one ever actually phoned him though. 19:11. Every time Tadfield — the village at the centre of the apocalypse plot — is shown we seem to travel back in time. Perhaps it had been nothing. Not for himself, if he needs to hide he has places to run to and people – someone – to take with him. He only listens to it occasionally, and he almost never listens to the last message. Please consider turning it on! They’ve messed it up. He had left some silly messages. It sounds silly and messy.Are you kidding!?!??! When he had finally got back, and after a quick visit elsewhere, returned to his flat, he had found his answering machine tape (two hours long) full.And one more message, right at the end, in a soft tremulous whisper, that Crowley never plays.Crowley hadn’t returned straight to his flat when he returned from Hell. He had spent a year trying to get back to Earth.

Aziraphale would never say what had happened up there, only that he deserved it.He didn’t. Good Omens was GREAT! After your honest review, I think I’ll pass.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Thanks for sharingThanks for sharing this post. This was the cruelty of the soft rebuke, the sad expressions of disappointment, the pitying glances, the expectation, always spoken, that Aziraphale would fail, over and over and over again, all under the guise of ‘love’.