I've Been Thinking About Armand, The Mind Gift, And Daniel. Do We Actually See Armand Read Daniel's Mind

We got on set, we rehearsed it, and immediately, I just started crying. Assad was going through it, Armand goes through this long thing, and then there's that line that Daniel has, “I'm a reporter. I have a point of view.” I was shocked because it felt so natural and so real. I felt so vulnerable. I think we both did. We filmed it a couple of times, and then they got it, and afterward, we both hugged each other because we just didn't really have any words.

It was very quiet on set when we did the scene, and just by listening to him, I felt like I was in a trance. I felt like I was fighting. And I cried! I cried in his arms after we shot the scene, and I had to take a minute outside and just chill, have a coffee and a cigarette. Then he came up and hugged me, and it was great. | Luke Brandon Field [1, 2]

If you see Good Omens s2 as a bridge between the end of s1 and a s3 plot that, it seems, will revolve around [spoilers below]

Aziraphale and the second coming (in a parallel to s1 being about Crowley and the Antichrist) then a lot of things make sense, and actually I think this is one of the only routes they could have taken that would seem remotely plausible.

Because how the fuck do you get Aziraphale back in Heaven after the events of s1? Both you (a writer who wrote s1 as a self-contained adaptation of an existing work, having no idea if there would be future seasons) and you (Heaven within the world of the story).

In the book verse, I could see this playing out as a sort of “you thought you were happily retired and then they pulled you back in for one last job” situation, and I think that could have worked. Because book Heaven and Hell seem to end the story basically agreeing to forget Aziraphale and Crowley’s numbers out of sheer embarrassment, and that works in the world of the book because Heaven, in particular, seems to forget Aziraphale exists at least 80% of the time anyway. Book Heaven is mostly notable for its absence. We recognize their hypocrisy in claiming to be the good guys while mostly doing the exact same shit as Hell with better PR, but in the book Hell seems like the side that’s more dangerous and actively intrusive in Crowley’s life.

But TV Heaven and Hell are terrifyingly, oppressively present in Aziraphale and Crowley’s lives, and both of them very recently (in immortal being terms) tried to execute their respective agents for treason, and still don’t understand why they failed. This raises the stakes and the threat to their relationship enormously, which works great in a television drama where their relationship is much more of a focus than it is in the book. But it also makes it much more difficult to imagine either of them going back to their respective sides after the events of s1. They made that choice already.

So what do you (writer now trying to solve this problem for s2 and potentially s3) and you (Heaven, trying to come up with a way that Aziraphale would walk back into his former prison willingly) do?

You offer Aziraphale the one thing he can’t refuse, the thing he still doesn’t have, even now after Armageddidn’t and surviving the trials and 4 (?) years of living more or less openly with Crowley around. You offer him safety. Safety for himself and Crowley, together.

We know it’s a trap. We know what Heaven is offering is not safety, but control. But Aziraphale hasn’t gotten there yet. We understand why Crowley sees it as a rejection and an insult. But to Aziraphale it’s an offer better than he ever thought was possible to receive.

He thought, all of s1, that he would have to choose between following Heaven’s orders and saving the world and his relationship with Crowley. And he made his choice. Now someone is telling him he can have both? Love and acceptance from Heaven for him and Crowley, and the power to make things better? And when he realizes Crowley won’t come with him…well, maybe at least from Heaven he will still be able to protect him, even if he’s not by his side.

And you know what? I bet, in the short term, this is going to only make him double down on his “it was just a few bad angels” justification for the way Heaven behaved. Because this offer is coming from the literal voice of God. Maybe it even reinforces the idea that God didn’t want Armageddon to happen at all, that Aziraphale and Crowley and Adam and the Them actually were doing her will by stopping it. Because now Aziraphale is being invited back in, with more authority than he ever had before. And they invited Crowley (who he always believed was Good) back in too.

He doesn’t get it yet, that Crowley is right. That you can’t reform Heaven from the inside, because it is not and never was the good side. Because there is no good side.

Aziraphale hasn’t figured that out yet. But he will.

“Even when they weren’t in the same room, they were writing Lennon-McCartney songs. Even after they broke up, they kept bouncing songwriting ideas off each other, aiming answer records at each other. They gave each other no peace. That friendship followed them around their whole lives. I love the story John’s limo driver tells — it’s 1980, John is in the back of the car, listening to the radio, really enjoying this new hit song called “Coming Up,” wondering who the singer is. Then suddenly he says, “Fuck a pig, it’s Paul.” They couldn’t get away from each other.”

— Dreaming the Beatles: An Interview with Rob Sheffield

MCLENNON QUOTES AND PHOTOS

Well I’ve separated some quotes and related photos about mclennon for you guys to read how real this ship was. Enjoy.

QUOTES

Here are some quotes from books, people, or from John and Paul:

“John had a very close relationship to Paul on a different level than Stuart. His relationship to Paul was music. He admired and loved Paul.” - Astrid Kirchherr

“We wrote our first songs together, we grew up together, we lived our lives together.” - Paul McCartney

“John and Paul are essentially a legendary world-changing love affair that ends in heartbreak — like Burton and Taylor, but with no touching. They are the thing the other was looking for. A major part of their lives was settled the day they met at Woolton fair — they were completed, reborn and undone with each other.” - Caitlin Moran 

“Cynthia Lennon is a goddess, you know. Paul is a god. Aren’t I lucky to have such a religion?” - John Lennon

“Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.” - John Lennon

“There was a deeper love there that neither of us could admit to.” - Paul McCartney

“In continuing rebellion against their new bespoke image, John habitually left his top button undone and his tie crooked; often before they went onstage, in an almost wifely — or motherly —  gesture, Paul would stand him still and do up the button for him.” - Philip Norman: 

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.“ - Cynthia Powell

“I was just the same as everyone else Harry, I fell for Paul’s looks.“ - John  Lennon to Harry Nilsson

“They’re like a old married couple with their kids.” - Ringo Starr

“They needed each other like mad.” - George Martin

“I always find myself wanting to excuse John’s behaviour, just because I loved him. It’s like a child, sure he’s a naughty child, but don’t you call my child naughty. Even if it’s me he’s shitting on, don’t you call him naughty.” - Paul McCartney

“The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him” - Paul McCartney

“I’m the only person who is allowed to say nasty things about Paul. I don’t like it when other people do so.” - John Lennon

“John had beautiful hands.” - Paul McCartney

“I copped money for Family Way, the film music that Paul wrote while I was out of the country making How I Won the War,” said Lennon, laughing. “I said to Paul, ‘You’d better keep that’, and he said, ‘Don’t be soft.’ It’s the concept. We inspired each other so much in the early days. We write how we write now because of each other. Paul was there for five or ten years, and I wouldn’t write like I write now if it weren’t for Paul, and he wouldn’t write like he does if it weren’t for me.” - John Lennon

“It was like a tug of war. Imagine two people pulling on a rope, smiling at each other and pulling all the time with all their might. The tension between the two of them made for the bond.” - George Martin

After a late lunch, Linda launched into a long paean to the joys of living in England. When she was finished, she turned to John and said “Don’t you miss England?”, “Frankly”, John replied, “I miss Paris.” - May Pang, Loving John

“John is a central figure in my life. I will always be grateful for having so much intimate time with him. The more distant his stuff becomes, the greater he seems. I used to do caricatures of John. He was the only person I knew with an aquiline nose. When I painted him recently, I found myself saying: ‘How did his lips go? I can’t remember.’ Then I would think: ‘Of course you know, you wrote all those songs facing each other.’ ” - Paul McCartney

“I thought John was cheating on me with Paul” - Yoko Ono

“John and I used to hitch-hike places together, it was something that we did together quite a lot; cementing our friendship, getting to know our feelings, our dreams, our ambitions together. It was a very wonderful period. I look back on it with great fondness. I particularly remember John and I would be squeezed in our little single bed, and Mike Robbins, who was a real nice guy, would come in late at night to say good night to us, switching off the lights as we were all going to bed.” - Paul McCartney

“I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, “I love Paul.” She asked him: “Why are you wearing an ‘I love Paul’ button?”, and he said: “Because I love Paul.” - Harry Nilsson

PHOTOS

Well, here are some photos. Remember Cynthia’s quote?

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.“ - Cynthia Powell

So now you can see these beautiful pictures. Enjoy² :

And now, Paul looking at John:

And finally, they looking at each other:

*cries in mclennon language* 

Well, that’s it. I hope you have appreciated how mclennon was real and perfect ♡ 

ASSAD ZAMAN as Armand

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) 2.03 – No Pain

Jacob Anderson being heartbroken a bit because of how the dynamic between the cast and especially with Sam will be different for season 2 🥲

“There’s a million ways to write, but the way I always used to write was with John and it would be across from each other, either in a hotel bedroom on the twin beds, with an acoustic guitar and we’re just looking at each other. He’d make up something, I’d make up something and we’d just spin off each other. The nice thing for me is seeing John there, him being right-handed, me being left-handed, it felt to me like I was looking in a mirror.Obviously, it was very successful. I know I can never have a better collaborator than John. That is just a fact. So I don’t try and escape it. I just know there’s no way I can find someone now who’s going to write better stuff with me than I wrote with John.

Bbc interview with Paul McCartney, March 23, 2017. (via mclennonwasreal)

Imagine being a full-on grandpa in your 70s, and suddenly, a young man in his thirties comes to your workplace, and the first thing he says is, "we're hooking up." Well, you don't have to imagine it because this happened to my dear friend Eric ....

– Jonathan Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Everything about this scene is stunning.