Ooh time for my first ever post that isn’t a reblog - exciting!
So, a while ago now, I came across a post about Gabriel’s statue which pointed out what seemed to be a blatantly obvious continuity error. For the life of me, I CANNOT find that post again and so I am going to attempt to recreate it here because I just noticed something else interesting related to Gabriel’s statue. If you are the original person who found this, please let me know and I’ll credit you!
Right, so, have you ever looked very closely at the scenes of Gabriel and Beelzebub in the graveyard during Gabriel’s flashback? No? Well, here are some clips of these scenes I want you to take a close look at, taken in order they’re shown:
Why is the cross missing??? In the distance shot, there is no cross. In the closer shot, there is. Then we switch back to the distance shot and it’s gone again. Just for clarity’s sake, when we see the Gabriel statue in any other scene, yes the cross is present.
I know there have been many ineffable continuities mentioned by other posters (such as clocks, chairs, rugs, road markings, Crowley’s glasses, Maggie’s store signage etc). It’s still up for debate about how many of these actually mean anything, or if they are genuine continuity errors. However, I find it VERY hard to believe this is a continuity issue… in any other show I could believe that, sure. But the Good Omens team is detail-focused and this is a huge missing cross on a statue that was specifically built for the show. Why would you have the whole scene set up in the graveyard, but without the cross ready, and then not bother to fix it in post?
So the above is what I read in someone else’s blog post and I’m really sorry that I can’t recall where to find that. However, here’s what I want to add. The Gabriel statue appears at the end of the opening credits and guess what… :
The cross is missing the top half!
What does any of this mean? Who knows? Not me, that’s for sure. Is it something to do with S3? Is it some comment on a religious theme? Are Gabriel’s memories faulty when they’re restored? Several others have pointed out that there are some suspicious things shown in the memory restoration sequence. Why is Gabriel bearing a cross in the first place? If you have any ideas let me know, I’d be interested to hear them!
Regardless of the statue, you might be wondering what is this part of the opening credits all about? The parade of characters is being led by Crowley and Aziraphale up this rickety mountain made of what seems to be a trash heap with a whole bunch of religious iconography scattered through it and a Lady Libertas (aka what the Statue of Liberty is based on) appearing opposite the Gabriel statue here. I always wondered what this whole sequence might be about, but I’ve seen very little written about it. If you’re interested, here’s this post from @lady-of-the-puddle. There is a lot of interesting imagery in the opening sequence, that’s for sure!
THIS NEEDS SO MANY MORE REBLOGS. EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS POST. FSFSFSFSFS
ABOUT THIS POST and not even about the statue because I can’t even touch that rn.
You cannot convince me that this hat:
Made this silhouette:
but do you all want to know what I think COULD make this silhouette?
Can everyone discuss this/offer alternatives before I go Full Out with what I think the implications of this would be?
Ok, real quick, here’s what I see in 4k:
That is ABSOLUTELY Beez 1.0, which means Gabriel was here with Beez multiple times, with both of their faces. (Or at least, both of their hats.)
And, there’s BTS footage that shows the cross is removable. I had assumed that was for easier transportation or something, but it’s very interesting that the feature was used onscreen…
So, when Gabriel meets with Beez 1.0, the cross is missing. It’s there in the Resurrectionists minisode and when Aziraphale visits in present day s2. When was Gabriel meeting with Beez 1.0, and WHERE did the cross go?!
The ineffable discontinuities just keep adding up…
when he said “really moving” he meant it literally
the statue, in that moment, had just reached into its backpack and drawn out the cross like friggin Wolfwood
