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[king-wens-king]

To me, there is such a deep vindication I feel with this.

"You and Mr. Fell don't ever talk to each other. You never say what you're really thinking."

Because its acknowledging every interaction and dialogue they had beforehand saying that yes, this is what they've been saying in hidden words for the entire time and you're not crazy for seeing it as such.

But its not just that either. It is also saying that regardless of how romantic those lines and interactions are even without having to put it explicitly-

You go too fast for me, Crowley

I lost my best friend.

To the world.

- those same lines and interactions alone are not enough. Crowley and Aziraphale have been speaking to each other in hidden meaning out of necessity for their entire existence so as to keep each other safe, but often they omit and they keep things ouy and end up just miscommunicating and falling out. They end up pushing each other away. No, it is not enough that they say these things, we see it as peak romance, and we leave it at that. It is not enough that we dance around it for thousands of years without putting what we actually feel into words. Subtext is not enough anymore.

And that was so amazing to me!!! Its what changed my mind with my complicated feelings with the series. I am tired of clapping creators on the back for the bare minimum! Yes, those interactions, those double-meaning dialogues are delicious and rich, but we can't have it be something dismissed as 'up to interpretation' anymore! I am done with that!

The fact that Nina and Maggies advice are given the narrative importance of it being the solution to Aziraphale and Crowley's issues - the need to put subtext to text and actually say what they mean (what they want and what they have felt for the last millenia) and actually communicate? It was so vindicating. They need to be vulnerable enough and get whats out of their heads and actually have a conversation with the other clearly. It is powerfully speaking to the need for Crowley and Aziraphale to actually be vulnerable and honest this time, along with the metatextual nature of acknowledging past writing.

We end the season on a very rough patch - they are both on completely different wave lengths and neither really given the proper chance to say what they want. But at the very least, we know now that in order to fix it, the both of them are DEMANDED by the narrative to have a long talk where they are on the same page, and speak plainly about what they want and feel.

Next season is courting and long talk and reconciliation baby- mr darcy open shirt moment. Only then can they take on the forces of heaven and hell and save the world.