#anyway this is why i couldn't fit my crowley thoughts into the main body of the post

[birlwrites]

not about harry potter, but do you watch good omens?

and if so, thoughts???

i have perhaps an. unhealthy level of emotional investment in good omens

(psst there are ~4 days left of the official graphic novel kickstarter if anyone hasn't pledged who wants to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens/description, it just hit its last stretch goal, THERE IS AZ FELL AND CO BOOKSTORE MERCH AS ADD ONS)

what are my thoughts? let's see. the ending of season 2 makes perfect sense as the second part of a trilogy but it still hurt me deeply and if aziraphale doesn't do the apology dance in season 3 i'll lose my mind. also if he does do the apology dance in season 3 i'll lose my mind. basically if there is season 3 and aziraphale is in it--

loved the conversation between nina and maggie and crowley at the end of s2, i watched it for the first time with a massive jane austen fan who was THRILLED the second he heard even a *reference* to her in the show (so naturally the ball was the absolute High Point of the season)

at the end of s1 it's basically explicitly stated that The Big One is heaven and hell vs. humanity so i'm intrigued to see what's going to happen in s3 to that end

i don't think the metatron actually wanted crowley to be reinstated to heaven, he just wanted to drive crowley and aziraphale apart and figured that offer would do it (and that it would sell aziraphale on the idea of changing heaven from the inside as Something He Could Actually Do) - i also am intrigued by how god's going to factor into all of it bc as we see with job god's totally down to fuck around with everyone (likewhatmaggieandninaweresaying) but in s1 god was basically just functioning as narrator and had that one conversation with aziraphale - so if god's going to become more active that would be fascinating, but i am also very interested in how exactly the metatron fits into all of this and the degree of control/influence there

i like the idea that muriel was memory wiped like they were going to do to gabriel (~institutional problems~) but i'm not sure how supported it is by the narrative - i don't know anything about muriel the angel like. biblically, or even if that's a biblical angel, so maybe if i knew more i'd have a more confident opinion afjslgkhjskdf

jon hamm in season 1 made me want to punch him in the face every time he showed up on screen and in season 2 i was delighted by basically everything he did. what a guy

i also desperately want to know if anathema heard about any of the events of s2 and if so what she thought of All Of That, so if anyone has like. fic recs for something of that nature let me know afjlskhgljskdf

and finally: crowley

[myswimmingpewl]

Helloooo I'm gonna talk about aziraphales character development thought good omens and why I think he may have gone with the metatron.

It's clear the main focus of aziraphales development is for him to realise hevan is not always good and that sometimes it's okay to do something morally wrong. Crowley acts as his mentor to teach him this valuable lesson

Most flashbacks in the show focus on this. For example the first scene of S2. Angel crowley is admiring the stars and when azi tells him it's all going to go in 6000 years, crowley thinks this is wrong and want to tell that to god and to also suggest some better things for him to do. Crowley is not trying to be evil, he's simply trying to tell god how to be better and even more good. Similarly, in the garden, crowley criticises god and says he shouldnt have made the tree so easy to get to and how he doesn't know what's bad about knowing the difference between good and evil. In both these scenes, crowley isn't being evil, far from that, he's trying to be good and suggest good things. The hope is that aziraphale will realise god can have faults and he isn't always perfect.

Also, in some biblical flashbacks such as the story of job or noahs arc, the main focus is that God can make some pretty bad decisions sometimes. Releasing a flood that will slowly and painfully kill everyone is not a 'good' or 'heavenly' thing to do, same with punishing someone who did nothing wrong, yet, because God does it, all the angles just believe it's okay. Crowley was smart though and realised somethings god does are bad - this made him fall - crowley is now aziraphales guide to realising those problems.

Also, aziraphale struggles with morality in some of the flashbacks for example at the resurrectionist in Scotland. It's morally wrong to take a dead body out of its grave yet its morally right if that body gets used for science to save multiple people's lives. Crowley plays a big part in teaching him that this is for the best but aziraphale really struggles with this idea because as an angel, he's always been taught what's wrong is wrong and what's right is right unless god does it. To aziraphale, taking the body out was too bad and no good can come from it. Yet with a little bit of 'develish' thinking (not evil at all just not what the angels are taught to beleve) he can accept that some things can be done for the greater good.

This idea is shown thought the show and it's clear that it's aziraphale's character development - realising god is not always right. Therefore, it only makes sence that going to heavan was the wrong choice and it couldn't have been him and he was manipulated right? Wrong.

I do think that the metatron did manipulate azi a little bit so we wouldn't see all the negatives of going back becasue that's just who he is. However, I do believe that it was mostly aziraphales decision to go back to heavan because it fits with his character development so well. He finds it very difficult to accept that heavan is actually bad and he's desperate for it not to be true. Because of this, the moment he gets a chance to change that, he does. He doesn't *want* to go to heavan but he wants to make a difference. All his development shows that he is realising heavan is bad yet he himself still wants to do good. Unlike crowley, he isn't willing to be on hells side to do good, he just wants to be with heavan. The only way he believes he can do good is to go back and change it. However, what's likely going to happen is that he will be punished by the metatron and others for disobeying hevan on multiple occasions.

This makes much more sence in my head than it does written down tbh but I wanted to do a little ramble. I probably repeated my self and miss spelled alot bcs im literally on the train for a school trip rn so quite stressed out😭 anyway if you made it all the way here, congrats you're as insane about these gay people as I am 😝💪