#job's minisode

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

David: One of Job's sons is played by a very promising young actor called Ty Tennant. He's got a great future ahead of him, I hope, because I'm hoping he'll pay for my old folks home when I retire. This is my father-in-law, Peter.

Peter: Hello.

David: And this is my son, Ty. And Peter is playing Ty's father in this particular scene.

[irradiatedwarlock]

Please tell me there are bts photos of DT with the little goat? 🐐

hi neil!

I just realised something that i don’t think the VFX bts talked about - the goat that david picks up…. was it a real goat or more movie magic?

It was a little goat.

[starksual-art]

2500 BC sillies

[idliketobeatree]

btw when you're being mean to aziraphale this is who you're being mean to. hope this helps

[elentary]

Unless Neil (or someone else in the cast) says something, we won't know why Crowley ended up with that assignment. It could have been something he was ordered to do by Satan (or a duke of hell or something like that) or an assignment he had voluntarily chosen.

The important thing was that he did everything to fuck that assignment up, killing nobody.

I love how the assignment is worded:

"Satan or his diabolical minister MAY destroy everything Job owns, no question asked, love and kisses. God"

To me, that "may" is really important: it gives a choice. Crowley is not obligated to destroy Job's family, animals and belongings.

(L'Oréal: because you're worth it)

If we consider the contract, Aziraphale was right about Crowley having the possibility to not kill kids, animals and humans alike (I wonder if it was part of God's ineffable plan).

Oh, Hell probably would have been pissed if he didn't destroy those and I doubt Crowley could appeal to the words on the contract (they would tell him he wasn't demonic enough).

I think Crowley didn't want to have any more dead kids after the flood just because God was playing a game with the universe and did his best to avoid that. Probably he didn't have a perfect plan in his head but he hoped he could wing it (he is an optimist). And I believe he wasn't expecting to find an angel that would stubbornly ask him to NOT kill the kids (I bet everyone else would just like: "oh, yeah, I didn't mean to interrupt you, I'll leave you to do your job"). And probably there weren't too many angels on earth in the first place (it felt like they just came down only for their jobs, besides Aziraphale).

I have always wondered what was in Crowley's head after the angel started leaving: if the demon was relieved to not being busted, if was sorry to lie to the angel, if he thought "better this way, not involving Aziraphale, if he wished the principality could see beyond his half-truths, if... ...or all the above.

It's similar to the expression he wears after the crows bleated. Obviously, there was also concern there: you can see him thinking "what the angel will do now". I don't know if he was more concerned about himself or for the angel.

For the time they spent in the cellar, Crowley is behaving strangely for me: it's a mix between a warning for Aziraphale about falling to hell and a "I wish to befriend this strange angel".

(yes, to me this is a warning)

(no, I regret nothing)

Could Crowley have just been able to pull the stunt to save the kids alone? I doubt it. It would have been difficult for him to explain where those kids jumped out from (even more difficult to rejoin their family).

(it was a lucky day)

They both need a hug here.

And probably many times after and before that.

Side note: I love how we never know whose plan was (arrangement, Job's magic trick, who understood Agnes's prophecy and how to trick their bosses, ...). It feels like that isn't too important because or they make those plans together or even if Crowley or Aziraphale has an idea, the other follows it with so much hope and faith.

I love how everyone always talks about how important Aziraphale lying to everyone was so important in the "Land of Uz". And they’re right.

But I don't see enough people talking about how important it is that Crawley (Crowley) never intended to follow Hell's orders. He may have gotten an angel's help, but he was always gonna screw with God and Satan's bet.

In fact, he probably volunteered just so he could fuck it up.

[sad-chaos-goblin]

Right after Aziraphale realises that Bildaddy-Crowley did not kill Job's goats, we have the scene with the children and Crowley sets the house on fire ("I'm a demon, I lied"). We all know he would never kill the kids, so why the charade?

I think he needed to test Aziraphale, to know for certain that the angel sees him for what he is, he needed to know that this tentative connection was real. And Aziraphale immediately proves that he does actually trust him.

The fact that Aziraphale trusts him means he sees the good in him. For a fallen angel who's spent so very long being seen as nothing but evil, just imagine how it must have felt to be truly seen.

[omens-for-ophelia]

you don't understand, you should never know how easy you are to need don't let me in with with no intention to keep me jesus christ, don't be kind to me honey, don't feed me, i will come back

it will come back - hozier

part 7 of my ineffable kisses series - imagining some kisses throughout their canon timeline that went decidedly better than That Kiss did…

<< start || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 || part 5 || part 6 || part 7 - Land of Uz || part 8 >>

thank you for your patience with this one, sorry for the delay, i have been really going through it lately. but i simply couldn't resist the chance to draw my first bildaddy and include a hozier lyric for good measure!

[vidavalor]

This bit in the Job minisode is so, so underrated. Top shelf flirting. The way super smug Aziraphale is comfortable enough to tease Crowley and how Crowley covers up loving it with sarcasm that can only be delivered inches from his face, apparently. 😉 How Aziraphale looks like he wants to climb Crowley like a tree and how Crowley has a whole basement but walks over to be as close to his angel as he can be whenever given such an opportunity. It's Globe Theatre-level flirt and it's all the way back in Whatever B.C.. We aren't flailing over this bit enough.

[reihino1988]

Job minisode Is everything ❤️

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

(from go twitter :) <3)

[somewhere-in-wales]

Crowley and Job

I'm sure this has been written before but I haven't read it so here's my thesis:

The Job minisode is a metaphor for Crowley.

The Job minisode shows us that this God is willing to put her favourites through significant pain, to have them lose everything, to carry out the ineffable plan. In fact, God considers their favourites to be the only ones able to endure this and remain "faithful" or "good." Funny that, as we see Crowley - a Demon who has every reason to hate God and do a lot of evil - continually showing himself to have a stronger moral compass than the Archangels.

Job is stripped of absolutely everything he has, one after another. Starting with his livelihood, his possessions, his home and finally his most loved thing - his children (sounding familiar at all?). Crowley loses his status, his identity, his job, his flat and ultimately Aziraphale.

Job is angry but not at God, he's angry at himself. He questions how much he must have done wrong to not even know what it is he did (sound familiar?)

When Job talks to God at the end, the first thing she says to him is "You have questions for me Job?" and then she responds with a series of questions back to him. She isn't angry at him asking questions.

He then returns to Sitis, a broken man, to be saved by an Angel and a Demon who reinstate his children to him, having kept them safe the entire time.

How fortunate for God that a particular Angel and Demon pair have quietly ensured that some of the most disturbing plans of Heaven and Hell have never made it to fruition.

How interesting that we see Crowley going through each of the pains of Job.

At the end of S2, Crowley is metaphorically sitting, head in hands, wondering what he did that was so wrong to deserve this.

What if the answer is nothing? What if the answer is he did everything right?

[atlas-hope]

i have no words

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

(cum in latin meaning "with" similar to summa cum laude :D))

Hi Neil!When Gabriel and Sandalfon was in Aziraphale`s bookshop, they recognized a demonic smell. Why don't they feel it, when they met Crowley in Job's house?

Job's burnt-out barn is very well-ventilated because most of the walls and roof have gone, and it still smells like burning building, masking any residual smells of ox-rib or demonic shoemaker-cum-obstetrician.

[idliketobeatree]

when you think of it. Bildad the Shuhite's last 24 hours in the minisode not bloody optimal

getting a combat mission to kill everything his buddy Job owns just because She got into some stupid bet

the kids too??? horrid

right in the middle of growing out his hair awkwardly that angle appears. perfect timing to get thwarted. not like that

oh no he's now legit pissed, like it's HIS fault

good (bad) that Bildad has a plan. bad (good) that Aziraphale follows around like a lost sheep, ready to blow his cover anytime. not like that

cue the mortifying ordeal of being known

angel's smugness visible from alpha centauri and he can't even wipe it off with an angry kiss

the kids remain alive but at the cost of annoyance. human twink has the gall to flirt with Aziraphale right in front of his demonic eyes. is nothing sacred anymore

unsolicited temptation backfires badly ( he didn't sign up for food kink development. Regret)

no let me say it again: sexual awakening through ox ribs what even is his life

angel insinuates being the only demon in existence who tries to go his own way seems lonely -> needs to get wasted immediately

literally so hungover the next day he can barely stand and THIS is the moment he witnesses former Mum talking to a human, probably for the first time since Eden. actually stop here, try to step into his shoes and watch the arrow on a scale for secondhand embarrassment doing a full 360°

magical obstetrics time (he still doesn't know where babies come from)

and to top it off: the devastating vision of Aziraphale almost crying

to conclude, pour one out for Bildad the poor bastard deserves it.

[mitski-leaked]

You think you're a demon? With your curly little...and neat white-

[sad-chaos-goblin]

Crowley so rarely says how he feels. Yet one of the few times he does, it's to admit to Aziraphale that he's lonely. They're both so open and vulnerable in this scene. Crowley is being gentle and comforting, but he's also reaching out, longing for connection. He needs that comfort just as much as Aziraphale does <3