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The look on Crowley’s face when he asks, when he pleads with Aziraphale to tell him he said no; the shock, the horror, the panic, the helpless desperation shining in his eyes.

Stab me it would hurt less

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Welcome to My Collection of Random Thoughts during my nth* rewatch of Good Omens Season 2

*only amazon prime knows the exact number at this point but I’m fairly certain it’s in the double digits

Episode 1: Gabriel’s fly lurking in the box when Aziraphale first takes it inside 👀

Crowley’s promise of “two minutes” basically means that he’s been homeless and living in his car for the past 4 years strictly so that he can be within 2 driving minutes of Aziraphale at all times in case his angel needs him I’m not crying you are

So here I think the key word is “fragile,” Crowley knows they are ostensibly safe from their respective sides but that could change at any moment so he’s basically spent the last 4 years in anxiety-ridden terror hovering as close to Aziraphale as he can to try and protect him from heaven, hell, and anyone else that would want to bring him harm after all that business they pulled in season 1 with stopping Armageddon

Episode 2: I just happened to pause the episode while Aziraphale is lying to the angels about his miracle and LOL Michael really outdid himself here (Sheen, not the Archangel)

Gabriel trying to swat flies and almost smashing the repository of every single one of his memories

I’m cAckling

So if Good Omens exists in Good Omens, does that mean Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett exist in Good Omens?? Do you think they based their Aziraphale and Crowley characters on Aziraphale and Crowley??

Episode 3: So I’m trying to find any hints or foreshadowing of the Gabriel Beelzebub thing bc tbh I did kind of feel like it came out of nowhere which is really the only issue I have with them. I found this one scene where Beelzebub almost ?? seems to be concerned about Gabriel ?? But it’s blink and you miss it and there could be lots of other reasons why Beelzebub doesn’t want to fail in locating Gabriel (pressure from/leverage over heaven, etc) so idk

More Foreshadowing Fly content 🪰

Episode 4: So here we’ve seen that Shax can just appear inside the Bentley bc she did it earlier to talk to Crowley. Shax only pretended to be a hitchhiker so she could be invited in because Azirpahale was driving so technically she needed permission to cross the threshold of an angel 👀

This scene will never not destroy me the 1941 flashback is the absolute sOFTEST thing ever to happen on this show

We really need more context here I need to see the Crowley-Furfur Monkey Rides

Episode 5: ahahaha thank you google translate for absolutely destroying my sanity this evening

POP goes the Ziraphale

Okay I know you can’t hear it in the gif but just before Nina takes Maggie’s hand, there’s a very quiet miracle noise, like Azirpahale literally MADE Nina dance with Maggie, he said I’m writing a Mina Jane-Austen-Ball-AU and my otp will KISS godDAMMIT

Azirpahale seems lowkey kind of manic this whole scene tho, he’s controlling literally everyone to force Nina and Maggie together and whenever Crowley says anything that pokes holes in Aziraphale’s Magical Jane Austen Ball Fairytale, Aziraphale just straight up denies it. He wants Nina and Maggie to dance and he wants him and Crowley to dance and he refuses to acknowledge anything beyond that.

Is this just Shax insulting Crowley for how much of a nuisance he’s been or a reference to his former status as an angel ???

They’re both completely dismissive of each other when they’re trying to say something important and that’s the main issue they’ve been having this entire season tbh

Episode 6: I think it’s funny that Crowley describes the angels as bees here because in the book, Neil/Terry describe humans the same way. Guess we have more in common than we thought huh?

So the metatron was the one who originally decided Gabriel would be memory wiped and not sent to hell, and he was also the one that decided not to sound an alarm about Gabriel for some reason and said ‘just go find him yourself’ instead. The metatron has definitely got his own agenda and you can bet he doesn’t want Aziraphale up there in heaven because he’s a “leader” and he’s “honest” like that’s exactly what Gabriel was and look where it got him 👀

There’s just something I can’t quite put my finger on about the metatron bringing Aziraphale a coffee from “give me coffee or give me death” and then asking Aziraphale if he’s going to take the coffee he’s giving him…

I have not seen a single person talk about this since s2 came out but Nina literally calls Maggie “angel” because that’s the term of endearment they hear Crowley using for Aziraphale !!!! I’m still going fERAL over this and I can’t believe no one else is eitHER

Something about this part of The Final Fifteen compared to this scene from the first episode is so representative of the entire season. Azirpahale keeps saying “my way or get out” and Crowley finally hits a wall and can follow Aziraphale no further. So he does just that. He goes.

I’m sure a lot of us by now have seen this post that brings up how Aziraphale literally pushes the remains of Crowley into his mouth and swallows and it’s the only thing I see when I watch this now

We still don’t know for certain if Crowley queued up this song to play on their way to the Ritz or if the Bentley started playing it all on its own and it’s driving me insane

Basically how I am doing after my Truly-Alarming-Number-th watch of this traumatizing episode/season. WELP hope you enjoyed this garbage dump of my thoughts and feelings time to go cry for a bit again BYE

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The Tragedy of Season 2: they’re so busy trying to protect each other that neither of them actually communicates anything at all

#erased from the book of life #and destruction #and yet neither of them tells the other a THING #The Final Fifteen was doomed from the start #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #angel #demon #armageddidnt-pain #armageddidnt-blog

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The fact that these two moments happened in the same conversation will never not leave me feeling absolutely devastated

…forever? With you?

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Here it is, folks. The entire kiss in one GIF. We all wanted Neil Gaiman to give us an A/C kiss and he said you can have it, but it’ll cost you everything

Stab me it would hurt less

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Day 41 since the finale, how are we all doing??

#and I am still no closer to reclaiming my sanity #this gif lives in my head rent free #good omens fandom is ill rn #sending lots of hugs your way #to help you cope with this absolute madness #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #angel #demon #good omens 2x06 #The Final Fifteen #armageddidnt-screaming #armageddidnt-blog #armageddidnt-pain

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We’ve noticed that Crowley has been taking his glasses off a lot more in front of Aziraphale this season because he’s trying to show him that he trusts him and he’s trying to be more open. So when he starts his confession, he takes them off, but then when he realizes Aziraphale is rejecting him, he realizes that he bared his entire soul, he was his most vulnerable to Aziraphale, and the angel took it and threw it all away. Nothing lasts forever, Aziraphale says. Crowley seems to take it as Aziraphale’s devotion is fleeting. He and Aziraphale could never last. They could never be more important to Aziraphale than the eternity of heaven and God. So Crowley puts his glasses back on and hides himself away again. Stab me it would hurt less

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #angel #good omens season 2 #good omens 2x06 #good omens sunglasses #stab me it would hurt less #Crowley bared his entire soul and Aziraphale stomped all over it #armageddidnt-blog #armageddidnt-pain #armageddidnt-thoughts-theories

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Aziraphale and Crowley watching people in love yet being completely oblivious to what’s right in front of them

There’s just something so exquisitely painful about Aziraphale and Crowley setting Maggie and Nina up to fall in love and then missing their own chance so spectacularly

something something something aim for my mouth but shoot past my ear

#stab me it would hurt less #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #angel #good omens season 2 #good omens 2 #demon #good omens 2x06 #armageddidnt-blog #armageddidnt-pain

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“No nightingales”

I think in this song, ‘a Nightingale singing in Berkeley Square’ symbolizes something rare and beautiful and miraculous, or perhaps something that’s impossible, or just never happens. Either way, the fact that Crowley says “No nightingales” in the finale makes it sound like he’s saying ‘I thought that we could make it but all our miracles are up,’ or perhaps ‘all the beauty we once had is gone now.’

Stab me it would hurt less

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What is absolutely killing me about this finale is that we’ve been shown that everything we wanted to happen can actually happen. Proof: Beelzebub and Gabriel. Now that we know that it can happen, It’s all the more devastating that it didn’t happen to Aziraphale and Crowley. And what’s even more frustrating is that Beelzebub and Gabriel were able to do it in literally only like 3 to 4 years since meeting each other. Gabriel was the archangel, the literal ruler of the angels, and he was able to change his entire ideology and core faith/belief system in just 4 years. Aziraphale and Crowley have known each other for 6000 blasted years. They are the most important person in either of their entire lives. They’ve depended on each other for millennia, they would do anything for each other, Aziraphale has been low key doubting the ineffable plan for centuries and yet he still can’t find a way to meet Crowley in the middle. It just absolutely destroys me that we’ve been shown it can be done, and then, in the very same episode it’s been denied for Aziraphale and Crowley. It’s like Neil stuck the knife in and then started twisting it too. Stab me it would hurt less

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Can I just talk about why I’m so utterly devastated that Aziraphale chose the job in Heaven? Over being together with Crowley? First, I feel like Azirapahle should know that heaven is 100% trying to use and manipulate him by giving him this position. He has seen time and time again what literally all of the other angels think of him for remaining on earth, associating with Crowley in anyway, and literally stopping Armageddon. He is the most hated angel to exist (perhaps besides Gabriel), and he should know that none of the angels will ever truly like him or care about him. Not in the way that Crowley will. Also, he really should have learned from what happened to Gabriel. This was Heaven’s Chosen Archangel, and when Gabriel dared to choose a demon, when he dared to have a different opinion and decide that Armageddon wasn’t such a good idea after all (which is exactly what Aziraphale has done throughout the entire show), Gabriel was immediately cast out, threatened with destruction, and had all his memories erased. It is completely beyond me how Aziraphale doesn’t realize he is dangerously close to following that same path and that taking this job will leave him under the threat of such punishment for basically eternity. Gabriel was the Archangel, and even he was not safe. I know Aziraphale wants to do good, I know he wants to make a difference, but it just seems so inadvisable to do it by taking such an obviously dangerous position.

Second, another thing Aziraphale should have realized is that there’s no way Crowley would ever want to go back to heaven. Crowley said in season 1 that he won’t ever be forgiven. “Unforgivable, that’s what I am.” Crowley has been trying for the last 6000 years to convince Aziraphale that in all the ways that count, heaven is no better than hell and being an angel doesn’t actually mean you’re good. Crowley has been extremely vocal about his distaste for the Ineffable Plan, the wrath and punishment of God, and his hatred for Gabriel and any other angels that have threatened Aziraphale in the past. He’s just expressed so much dislike for heaven and God and angels that it absolutely blows my mind that Aziraphale would think Crowley would be excited about being “restored.” It just seems like such a fundamental part of Crowley‘s character: he will never be content to follow orders and he always asks questions when he knows something isn’t right. And Aziraphale is the one who should know Crowley best, and has known him for thousands of years, and apparently Aziraphale doesn’t even understand that about him. I’m not sure if I think that Aziraphale really should have known this and wouldn’t have offered the choice to Crowley, or if I’m just disappointed in Aziraphale because he did. I know Aziraphale has all the brainwashing and toxic culture of heaven to deal with, but Crowley has been trying to show him for 6000 years and Aziraphale would probably know better than anyone about the suffering that has been caused by heaven and God. (Not to mention the fact that Gabriel was able to do this and overcome millennia of brainwashing and toxic ideology in just 4 freaking years) So it’s really hard to accept that Aziraphale would be excited and take this position at all since there’s just so many reasons why it’s the absolute worst thing for him to do right now. His options are literally: the worst choice imaginable, or, be with Crowley and get everything he (or at least Crowley) has ever wanted. I know that Aziraphale still has to get to the point where he wants Crowley more than he wants heaven but damn does it hurt while he takes literal millennia to figure it out.

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It just absolutely kILLS me that Beelzebub and Gabriel were able to do, in 4 years, what Crowley and Aziraphale (or at least just Aziraphale) could not do in 6000. And in all that time, it’s only been the two of them, together, and yet Aziraphale still refuses to let go of Heaven.

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I think that what’s still got me so wrecked about the Finale is that Aziraphale’s unconditional faith in heaven is stronger than his love for Crowley and it absolutely breaks my heart.

Let me explain.

Throughout all the time that Crowley has known Aziraphale, he’s been trying to get the Angel to question heaven, to question the Great Ineffable plan, to question God, to stop and think for once and see how none of this really makes any sense and heaven isn’t actually good. And on the wall at the garden of Eden, we thought that was the first time Crowley realized he was in love with Aziraphale but I think he didn’t realize that till much later, not until Nina asked him if he’d been with his “partner” long and Crowley actually stopped to think about all the years he’s know Aziraphale and question if love is actually what he’s been feeling all along. But anyway, on the wall, I think that was the first time that Crowley got even the barest hint that Aziraphale might actually be an Angel capable of free will. That there was some tiny sliver of hope in Aziraphale turning away from Heaven and Hell and joining Crowley on his Own Side. Because Crowley has confirmed how lonely his Own Side is and I think even the slightest chance of Aziraphale joining him there was enough for Crowley to latch onto and never let go.

Then Crowley spent millennia trying to show Aziraphale the complexities of morality and the futility of Heaven and Hell’s efforts and the blatant immorality of Heaven and the fact that he doesn’t always have to do what he’s told and free will doesn’t have to be a thing that’s just for humanity. And after all that time, trying to show Aziraphale over and over again, saving him from harm over and over again, protecting him, trusting him, being there for him, pleading with Aziraphale to just see what he sees and forget about Heaven and do what he actually wants to do … Aziraphale rejects him over and over and when he’s given the choice to return to Heaven, he takes it and leaves Crowley behind. Because Aziraphale cannot give up Heaven and God and the idea of being on the Right Side, the Side of Good, because he hasn’t learned how to have free will and he hasn’t learned how to disentangle his morality from the unquestionable and unrelenting word of God.

And that’s all Crowley has been trying to get Aziraphale to see for thousands of years and now that they’ve finally realized their love for each other, now that they’ve realized what they had all along and could have had beyond that, it’s still not enough and Aziraphale can’t let go of Heaven. Aziraphale knows that Crowley loves him and just wants to run away together and Crowley knows that Aziraphale needs him, but it’s not enough. Their love is not enough, 6,000+ years of trying to show Aziraphale the truth is not enough, “it’s always too late,” and Crowley knows he’s lost yet again. That every time he’s lost and he just wants to protect his Angel but now he’s lost Aziraphale to the one place he cannot go, the one place he cannot protect Aziraphale from. Crowley has given literally everything he has to Aziraphale, his entire life, heart, soul, and it’s not enough.

Their love is not enough and it breaks my heart.

#my heart HURTS #I needed to write this all down because pressing on the wound is the only way it will ever heal #it doesn’t make any sense but it’s the truth #thoughts on the finale #I dragged this post kicking and screaming from my subconscious it left scratches and wounds clawing its way up but I needed to get it OUT #aziraphale and crowley #good omens #good omens season two #Aziraphale #Crowley #ineffable husbands #a/c #demon #angel #good omens 2 #good omens 2x06 #good omens every day #good omens finale #armageddidnt-blog #armageddidnt-pain #armageddidnt-thoughts-theories