How I feel about the Asa Fell & Anthony Crowley ending.
First off, I do find Asa and Anthony to be cute and I love that they found each other and are in love, happy married at their little cottage gazing at the stars......but they are not Aziraphale and Crowley to me. They have no memories of being Aziraphale and Crowley and they aren't able to appreciate what they once had and the journey and struggles they faced in order to become Asa and Anthony. Their love and the way they express it if different, their backgrounds are different, the obstacles they faced in life are different. Everything, besides some similarities in looks and interests, is completely different.
They maybe have the same souls as Aziraphale and Crowley but memories and life experiences are what make you who you are. They may seem familiar but they are complete strangers that we have to start from the beginning to build a connection with.
Aziraphale and Crowley are not aware of Asa and Anthony either. God made sure to point that out before she thanos snapped them and their universe into non-existence. They will not get to experience true freedom of being together and happy. That was taken from them and given to another pair who will also never know or experience what they once had together in another life.
We built this huge strong connection with two characters who's bond was created over thousands of years together, hoping they would get their happy ending together as who they were currently.....and Instead they had to die and give up their happiness for a completely new universe with versions of themselves they don't and will never know of.
And somehow we are expected to take that connection and love we had for two beings that meant so much to us as who they already were....and give it to completely different strangers? It feels like a betrayal in a way...
Secondly,
I truly hate the idea of Aziraphale or Crowley getting cancer, arthritis, or getting so old they can't walk and enjoy or do all things they love in life. I don't enjoy the thought of one of them getting more frail while the other has to watch helplessly, or that one will die first and the other has to grieve for them...and possibly die alone.. and because there's no Heaven..that's just It for them...
They deserved eternity together. They deserved 6000+ more years of being in love to make up for all they couldn't have before. They deserved being happy in each other's company, while watching the Earth and the humanity they love and cared for throughout the centuries continue on, enjoying all the little quirks and joys along the way.
Aziraphale deserved to keep his little bookshop with all his favorite things inside, making friends with the neighbors and forgiving their rent just for a nice plate of cookies or a good record to play. He deserved to be where he was appreciated, loved, and accepted with no judgement
Crowley deserved to keep his Bentley and move into the bookshop and decorate it with all his plants because we know Aziraphale would let him. He deserved to be with his Angel out on lunches, dinners, and have nightly wine conversations and maybe take the Bentley out into the stars to visit the ones he made. He deserved to live with freedom in his curiosity of the universe, be free to ask any questions or make choices without judgement. He deserved to live where he was seen as good even with flaws, he deserved to be happy and in love with the one person who gave all of that to him from the very beginning.
After everything they had been through, they deserved more. They deserved to be the universe and humanity's Guardians, our hope and our proof that there is good in this life and beyond. They deserved to be each other's hope and happiness.
They deserved forever..
But instead they got an end. An end to their current existence with all its flaws, perfections and precious memories that shaped them. An end to their universe they built and helped grow. And then in all its place is a replacement all shiny and new and unfamiliar. Their life is replaced with two others who may share their souls but have no memory or connection to who they were before. No memory of all the journey and struggles or even the joys that got them where they were. No memory of them and what they once had
Instead they were given a life so fleeting that once it's done..it will be buried within time and be forgotten by all but the ONE being who had the power to give them what they truly wanted and deserved but didn't allow it. And they did it all by manipulating the situation and circumstances to make the two think the choice they made of Their End was of their own free will..
There was only one winner in the end...and it wasn't them.
Their story mattered more than being soulmates in other universe and time. Their connection was way beyond any "I will always find you in every lifetime" romance trope. Their story was the eternal flame. It deserved more than mortality.
Their love for themselves and for humanity they took care of deserved to be Eternal.
But instead it's Evanescence and Ephemerality.
They deserved so much more than what they got.
