you know the other thing that I really enjoy about Good Omens? Despite being messy af and bad at talking about their feelings and using their words, Crowley and Aziraphale are just like… actual grown-ups. Like, their defining character traits are that that they would risk literally everything to avoid a change in their daily routine. They literally defy Heaven and face down Satan to stop the Apocalypse because after a long day they just want to unwind at home with their significant other and a nice glass of red. Like they are SO decidedly middle-aged that actual paradise to these two immortal beings of immense otherworldly power is an early dinner out with your sweetie at your favorite restaurant and then going DIRECTLY home to open a bottle of wine and throw on your favorite album. and honestly, hard same?
shoutout to the mutuals i actually interact with regularly & big apologies to the mutuals i do not interact with regularly or the mutuals who i used to interact with but now do not. ily all
Crowley’s flat had been a ‘gift’ from Hell after his last assignment. It wasn’t. He had to pay the bills. He didn’t particularly like the place. It gave him goosebumps. No matter where he went, he felt eyes watching him. He had cleaned it from top to bottom hundreds times including miracles, and it never made a difference. It was always cold and unusually damp. He’d tried adding heaters, but it didn’t matter. As soon as the heat hit the air, it turned frigid until he got the plants.
His downstairs neighbor loved plants, but she needed someone to check in on them whilst she was out of town. Crowley was going to miracle to be fine until she got back, but he went to check in on them anyway. All of them were doing wonderfully except one. In the corner, there was a Pothos plant hung in a basket. It was trying to spread farther to flourish, but there wasn’t enough room in its pot. It was being weighed down. He felt a kinship so he took it upstairs.
After he had replanted it and hung it up in one of the many empty corner in his flat, Crowley noticed that the room felt warmer. He took care of the plant and the others with mostly miracles until the neighbor had gotten back. When she saw what happened to the Pothos, she asked if he’d accept it as a gift. He didn’t want to admit it, but he had grown attached. He took the plant. That was just the start.
Soon enough, the demon had dedicated an entire room to his plants. His arrangements were extraordinary. The diversity of his plants was astonishing even some that had been considered extinct. There were plants that were meant to be kept in frigid temperatures and boiling ones flourishing in the same room. The room didn’t even have windows. Miracles fixed small details such as those, but the rest of the care was with Crowley’s own hands even if he had to scrub for an hour to get the dirt out from under his nails.
It may have started as a way to warm up his living quarters, but it soon became an outlet for his darker thoughts. He was the one who was in control now. He was the one who told the plants how to grow and where. But ever since Crowley had begun this new regime, there was always something wrong. A bad leaf or a spot. Something flowered that shouldn’t have. The soil drying up faster than it should. No matter how much he tried to keep his plants in tip top shape, they could never be good enough. Crowley just wanted them to be good enough. Even if he wasn’t sure what that meant. When he heard their leaves shake, he knew he needed to change. He may have not meant to hurt them, but he had.
Crowley gave most of the plants to the lady downstairs when he moved out after the switching places incident. He took the rest with him in the backseat of the Bentley. He didn’t like using the miracles on them, but there was no way that they could stay healthy in the car. Something about living in the Bentley with the plants gave him a different sense of comfort. The Bentley wasn’t Hell’s. It was his. He had a realization. If the plants were his children, then he wasn’t a great parent. He did the exact same thing that his maker had. Forced them into roles that they were designed for, but refused to let them flourish beyond them. Trying to keep them inside of their pretty ‘boxes’ even when they were made with the ability to go beyond them. He needed to find a better home for them.
When Crowley told Aziraphale this, he offered the extra bookshop bedroom, but neither of them wanted the moisture in the bookshop. That’s when the angel had another idea: the roof. He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t thought of it before. It was perfectly made to hold a gathering. Why not a greenhouse?
Over the next few months, Crowley built an area perfect for his children to thrive. They all had places that were made just for them. They had plenty of actual sunlight too. The plants loved it all. There may have been some new ones that popped up here and there that he hadn’t remembered getting, but he loved them too. Soon enough, the people of SoHo could be heard commenting from the street below on the beautiful garden. It made it all the better that there was room for two blankets or chairs to stare up at the night sky.
Another reason that the Good Omens ending makes no sense, Crowley…and Aziraphale ask for an entirely new universe(w/o asking for humans/Earth which they’re doing this for apparently) as if God isn’t planning on making another one. They asked for something that she was probably planning on doing anyway. That’s why she gave them the Earth and humans. She was already planning new universes and everything else. They asked her for something that she was already going to do.
Another reason that the Good Omens ending makes no sense, Crowley…and Aziraphale ask for an entirely new universe(w/o asking for humans/Earth which they’re doing this for apparently) as if God isn’t planning on making another one. They asked for something that she was probably planning on doing anyway. That’s why she gave them the Earth and humans. She was already planning new universes and everything else. They asked her for something that she was already going to do.
Also, does she feel like a completely different person in the finale? The actress was great for the role that was written in the finale. It’s just that the God in the first two seasons, especially season one, acted like she was content with what was happening. Like it was a part of her Ineffable Plan which is its own conundrum. She says that their relationship/love made her smile… but now, a few short years later, she’s irritated by them?
We love Aziraphale. He's cultured. He's refined. He has standards. Per book canon, his vibes are: English, intelligent, and gay. And he's just so charming.
So I thought, let's celebrate that!
And then I thought, what if we picked the most inappropriate, unsuitable, incongruous soundtrack possible? Something that clashes horribly with the angel's prim and proper Southern Pansy energy? Would it be FUNNY? Or would it be CRINGE? You decide!
More after the cut, but first: yes Crowley will be making his appearance here- he's just waiting for the perfect moment, lyrics-wise.
Tagging @averagegoodomensenjoyer, @killyscharactercollective, and @iforgiveyouprime per their request- thanks folks! To everyone else who's reading this because it randomly popped up on your dash, thanks for watching! And if you enjoyed it, maybe reblog? I'm new here and I want everyone to suffer my silly shenanigans.
Important notice: This video features USAmerican country music, which for whatever reason is most commonly enjoyed by Tr*mp supporters. That is NOT me. Thanks again for watching!
Okay I know we've been over the stupidity that is the plot point of "hell revoking Crowley's miracles" in the finale--
(If hell has that ability all along. If miracles are actually doled out by Head Office instead of just, in innate ability that supernatural entities have. Then WHY THE FUCK didn't hell do that in S2 after Crowley defected the first time?? It makes no sense)
--but i am not done complaining about this. If your plot required Crowley to be without his powers for a period of time, ALL you had to do to explain it was emotional turmoil. Like in Spiderman 2, when his heartbreak and self-doubt makes him temporarily lose his spidey-powers.
It's a familiar story beat, but it WORKS, and most importantly, the characters can solve the problem by overcoming their emotional struggle in some way. The "external" plot is just a mirror image of the "internal" one (e.g., the emotional journey of the characters).
Then Crowley reuniting with Aziraphale, reconciling with him, would solve this plot point AND provide some catharsis. A visible, tangible way of showing what the characters are dealing with internally.
It's like...it would have been such an easy writing hack to make the story a little more satisfying. And it seems so fucking obvious??? Right?
But nah. We don't have to explain, resolve, or think too hard about the implications of the story.
Make it make sense.
Would love your thoughts on this, @iforgiveyouprime, if you have anything to add.
I absolutely agree with all of this. If they wanted to make it so that Crowley temporarily didn't have his powers, it would make more sense if this temporary absence was explained by his emotional state. After all, we've already seen in the second season that miracles can fail or malfunction when the person performing them is in a very unstable and difficult emotional state. When Aziraphale in episode 5 of season 2 tries to use miracles to convince Nina and Maggie to go after Crowley, Aziraphale is in a state of severe emotional turmoil, panic, and anxiety. He is trying to pull himself together, but his inner turmoil is causing his miracles to malfunction or fail. As far as I know, this fact that his miracle on Nina and Maggie did not work due to his mental state has been confirmed by Neil.
So this plot twist would have worked perfectly because it wouldn't have been new; it already worked in the second season!
I totally agree with you both, it doesn't make sense nor does it serve character development that Hell is suddenly able to revoke Crowley s powers.
Also if they did it as you suggest, and made Crowley lose his powers due to his state of distress, the let the same thing happen to Aziraphale. He also has every reason to feel terrible, going alone to Heaven, a place he mistrusts, knowing he hurt Crowley s feelings, knowing what could (not) have been, and also all the dangers and crushing responsibilities ahead. It would make the relationship more balanced as well in a way, to show they suffer similarly from that situation
Remember this? It’s gonna get sad or angry so warning and another for spoilers for G0 finale.
Yep, the ending was a Catch-22. Crowley gets the chance to rebuild the world, and makes where they don’t exist right? He couldn’t make one where they existed.
He makes one, but the demons and angels exist, but they’re something else. Welp, there goes their history or they’re killed. They have to suck some if you want everything exactly the same, and the afterlives to be different. Anyway, he rebuilds it; it separates them.
Also, he can’t ask just for them to exist. Besides, “today’s events had some fallout on the universe,” or Adam still having powers. The fallout was the Metatron wasn’t it? Not the point. He can’t because She wouldn’t also allow a worldly universe like they want. There has to be a sacrifice, why? Adam and Eve. To have free will, they have to eat the apple and suffer the cruel, harsh world. Instead of them living in emptiness together, miserably, he chose to give the universe a chance at happiness. No one, in this story, was ever getting away happy.
oh man so we're really having to go back to the defending Aziraphale mines aren't we. Or maybe we never left
Aziraphale is not bad evil, Aziraphale wanted to protect Crowley.
Aziraphale didn't want to go back to Heaven, argue about his motivations all you like but leaving the Earth and his Bookshop and his Crowley was a sacrifice and I was willing to die on that hill 3 years ago and I'm willing to die on that hill today and forever.
Aziraphale did make mistakes in what he said to Crowley in the last 15, but none of that justifies the shitty way he was treated by an extremely OOC Crowley in the finale, or God or Mrs. Sandwhich (of all people ??!?! bitch you don't him?!!?!? the fuck???)
I am a proud member of the Aziraphale Defense League and I will be obnoxious about it.
This is right as the Metatron is walking out of the bookshop and Aziraphale has to follow him. Aziraphale keeps trying to tell him he doesn't want to go and making excuses. But look at the anger, that's not directed at Crowley and it's definitely not directed at the situation. It's directed at the Metatron.
After the finale, I realized what this face really meant. “To be, I mean not to be! Come on, Hamlet, buck up!” This is what Aziraphale says when Shakespeare tells him that audience ‘interaction’ can be helpful, but in the modern sense, “I need to go. I mean, I want to go. Come on, Aziraphale, smile and get on with it!”
TV!Crowley is actually the most Evil of all Crowleys because in order to get himself and his Angel back home to London he fucks with some poor random bus driver’s route instead of just stealing a jeep from the US Military like a normal person.
