Unpredictable, childish, normal: how mistranslations bettered a series
Alternatively, wdym I enjoyed Hindi GO more than English GO
Hindi Omens is not the most accurate dub because they prioritise comedy over canonicity. Aziraphale swears in 1941. Crowley flirts with women. Twice.
Then, there was a bookshop at the end of time. And an angel asked a question to God.
"Why give me Crowley? Why let him be a part of my life, and then snatch him away?"
And instead of God saying Aziraphale's love for Crowley was the "messiest, silliest, most predictable thing in the universe", Hindi Omens did a Hindi Omens and mistranslated.
"Because your love for him was the most unpredictable, most childish, and the most normal thing in the universe."
Messiest. Silliest. Predictable.
Unpredictable. Childish. Normal.
And suddenly, Aziraphale's last kiss felt perfect and pure instead of a copout, because of course Aziraphale kisses like a child with a first crush. Aziraphale's love is as pure as the love of a cherub.
Of course God was so intrigued by the ineffable husbands. They were ineffable, even to Her.
And of course the love they feel for each other is normal. Said so in the language of a country that still, mostly, claims otherwise.
Hindi Omens' final mistranslation.
And, in my eyes, the bettering of a series.