I keep rewatching s2e6, and I am convinced. Aziraphale KNOWS Metatron is lying.
(Note, Michael Sheen is just an icon - incredible mastery of both micro expressions AND tone of voice and I get distracted by him speaking. Just me? Yeah, didn't think so.) So I watched the end of s2e6 with the sound off to focus on his physicality, just watched Aziraphale. Angel looks TERRIFIED and trying to hide it. The moment when Metatron says he's been looking into Az and Crowley's working relationship, Az looked like his heart stopped. Even his little speech to Crowley screams scared-and-faking-it. Aziraphale KNOWS he is walking into the lions' den getting in the elevator.
The thing is that everyone, including Aziraphale himself, underestimates our poor angel. Metatron assumed if the ineffable idiots were divided, he'd be the easier one to control. Heaven should know better, that for softness to survive, it must also contain some serious steel.
I just love Michael Sheen's quote and it is giving me life as I pine for wait for s3.
"We as a society tend to sort of undervalue goodness. It’s sort of seen as sort of somehow weak and a bit nimby and 'oh it’s nice.' And I think to be good takes enormous reserves of courage and stamina. I mean, you have to look the dark in the face to be truly good and to be truly of the light…. The idea that goodness is somehow lesser and less interesting and not as kind of muscular and as passionate and as fierce as evil somehow and darkness, I think is nonsense. The idea of being able to portray an angel, a being of love. I love seeing the things people have put online about angels being ferocious creatures, and I love that. I think that’s a really good representation of what goodness can be, what it should be, I suppose."
So anyway, I will be over here just thinking about fierce Aziraphale for the next three years...
