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Yet another “BoL is not a BoL” theory

While the idea that the book of life can remove someone from ever having existed, we've all sometimes wondered if this would be a complicated and inconvenient plot twist. How to remove The Serpent of Eden? The Angel with the Flaming Sword? Gabriel? The reality will be just destroyed. Who ever said that BoL really works like that?

My hypothesis: Book of Life doesn’t remove your existence. It just turns an angel into a demon. Its kinda a registry of angels.

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What if the Metatron is scared of Crowley?

The S2 brain rot is still going strong so I have to share my meta thoughts somewhere. I guess it's gonna be tumblr, isn't it? Would you like to spend a lot of time dissecting what the Metatron says with me? Okay here we go...

So the full line here is "He always wanted to go his own way. Always asking damned fool questions, too." I think the "Always" and the ",too." are doing some pretty heavy lifting in this sentence. Because we've seen him asking questions before the fall (more on that in another post) we assume The Metatron is referencing that time before. But what if he isn't? What if he's referencing this scene from the opening of S2E1 where Crowley is seemingly now having an existential crisis that is weirdly never referenced again in the season.

"But Crowley is always asking questions!" You cry. Yeah, he is. An the metatron is getting pretty f*&?ing sick of his shit. You want to watch another time he asks a question after this scene in S2E1?

Seems like Crowley is doing some mighty fine asking already this season! After finishing season 2 I really started wondering why The Metatron was interfering with our boys now? I mean, they were right there the whole time. The Metatron clearly knows where they are for years. Even though Crowley has been asking question for all time forever and clearly some part of heaven hates that, it seems like maybe these questions at this point in time might actually be very harmful to the Metatron's plans. Remember when Jimbriel says this in S2E1?

Except Jim never gives Azirapalalah anything the whole season? The matchbox stays in heaven. He doesn't give him the box either. It stays outside and must be fetched.

So when the metatron says "You're a leader, you're honest, you dont just tell people what they want to hear. It's why Gabriel came to you in the first place, I imagine." I think we can surmise that Gabriel was trying to come to Aziraphael to give him something important, but it never happened (OR DID IT? That's for another post...). So if The Metatron is breathing a huge sigh of relief here because he thinks he's confirmed Gabriel didn't give Aziraphael anything, the last thing he needs to do is separate the really good question asker from his will to ask any more good questions.

"But how does the metatron know Gabriel didn't give him anything? What does he have like a stupid spy camera or something inside the bookshop?" Guys the art direction in this show in bonkers, I'm telling you.

OH LOOK. A WHITE GIANT FLOATING HEAD IN ALL THEIR CONVERSATIONS IN THE BOOKSHOP.

So my reading of the original line is something like : "Crowley wanted to not follow heaven, which caused him to fall with the guys. But also I've been watching him do reckless and annoying question asking right now. And that's currently ruining my plans and I've had enough. Get that idiot away from the bookshop."

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At this point (this point being about 15 rewatchs of S2E6), I feel like Aziraphale had two alternative plans going into his last conversation with Crowley and he had to conduct that conversation in a way that would only allow for either plan A or plan B to work, nothing in between. Like, he needed to be persuasive enough to stand even the smallest chance to convince Crowley to go back to Heaven with him. He also had to say things hurtful enough to make sure, if plan A did not work (which, knowing Crowley, was quite likely), he would push Crowley away far enough to make sure Crowley would not try to save him again, which could be dangerous for either one or both of them. This is not to say that Aziraphale necessarily had a great masterplan or that everything he said was calculated in some way, but for me, this is kind of the situation I see when I watch the Final 15 at the moment.

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That End Credits Smile

This is just a brief note about Aziraphale's smile in the elevator during the end credits, you know -- this one:

Many fans call it "creepy" or at least unsettling, but I think a HUGE part of that feeling stems from the very odd lighting in that shot. If you pop this into a photo editor and adjust for a more natural light, you get:

Which I find less unsettling, and perhaps even more along the lines of "I am going to fix things, both Up There, and with Crowley."

Or at least, I sure hope that's what he's thinking!

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no one asked but here's my take: crowley did not expect aziraphale to change his mind. once he said "no, i suppose not" crowley knew it was over.

the kiss was just crowley leaving everything on the table on the way out. he was getting it out of his system so when he looked back, he couldn't make himself think "well maybe aziraphale didn't understand" or "well maybe if I'd made it clearer, he would have come with me" or even just "i should have kissed him when i had the chance." i mean, hell, he couldn't even bring himself to do it until aziraphale looked away.

there was maybe a little hope, in there, that laying his cards down would change aziraphale's mind, but he's also a cynic who hates himself, so it was just a little bit of hope. that's why the kiss is so angry, because crowley thinks it's the only one they'll ever get and he's pissed as hell that aziraphale would make it end like this. he lets himself have a little hope again right after, but aziraphale's reaction to the kiss sort of said it all. crowley doesn't look shocked when aziraphale forgives him. just hurt.

he stays outside to give aziraphale one last out – and i'm sure hopes for it – but i don't think he expects aziraphale to come running to him on any real level. he's just making sure aziraphale knows exactly what he's walking away from. he's making aziraphale choose to leave him without softening the blow for either of them. which conveniently does double duty as a way for crowley to punish himself for having been vulnerable. this is a guy who thinks running away will solve every possible problem, and he stays to watch aziraphale go. it hurts him too, and he probably feels he deserves it for being foolish enough to think he's worthy of love just as he is.

anyway, i'm losing my mind.

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Recently I've been thinking about something: Aziraphale tries to do good while Crowley tries to not do bad.

Aziraphale activelly tries to make the world a better place, take care of ppl (and amnesiac archangels) and refuses to leave even when that poses great danger to him. But he's often misguided in his attempts because he fails to see the complexity of the situation, like with Wee Morag. He's preppared to make tough call and chose the lesser evil, like trying to kill Adam for the sake of the world (another thing he did without the necessary information). We see with the nonconsentual ball he meddles with the humans too much and tramples over their free will.

Crowley, on the other hand, tries not to do bad. His goal isn't to lessen the amount of evil, he will just try not to carry out Hell's shemes when it happens that he was supposed to do something he disagrees with. It's logical given his status as a demon (just like it's logical for Aziraphale to do the kind of good Heaven could accept).

But the bad happens regardless. Humans invent horrors beyond his imagination daily, evil won't end just because there isn't anybody tempting them to be greedy or prideful. Something needs to be done.

And this different attitudes are also a big part of what happens in the final 15. For Aziraphale doing nothing if he can possibly make a difference isn't an option. And we all know that doing anything worthwhile is practically impossible to do alone. So, coupled with Metatrons thinly vailed threats, the chance to change things ofcourse convinces Aziraphale to accept. For Crowley for whom doing nothing has long been the best most moral option and who hates Heaven for rejecting him going back is also logically not an option.

Aziraphale, yes, has to learn nuance, and we see him do that (even tho some of the lessons feel too late in the series to me. The final convo they have in the victorian flashback was in the book at the very start of the Arrangement). But Crowley has to learn to meddle more, has to learn that as Terry puts it in Guards! Guards! "They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no". And we also see some of that with how Crowley now openly (and without Aziraphale's prompting like with Jim) cares about ducks and how he saved that guy from being thorn apart by demons.

Aziraphale and Cowley have equal opposite issues and I for one think that is beautiful (and also the point).

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on elevators, pride, and alpha centauri

you know, the funny thing is that the ending of s2 really reminds me of the lead up to the ending of s1 with the "we could go to alpha centaurii!" and I really think it's not a coincidence it's mentioned again

and that final scene: there's the Car, and the Choice, and we've seen it all before. Aziraphale always makes the Choice, but Crowley is always Scared. But even if Crowley hates it, even if Crowley would really rather run away to somewhere safe, even if they fight over it, Aziraphale always makes the Choice, hoping, *believing* that Crowley will follow. they've always both known each other to do the Right thing. Aziraphale knows they'll both only be at peace if they do it. And Aziraphale is really so precious to Crowley after all. So Crowley always puts up a wild fit, but he always follows.

And as with the not-Armageddon, so with the elevator. They can't know if they might change anything if they don't at least *try*. Crowley's reluctantly followed him so many times before. Why wouldn't he follow one more time?

When Aziraphale takes the elevator, he doesn't take it in the spirit of betraying Crowley.

He takes it out of hope and trust.

We all know Aziraphale isn't as naïve and daydreamy as he comes off. He's always voiced his doubts when heaven does some stupid shit, just like Crowley. In fact, Aziraphale was far more clear-headed about the workings of Heaven. He always had the same doubts as Crowley, but he was more tactful about it. He was willing to endure the humiliation of begging for scraps of answers, and being ridiculed by the Archangels, but Crowley couldn't. He's managed to stay in heaven all these years, whereas Crowley Fell.

The doubts didn't doom Aziraphale. the Metatron even said they valued his honesty, and gave him a position as archangel. The doubts didn't doom Crowley. But Crowley's pride did.

The elevator was never really a test for Aziraphale. He's made the Choice before, and he will again. But will Crowley? Will Crowley put down his pride, his fear of divine retribution, his grudge against heaven, in order to *try*? Is he willing to let go of his grudge against God, to have a chance at protecting the Earth that he loves so much?

When Aziraphale steps into the elevator, he isn't picking Heaven over Crowley. He's waiting for Crowley, begging him to put down his pride, do the right thing, and come home.

He's hoping Crowley will follow.

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aziraphale is a centrist who saw metatron's offer as the perfect way to get everything he wanted: returned status (among angels who mock him) & protection (from demons who see him as the reason Crowley turned), Crowley (subordinate to him, and an angel again, so Az doesn't have to question Heaven/his own morals anymore)

meanwhile Crowley is a marginalized person who thought he had a life partner who would choose him over the status quo, only to discover that was not the case and the christian hegemony will always protect itself first.

also aziraphale is just. not a good partner tbh. he never listens to Crowley, things always have to go his way, and he stomps all over Crowley's 'no's repeatedly while dragging him along for misadventures. (and Crowley goes along with it because love)