Ok. Y’all. Crowley and Aziraphale did not break up during the final fifteen. I have proof of it, and frankly, I’m surprised I haven’t seen anyone else post about this (I mean it’s been 2 1/2 years since the release in August 2023).
First, I’ll give you a little backstory that lead me to the proof, which also very few people seemed to have paid attention to until now: we know that Aziraphale and Crowley can communicate via lip reading. They did it in 1941 during the bullet catch, so it’s canon that they have been doing it for decades, possibly even centuries.
I got stuck on that scene because he definitely did not mouth ‘trust me’, but it took a while (and group effort) to figure out what he actually mouthed: our prim and proper angel Aziraphale mouthed ‘come for me’.
Now, I find it fascinating how Crowley translates that to ‘trust me’ later on, but I guess during, errr, sexual activities there is a lot if trust involved. (And they couldn’t possibly have them say that out loud in a PG-13 show 😅) But finding it out made me very happy, because I’d like to believe they have been shagging for aeons 🥰
Ok. So, we can agree that at the time of the final fifteen, they are definitely experts at lip reading. A lot of people already noticed Aziraphale’s concerned expression when he turned his back on the Metatron and is walking back towards the bookshop:
But did you notice that he is actually mouthing to Crowley during the final fifteen? Not once, but twice? Or did you miss what was right in front of you? (It’s a masterful magic trick to hide in plain sight, by the way.)
Here, I’ll show you the first moment:
Excuse the shitty gif quality. I had to make this and the following one myself because I couldn’t find them in tumblr’s gif library. Guess nobody bothered to capture it before.
listening to this scene with the sound off really helped pinpoint these moments
He mouths “we need help” (and does a sort of horizontal ‘time-out’ T gesture with his hands? Not sure what that’s about.) just after he says he got some incredibly good news to give to Crowley. He probably did this to get his full attention, because Crowley seems very emotional here, and just about ready to propose on the spot. (Makes sense, after what Beez and Jimbriel just did.)
Let’s be real, if your angelic best friend and lover of +6k earthly years mumbles “we need help” then you know shit’s going down. So they have their little pretend argument (and maybe some of these emotions and misunderstandings like “nothing lasts forever” were actually real)
Then Crowley kisses Aziraphale. And then, here’s the juicy moment:
Read his lips. He is mouthing: “Meet me afterwards.” And then says, out loud, “I forgive you.”
If he had only mouthed once during their whole conversation, it wouldn’t have been clear to me if Crowley actually saw it, but the second one? Meet me afterwards? Yeah ok. They are definitely fooling us. And not just the audience, but also anyone else who’s watching them. Like, say, the Metatron. We know that a person can easily peek into the bookshop through the windows, and that guy is in the perfect position to observe the whole scene from across the street.
Having said all that, I am not sure if Aziraphale meant it as “meet me after I fucked them up in heaven/hell/wherever I’m about to go with this Metatron guy or whoever he is” or if he thought he had some time left at the bookshop ‘to sort his things out’ before being called upstairs, so he could talk to Crowley properly then.
But he did give Crowley another stare before entering the elevator, and we know that Crowley already knows about the second coming, so they probably looked at each other and realized that the other one knows what’s at stake now.
Now, when I look at the elevator scene and Aziraphale’s crazy grin, it makes perfect sense to me where it didn’t before: he knows that his husband is getting the help they need and he will come to help him fuck that place up.
I am very excited about the Good Omens finale, but I don’t think there will be any ‘apology dance’ or emotional break-up talk at all.
Phew, I need to see the kiss again after that.
