Aziraphale and Crowley (and those who love them!) deserve to have a proper resolution and a happy ending in Good Omens' final episode.
A beautiful new article from Nerdist that summarizes what so many of us have felt over the last three years and are hoping for with the impending release of the S3 finale in May. Of particular note and worth discussing is this part about Michael and David (bold emphasis mine):
"That Crowley and Aziraphale love one another has always been apparent. Fans have been rooting for this crazy odd couple to become canon pretty much since the book’s publication date. And the Prime Video series has fully leaned into the idea in a way an early 1990s fantasy novel simply couldn’t. It replaced the original text’s winks and nudges toward the true nature of Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship with an open acknowledgement of how much they mean to each other. It also doesn’t hurt that co-stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant share the sort of lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry that’s the stuff of legend, infusing each scene with the quiet, lived-in affection that speaks of literal centuries of connection."
What makes the above comments even more remarkable is that Michael and David had that chemistry, that lived-in affection, from the very beginning. It is not a small feat or something common or even likely to have two people who had never worked together melt into and harmonize with each other so effortlessly, let alone forty minutes into the first table read. It is almost unheard of to have a kind of chemistry that is not only thoroughly believable, but that also never feels "put on" or contrived.
For Michael and David to click so deeply, to develop a relationship between both the characters and themselves off-screen to where it feels like they've known and seen and loved each other for "literal centuries" is transcendent. It is rare. It is precious. And it goes far beyond friendship in the traditional sense to something that is so much more. To two souls touching and mingling in a way that no one, not even them, could have ever expected.
It's that, at least in my opinion, the TV series surpassing the original text in its acknowledgement of Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship happened because it was Michael and David in those roles. Because they couldn't stand across from each other and not have that connection be visible, that wanting, that need. And now here we are, poised to see the concluding chapter of Aziraphale and Crowley's story, and no matter what else may happen or might not make the cut because of the 90 minute runtime, Michael and David are the one thing we can absolutely count on.
Flaming swords and bolts of lightning are loud, flashy, powerful. But that connection between them--quiet, lived-in, and comfortable--that is truly divine.
