#team crowley

[musingsofmaisie]

Oh, good Lord

[myfandomistingling]

[buckyscrystalqueen]

[nancylou444]

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I’M TEAM CROWLEY. 🖕🏼

[crowleysmuffins]

This man is way too sexy for his own good~

[supernatural-squadd]

Just found out my mom is #TeamCrowley and I'm 100% #TeamLucifer....this means war.

[musingsofmaisie]

The Magic Trick You Didn't See

@ariaste I just finished reading your analysis. Interesting. Not sure I'm completely on board with your primary hypothesis, but you raise some very interesting points. Kudos for doing it.

Link to @ariaste piece here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/edit

I do have a few places where my thinking diverges from yours though.

First, on Aziraphale and Angel now-Crowley's meeting in Before the Beginning: I think the primary purpose of this scene was to establish that Crowley still possesses a Tool of Creation (that in S1 we assumed was merely a part of his exploded Bentley) and that this will be important in the denouement. He KISSES it, for goodness' sake. That, and of course that Angel now-Crowley was a joyful and precious innocent who didn't deserve his fate.

Go back to S1E5 when he mentions Alpha Centauri and "I worked on that." We are also given the distinct impression that Crowley was an angel of considerable rank and power. Seeing Crowley in Heaven with Muriel and the way he was treated by the leadership-can I get a "deferentially" here?-is a setup for the reveal of his identity. There are files! Aziraphale can request them! Aziraphale finding out the truth is to me the macguffin that will 1) make him realize that heaven is not the place of "truth, light and good" and 2) catalyze whatever action that brings the tale to its conclusion.

When Crowley interrogates Jim-the "It hurts!" "I KNOW! Do it anyway!" and "Yeah, like the places where the furniture used to be" both strongly indicated to me that Crowley was speaking from experience-that he had had his memory wiped when he Fell-and has recovered some, but not all of it. Hence the offer of a hot chocolate. Empathy. (I think this what he meant by "Ask him properly.")

Later, when he tries to explain Gravity to Jim, I got the feeling that that was one of the places where the furniture used to be. (And also not remembering Saraquiel and Furfur).

Second, in the story of Job, it's being told directly from Aziraphale's point of view, that's why I assumed, in his recollection, that Crowley Bildad the Shuhite was wearing cool shades. And this is also where Aziraphale makes reference that he knew the angel Crowley used to be. Before the Garden of Eden. And Crowley says "the angel you knew is not me". Rather harshly, I thought.

Currently rereading "the Crow Road" and annotating it. There do seem to be some compelling parallels so far. Makes me wonder when Muriel will get to Aziraphale's journals. Like you, I suspect that's where we're going next. I can't figure out the timeline, though. It seems like the next scene has to take place many years from now.

This is getting too long so I'll wrap up by saying that I'm convinced that NG would not foist on us a plot device that wraps up S3 like Bobby "It was all a dream" Ewing from the last season of Dallas. It would be a violation of his own writing ethos and his commitment to doing something that would make Terry proud. The Metatron is literally a Deus ex Machina, but I don't think that NG would rely solely on him-or that technique-to conclude the story.

We all want our heroes to get their happy ending. But knowing Neil's knack for the twist in the storyline, I' don't think I'm not sure that it will look like what we think it will.

Cheers,

Maisie

[musingsofmaisie]

Alone again...Naturally

Thinking yet again about the closing scenes of S2E6. When Crowley gets into the Bentley, Nina gives him a little wave from her coffee shop (alone), and he looks across the road where Maggie is sleeping (alone) with her head on the counter. Their relationship is on hold, too. Maggie, the steadfast one, *guarantees* that she will be there when Nina is ready.

And what of our heroes? Me, I think Crowley is the steadfast one. Aziraphale is/always has been conflicted about their relationship, denying it, rejecting Crowley multiple times, often quite cruelly. But Crowley always stood by him, always came back. We don't know what happened between 1862 and 1941, if they saw each other during that time. But again we see Crowley, riding to the rescue.

The last scene between the two of them sees each rejecting the other's offer, although Aziraphale's dismissal is the far more painful. (I maintain that he should have known that Crowley wouldn't-*couldn't* go back, and I also don't believe the offer from Metatron was genuine.)

Crowley walls off the devastating blow by putting on his glasses (raising a barrier) so Aziraphale can no longer reach him.

So when he drives away he sees that the two souls he wanted to join (Maggie & Nina) are existing apart, as he's (I guess) going to have to do. For now. *Unless* there's something else happening that we don't know.