As an avid lover of the ship, I still think this fandom focused way too much on Aziraphale and Crowley and not nearly enough on deep analyses into the core themes of heaven vs. hell vs. humanity.
The idea that the angels in heaven were trying to present themselves as holier-than-thou when aesthetic was the only thing that differentiated them from the demons of hell. The parallels of them both resorting to killing off an insubordinate member. Showing that they’re not opposites but mirrors. Represented by the escalator scene in earlier episodes.
Combined with this idea that Aziraphale and Crowley thought that if they equally influenced the Antichrist, he would have zero temptations, neither of them realizing that if NEITHER of them influenced the Antichrist, he would have zero temptations.
Then you get into the reasons why they wanted to stop Armageddon. How they start by listing trivial things. Sushi. Music. Then they fully realize that what they really want to protect, what they’ve wanted to protect all along, is humanity itself.
And THEN, you realize that they’ve been influencing humanity and the world for six thousand years and that quite literally ever since Adam and Eve, these two have had stakes in humanity. In carrying out their duties in the Garden of Eden, they arguably created humanity. Humanity is theirs and, at the same time, neutral from them.
So you can sort of make the argument that, through a weird butterfly effect, this angel and demon influenced everything that led up to a group of mismatched humans standing on that airbase, making the decisions they made.
And. Then. For the people who are worried about the show being blasphemous (which…yeah…), you have this tongue-and-cheek “I know; I was there” comment that finishes the show, which not only references A Nightengale Sang In Berkeley Square, it implies that all of this may have been God’s intention all along. All of it.
Anyway, I’m writing this all on mobile, but the point is that I get really passionate about the theological debates that Good Omens raises and though I do ship them, I sometimes get bummed that it get reduced to the “gay angel and demon” story when it’s so much MORE.
